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This is a very interesting Blog and report by a chap I met at Chithurst a couple of years ago . I'm afraid I can't include him with my Interesting Links as I have run out of space .
http://www.orenjaysofer.com/blog/renunciation
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Down Under in NZ with a camper , son , girlfriend , and the Brompton.
Winter 2009. ...
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Hidden Anger
I don't know about you, but I sometime feel down for what appears no apparent reason. Sometime on long rides, particularly last summer in Norway. If your honest and you take notice of your thoughts and how they effect your feelings your begin to see where these moods...
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Interesting Links---Others Blogs
You will have noticed that on the home page I have listed twelve Links to blogs and sites. I thought I would explain my interest in these and their relevance to ZYCLING .
ADAM CURTIS : he is the "enfant terrible" of Aunty Beeb T V...
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Dhammapada reflections---Befriending---Ajahn Munindo
In these Blogs I'd like to explore where the Buddha's Verses and the Monks comments enhance and inform the ZYCLING precepts.
It is hard to find
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Dhammapada reflections---Silence--- Ajahn Munindo
In these blogs I'd like to explore where the Buddha's Verses , and the monks comments explain and enrich the ZYCLING Precepts .
Silence does not denote profundity
If you are ignorant and untrained....
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Try practicing being a BODHISATTVA
Just returned from volunteering to read with children at the primary school in the village. I've done this before, when I worked as a blood donor attendant , on the way to the venue. So in this blog...
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Coincidence or what?
Does everything happen by chance? Or is there a kind of plan or energy that takes shape when we live a life that conforms to a...
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Blogging----a to b magazine---57 varieties
The chap who manages this blog, stays with me occasionally when he visits the monastery, and he thinks I shouldn't stray away from cycling. And my son when he was visiting pointed out that if I talk about things that people arnt interested or disagree...
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http://youtu.be/WEIfMqM5wnM I first heard the speaker when I lived in Venice Ca. And again at Brockwood Hampshire UK where you can still attend retreats at the visitors centre which is an achitecturial gem. Of course, there are many other videos on utube. If your in the area do visit and...
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When I retired nearly fifteen years ago, I went on a four month European cycle ride. I visited the battlefields of Flanders, my SERVAS host took me to see the 8pm service at the Menin Gate Ypres the memorial to WW1.Visited the still hostile mood of the Balkans, through the newly...
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Allan Watts was one of my first teachers , there are many items available like this
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This blog is a slight departure from my cycling experiences, though not from my overall concept of ZYCLING . Incidentally I just bought a pair of Bluetooth headphones that I use on some of my long rides listening to Dhamma talks to sweeten the wet,cold and windy winter. I may be...
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Israel/Palestine---Feast---Soldiers----Olives------Litter----Prayers/Metta
Wow factor 10/10
In 1961 I hitch-hiked around Israel working on Kibbutzim and trying to connect to my rather vague heritage. My grandparents...
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Some zycling Twitters
ZYCLING is less about pedalling the truth
But more about letting go of thought
ZYCLING is not so much blowing up a total war
More about patching up a holy one (as in tyre)
The faster a ZYCLIST pedals
The longer it takes to their...
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Down and out on the EUROVELO Route 1. June-july. Wow factor don't go there!
From Scotland following the coasts of England , Holland , Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, is the North Sea Cycle route, 6,000 k in all and I thought it was time to tackle some...
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Did you go to Palestine? and how was it?
you may laugh as I'm a lot younger than you, but I resonate with your comments on having ... Read More
Friday, 10 April 2015 11:11 AM
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thanx for the link,slomo cheered up a rainy morning in Wales,please send more.I'm looking forward to cycling with you in ... Read More
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Meals on Wheels (2) Harnham Breakfast: porridge recipe
Grain Mix:1part short grain brown rice1part barley1part quinoa1/2 part millet1/2 part sunflower seeds
Quantities:
Grain mix= 0,6 of mug or 4oz weighed per 1pint of waterPalm sugar=25g per pint of waterSalt=1/2 a level measuring teaspoon per pint of waterTahini- 2 tablespoons per 3...
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Ex Monk---Alternative Technology--- Not so Funny Man
For the past several years I have been friendly with a young monk at the Chithurst Buddhist training Monastery. I knew his mother when I was a Woodcraft Folk leader, and he was an Elfin. Now a man of nearly thirty, and a monk...
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