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Previous Newsletter Articles from Venerable Tejadhammo & Others

Reflections – by Bhante Tejadhammo25 September 2021
In the Samyutta Nikaya 56.41 we encounter a very strange story called the Lokacintā sutta. In this sutta a man relates how he went off and sat down by a lotus pond to reflect on the nature of the world. Sitting there he saw a very strange thing or vision. The result was that he thought that he must be going mad, must be insane. Read the sutta if you want to know what he thought he saw. He returned to the city and told his friends about his vision and they too concluded that he was mad. However the Buddha stated that he was not mad and that what he had seen was real. However the Buddha went on to point out that this kind of “reflection’ is quite fruitless and useless in the famous concluding remarks to the sutta.
Meeting the Moment – A Mantra for Everyday Practice – by Sue Toohey14 September 2021
We’re ridiculously over-stimulated in our lives these days. There is so much going on all the time. Your phone is pinging alerts to you – Ping! here are the latest COVID figures, Ping! missed call from an unknown number Ping! the PM is giving a press conference! Ping! Here’s a reminder about your doctor’s appointment – tell us now if you’re not coming! Ping! WA goes into lockdown tonight! Ping! Here’s a text from the Aust Tax Office! – they want you to contact them!
Buddhism – Form and Spirit by K.K. Lim22 August 2021
At home, we have a shrine room where Molly and I pray each day as well as the place to sit for a period of meditation. On the mantel above the fireplace are a number of Buddha statues together with prayer wheels and on the walls are tankas and embroidered Buddhist items sourced from a dozen countries where the Buddha has left his footsteps…
Three Paths of Pride – by Bhante Tejadhammo16 August 2021
The Buddha pointed out that there are three paths of Pride which are: thinking I am better than the others; thinking I am less than the others; and thinking I am just as good as the others. Each of these leads to more suffering for myself and others. What then can we do? Where does this leave us? This is yet another example of the wonderful way in which the Buddha challenges us to “step outside the square” so to speak and find a new way of being and a new fruitful way of doing.
Meeting Remarkable Dhamma People – Part 3 – by Bhante Tejadhammo11 July 2021
With my apologies dear readers somehow, I became lost in time and forgot to continue between the last episode on going to the Southern Peak. So with your permission I will continue…..
Patience – Khanti by Bhante Tejadhammo1 April 2021
Recently I have been giving much thought to the subject of Patience or Khanti and its importance and place in our lives. The Buddha gives it an important place in his teaching and yet we find ourselves living in an age of instant satisfaction, instant answers, instant gratification. This has been assisted by the agency of the internet and all that goes with it.
Meeting remarkable people Part 2 by Bhante Tejadhammo26 February 2021
Having pushed me into the dark and dim meeting room the young novice did not enter but waited outside the now closed door. The government officials all turned to look at this stranger who had so suddenly arrived in their presence.
Meeting remarkable people Part 1 by Bhante Tejadhammo25 January 2021
In the last newsletter (‘If you are aware‘ below) I wrote about meeting the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. I did this because I tried to suggest to you that it is in meeting practitioners of Dhamma that we gain most rather than reading books or listening to recordings or even attending ceremonies. When we are…
If you are aware by Bhante Tejadhammo13 December 2020
If you are aware that you are alive, that you have twenty-four hours to create new joy, this would be enough to make yourself happy and the people around you happy. Thich Nhat Hanh Most of the time the articles which appear in our little newsletter are centred on aspects of practice or attempt to…
Discrimination by Bhante Tejadhammo23 August 2020
Discrimination is something which we use and encounter every day as human beings however it should not be forgotten that it comes from the root word meaning to divide or separate. The teaching of the Buddha is about wholeness or healing or we could day “holiness” in a broad sense, so the Dhamma is clearly…

One-Heart-One Mind Newsletter Archive

Our newsletter One Heart – One Mind is now merged with our weekly e-news, but please find an archive of our former print newsletter below including many teachings from Ven. Tejadhammo.

2018

One Heart One Mind – Jan 2018

2017

One Heart One Mind – Sept 2017

One Heart One Mind – June 2017

One Heart One Mind – Mar 2017

2016

One Heart One Mind – Nov 2016

One Heart One Mind – Aug 2016

One Heart One Mind – June 2016

One Heart One Mind – March 2016

2015