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Richard, taking a walk over the 53rd Ploughing Match weekend,
through Battle to see the FESTIVAL celebrations, when shock horror
there was this copy of same in one of the shop windows.
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w people’s attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.
Dalai Lama
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es (especially Zen Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism) and making them accessible for Western audiences - WHO would no doubt have agreed with the statement that -
IT IS NO MEASURE of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
LET GOD BE GOD ...
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r be anything separate from this One Self? If you really go into it, you will find the answer.
If you go all the way back to before the beginning—before thought, before feeling, before your body or your mind, before the world and the whole universe was created—what is there?
There is only you, and you are everything.
—Andrew Cohen…
of a nation which has had corruption built into its collective DNA for the last 3000 years. How on earth can we expect such a beast to adhere to the same set of values and principles which we ourselves have begun to put to the back of our minds during our relentless submission to the HIDDEN PERSUADERS which lies at the core of our "built on growth forever" evolutionary capitalism of the West.…
Added by Michael Grove at 21:55 on February 14, 2012
that ideas and thoughts are seeds just like the seeds you might plant in a garden. If you were to purchase a package of sunflower seeds you would probably read the back of the package to see how long it would take before the sunflower matures. This is the gestation period for the plant. I believe we all understand this concept. It’s the same for a woman having a baby.
We wouldn’t expect her to announce today she was expecting and then show us her new bundle of joy tomorrow, would we?
I find it interesting that we understand the concept of gestation when it comes to everything else in nature, except when we want a goal or ideal to manifest itself. So many people give up their goals because they didn’t manifest at exactly the time they wanted them to. This is very sad.
We live in an instant gratification society, but that’s not how Universal Law of Gender works.…
rmonise the spirit with the essence of all things both animate and inanimate. The wonder of Nature and Mans place in it can be appreciated as much for what is absent as for what is present. The old, weathered stones chosen and placed with great care are set on a bed of gravel that is raked anew daily, so that the garden dies and is reborn each day in accordance with the Zen tradition. Interpretation of these odd-numbered stone groupings varies, and is ultimately a matter for the beholder.
In placing the Zen garden further away from the Teahouse, with its own viewing house and a mountain before it, we enhanced the feeling of tranquility and separation from the rest of the garden. Behind it lies a new area created from the wild woodland that extends beyond and remains undisturbed and inaccessible. Sitting in the Zen Viewing House one hears the music of the numerous birds that frequent the area, the sound of the breeze ruffling the trees and chimes and, occasionally, the lowing of cattle or bleating of sheep on the adjacent farm.…