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Car stickers ... and for elsewhere too

Posted by Ramsey Margolis on 7 July 2010 | 0 Comments

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In green and yellow like this website, four new car stickers are now available. To get one send a message using the Contact Us page with your postal address saying which one(s) you want.
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Newsletter interview

Posted by Ramsey Margolis on 4 October 2009 | 0 Comments

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INSIGHTAotearoa is the monthly newsletter of New Zealand's insight meditation practitioners and communities. Editor Deborah White interviewed the ABET trustees for the October 2009 newsletter. Seeing as we are spread geographically – Vivien is on Auckland’s North Shore, Ramsey is in Wellington, Brigid in Nelson and Christine in Port Levy – she interviewed us by email.

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Creating opportunities for generosity

Posted by Ramsey Margolis on 30 September 2009 | 0 Comments

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“To embrace dukkha is to fully embrace the suffering of the world. When the Buddha talks of the path, the whole business beginning with fully knowing dukkha, it’s also an injunction to compassion. When we begin to be more attuned to the tragic nature of our own existence, when we begin to wear down the rigidity of our selfcentredness, that has the effect of making us more empathetically open to the far, far greater suffering that is going on all around us; in others, in the environment.”

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