architecture – SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR)

DPRK: Ground-Preparing Ceremony – 10,000 Socialist Flats to be Built in Hwasong Area! (17.2.2025)

17/02/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

All the builders broke into enthusiastic cheers with boundless reverence for Kim Jong Un, who is warmly inspiring them with great trust so that they can perform eye-opening feats once again in this year’s struggle for successfully concluding the tasks decided by the Party congress.

The venue of the ground-breaking ceremony was filled with the ardent enthusiasm of the builders of the capital city to uphold the cherished desire of our Party with miracles of creation, bearing deep in mind Kim Jong Un’s instructions that the Hwasong area is the epitome that intensively shows the spirit peculiar to the Workers’ Party of Korea that wages the revolution uninterruptedly and the onward march of our state that advances towards the future with a great ambition.

Kim Jong Un pressed the button for blasting to herald the start of the project for building 10 000 flats at the fourth stage in the Hwasong area.

Celtic-Chinese – Time for the Horse-Shoe Feng Shui! (2.11.2024)

02/11/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

In return, we often march carrying the Red Flag of China in the UK – on the grounds that it belongs to humanity and the Working Class of the World! Due to fascism in the UK, the population is riddled with confusion and race-hate – what Marx termed a “false consciousness”. Difference is not a threat and should not be viewed as such. When you think of it, the Chinese people have so much to hate the West – and the British – about, but racism, (particularly retaliatory racism) is completely lacking in China (outside the false imaginings of the China-haters)! Superstitions are pointless, of course, but they can be fun! Horse-shoes are “good luck” – just like the Feng Shui placards the Chinese use!

DPRK: Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Completed Central Cadres Training School of WPK! (16.5.2024)

16/05/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

Noting that the structural characteristics of buildings were improved more rationally in keeping with the trend of modern education development and the pedagogical principles and the landscaping has been realized on a high level in conformity with the world standard, he said with pride that the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK is a perfect educational facility firmly ensuring the political principles, modernity and practicality and it created the highest standard for other educational institutions across the country.

Expressing expectation and belief that the school, wonderfully built as a political institution of the WPK representing the new era, would always remain faithful to its important and sacred mission of training the genuine backbone, the core Kimilsungists-Kimjongilists, and thus make a tangible contribution to strengthening and developing the WPK and its eternal prosperity, he gave instructions on making full preparations for its operation ahead of its opening ceremony and on organizing its inaugural ceremony in a great politically significant way. (End)

Meditating & Meandering Through the Beautiful Ruins of Waverley Abbey! (11.5.2024)

12/05/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

This was a place where a group of Cistercian monastics (following the Rule of St Benedict) – also known as “Trappist” monks – spent years in silent contemplation of the Bible and their inner minds. The lifestyle of such a monk is designed to “still” the mind and empty the interior of all desire. Only when the mind and body of the monk is “empty” might God grant “grace” and make himself known – but he might not. Either way, once the monk is empty of all desire – the love of Jesus Christ can shrine view. The monk possesses no opinion and so the cycle of each da peacefully unfolds.

Windsor Castle – Family Outing (26.2.2022)

03/03/2022 Adrian (釋大道)

Windsor Castle is about an hour’s drive from Sutton. I had been to Windsor probably about 20-years ago – but had not visited the castle.

A Flying Visit to King’s College Hospital – London (23.2.2022)

01/03/2022 Adrian (釋大道)

The lack of a strong union in a rapidly privatising NHS has led to this kind of debilitating and exploitative work schedule. To make sure Gee was safe on the return journey – I travelled with her and waited whilst she attended her course – carrying-on my academic work through my ipad and ‘phone, etc. When back together we brought a coffee and a sandwich and then quickly looked around the historic building.