Who Will Feed the Mice? “The early teachers” is a term for mother and father. “The early deities” is a term for mother and father. “Those worthy of worship” is … Read More
The Pilgrim Kamanita
THE BOOK YOU ARE VIEWING HERE is the eBook of the second print edition of The Pilgrim Kāmanīta – a Legendary Romance, published in 2017. The text of the story … Read More
Thunder in an Open Sky – The Life & Teaching of Luang Por Chah
NIGHT IS FALLING SWIFTLY. The forest reverberates with the undulating buzz of countless crickets and the eerie rising wail of tropical cicadas. A few stars poke dimly through the treetops. … Read More
Small Boat, Great Mountain
Chapter 1. Ultimate and Conventional Reality The meeting of spiritual traditions, including that of Theravāda wisdom teachings and Dzogchen, two great expressions of the Buddha-Dharma, is one of the major … Read More
Silent Rain – Talks & Travels
Preface In the way of spiritual life, creation tends to happen through response to circumstances rather than from any self-propelled initiative. In the summer of 1993, whilst I was doing … Read More
Rugged Interdependency
Beginnings Perhaps it is impossible to say where anything really begins, nevertheless, it can be useful to map out a few landmarks here and there. Accordingly, here is a little … Read More
Rain on the Nile
Preface When Silent Rain was first compiled, back in 1993, part of the idea of producing such a varied collection of material – talks, poems, travelogues and artwork – was … Read More
Inner Listening
Inner Listening There are a number of themes that are very familiar to people who practise Buddhist meditation: ‘mindfulness of breathing’, where you focus on the rhythm of the breath; … Read More