I have a friend who once worked in a high position within the Civil Service (local government). When relocating to Southern England, she applied for
Tag: homelessness
Austerity and UK Royal Weddings
During times of Austerity, the middle and upper classes ensure their dominance of society by withdrawing services and financial help from the ordinary people (who
What We Have Become…
When I was young and at school (and before the destructive Thatcherite reforms), it was common-place to learn about ‘homelessness’ as something that existed during
Why the Buddha Left Society
‘The Buddhist Scriptures tell us that when Gotama was twenty-nine years old, he saw for the first time an Old man, a Sick Man, a
The Buddha’s Awareness and the State of Homelessness
‘Of course, the act of physically changing one’s environment for another inevitably has the consequence of a change of mind itself. For many ordinary beings this change of mind through experience is simply the process of the cognising of new sense-data – to be stored alongside similar sense-data previously acquired. For the Buddha himself, the change of physical experience led to the development of the immense urge within him to seek the answer that reconciled all physical experience, regardless of the nature of that experience itself.’
