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Sacred Glass in God's House

At the entrance to the temple, the Way is illumined

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Insights Gained on the Kora (A Follow On Post to our last one).

Namaste and greetings friends The previous post on this blog was about the notion of Kora, or the circumambulation of a sacred site or object on foot as a kind of pilgrimage. If you missed it, you can find that post here. While researching for that blog, I came across an old file in a forgotten folder which also touched on Kora as a topic. I’d forgotten all about it as it was really only a…

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Truth Is (Reshared)

As I scrolled though my blog at random as I do from time to time, I came across  a pair of posts that were posted on successive days almost exactly two years ago. It was kind of neat rereading them, so naturally I'm sharing them again with you Enjoy!

Truth Is

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The Road Rises Up:  A poem about journeying (Reshared with a note added)

It’s a funny thing, but as soon as I start thinking about resharing older (let’s call them prior posts instead) all sorts of posts come up begging to be next in line. In this case, I’d sat down to write something on a quote I really like: Forget all that and hit the road into exile. FROM A LONG LOST DEEPLY BURIED NOTE-TAKING APP ON MY TABLET But nothing was coming. Then suddenly I remembered:…

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Let the Music Play (Reshared)

When thinking about a name for this photo I was really tempted to somehow reference the song American Pie by Don McLean. The phrase from the lyrics ‘the day the music died’, kept coming to mind – even as I made the photo of the scene. By the way, ‘the day the music died’ refers to the plane crash in 1959 in which the up and coming Buddy Holly, and the more well known Ritchie Valens and The Big…

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A Note on Recycling & Introducing the Next Post

Recycling. Blog posts that is. I don’t think i’ve ever really given much thought to whether or not bloggers recycle their posts on any kind of regular basis. I don’t mean to suggest that nobody ever does it, or that I have never reshared a post: there has been the occasional one I’ve recycled over the years on the various blogs I’ve been involved with But, not routinely. That’s the word: I’ve…

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Lessons for the Learning

This morning I completed the penultimate lesson in a course of classes on the Bhagavad Gita. The classes were held once a week for I think 3 or 4 years and finished a few months ago. As it happens the entire course was recorded giving me and so many others the opportunity to study it online. Anyway, at the start of the lesson today Swamiji ( Swami Tadatmananda, resident teacher at th Arsha Bodha…

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How an Old Blue Tin Trunk Helped Me Give Up Journalling

Journalling always seemed to go along with tea drinking About a year or so ago I stopped keeping a journal. And, when I say stopped keeping, I mean keep as in both senses of the word. Let me explain. I began writing my life in a journal in my teens. I stopped for a while in my late teens and early twenties, then later in my twenties, took to it again. I then kept my Journal going ever since.…

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My take on Dharma, Karma, & Living a Good Life Part 3

Towards the end of my last post I looked at where I was (or is it am?) on the Do your duty front. Do I actually do my duty? And if I do, then how well am I doing it? My conclusion was that in some areas I am doing okay,, while in others I need to work harder to get them right. Now I’m thinking about it again, I would say that being here, in a physical body suggests that I still have a way to go…

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Angel of the Morning

Just call me angel of the morning, angel. Just touch my cheek before you leave me.

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Received Wisdom: A Good Thing?

Namaste to all of you. In keeping with my ongoing (and ever frustrating) resolve to live fully in the present, I won’t comment on my long absence from the pages of this blog. Suffice it to say the hermit has been in his cave and acting as monk-like as he has been able. And as well, it’s good to be back! One thing I have been doing during this, let’s call it, blog sabbatical, is continuing my…

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Everyone is a Flower

You know how YouTube will recommend videos? Well one that’s constantly recommended to me actually is illustrated with my photos. So, when it came up again today, I thought I would take a look. It’s been a while since I last watched it. To be honest with you I found it really quite moving, watching it again. Anyway let me share the brief story of how this all came about. I’d met folk singers…

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Tell Me: What is God? Dominus Est

Welcome dear reader Have I shared with you my Bhagavad Gita? Well, I know I’ve mentioned a few times that it’s one of, if not the primary resource for study and guidance for me. As you’ve probably guessed, this is a quick photo of the inside of the front cover. And, again as you’ve noticed, I like to stick things in my books, especially this little one. (Actually now I mention it, this is the…

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The Road Rises Up:                                               A poem about journeying

The Road Rises Up:                                               A poem about journeying

Today I’d like to share a poem with you. I wrote it exactly a year ago, but it’s about a day many many years ago. At other places on this site I’ve mentioned that cliched but for me ever so real question: Am I running away from something or am I running towards something? In one of those other places I joke about my answer: ‘Neither. I’m just a journey person’. Well, this poem began life as a…

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Truth Is

Namaste friends. Welcome. Fake news, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, manipulative advertising. Such a tsunami of information threatening to swamp us, all of it claiming to be ‘facts’ or ‘true’, mean we are almost continually asking, what is true? Who can tell anymore? When we look at the world we live in today it is a rare thing when we are able to tell if something or someone is…

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Silence. Could I have some more please?

Silence isn’t my strong suit. Or I should say, keeping quiet isn’t what I’m known for. One of the main reasons l live the life I do is because I am very sensitive to noise, but my problems start when I seem to forget that other people, and my own peace of mind, are affected by excessive noise created by me too. And noise includes talking too much. Of course there are any number of reasons a…