Jam jars, tea cups, boxes, lakes, seas, the sky. Containers: things that contain. Without the container the contained, the thing inside wouldn’t exist. A river cannot exist without its’ banks. Shipping containers are like a large shoe box, often 20ft long 8ft wide and 8 ft high. They are made from corten steel so that even when they rust they remain waterproof: they can contain the space and protect the contents. In Winnie the Pooh, Pooh had told piglet that it was Eeyor

Based on a talk given at Dechen Choling, France, to Meditation Instructors and Teachers, June 2024 We are all traumatised. We think that...

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The immediate image that many people may have of Buddhism is of monks in robes: people living in a rarified environment, far away from...

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