Shantigarbha, Author at Seed of Peace

To feel safe or to be safe?

Posted on April 12, 2022April 14, 2022 by Shantigarbha

A few days ago, on our NVC Year Training community call we started a discussion about safety – feeling safe in myself and feeling safe to express myself when I notice I’m feeling uncomfortable in the group. The group members had the intention to address the topic as an open dialogue and bring awareness to how difficult it is to be authentic even in a 'safe environment'. The word safe environme...
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Holding the World in Our Hearts

Posted on March 8, 2022March 9, 2022 by Shantigarbha

Here at Seed of Peace we feel deep sadness to hear of Russian 'special operations' in Ukraine, which appear to amount to an invasion. We feel tormented to see Ukrainian civilians being shelled and long for their safety. We long for Ukrainians to get the practical and emotional support they need to protect their country and their way of life. Our compassionate instinct encourages us to resonat...
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All you need is love

Posted on February 10, 2022February 12, 2022 by Shantigarbha

For Valentine’s Day this year I thought that I’d revisit one of the happiest memories of my childhood: listening to ‘All You Need is Love’ by the Beatles. In fact, I was only 18 months old when it was originally broadcast on 25 June 1967 during the Summer of Love, so I must have heard it later in my childhood, with the sense that I was looking back on a period of impossible idealism and hope. ...
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A Thousand Kisses Deep

Posted on December 19, 2021December 19, 2021 by Shantigarbha

As we slide towards the mid-winter solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere, my thoughts have been turning towards the topic of love. In the darkness of the afternoons, a song has come back to haunt me, 'A Thousand Kisses Deep' by Leonard Cohen. Cohen was the ultimate ladies man, a well-spoken gentleman poet, who gave up his career as a lover to become a Zen monk. The song appears to com...
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Song for the Earth: grounding, grief and gratitude

Posted on October 14, 2021November 11, 2021 by Shantigarbha

Join Shantigarbha for an 8-week online course exploring his book, starting 16 October. Further information and registration here. For the past six weeks I’ve been busy promoting my book The Burning House: a Buddhist response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency online, and increasingly in person. Last night I was at the Brighton Buddhist Centre speaking to 45 people, half on...
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What kind of ancestors do we want to be?

Posted on August 18, 2021August 16, 2021 by Shantigarbha

On Monday, the IPCC published part of its long-awaited Sixth Assessment Report, "Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis", which you can read here. The report confirms what has been common knowledge for many years now: that major and irreversible changes to the climate, affecting all parts of the globe, are underway now and that swift and drastic cuts in emissions are needed now if we are...
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