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A Buddhist Understanding of Prayer
A Buddhist Understanding of Prayer by Tarchin Hearn This essay was originally written in 2006 at the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre. It has been edited and re-formatted for Green Dharma Treasury....
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Remembering Sonia Moriceau, Ad Brugman and All Beings
Dear Friends Last night, at midnight NZ time June 11 or noon UK time, a friend, colleague and teacher, Sonia Moriceau, let go into the wider life of the planet. I will remember her smile and the...
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Sufficient Love To See
We are living in extraordinary times. Our understanding of life as a planet-wide, delicate, yet creatively responsive phenomena, is becoming clearer than ever, while at the same time, we humans seem...
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Two Poems
We are living is shocking times. On a personal level, Cecilie, a long time friend, and teacher for many readers of this post, is journeying in unknown territory in an intensive care unit, as she...
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Walking in Wisdom – a path of view, meditation and action –
Walking in Wisdom – a path of view, meditation and action – by Tarchin Hearn In Buddhism, wisdom is not a knowledge of ultimate facts or truth but an ever deepening process of understanding, life...
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“True Refuge” a new book by Tarchin
“True Refuge”, an inspiring new book by Tarchin Hearn, is now available from Wangapeka Books for $20 plus postage. To order copies, contact us at <books [at] greendharmatreasury [dot] org> Some...
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Excerpts from “True Refuge”
Excerpts from “True Refuge” a new book by Tarchin 147 pages; $20 + postage Irony will sometimes teach us more than earnest explanations. Too often I meet Buddhists who, in the temple or as part of a...
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A Life of Dharma
A Life of Dharma by Tarchin Hearn (first published in Wangapeka Newsphere, Jan. 2015) ‘Dharma’ is a rich and bounteous concept. Common translations give us words or phrases such as truth, teaching...
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Wholesome Activity – Keep It In The Ground
Dear Friends on the Path of Dharma If we look deeply around us, we will find ourselves to be living parts of a cresting wave of an ocean of life-unfolding, a world awakening, a mystery embodying. We...
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The Dharma of Illness and The Medicine of Wonderment
The Dharma of Illness and The Medicine of Wonderment by Tarchin Hearn with thanks to David French for asking me to write something on this topic Oct 25/15, 5:52 am. I am sitting in my hut at Orgyen...
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Early Morning Pith Instruction
Early Morning Pith Instruction by Tarchin Hearn I wake again from a seeming series of wakings, sleepings, dreamings, beings, eyes slowly opening to soft dim dawn. I breathe, May all beings be well and...
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Taking Robes: Embracing a Life of Natural Awakening; Reflections on...
Taking Robes Embracing a Life of Natural Awakening; Reflections on Ordination and Divine Ordinariness by Tarchin Hearn Click here to read the fully formatted essay in PDF format. I’d like to begin by...
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Mind and Mindfulness
Mind and Mindfulness by Tarchin Hearn a fresh approach to mind and mindfulness Mindfulness has become a popular topic in today’s world of therapy, healing and self-help teachings. I wanted to write...
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In Praise of Slow Reading
In high school, I took a course in ‘speed reading’. We were lured into it with promises that it would improve our grades and our efforts to “get ahead and succeed in life”. They didn’t mention, because...
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Excerpts from Newly Revised and Extended Satipaṭṭhāna E-book
I’m happy to post a newly revised E-book – Satipaṭṭhāna: Foundations of Mindfulness; A Manual for Meditators. This revised edition has been extended from 46 pages to 80. Click here to download the...
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Your Body is an Ocean of Awareness
“Foundations of Mindfulness; A Manual for Meditators” a newly revised and extended e-book by Tarchin Hearn is now available. Click here to download a free copy of the entire 80 page text. The following...
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Capricious Chance and Steady Causality
These days I find myself reviewing Prajnaparamita/Madhyamaka philosophy (curtesy of wonderful translations by Karl Brunnholzl) along with some of David Bohm’s early writings (particularly his book...
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Vajrasattva’s Hundred Syllable Mantra: a summation of the path
Portrayed as a radiant buddha figure, Vajrasattva represents the primordial natural state of pure and total presence – the essence of body, speech and mind activity of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. As...
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Native to this Earth
Native to this Earth The knowing that I am is the behaviour of the ocean of being which is all there is to know by the knowing that I am. Like understanding the weather, there are countless factors,...
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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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