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For Humanity, Memory has come to replace understanding. This is why current conflicts in our world cannot be resolved.Memory cannot, of itself lead to Understanding. It can only shape Points of View. These are endlessly subject to change. Real Understanding only comes into existence with DIRECT SEEING IN THE PRESENT MOMENT. As soon as it enters Memory, it is already subject to revision. Because it has become detached from Seeing.Reconciliation is rediscovery in the LIVING Present of sameness, our real (and eternal) identity. Direct Seeing of shared Suffering replaces identifiction with differences and a true response can arise "What can we do together to stop CAUSING this suffering now?" STOP WORLD WAR THREE BEFORE IT STARTS.

Buddhism is a method by which one can put an end to the suffering that we experience in this world.When we find the whole universe, mind and body, unsatisfactory, and let it go, it falls away from us and we experience total Peace and Happiness. This is a state that has always been there. From time to time we get flashes of it. It is not death. Death is the end of something. Nibbana in not the end of anything. It is a state without a beginning and without an end.

If these precepts were kept throughout the human world, it would make an unbelievable difference. There would be no war, no serious crime, and no need for money to be spent on armies, policing, courts of justice or prisons.If we were wholeheartedly to adopt these five precepts and live our lives by them, we would no longer cause suffering to other living beings by our actions. In this way we would normalise our relationships with others and the world around us.

Buddhism is the cool water of the Universe. It is refreshing. It sustains the Holy life. It revives the parched Heart of man. ''The purpose of the Holy Life, its goal, is unshakeable liberation of mind.'' Buddha: Middle Length Sayings, Sutta 29. (This booklet is included in Basic Buddhism for a World in Trouble.)

A sample of intuitive Projects, Poems and Talks to support the practice of insight meditation in daily life and the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path to Nibbana, the end of Suffering.Oh ye inheritors of immortal bliss,hearken to this!Guardians of the eternal fire,if to higher truths you do aspire,NOTHING needs building any higher.THIS IS THE TRUTH.

THAILAND A multi-layered world. Disabled beggars with plastic cups, a swimming pool filled with ice to celebrate New Year's Day; ghosts, Spirit Doctors, mediums, Buddhist monks...... Everywhere, temples thunder their disenchanting message that this teeming world, its glamour, excitement and misery, is impermanent, not-self and suffering. DYING RACES OF MANKINDWhen the rich see the very poor they know it is time to buy their valuables. Cheaply.This ancient people were driven out of Tibet by the Tibetans, out of China by the Chinese and out of Burma by the Burmese.Ah Kah people are very poor and cannot offer much resistance to economic assistance. They make exquisite silver jewellery and headdresses. Treasure hunters have been buying them. Cheaply.Ah Kah people have bright shining souls. Christian missionaries have been buying them. Cheaply.

These poems cover over forty years. Writing them is like collecting the bubbles which stream away from the stern of a small boat crossing a vast ocean. They are all different. They are all the same. Fragile, inconsequential bubbles of livingness. The subject matter ranges from Oxford, its colleges and ghosts, to the Far East with its temples, its hunger for life (and concrete jungles), and its two and a half thousand year old Buddhism. Here, Theravada monks still proclaim, in the Buddha's own language, that "all things are suffering, all things are impermanent, all things are not self. Nibbana is the Highest Happiness."Here is the teeming multiplicity of life and the utter freedom and stillness of the Unconditioned State which runs like a crack through the universe. Through this crack beings escape from the burden of becoming. Through it they return again. From one lifetime to the next. From one moment to the next.

A true account of a present day Vivisectionist, backed by beguiled supporters, confronting a Buddhist as the spirit of George Bernard Shaw timelessly illuminates the lost understanding of Morality.It all boils down to Basic Ethics; the Science of Survival.Don't do to another living being, without its consent, what you would not like done to you. There is Nothing Higher than this.

THAILAND: Disabled beggars with plastic begging cups; Ferraris, a snow white Bugatti Veyron and a swimming pool filled with ice for New Year's Day; westernised nose jobs, lady boys and budget sex changes; Ghosts and Spirit Doctors; mediums offering lunch to the spirits that possess them; body snatchers lurking below motorway bridges; menus offering one-day dry pig and son-in-law's testicles. Temples thundering out their message that all this is impermanent, not-self and suffering.

Oxford: Bones and stones, churches and vivisection laboratory. Peaceful gardens, rivers and quadrangles. Relentless efforts to squeeze the money out of its alumni. Drifting ghosts looking for peace. Drifting students looking for a place in a disintegrating world. Beauty inherited from the past. Deliberate ugliness bequeathed by the present. Vice Chancellors once men of God. Currently a man chosen because he is good at making money. A footprint of your world and mine.

CENTRE is a book about investigation which offers a new discovery in touch with the Source of being, the Oneness of all life. As a result of a spiritual awakening, the author came to see that all beings have this luminous Centre at the centre of their beings and are, for the most part, unaware of its significance or even its existence. The truth is revealed about what is inside you - not the bones, flesh and organs but the very 'centre' of your being, the gateway to your real self, where you came in and where you go out. This is a rare book containing the truth about things we ought to know about because they directly affect our well-being and long-term happiness. It has the power to create an awakening in readers. Learn how to access the Centre. How to understand it. How to use it. How to enter it forever.

A translation and explanation of the Ten Fetters, the Buddha's teaching on what binds living beings to the Sangsara and suffering. If we have succeeded in releasing ourselves from all ten fetters we are Arahats. If we haven't,we can use them as a tool to see and identify those things which arise in the mind and keep us trapped in a world of suffering. We can patiently weaken their hold on us (which is our hold on them) and, ultimately, free ourselves from them forever.

HERE (AND NOW) Clusters of English "unofficial" roses have climbed the fence to face the sun. Each in its crimson finery supposes that it, alone, is the only one. Honeysuckle tangles with its vagrance bramble and lavender, rose and gorse, fills the still air with its golden fragrance there where the steps run a wayward course. Shamrock has camped with a fragile neatness just where the foxgloves have unfurled; the privet has flowered and its lemon sweetness hedges the edges of this living world. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW Imagine you have an audience. (Which you have). And people are listening to everything you say. (Which they are). And everything you say is being written down. (Which it is). And may be used in evidence against you. (Which it will be). Don't you wish you could be alone?

An animated short history of the Universe. There really is only One. Every living and inanimate thing is part of this One. Every thing arises out of this One and subsides back into it. Since all is One, what you do to "another" you do to you...

An English Poet and philosopher shares the momentous discovery of 'the Centre' within the physical body. Not just part of the body or a chakra but the Original Centre and Source of the universe - now. Easily accessible and authoritatively written, CENTRE is a rare and practical text of wisdom and provides a new, hands-on approach for spiritual evolution, advanced understanding and the highest happiness. ¿ Learn how to access, use and enter the Centre¿ Understand how there really is only One¿ Experience something remarkable¿ Find out the truth about astrals, chakras and Kundalini¿ Navigate your way through different levels of reality¿ Discover who you really are¿ Explore other centres¿ Includes instructions, a method and charts