Inspire, Amuse & Educate through Art
Day 5 of the Nepal Yoga Retreat. It is the 15th of April, Bengali New Year! The last destination on our Itinerary was a visit to the Pashupathinath Temple in Katmandu Nepal. Regarded as the biggest Hindu temple in Nepal. Lord Shiva in the form of Lord ...
The Therigatha, the ninth book of the Khuddaka Nikaya, consists of 73 poems — in which the early nuns (bhikkhunis) recount their struggles and accomplishments along the road to final liberation or arahantship. These are very human stories. They express ...
As the attention rests on the flow of life the pulse of being all the tentacles and suckers get drawn back in, moving outwards we seek, suck avert push away..forever caught in a world of push pull…of trains travelling through different sta ...
Listening to Ajahn Achalo’s talk earlier about meditating on body parts got me thinking. True i find it easy to drop into a quieter space when i feel the body. The body contemplation is a bit like that. When we look at the body and think it is beautiful o ...
Drawn out of sage-like composure By the promise of love and loss Should I return to the wisdom of knowing Or indulge yet again in the chaos of Pain and Pleasure He says “yes” my heart jumps up Happiness, Joy, Exuberance flows out He says “no” Pa ...
The Pali term nīvaraṇa (Sanskrit: nivāraṇa) refers to an obstacle or hinderance. In the Nīvaraṇa Sutta (AN 9:64) the Buddha says “Mendicants, these five hindrances (nīvaraṇas) are destroyers of sight, vision, and knowledge. They block wisdom, they’re o ...
The Right to Choose. Often we shout and fight for rights but forget about responsibility. This is a contentious subject and in writing my view and experience I am sure I will offend many of my fellow women friends. However I feel the necessity to write a ...
This morning it suddenly hit me that the Buddha was very clear in his instructions. Ha ha of course he was…but it took me time to understand how clear and precise he was. Now what do I mean by this. Let me attempt to clarify. The Noble eightfold path i ...