Now you can listen to Jade Mountains (see note below). I’d be interested if anybody uses this service. A fast connection is needed.
Following on from yesterdays post on screen readers here is an article explaining the matter, in details.
Thanks to John for the link.
17th June update. I’m not using the podcast facility mentioned in this article. I’d not read the terms and conditions carefully enough. Let that be a lesson to me.
In order to make the Dharma accessible to those who have visual impairments, the following downloads of Sitting Buddha by Rev. Master Daishin Morgan, Abbot of Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey, are available. This short book is an introduction to Zen Buddhism and sitting meditation (zazen) as practiced at Throssel. Please click on the links for each of the twelve chapters. (No file is bigger than 40k.) These files are for personal use only and should not be redistributed without checking with the guest department at Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey.
Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey
I found out about this recent upload via a Twitter site I stumbled upon yesterday. Isn’t it interesting how information is networked around the world and, in this case, lands back to it’s source here at Throssel. Having discovered this new download and who uploaded it I nipped down the corridor to question the monk responsible. What makes a download accessible, and for who in particular? Light briskly shone upon the matter.
Apparently Screen Readers are not able to read PDF files as accurately as DOC ones. A new world of website accessibility has now opened up before me. Already I know of at least two people who find it difficult to read the text on Jade Mountains. I’d like to do all that’s possible to ease the struggle.
Here is a must see set of portraits of life before and after death. The photographs are on show in an exhibition that opened at the Welcome Collection in London on 9th April.
At the heart of journalism there is, or always should be, a desire to illuminate a subject worthy of examination. This project succeeded in throwing some light on to the subject that is perhaps most worthy of examination, and certainly most obscured, in human experience: the great mystery of death itself. And it’s a mystery of equal significance wherever in the world you’re clicking your mouse.
Guardian Unlimited – News Blog
While in London on Tuesday I met an old sangha friend and loyal reader of Moving Mountains. He now lives and works in Singapore. By a happy set of coincidences we fetched up in the same town at the same time. We met, he and his partner and I at the British Library for afternoon tea. (What a splendid place). If I were in London I’d make a point of viewing these photographs. Simply viewing them on-line is a meditation.
Like Great Western Trains and the London Underground my visa application is suffering from severe delays. Thankfully I’m not suffering severely from the delay, although I’ll not be leaving these shores as soon as I’d thought.
Thanks to Julius for sending me the link.
Snow on the Isle of Wight at this time of year, or any other time for that matter, is an unlikely event. This morning we had more than a dusting however it didn’t stay long. My five week stay here ends tomorrow, I could have stayed longer.
The picture below was taken yesterday in South Edmonton, Alberta Canada by a congregation member of the meditation group there. If I’m not mistaken I’m seeing snatches of Whyte Avenue between the snow flakes. Thanks to Mike.
If all goes well with my visa application and interview at the US Embassy in London on Tuesday I might be walking on Whyte in a few weeks time. Or later if the matter is delayed. It will be great to see old friends in Canada and the U.S.A.
I hear from a good Sangha friend that Tuesday is an auspicious date, something to do with the number eight. Apparently it’s a very propitious day to get married in the Chinese calendar. All temples, churches are fully booked a year in advance in Singapore.
our eyes know how to see…