Ethical Business
On Wednesday this week we signed the paperwork to apply to register Field of Merit as a new charitable company. On the left of the picture is Rev. Wilfrid who has very kindly agreed to be a trustee. We...
View ArticleField of Merit is Born
We were so amazed how quickly Companies House responded to the paperwork we signed and posted last week. Here is our official certificate of Incorporation as a Private Limited Company. Tony our...
View ArticleSailing Forwards
The week after next Rev. Alicia and me are going to stay in North Yorkshire and get a feel for whether or not this area would be suitable to locate Field of Merit. We were granted funds by the Inlight...
View ArticleDon’t Just Do Something – Sit There!
And even when we are sitting there, we are often still trying to do something. We feel we must do something about ourselves. There is something (many things!) wrong with me that must be addressed, I...
View ArticleFast Moving Traffic
During the past few days we, Rev. Alicia and I, have been staying in a cottage in the grounds of Mount Grace Priory on the edge of the North York Moors. The Priory, now in ruins, was once a fully...
View ArticleStatus Anxiety
I’ve been reflecting over the last few days on how much suffering is caused by our hang-ups about status. The Buddha referred to eight worldly conditions of gain and loss, fame and disrepute, praise...
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Feast and Famine
When short in years we feast on life and all that comes. A single fallen petal or a full bunch of flowers hold similar delight. The concept of abundance has not really reached our consciousness. As we...
View ArticleMoving and Changing…..
Moving and changing, nothing stays still, all is in motion. And we as human beings are at our best when we flow with this movement, accepting and embracing each new moment. It may once have seemed to...
View ArticleGetting our posts via email
If you would like to get articles sent directly into your email inbox there is now a way you can do that. On the left hand side of the screen you will see Receive latest post via email. All you need to...
View ArticleWhat we Leave Behind
Adrienne Hodges, who intends to walk the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path in April/May, has started a blog (The Merit of Walking) in which she will map her progress while on the walk. The other day she wrote...
View ArticleHaving a Clearout
I have just filled two carrier bags with books to take to Oxfam. And that is just the start. I live (and work) in one small room and it is time for a clearout. I find that having more stuff than I need...
View ArticleMerit in Walking
It is hardly believable it has taken me well over a week to get around to coding and then uploading this short video clip of Adrienne. I’d mentioned I’d do that in my previous post. Like so many things...
View ArticleA Plan
Today (Friday) is the last day of Jukai – the Ten Precepts Retreat – at Throssel, and we will have the Recognition Ceremony this evening, the final ceremony of the retreat. I have been helping out in...
View ArticleNot Second Hand Living
I’m deriving vicarious pleasure from Adrienne’s walk. I’ve walked alongside her these past months as she prepared herself. I’ve done a couple of training walks to show solidarity and in a few days time...
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Silence, and Walking
I find silence to be restorative in a way that nothing else matches. Actual physical silence, somewhere where no traffic sounds penetrate, no sound of machinery, no whizzing of the washing machine on...
View ArticleAlways Being Buddha
Picture the scene. The American Embassy in London, the non-immigrant visa section. Having started to que outside at 8.00 along with my follow hopefuls the line starts to move at 8.30, slowly. By around...
View ArticleAn Online Meditation Day
Inspired by Adrienne’s invitation to people to meditate at the same time as her each morning and evening when she was on her merit walk around the Pembrokeshire coast, I had the idea that Field of...
View ArticleMay we within the temple of our own hearts dwell….
Our new logo has had me thinking about shelter and how small spaces are very attractive, drawing one into them. I discovered a set of photographs of bus shelters by American photographer Chris...
View ArticleAn Online Meditation Day – More
We have had a very positive response to the idea of an online meditation day – see my previous post – so we will go ahead and set a date. We are assuming that Saturday is the most likely day … Continue...
View ArticleSlow Down To Go Around The Bend
It was just as well there are lots of bends in the road going down the Teesdale Valley, Co. Durham. I’ve been watching out for a densely populated field of buttercups to photograph for this website....
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