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THREE SHORT TEACHINGS ~ Number Three
Q: People suffer from any different kinds of issues. Although they are different and each, perhaps, needs a different remedy or therapy, all seem to involve attachment. How should we understand this?
A: There is a Chinese story about a man who goes sailing in his boat and while sailing along he accidentally knocks his sword over the side and it sinks into the water. In order not to forget where he lost it, the man takes out his knife and cuts a notch in the side of the boat at the point where the sword fell over. Of course, some people have many notches on their boat.
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Posted by David Brazier on January 11, 2019 at 9:43 3 Comments 1 Like
I’ve always been interested in groupwork. Recently I’ve been facilitating a rather challenging group. It includes an older man who is enjoying his retirement, an outdoor type who does not say so much but clearly regards the other members as wimps, a writer who has an irritating obsession with etymology, one I think of as the wanderer whose life problem seems to be that of never having learnt to settle down, who tells endless entertaining stories of travels, love affairs and so on, and I was…
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Sense on Brexit
Posted by Geeta Chari on December 16, 2018 at 18:51 0 Comments 0 Likes
https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2018/12/13/full-speech-sir-ivan-rogers-on-brexit/
I found this piece tremendously sensible, well-reasoned, and above all, realistic.
LONG JOURNEY
Posted by David Brazier on December 14, 2018 at 18:52 6 Comments 1 Like
Carol drove me into Ottawa at midday on Wednesday 12th. I had spent the morning being interviewed and making a short film. In Ottawa we had lunch at the vegetarian restaurant and then went on to the airport where she dropped me off. I was to take a local plane to Montreal then fly to Paris and on to Bilbao in Spain with Air France, due to arrive at nine in the morning local time the following day. F would meet me in Spain and take me back to stay with him in a village near Vittoria.…
Continue MY REAL LIFE
Posted by David Brazier on December 8, 2018 at 15:00 4 Comments 3 Likes
I'd like to try to say something about real life, which is the only thing that is really interesting.
I have been a bookworm ever since I learnt to read, which was not until I was seven years old. By that time I had already had important spiritual experiences. I was a rather odd child. Many ideas went through my head that tended to set me apart from other children.
Now,…
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