The Tate Modern is the natural gallery in London to show ground-breaking, avant garde artworks. The kind that as often as not might make you shrug, dismiss, and despair of. I am talking about bricks laid out on the floor so that their only distinctive feature is the ease with which one can trip over … Read more
These snowdrops came out a few days ago. I saw them one day and intended to go out to photograph them the following day. However, the best-laid plans can go awry, and the next day it snowed. The snow was swept away by the rain the next day and so I went to visit the … Read more
Buddha’s Religious Teachings Having adopted the life of a religious master from the age of 35 until his death in 486 B.C. at the age of 80, Buddha taught the ‘noble truths’ that the craving for pleasure and the avoidance of pain leads to existence and suffering. To get out of this cycle, Buddha stressed, … Read more