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October 2017

October 15, 2017

Falling in love over and over

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all...

October 13, 2017

Selling bitter medicine

Every Sunday evening we hold something called a Listening Circle at the temple. In this...

October 11, 2017

Sutta Study: Don’t help them, help yourself!

I try to make a regular practice of dipping into the reams of suttas from...

October 09, 2017

A Buddha in every hell realm

Sometimes life feels hopeless. Maybe we are struggling with an addiction, or our hearts are...

October 06, 2017

Choosing chocolates and missing out

This is not your week to run the Universe. Next week is not looking so...

October 04, 2017

On being a Buddhist Priest who doesn’t like to meditate

I am not a good meditator. I rarely look forward to sitting meditation. I don’t...

October 02, 2017

Making space for grace

This time last month I set my alarm at 5.45am so I could join the...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

How to help according to Dogen

Last week I was standing in a long queue at the airport, waiting to board...

September 27, 2017

Should Buddhists be vegan?

I love food. What we eat is deeply personal, like our religion. It nourishes us...

September 25, 2017

How do Buddhist European leaders get along?

Yesterday I returned from a long weekend in Poland with my colleagues in the European Buddhist...

September 22, 2017

Warning: this blog is alive

When I decided to take on this gig, which involves writing to you all several...

September 19, 2017

Cat Dharma

Just now our female tabby Tsuki came into my office and started purring loudly. She...

September 17, 2017

On being silly at the dinner table

Every Friday evening, the community here at the temple eat together. The people who live...

September 14, 2017

On being the Buddha’s gardener

Last week Kaspa and I were on a break, and so we spent some time catching up...

September 13, 2017

A week in the life of the temple

How is it to run a Pureland Buddhist temple in a small town? Our week...

September 13, 2017

Pausing to plug into the Buddha

Twenty minutes ago, I noticed a ball of anxiety in my stomach. It had been...

September 12, 2017

I’m Satya. How can I help?

This is my very first blog for Patheos, and so I will begin by saying...