Pooh
Yesterday I found a small package in the mailbox and I brought it with me to the hospital. David unwrapped it and it is a book 'The Tao of Pooh.' No name, so it is a mystery gift... Thank you very much! We read several dialogues together of Pooh
Read more…Every place can be a temple
When I arrived this morning David was hidden behind his oxygen mask again. So I sat beside him and listened to all the noises of the hospital. Modern digital hospitals are full of bleeps, beeps and bops. Different kinds of
Read more…Oxygen
When I arrived in hospital this morning David was hidden behind his oxygen mask. I saw his eyes and immediately knew that he was doing well. I said so. He mumbled something behind his mask about the doctor. I had to be patient for 20 minutes b
Read more…At this moment that I am writing the Daily I am sitting next to David in the hospital. We have no wifi here, so we are without the internet I will post the Daily tonight when I am home again.
I have been through a huge range of emotions. Bit by bit I
Read more…It is after midnight. I just returned from the emergency department in hospital. David will spent the night in hospital. This morning a nurse came to do some blood test. At the end of the day our friend Annette came with the message that we had to g
Read more…In the morning I had a couple of turns of vertigo after slight effort and realised i must be worse. I went back to bed and slept all morning. Elja wanted to get me to a doctor. In due course, Annette arrived. She agreed and the two of them whisked me
Read more…Seven Factors of Enlightenment
In the morning after breakfast we did a lesson on the Seven Factors of Enlightenment in relation to the opening of Summary of Faith and Practice, especially the phrase "letting go of sophistication and all forms of cleve
Illness
Today I really had to admit that something is definitely wrong. I have lost my strength. Climbing a short flight of steps leaves me exhausted and faint. I do not seem to have any other major symptoms. It seems to have come on rather suddenly.
We got a day ahead of our usual routine by doing the washing this morning. After arriving home to a freezing cold house yesterday we were pleasantly greeted by sunshine this morning. Having been travelling we had quite an accumulation of washing to d
Read more…We drove away after a a good breakfast with our friends Gerald and Margreet in Valkenburg. We arrived home at Eleusis around 8pm after a 10 hours driving. We had the wonderful welcome of a beautiful bright full moon.
Good to be home. The temperature
Read more…Today we are visiting friends in the south of Netherlands. there is snow on the ground. When there is frozen snow the morning sunshine is brighter than usual. We took a short walk into town and on the way stopped to build a snowman. We were aiming to
Read more…David is stuck in the traffic jam while I am writing this Daily. He is traveling from Gent to Den Bosch and after three and a half hours has still not passed Antwerp. Usually that distance takes less than an hour. The original plan was to collect me
Read more…The most interesting thing that I did today was to read an article called The Healing Response at Lourdes written collectively by Sarah Goldingay, who works in the Department of Drama at the University of Exeter, Paul Dieppe who is a medical speciali
Read more…It has been a day of errands. We had a problem with a computer and had to find a repair shop. In the end it was a matter of buying a new memory pack and having it installed. Computers are so much a part of our lives nowadays that it is difficult to r
Read more…We spent much of the day in a hospital in Germany. Elja had interviews and X-rays and made plans for her hip replacement operation which will now take place in the same hospital in February. She has been researching the pros and cons of different met
Read more…Zen and Pureland
Today was a beautiful last day of our weekend in the Metta Sangha, of Zen Centrum Den Bosch. It was very special for me to join a weekend with David in the zendo and sangha who are so familiar to me. In a certain way this weekend was
Read more…Teaching at the Zen Centre
Today I was teaching at Zen Centrum Den Bosch. The day was a mixture of meditation sessions and Dharma talks. In some of the meditation sessions we did zazen and in others we did chanting. We chanted invocation of Quan Shi
Today we travelled from Mons to 's-Hertogenbosch. During the trip the landscape changed from a grey and wet environment into a winter wonderland... but only briefly. The driving conditions through Belgium became quite challenging with melting snow on
Read more…Today i was reading an article about Stephen Hawking, the famous physicist. Some of his most important work was done on the nature of black holes. Reading about his work led me to some interesting speculation.
Firstly, let us consider black holes. T
Truly Simple Faith
Today we travelled once again to Belgium and stayed with our good friends in Mons. It is a lengthy journey but we pass through quite pleasant countryside, have stops every so often and share the driving. It has been a day of rich d
