Dharma teacher Bernat Font Clos (left) with Stephen Batchelor (right) in Korea, October 2023 (photo Martine Batchelor)
MEDITATION WORKS
Understanding the mind with meditation
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WELL WORTH READING
Berni’s dharma
An English-language newsletter from Bernat Font Clos – dharma teacher, community organiser and jazz pianist in Barcelona. Bernat thinks, writes and teaches as creatively as he plays piano. ⁂
AN OPPORTUNITY TO CARE FOR OTHERS, FOR THE PLANET, FOR YOURSELF
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ONLINE DHARMA BOOK READING GROUP
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A SIXTY SOMETHING POEM
The adopted poet
by Bernard Cadogan
Language tells me everything except my name.
Language is either kind, hiding me from shame,
or it is cruel, denying me fame
or infamy no matter how I came
by it – isn’t it all the same?
The naked man whose namelessness is his shame.
For a name is a dwelling place and home –
nowhere do I have a country of my own.
The sky will not have me nor the good loam.
I am the dirt my heels kick up when I roam.
My kids have names because I helped give them theirs.
Those were rightly given, the names that they bear.
I, who have no name, realise death has come near.
What will it call me by, to make me fear?
Woodford Halse UK, 4 December 2023
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Ramsey Margolis ❖ Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
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