Noirin's Bio
Short Essays / Tips:
- Satipanya Porridge
- The "Ouch" that hurt.
- Coming down to earth
- Extending the limits of good-will
- Metta for a Cold Heart
- The Fourth Noble Truth
- Struggling with Anatta
- Temporary Ordination
- Retreating and Re-engaging
- Homeward Bound
- All in the Mind
- Summer meadows
- As Winter Approaches
- 2020 Lockdown Christmas
- Exiting Lockdown
The following essays were written in the year or so after Noirin underwent surgery for throat cancer which took away her voice:
- Greeting the Devadutta
- Laryngectomy
- Stumbling towards Gratitude
- Mid-winter Darkness
- Teaching with an Electro-larynx: The Oval Age-Old Bath???
The following essays centre around climate change and a paper describing six ethical maxims we need to develop to be able to cope with the assocated social and environmental collapse:
- Full Catastrophe Ethics
- First Maxim: Work Hard to Grasp the Imensity
- Second Maxim: Cultivate Radical Hope
- Third Maxim: Draw a Line in the Sand - a. Ethics in the face of conflict
- Third Maxim: Draw a line in the Sand - b. Working mindfully with red lines
- Fourth Maxim: Appreciate the Amazing and Unique Upportunity - a: From Suffering to Faith to Gladness.
- Fourth Maxim: Appreciate the Amazing and Unique Opportunity - b. From Dukkha to Insight and Beyond.
Meditation Guidance:
Talks
- The First Noble truth - Impermanence and Unsatisfactoriness
- The First noble truth - Not-Self and Unsatisfactoriness
- The Second Noble Truth - The Cause of Unsatisfactoriness
- The Third Noble Truth - The End of Unsatisfactoriness
- The Fourth Noble Truth - The Path Leading to the End of Unsatisfactoriness