Poetical Invitations
It used to be that the spiritual life was a spontaneous unearned blessing, divine presence in action. Then it became something one had to work at, a commodity paid for with many retreats. Sadly, for...
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Remembering that Precious No-Name Being, “Namgyal”
Guru Buddha Dharmakaya Namo Gliding through spaces sacred groves of illumination, translucent mind embracing. Consensual drifting these currents of beingness bringing forth worlds – not through...
View ArticleWith Love and Good Wishes
Bodhicitta is an important concept in Mahayana Buddhism that hints at an immense mystery. Literally, the heart or mind (citta) of awakening (bodhi). It is the ground of our being, and the path we walk...
View ArticleSilent Prayer
Left Palm <————> Right Palm gazing at these wondrous hands easeful presence and skilful engagement mind and matter form and function knower and known work and play inner and outer micro and macro...
View ArticleLiving Buddha, Living Dharma, Living Sangha: a modern Buddhist’s response to...
Living Buddha, Living Dharma, Living Sangha or What’s the problem? What can I do? What can I realise? How can we help? (a modern Buddhist’s response to a Donald Trumpian world) by Tarchin Hearn, Feb....
View ArticleNewly Revised “Walking in Wisdom”– E-Book
We are pleased to announce the posting of a revised and illustrated, PDF e-book version of “Walking in Wisdom”. This coincides with the uploading of all my books which are now available for free...
View ArticleThe Thirty-Seven Factors of Enlightenment and The Five Phases, Paths or Stages
I realize refuge in the true state of affairs the radical inclusivity of life unfolding in all it’s fullness, the vast ungraspable suchness that is this living world/universe. This is ever fresh buddha...
View ArticleTouching the Earth
May this be for all of us! Blessed with a life-giving intuitive sense of belonging, A capacity for radical inclusivity and a cellular knowing of home; Breathing refuge as living presence, An...
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Brazil, Wholeness and Gratitude
(This short piece was initially drafted Aug. 10, 201717, at Foz Iquasu, Brazil, and finished in Orgyen Hermitage, New Zealand.) We were recently in Brazil for 5 weeks, exploring dharmas of natural...
View ArticleThe Art of Contemplative Science: Praise for “The Songs of Trees”
Perhaps David Abrams approached it when he referred to the process of dying as “expanding into the wider life of the planet”. Perhaps Alexander Skutch was near to it when he wrote, “An outstanding...
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Meaningful Living: a modern expression of the gradual path of awakening
The key to meaningful living is mindfulness. The heart of mindfulness, a simultaneous blending of love with clear-seeing-enquiry, arises out of the multi-levelled life and living that we are. 1 This...
View ArticleThe Thirty-Seven Factors of Enlightenment and The Five Phases, Paths or Stages
I realize refuge in the true state of affairs the radical inclusivity of life unfolding in all it’s fullness, the vast ungraspable suchness that is this living world/universe. This is ever fresh buddha...
View ArticleTouching the Earth
May this be for all of us! Blessed with a life-giving intuitive sense of belonging, A capacity for radical inclusivity and a cellular knowing of home; Breathing refuge as living presence, An...
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Brazil, Wholeness and Gratitude
(This short piece was initially drafted Aug. 10, 201717, at Foz Iquasu, Brazil, and finished in Orgyen Hermitage, New Zealand.) We were recently in Brazil for 5 weeks, exploring dharmas of natural...
View ArticleThe Art of Contemplative Science: Praise for “The Songs of Trees”
Perhaps David Abrams approached it when he referred to the process of dying as “expanding into the wider life of the planet”. Perhaps Alexander Skutch was near to it when he wrote, “An outstanding...
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Meaningful Living: a modern expression of the gradual path of awakening
The key to meaningful living is mindfulness. The heart of mindfulness, a simultaneous blending of love with clear-seeing-enquiry, arises out of the multi-levelled life and living that we are. 1 This is...
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New Look for Green Dharma Treasury
Hovering, on the cusp of a new year, or should I say wobbling; It feels a bit yin-yang-ish, a bit black and whitish, though both black and white mutually embrace – a radically inclusive, utterly...
View ArticleBody/Brain/Mind/Community
Changing the way we speak can encourage new dimensions of understanding. In the light of this, I’d like to invite some fresh thinking about what we mean when we use the words ‘body’ and ‘mind’. Instead...
View ArticleOrgyen Care Project Thanks
Immense Gratitude and Thanks For A Wonderful Response to the Orgyen Care Project Dear Friends About three weeks ago, e-mails were sent out announcing the Orgyen Care Project and asking for support. For...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Oxfam
Dear Trustees of Oxfam NZ My partner, Mary Jenkins and I have been regular contributors to Oxfam for many years. We, like many others, have been disturbed by the revelations in the Guardian concerning...
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