Anthropos Rising
Plato and Aristotle (Photo credit: Image Editor) Anthropos Rising Anthropos Rising The Anthropos is rising! The age-old, original man is coming to claim us from our shadow imitations of manhood!...
View ArticleThe New Kadampa Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
I was drawn to Tibetan Buddhism, reading texts from the New Kadampa Tradition in Bondi, a few years ago. Most of the books were by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, who had modified the ancient Tibetan texts and...
View ArticleBuddhism
In 2008 I attended a Convention in Singapore for followers of the New Kadampa Tradition of Buddhism, introduced to the West by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1977. He now resides at the mother centre in the...
View ArticleThe Parable of the Twins
I found this parable at the time my daughter was about to give birth to her first son and was enchanted by it. Once upon a time, twin boys were conceived in the womb. Seconds, minutes, hours passed...
View ArticleWhat is it that stays the same?
English: The cover illustration, by E. Gertrude Thomson, of The Nursery “Alice” by Lewis Carroll. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’ve just learnt that 40-60% of our personality is linked to genes. That is,...
View ArticleAve Maria
Pieta (Photo credit: VinCross) This was my mother’s favourite song. Although she’d been brought up in a Catholic school and had an Irish Catholic father, she was not religious....
View ArticlePandora's Box
Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869 Symbol of the three Abrahamic religions. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It is striking how ancient myths link up with modern-day thought, concerns and religious...
View ArticleGalactic Address
Duality or Oneness? My Best Photo of the Moon Galactic Address What are we doing here on this Earth like tiny insects swimming in the Orion Way far from the centre of the galaxy clinging to the cavity...
View ArticleRumi and the Parable of the Twins
I found this parable at the time my daughter was about to give birth to her first son and I was enchanted by it. This is a photo taken by her partner when her second son was born. I studied “The...
View ArticleDelphi and its Sacred Ways
The Temple to Apollo along The Sacred Way My Connection with Delphi Ancient Greece gave such a lot to the world, including architecture, philosophy and theatre. I thought about this when I visited...
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