by Vishvapani | Aug 20, 2015 | Featured, Thought for the Day
When English children are asked how they feel, they’re less happy than children in Ethiopia and Algeria. How can Buddhist ideas of mindfulness and skilful action help young people? The Good Childhood Report published yesterday by the Children’s...
by Vishvapani | Jul 10, 2015 | Featured, Thought for the Day
As London prepares for 24-hour tube services and the way opens for 7-day shopping, how much commerce do we really need and what’s it doing to us? Thought for the Day 10.07.2015 If you struggled to and from work in London yesterday because of the tube strike, you...
by Vishvapani | Jun 19, 2015 | Featured, Thought for the Day
There have never been more refugees. How can we respond to the crisis? BBC Wales, Weekend Word 19/06/2015 It’s a cold London evening in 1939, Liverpool St. Station; and hundreds of children are stumbling off a train. They’ve travelled for days from Berlin...
by Vishvapani | May 9, 2015 | Featured, Mindfulness, Secular Mindfulness, Thought for the Day
This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week focuses on mindfulness. What’s the connection between an ancient Buddhist practice and modern mental health needs? Thought for the Day 9/5/2015 In this election, for the first time, we heard calls from a mainstream...
by Vishvapani | May 2, 2015 | Featured, Thought for the Day
We often turn away from the suffering around us or in the news. But, following the Nepalese earthquake, what happens when we open up? Thought for the Day 2/5/2015 Some years ago I was travelling in northern India when my group stopped at a roadside chai stop....
by Vishvapani | Feb 27, 2015 | Thought for the Day
Public fury at politicians are on the make shows that we want them to serve, not profit. Thats an inkling of the Buddhist practice of dedicating one’s whole life to serving all beings Weekend Word, BBC Radio Wales, 27.2.2015 Whatever Jack Straw and Malcolm...
