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Category: musings

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The Dharma of the sliced thumb

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Kaspa / 0 Comment

A post shared by Kaspalita (@kaspalita) on Dec 12, 2017 at 12:51am PST It was Thursday evening. I was still recovering from a heavy cold. It had lodged itself i...

mindfulness/musings/therapy

What’s the point of empathy?

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Kaspa / 0 Comment

This morning as I took my usual morning walk around the garden I heard a bird call that I didn’t recognise. I looked up and there was a female blackbird, with i...

Buddhism/musings

Everything can become an offering

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Kaspa / 0 Comment

Late afternoon on Friday. The sun had already dipped behind the hills leaving the temple and garden in shadow, but the wide Severn valley and the distant hills ...

musings

Giving up on pefection

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Kaspa / 1 Comment

I don’t know why I was thinking about perfection. Perhaps it was after spending three hours trying to get a new template for this website to work, before giving...

Buddhism/mindfulness/musings

Paying attention to a world that is falling apart

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Kaspa / 0 Comment

The clouds are mostly just grey today; a flat sky that only gives up its colour and texture under close examination. I woke up at eight, to the sound of our old...

Buddhism/mindfulness/musings

Fragile and Uncertain Creatures

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Kaspa / 2 Comments

On the top floor of the temple is a long, high ceilinged hallway between the residents bedrooms. The carpet is a mottled beige, worn down the centre. Dim lightb...

musings

Word of the year 2017

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Kaspa / 1 Comment

I walked from my office, down the long dark hallway, up the stairs, past the big window that looks over the car-park, answered the door, signed for the parcel, ...

mindfulness/musings

Finding Peace

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Kaspa / 0 Comment

I had been searching for quiet. The hills are a gift. I puffed up the muddy paths. The hills were covered in rust bracken, wet brown leaves, rabbit nibbled gras...

Buddhism/mindfulness/musings

Dogma, the Kalama Sutta, and a Bad Book Review

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Kaspa / 0 Comment

Over the Christmas break a book review appeared on Amazon.com that amused me. It was a review of mine and Satya’s book Just As You Are: Buddhism for Fooli...

musings

Free will, love and freedom

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Kaspa / 4 Comments

There were a handful of Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. We had spent three hours cleaning the flat earlier in the day. Rain clouds were gathering in the dar...

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