life as a Western Buddhist
Posted in everyday life .., meditation on Dec 31st, 2008
2009 is nearly here. Amongst other things 2009 is International Year of Astronomy. Here’s a four minute video of the sky above our planet. it was on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website this morning …túrána hott kurdís by hasta la otra méxico! from Till Credner on Vimeo.
Posted in everyday life .. on Jul 17th, 2008
Scattered showers with outbreaks of sunshine and a cold northerly wind, is your idea of good weather.
The only sausage you like is square.
You were forced to do Scottish country dancing every year at high school.
You have a wide knowledge of local words, and know: Numpty is an idiot, Aye is yes, Aye right [...]
Posted in everyday life .. on Jul 13th, 2008
People send me links to YouTube videos regularly. Mostly I delete them. Some of them are … yuck!! Occasionally I get hooked ….. like the Irn Bru one (click here for that). This is another that I love watching. Don’t know who you are, Matt, but thanks for this !! and for more shots of [...]
Posted in everyday life .. on Jul 10th, 2008
Friday 4th July, 2008.
Got here yesterday afternoon. Drove via Lake Vronwy (prob got more letters in it than that) and up over the mountains between there and the south end of Lake Bala. Along a one-track road that Sudaya once told me was used by racing car people to test their new models on high [...]
Posted in buddhism, everyday life .. on Jul 2nd, 2008
A friend of mine sent me a link to this talk By Dr Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuro-anatomist, talking about her experience of having a stroke ‘from the inside’. It’s fascinating….
She refers to her experience as nirvana. Well maybe it’s not nirvana she’s describing but it’s something that has inspired and moved her deeply… and [...]
Posted in everyday life .. on Jun 22nd, 2008
I’m back up in Glasgow for a week. I haven’t been up in Scotland for 18 months so this is an overdue visit. I’m missing the landscape. So far am having a lazy couple of days, reading, watching tennis and football, ordering a Chinese takeaway and looking out of the window. A movement in the [...]
Posted in everyday life .., news on Jan 11th, 2008
I just love this You Tube video…. but you probably need to be a Scottish ex-pat to understand the heart-tugging nostalgia it provokes! And also to have swigged umpteen cans of Irn-Bru as a kid. A previous advertising campaign made Irn-Bru famous as “Our Other National Drink - Made in Scotland from Girders.” The word [...]
Posted in everyday life .. on Dec 4th, 2007
Just signed my name to this climate change petition…… it’s being organised by AVAAZ. They say :
It’s climate crunch time: the nations of the world have gathered in Bali, Indonesia for the most important climate change negotiations in a decade. They have a chance to massively ramp up the world’s response to the climate crisis–but [...]
Posted in everyday life .. on Nov 1st, 2007
I get updates from Space Weather website about what’s happening in the sky - meteor showers, planets, comets, sunspots, maps, etc. For a couple of weeks or so I’ve been getting updates about Comet Holmes as it has transformed from a small fairly well-known comet passing through the solar system beyond the orbit of Mars [...]
Posted in buddhism, everyday life .., meditation, retreats on Oct 23rd, 2007
I’m now back at Taraloka. Thinking about how things went over in Cambridge last week and musing on how I could happily live there, at least that is as it seems to me at present. Who would have thought it!
But mostly thinking about the Urban Retreat..
I’m very impressed by it as a means of helping [...]