Month: Jul 2023

Rev Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields

Higher education, is it worth it? Will students get the knowledge, wisdom and skilled careers that they pay for?

There was a really great teacher once. Can you guess who it was? He taught students about Invisible Magic Stuff. You can’t get much more useful than that.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ne90SzEoWabRHBT2F1C7t0mSjH0no9b/view?usp=sharing

Dr Chetna Kang, Psychiatrist and Hindu Priest in the Bhakti Yoga/Vaisnava tradition

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, the film Oppenheimer is being released.

On seeing his first atomic explosion, Oppenheimer quoted the Gita by saying “now I become death the destroyer of worlds.” It’s not quite right but quoting Hindu philosophy is still a Good Thing.

Which brings me to Hindu philosophy which knows all about Time in a really deepity way. It tells us about reincarnation and that death, even of a close friend, is not the end, and it makes us feel much better. We know about all this because it says so in our books.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1myLOP1ORPD0O9iGsiJXWHcwA6YV9z3kZ/view?usp=sharing

Vishvapani (formerly Simon Blomfield), member of the Triratna Order (formerly the Western Buddhist Order)

Czech writer Milan Kundera has died.
His novels explored ambiguity in human motives and emotions.
He contrasted this with the inflexible ideology of communism. But he was wrong to think that only communism was like that.
Buddhism concerns itself with interpretations.
We construct a view of reality that we think is the truth.
If you have a row with someone then it makes things worse. But sometimes the row goes away.
This week’s media storm over an unnamed individual fed on the suspicion that something bad was being concealed.
My point is clear.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cToEI883fCw_M91mFQFCH3PCcbmwTB0Z/view?usp=sharing