How this question helped Madhuri find the answer to a situation she found herself in
Madhuri reviews books by Annabelle Forest, Jon Ronson, Miriam Darlington, Celia Imrie, Graeme Simsion, Federico García Lorca, Jonathan Scott, Francesco Marciuliano, Peter Kilby, Britney Spears, Rebecca Shaw
Two writers, Nityaprem and Madhuri, reflect on their experiences of open minds, open borders, and open hearts, in the larger Osho world
This month’s reviews by Madhuri of books by Gillian McAllister, Mikey Walsh, Bexy Cameron, Dr. Eben Alexander, Somerset Maugham, Lundy Bancroft
Zenning backwards, we find out how many possessions we are truly comfortable with. A trance journey – by Madhuri
This month’s reviews by Madhuri of books by Hafiz, Barry Long, Joseph Wambaugh, Mavis Marsh with Andrew Crofts, Pete Goss, Catherine Cookson, Michèle Knight, Rebecca Musser with M. Bridget Cook, Ralph Barker
Reviews by Madhuri of books by Maggie Hartley, Suzanne Barnes, David Attenborough, Christine Kenneally, Colin Butcher, Anna McNuff, Sally Field, Lucy Cooke, Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan, Katie Fforde
Madhuri’s short reviews on books by: Anthony Edwards, Elizabeth Gaskell, David Grann, Elise Downing, Joe Simpson et. al., Jon Ronson, Cupcake Brown, Miles Smeeton, Ed Caesar, Donnie Eichar, Elizabeth Day
“Without the rather clumsy revolution we went through back then, this new and necessary and beautiful higher revolution would not have been able to happen,” writes Madhuri in this essay
Short reviews by Madhuri on books by Cathy Glass, William Finnegan, Glen Tibaldeo and Laura Berger, James Lee Burke, Dr. Louis J. Camuti, Matt Lewis, Stevie Smith, Rosemary Thornton, Maria Coffey, Susan Lewis and George Mahood
One of Waduda’s Heart Group exercises I took away to use many a time in my own groups, writes Madhuri
A review by Madhuri on Sarah MacDonald’s book; “A good read, well-informed as to politics and history, and fresh in energy. Her style is both girly and manly, so it’s got balance. She falls in love with India: its warm heart, its chaos and its magic.”
Short reviews by Madhuri on books by Anne Watts, Keith Foskett, Bill Green, Philip Gonzalez and Leonore Fleischer, Jojo Moyes, Louise Candlish, Doris Lessing, Barbara Erakko Taylor, Sherman Alexie, Karen Armstrong, David Vann, Alec Le Sueur, Elizabeth Kim
This beautiful meditation is from The Book of the Secrets: ‘Toward the Untouched Inner Reality’: “I have used it in Channeling groups as well as Tantra groups and private Tantra meditations,” writes Madhuri
An excerpt from Madhuri’s latest book, Reluctantly to Kunzum La: Motorbiking in the Himalayas in the Name of Love
Short reviews by Madhuri of books by authors: Burton Silver and Heather Busch, Pico Iyer, Celia Imrie, Joseph Wambaugh, Marina Chapman, Bernie Chowdhury, Joe Tusker
A review by Madhuri of Alan Lew’s book, subtitled The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi; “I enjoyed the book a lot, and I feel it’s valuable for opening our minds and letting in a bit of wonder and a lot of grounded feeling.”
Madhuri’s short reviews on books by: Jon Ronson, Myriam Sagan, Isabella Bird, High Lasgarn, Catherine Cookson, Caitlin Moran, Claude Saks, Stan Jones, Ayya Khema, Thurston Clarke, Helena Merriman
A review by Madhuri of Tim Ward’s book. “The book is so much fun… his arguments are sometimes rebellious in a valuably-refreshing way.”
Short notes on a pile of books read recently. Authors: Adeline Yen Mah, Wendy Burden, Peter Nichols, Jojo Moyes, Jamie James, Tessa Hainsworth, Dr Amanda Brown, Betsy Whyte, Sara Pascoe, Dean Nicholson, Edward Chisholm
A Tantra meditation bringing patience, release of expectation, and empowerment, described by Madhuri
Madhuri’s review of Bhante Walpola Piyananda’s book. “An enormously genial Buddhist rant… peppered with anecdotes from the author’s life as a monk, teacher, Abbott, chaplain, and Chief Sangha Nayaka Thera of the USA.”
Madhuri elucidates at a talk the source of women’s unease at a lifted toilet seat, and of men’s at being shouted at (with two poems and video link)
Madhuri’s review of Ray Brooks’ book; “Having worked in Japan a lot during the 90’s, I enjoyed the immersion into aspects of the culture I’d not encountered, as well as some I had.”
Life in the Amsterdam Red Light District, told by “a young British woman, a newly-qualified nursery nurse who was lured by an advertisement to work in a crèche.” The reflective review by Madhuri concludes with “If Yin was honoured, meditation would become possible for humans.”
Book review by Madhuri; “This book is mostly a description of bliss states, and as such is quite uplifting to read. A special book!”
A poem from Madhuri’s most recent book, To Hills and Waterfalls: a Californian in Calderdale, read by the author on video.
Madhuri on the colourful and warm-hearted evening event in Hebden Bridge where she read from her new book, To Hills and Waterfalls: a Californian in Calderdale.
Madhuri announces her new poetry book dedicated to her home in the English Pennines. It’s her 9th book and her second published this summer!