Essential Practice
Essential practice => a way of living that can be fruitfully applied in whatever situation or circumstance we find ourselves in. An ‘essential practice’ for the maturing of our humanness – what I...
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Naming the Unnameable
Click here to view the fully formatted article in PDF An object can always have a name. This designated thing sits in its space; sometimes a geographic space of physical linkage and relationship,...
View ArticleTranslating Suchness
In the immeasurable expanse of nature in process, In faith and trust and wonderment we give ourselves to this suchness, This seamless mystery of birthing and dying. A few months back, I received an...
View ArticleExplanation, Assumption and Guru Yoga
Click here to download a fully formatted PDF We are constantly ‘explaining’ things to ourselves and sometimes, we try to share these explanations with others. Through this process, we make sense of the...
View ArticleA Sadhana of Samantabhadra:the heart of Mahayana
Samantabhadra appears as a mysterious presence in many Mahayana scriptures. Often referred to, but rarely appearing, he/she has an ephemeral quality – ubiquitous yet will-o-the-wisp – powerfully...
View ArticleDancing Stillness and The Poetry of Science
Science developed from the human compulsion to explain things, either to another or to oneself. Perhaps this could be seen as the early stirrings of wisdom, prājña – an inherent inquisitiveness and...
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Edges, Membranes and Mystery
A philosophy of contemplative science can easily become a dense entanglement of language and concepts whereas a poetry of contemplative science can invite fresh ways of seeing. In this prose/verse I...
View ArticleNotes From The Cancer Ward
1/9/18 Contemplating the awesomeness of surrendering into living. Life is a terminal condition. All living creatures die – 100% of them. I am living with metastatic cancer. In a week or so, I may have...
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Mandala Offering in a Modern Key
To read the fully formatted PDF version, please click here. These verses are a recent arising, but they hint at contemplations that have flavoured my living for many years. As you explore with them,...
View ArticleTantra and Climate Change
A central meaning of ‘tantra’ is wholeness/continuity. Tantra is a path of wholeness understanding wholeness, a vision integrating all visions. In the ancient cultures of Tibet, India, parts of...
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Primordial Middle Way
Profound teaching (dharma) is revealed in the fullness of our living. At Orgyen Hermitage, we have shelves of books from various schools and traditions. Each of them grew from a view of the world. Each...
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Future Dharma Worth Supporting: a vision of immeasurable wisdom and compassion
I remember studying with the Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche in 1970. What attracted me was his alive presence, his breadth of knowledge and the immensity of view he continually revealed to us. Around that time,...
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Cultivating Healthy Community: towards a universal sangha
We are bombarded daily by reports of conflict, atrocities and proliferating social dysfunction. Surely many of us must be asking what, if anything, we can do about this nightmarish situation. The...
View ArticleWe Are In This Together
Every human choice bows like a slave in submission to the absolute’s creative will, yet this does not deprive us of freedom, or of taking responsibility for what we choose. ~ Rumi ~ (Translated by...
View ArticleNew Treasures on GDT
Winter is truly upon us, though in the Bay of Plenty, that means occasional frosts while gardens are still filled with blossoming flowers and green leafy vegetables! The last few months have seen...
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Foundations of Mindfulness and Brazilian Blessings
Returning from a very full month of teaching and dharma exploration in Brazil we are delighted to announce some new publications in both English and Portuguese. In NZ we have refined and extended,...
View ArticleFire and Living Dharma
This post is dedicated to the Australian fire fighters, medical responders, comforters, supporters and helpers – bodhisattvas of all kinds – who are courageously rising to the occasion, regardless of...
View ArticleLove and Clear Seeing in Tumultuous Times
Dear Friends I hope you are all healthy and well in body and spirit. New Zealand is going into total lock-down tomorrow for at least a month. It is hoped that by doing this, many lives will be saved...
View ArticleA Sheaf of Poems
Dear Friends I am writing from a place I never seriously imagined before these Covid-19 times. The normalisation of social distancing, lock-down, unrequested retreat, and a prolonged plunge – an...
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Some News from Orgyen
Since the last Green Dharma Treasury posting, we have uploaded more teachings in both audio and video formats. There are 13 audio classes on the practice of Mahamudra given during a retreat that...
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