April 2020
SPECIAL LOCKDOWN OFFER – 2 for 1 digital books
To help you get through lockdown, we’re offering our digital books at half the regular price. Go tuwhiri.nz/store where you can get both Tuwhiri books for the price of one in an .ePub bundle, or in a .mobi bundle for your Kindle.
Online course
Have you gone through the online course yet? It really is very good – but don’t take our word for this, have a look for yourself. Accessible through the Secular Buddhist Network website, go to:
secularbuddhistnetwork.org/courses-retreats
While you’re at home on lockdown, there’s surely no better time to do this. And while you’re thinking about it, you might like to encourage your friends to do this too, and maybe you could go though it together.
Questions to accompany What is this?
We apologise to those who have been waiting patiently to download the questions that accompany What is this?
We now have two people working on these questions, and as a result hope to be able to make them freely available to everyone in about a month from now.
Questions to accompany the first two chapters are now available online here .
Quantity discounts
Buy a bundle of 4, 8 or 12 paperbacks and you will get a substantial discount – so long as you buy them through our store.
Participants will appreciate this if you’re planning to run a course around After Buddhism and the Workbook.
Substack
This is the first newsletter to go out using Substack, rather than TinyLetter. Are you able to read it easily on your phone, your tablet and your computer? Your feedback would be appreciated.
Skills we’re looking for
Tuwhiri is looking for:
• Someone with experience of the publishing industry, or marketing in general to let people know what we’re doing;
• Someone to drive our social media presence – currently non-existent;
• Someone to run fundraising future projects, books and online courses.
Please get in touch if you’d like to have a conversation about this.
Three more books are on their way
We wish we could tell you more about them. All we can say is that you will want to read them.
New posts on the Tuwhiri blog
When was the last time you looked at our blog? There are a couple of new posts since the last newsletter.
And they’re wearing them in the Buddhadharma office in Halifax, Nova Scotia. If you’d like one, too, let us know.
Take some time to listen to Don Cupitt, Lloyd Geering and Stephen Batchelor’s contributions to a discussion on ‘creative uncertainty’ during the concluding panel session of a Sea of Faith conference in Timaru, New Zealand. It’s well worth the time.
Leave a lasting legacy when you remember Tuwhiri in your will
With three books in the pipeline and other projects bubbling away, the legacy you leave to Tuwhiri in your will is going to have a tremendously positive effect. Get in touch if you’d like to discuss leaving a legacy.
Are you in lockdown?
Is that a silly question? And have you read the novel titled The Plague by Albert Camus? If your answers to any of these questions is ‘Yes’, we’d like to suggest that you read this dharma talk by Tuwhiri’s Winton Higgins:
Dharmic existentialist ethics in a time of pandemic in these difficult times
These newsletters
Did you get this newsletter from a friend? It goes out two or three times a year, and this is where you add your email address to the mailing list:
https://www.tuwhiri.nz/contact
We send out a Tuwhiri newsletter when we have something to let you know about, and that’s going to be about three times a year. If you feel like sharing it with a friend we encourage you to do so.
If you’ve not seen it, here’s the last newsletter we sent out:
https://tuwhiri.substack.com/p/taking-tuwhiri-places-in-2020
Finally
There’s something on our mind, and we’d like to share it with you.
Having published two books and with more in the pipeline, The Tuwhiri Project is ticking along nicely.
What is clear to us now, though, is that we need to develop greater awareness of the project among dharma practitioners, and at the same time finding ways to help new writers (and other creatives) develop their art.
We do have a few ideas on this, and we’d love to hear yours. Write to us – send us an email, or a message through the contact form at www.tuwhiri.nz/contact.
THE TUWHIRI PROJECT
FINDING MEANING IN A DIFFICULT WORLD
Kati ake nei, ka kite ano
Ramsey Margolis • Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
for The Tuwhiri Project