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Bodhi Books and Gifts

Locality: Newtown, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 9519 8890

Address: 375 King Street 2042 Newtown, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.bodhistore.com.au/

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23.01.2022 Our autumn collection of merino scarves are in store and now, online. We can wrap + pack + send to your favourite mum for Mother Day! See our full range in store and online... https://bodhistore.com.au/product-theme/scarves

21.01.2022 More New and Classic Gems to Keep Your Mind and Body Healthy - https://mailchi.mp/2a6bea109a2e/omyese0bg7-4052365

19.01.2022 BBC’s Thought for the Day, from one of our authors, Vishvapani Blomfield. Like so many others, I’ve been deleting future events from my online calendar and, in place of the busy summer I’d planned, there’s a lot of blank space. Those vanished opportunities to feel active and useful remind me of Ernest Hemingway's comment that the most frightening thing he’d ever encountered was nothing from his life of war and hunting. It was a blank sheet of paper. If the future has vanishe...d, the present has changed, and COVID-19 is affecting us in very different ways. Some people, very sadly, are bereaved; others are sick or fear sickness; there are lost livelihoods; and healthcare workers face extraordinary challenges. My small world has changed in less dramatic ways, particularly as my son is home from school and my wife and I are having to be teachers as well as parents. The school’s advising us that children are already feeling disoriented and not to pressurise them with a strict learning regime. But it still feels like a responsibility and it’s hard to squeeze in long division and history projects while working from home. My son, of course, has his own ideas. The other day my wife found him watching the hakuna matata sequence of The Lion King - the slightly cheesy bit where the meerkat and the warthog introduce the troubled lion cub to their ‘problem-free philosophy’. My son reached out his hand to his mother, saying: ‘Let’s dance!’ Moments like that open up the creative possibilities of the blank space. Perhaps we all sense those possibilities, and notice how quickly we want to fill the space with our habitual ways of being preoccupied or busy. I’ve learned from my experience of going on retreat that it’s natural to feel disoriented, get bored and crave stimulation. The general Buddhist advice is to slow down. It helps to allow your feelings to be as they are without blaming yourself for not being perfect. And resting your attention on the body and breath is a great way to settle the mind. In that space, you may encounter aspects of yourself that are usually drowned out by busyness and distraction. That can be disconcerting but it also opens up those creative possibilities. The magic happens in the space that’s left by the plans which only ever existed in an imagined future, and have vanished, as the Diamond Sutra says, like a flash of lightening or a drop of dew. That’s when we can go deeper. We can feel our connections with the people we can’t meet. We can dance with our children.

14.01.2022 Musicians & Addiction: Research and Recovery Stories - https://mailchi.mp/cc1f1f22adb2/omyese0bg7-4128597

14.01.2022 To our wonderful customers, suppliers, supporters and visitors - we wish you a Season of Peace and Joy, from all the team at Bodhi Books and Gifts

13.01.2022 New titles, kids books, journals - a wonderful range available on our shelves...

11.01.2022 A profusion of colours as the afternoon sun reflects in the Bodhi window from the Greek Church across the road.

09.01.2022 Our wish for you - https://mailchi.mp/aefe16069d8e/our-wish-for-you

07.01.2022 If you're stiff and sore from too much screen time, not getting the exercise you need, or just walked (or ran) too far this time, check out these lovely soft marino wool heat and cold packs... https://bodhistore.com.au/manufacturer/heat-pack-tasmania

06.01.2022 Streaming free now til June 3. Hearing good things from customers! Let us know what you think.

06.01.2022 It's a brand new year, and may it go well - https://mailchi.mp/5974ced78606/its-a-brand-new-year Here's what you loved in 2020 and our picks for a good start to 2021.

03.01.2022 (En) - lighten Your Days - https://mailchi.mp/3b27a9a79b19/omyese0bg7-2720358

02.01.2022 Looking for gift ideas for Mother's Day? And we'll help with wrap+pack+post direct to your mum- https://mailchi.mp/64e407beba64/bodhicovid-2726622

01.01.2022 ALWAYS WAS ALWAYS WILL BE. It’s NAIDOC Week 2020! Bodhi Books & Gifts is celebrating every day, with recommendations of our own in-store favourites. Bruce Pasoce’s DARK EMU challenges everything we thought about the care and culture of this land by First Nations people before, and up to, European settlement. Controversial, lauded and awarded, DARK EMU became a best seller, a compelling Bangarra dance production and, a children’s book. YOUNG DARK EMU A Truer History, is a beautifully presented book, rich in detail and story, that gently shows children a different way of seeing our Australian past.