• FOR HUMANITY MEMORY HAS COME TO REPLACE UNDERSTANDING

    FOR HUMANITY MEMORY HAS COME TO REPLACE UNDERSTANDING

    Reconciliation is rediscovery in the LIVING Present of sameness, our real (and eternal) identity. Direct Seeing of shared Suffering replaces identification with differences and a true response can arise: “What can we do together to stop CAUSING this suffering now?” FOR HUMANITY MEMORY HAS COME TO REPLACE UNDERSTANDINGby Brian TaylorISBN 978-1-9999063-4-4     24 pages STOP…

  • AN OPEN LETTER CALLING FOR PEACE

    October, 2022 Dear Human Family, Watching the tragedy of war continue to unfold daily in Ukraine, we open our hearts to the suffering of people young and old. As an international community of Engaged Buddhism in the Plum Village tradition, we observe the war with pain and alarm. In our Buddhist community, every Christmas we…

  • THE PENDULUM OF CONFLICT

    THE PENDULUM OF CONFLICT

    FOR HUMANITY, MEMORY HAS COME TO REPLACE UNDERSTANDING THIS IS WHY CURRENT CONFLICTS IN OUR WORLDCANNOT BE RESOLVED Memory cannot, of itself, lead to Understanding. It can only shape Points of View. These are endlessly subject to change. Understanding based on Memory is therefore also endlessly subject to change. It also has to compete with…

  • THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

    THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

    Using the pictograms of the Universal Octopus in the first chapters of CENTRE we can see where The Tree of Knowledge leads. When the first nodules appear on the circumference of the One and develop an eye to see the apparent outside of itself, the possibility of duality and separatism is there. Not inevitable. You…

  • ETHICS COMES FIRST

    ETHICS COMES FIRST

    THE PAST Whether it’s your own as an individual, or of part of a group — a family, nation, race, species, human animal (mankind), it is full of ethical failures (bad karma) which will have to be answered for one day. But, if you stop making more ethical mistakes NOW, they suddenly become finite. If…