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Merlin is a Horse
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor My horse, Merlin I have decided my dog is actually a horse. After all, he has four legs and runs along the beach and he likes eating carrots. Unfortunately, since I started...
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My Tomatoes Have Not Ripened
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor Photo by Bruce Berrien My tomatoes have not ripened and it is nearly the end of summer. I awoke this morning to a howling wind, rain and thinking that once again the washing will...
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Guru Devotion
Lama Zopa Rinpoche with retreat participants inside the structure of the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia, April 2011. Photo by George Manos. By Ven. Chönyi Taylor It was a...
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Medicine, Meditation and Karma
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor Photo by Amanda M. Hatfield There’s the story of the fisherman hanging on to his capsized boat and asking God for help. He turns away a surfer on his board, a jet ski, another...
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Spider, Spider
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor Photo by Fir0002, flagstaffotos.com.au. GFDL 1. Spider, spider burning bright In the center of my sight, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?1 I was...
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Bistro Blinds: Creating Protection for the Mind
“Rain” by Janine (janineomg) via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution. By Ven. Chönyi Taylor I live in an incredible beautiful part of Australia: down south, near Wilson’s Promontory. It is so...
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Leaves in the Wind: People Who Wish for Death
“What Death Is All About.” Image courtesy of Athina (chryssalis.deviantart.com). By Ven. Chönyi Taylor … I’d been craving on and off, since I was fifteen, for Death to come and take me the way the...
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‘Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness’
“Together Old in Itlay 02″ by Miki de Goodaboom. www.mikidegoodaboom.com By Ven. Chönyi Taylor It’s official. I am now old, an old fogey. I have passed the 70th-birthday benchmark. And I feel myself...
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Food Mindfulness
“Hands” by Lady Lazer_One. Photo courtesy of http://lazerone.wordpress.com/. By Ven. Chönyi Taylor Food. It occupies a lot of my mind. In fact it always has, but more so since I was diagnosed with...
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Self-Inflatuation
Creative Commons Attribution, http://juliewasiuk.com/over-inflated-ego/ By Ven. Chönyi Taylor My brain loves playing with words which is why, one day, I read “self-infatuation” as “self-inflatuation.”...
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