Category: Blog
Padmaloka October 2025
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Windermere
Happy birthday Molly and Max ❤️ Four https://youtube.com/shorts/A9MkJ0MbLQY https://youtube.com/shorts/ulron0CfBBY https://youtube.com/shorts/vm4wqg4aMOc?feature=shared
Frexalimab
I’ve not heard these three words since my haematology consultation in 2017. But Dr…
Scruffy Herbert
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Ordination anniversary- 3 years
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New(ish) toys
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My cheeky daughters
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Diary 02 Nov 2024
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Meditation 11 August 2024
“We are delighted to offer our club members a special Buddhasevaka Meditation session. We…
Adisthana May 2024
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Padmaloka May 2024
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Ordination anniversary – two years
Today is the second anniversary of my public ordination and I’d like to give…
Diary 21 Feb 2024
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Tsongkhapa
Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) is a well-known Tibetan religious philosopher. In his iconic form, wearing a tall…
(I’m gonna) cry myself blind
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(What a difference) a yoga day makes
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I am because we are
Telepathy (from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle) ‘distant’, and πάθος/-πάθεια (páthos/-pátheia) ‘feeling, perception, passion, affliction,…
Climate Café
Triratna Earth Sangha conference At the heart of this year’s conference is a Climate…
Scooter Jeopardy 1
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Meditation 01 June 2023
Climate, Conditionality and Karma. Using the medicine of the Four RemindersTriratna Earth Sangha Urban…
Talk 01 June 2023
Climate, Conditionality and Karma. Using the medicine of the Four Reminders. Triratna Earth Sangha…
Padmaloka May 2023
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Ordination anniversary – 1 year
I met the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order, Sangharakshita, on 22nd March 2018….
A year of Lockdown and a new place!
A year (-ish) from the start of lockdown and again I am in the…
One Year of the Pandemic
Another milestone passes today; a year since the pandemic was declared. Things have been…
The Transcendental Principle
Intensive study of the first chapter of Sangharakshita’s magnum opus, ‘A Survey of Buddhism’,…
The Mythic Context
Going for Refuge requires the activation of our strongest and deepest emotions. If we…
Six months of COVID
Today is the unhappy anniversary of the lockdown. And Boris was on TV again…
A dystopian future
It’s mid August 2020 and a shopping experience is not complete without a face…
New day, new decision
I did plenty of reading and lots of thinking overnight and I believe that…
Facebook Update
Boris Johnson announced 11 days ago that the lockdown would ease a little from…
Look out, my kids are about!
Today has been a long, good day. I didn’t sleep so well as, during…
One year alone?
I have just read some terribly upsetting news from The Independent newspaper which, over time,…
Sense of humour bypass, check!
It’s 2 am and I’m awake once more. Inevitably under the circumstances, insomnia has…
Biotin trial for MS halted
So I was called on Wednesday by Liam from the trials team Salford Royal…
Yo Garth! Please help me to relax!
Today is my annual visit to Garth McLean’s yoga class. His worldwide travels finally…
Fatigue and insomnia
One of the most difficult things about this condition is that I am fatigued…
Mike Carpenter – superhuman!
I thought to myself, as an ordinary looking guy walked out of the disabled…
Own the Party!
Now freshly retired and with an appetite for new challenges, I organised to join…
Diary 15 March 2018
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Meeting Sangharakshita
In March 2018 I met my Buddhist teacher, Sangharakshita. He died in the October…
Kalyana Mitra Ceremony
On Friday 23rd November 2018 I became a Kalyana Mitra. My friends Aparajita and…
Haematology Consultation
‘I’m ready to die’ I said to the haematologist at the Manchester Royal Infirmary…
Possible treatment plan?
This promised to be a landmark year with Caitlin’s 13th, my 40th and hopefully,…
Ordination Request
This year began with the usual deluge of medical appointments, both in Oldham and…
High Days and Holidays
As the hill snow was relentless, so were medical interventions early this year. After…
My last running event
As the euphoria of New Years Eve faded, some symptoms unfortunately began to reappear….
