Into The Junk Cupboard
. The process of creating this video almost mirrored the theme of the poem. I created an ideal in my mind, of myself as a film poet and of what I imagined the f...
Category: musings
Summer’s End
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Learning to stay sane around people
After a very peopled few days it is quiet in the temple today. It is lunchtime, and the only other person I have seen waved at me from a top floor window, whils...
Incommunicado
I have not deliberately been out of touch. I have not deliberately sent you to Coventry. I have not had my hands tied behind my back since December, but neither...
Foolish Beings in a Beautiful Land
There is a thin pink streak of light in the eastern sky. The sun is well over the horizon and that last thread of colour tells me what a glorious sunrise I woul...
the end of stress – how to relax
This morning I was supposed to be giving a talk on how to relax. I had the flowchart of the talk I had prepared earlier in the week in one hand (‘flowchar...
more brushes with death
Yesterday morning as I was getting into the car, a harried looking nurse ran down our garden path, opened our door and called into the house. A few moments late...
lessons from breakdancing
The bass rolled across the dance floor and into my chest. I could feel it through the floor, and the wall behind me. The dance floor was surrounded by young peo...
brushes with death
In medieval Japan one of the main reasons for practicing Pureland Buddhism was to have a good death. When I’m writing leaflets or emails about the Purelan...
back home…
…and everything seems translucent. We think of our worlds as solid, but spending a week in a completely different culture reminds me of how provisional al...