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All the Time in the World: All the World in the Time

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Who Am I?

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Thought for This Moment

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Thought for This Moment

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The Hero and A Thousand Deaths

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A 90th Birthday

Doctor Max Craven-Jackson

Extracts from a Letter

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The Elmwood Group for Human Ecology

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Symphony in the Snow — A Personal Recollection

Edmund Burke

Thought for This Moment

Eileen Benson

Is There Anybody Out There?

Letter to the Editor

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Epictetus

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Farīd ud-Dīn ‘Attār

A Poem

Fynn

An Excerpt from “Mister God, This is Anna”

Gensha

Thought for This Moment

Geoffrey Pullen

A Few Observations on Meditation and Attentiveness (Mindfulness)

A View of Vietnam

Jungian Psychology and Transpersonal Psychology

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Spirituality for a World in Crisis

George Piggott

20th Anniversary of the Trust

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Awareness of the Moment

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Guru Gampopa

Thought for This Moment

H. H. The Dalai Lama

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Harindranath Chattopadhyaya

Unity

Hilaire Belloc

An Excerpt from “On a Faëry Castle”

Jacob Boehme

Thought for This Moment

Jacob Trapp

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Jacqueline Messerly

Haiku

Jehanne Mehta

Cathar

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Tympanum (The Troubadour)

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought for This Moment

Joan Dashwood

Breath

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How can I reach Nirvana?

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John Blofeld

Thought for This Moment

John Keats

An Excerpt from “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

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Kālidāsa

Salutation to the Dawn

Kingfisher

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Letting Go

Laozi

Thought for This Moment

Laura Piggott

Winter Time

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The Burden — A Fable

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Thought for This Moment

Marcus Aurelius

Thought for This Moment

Mary Easteal

Is There Anybody Out There?

Phiroz Mehta — A Special Guide

Mencius

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Thought for This Moment

Michael Jenkinson

Consciousness

Michael Lewin

Thought for This Moment

Michael Piggott

Everywhere Shining

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Lend a Hand

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Muriel Stuart

Seeds

Nipun Mehta

Paths are Made by Walking

Patricia Chown

Promise of Spring

Paul Marshall

Man and the Planet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

An Excerpt from “Adonais”

Phiroz Mehta

1991

A Thought for Consideration

An Excerpt from “Zarathushtra: The Transcendental Vision”

Ashem Vohu

Asoka, the Philosopher Emperor

Can the Religions Cooperate?

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Craving and Aversion

Death

Don’t Fight the Ill State In You

Freedom

Health and the Spiritual Life

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Immortality

India's Religions and Man's Fulfilment

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Laying Down the Truth

Man’s Responsibility

Meditation

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Neither Resist nor Indulge

Self-Consciousness

Shining Armour

Some Elements in Indian and Greek Thought

That Brāhman, the Buddha

That Brahman, The Buddha

The Concept of the Way in Buddhism

The Health Cookery Book

The Importance of Birthdays

The Influence of Science upon Religious Conceptions

The Realization of God

The River of Life

The Scientist and the Seer — Harmony

The State of Communion

The Subcontinent of India

Theorhythm

Thought for This Moment

Timeless Conjugation

Transmutation and Transformation

Truth and Transcendence

Use the Senses

Walking

Watch the Good and the Evil

‘You Talk — I Listen’

Professor Noel King

A 90th Birthday

Professor Noel King and Krim Natirbov

Phiroz was not a Professor nor a Guru — was he?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An Excerpt from “Character”

Thought for This Moment

Richard of Saint Victor

Thought for This Moment

Richard Poynter

Haiku

Robert Mehta

Alicia Markova, Solomon and The Heart of Religion

In Memory of Phiroz

Monsoon Approaches, 1st June 1993, Bombay

Phiroz Dorabji Mehta (1902–1994)

Phiroz in Bombay

Phiroz Mehta (1st October 1902 – 2nd May 1994)

Ron Kett

Gardener of Souls

The Rose

Ron Kett and Carolyn Martin

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2007

Ron Martin

Zen Meditation — Questions and Answers

Rosemary Monk

A Plea

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The Phiroz Mehta Trust Questionnaire 2000

Rt. Revd. Charles Mugleston

Homage to Hakuin

Know Thyself

Pilgrim’s Paradox or The One

Song of the Bluebell Angel

The Ruba’iya’t of Omar Khayya’m

Rumi

Thought for This Moment

Saint Gregory of Nazianzus

Thought for This Moment

Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Commentary on Ecclesiastes Chapter 7

Thought for This Moment

Sankarankutti Menon Marath

Buddhist Meditation

Pre-Buddhist Thought in India

Some Reflections on Personal Karma

The Path of the Bōdhisattva

Stephen Marshall

Effort

Sylvia Swain

Centenary Tribute

Communion and Communication in the Religious Life

Dhammapada Studies

On the Passing of a Teacher

Silent Listening in the New Dawn

The Religious Life: A Psychological Perspective

T. C. McLuhan

The Indian’s Reply to the Missionary

T. S. Eliot

Thought for This Moment

The Dhammapada (trs. Juan Mascaró)

Contrary Ways

The Editor

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A Change of Residence

A Gift to the Trust

A Good Cause

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A New View of the Universe

A Retreat

Amen

An Excerpt from “The Book Without A Name”

An Excerpt from “The Questions of King Milinda”

An Excerpt from the Bhagavad Gītā

An Open Meeting

Appointment of New Trustee

Changes at the Trust

Christmas Bring and Buy Sale of Tapes and Books

Christmas is Coming

Community of Interbeing Health Retreat

Deed of Covenant

Editorial

Gifts to the Trust

Grand Christmas Sale of Tapes and Books

Group Meetings at Lillian Road

Help

Help Needed

Help Wanted

Insight into Individual Living

Is There Anybody Out There?

List of Talks

Meetings

Meetings at Lillian Road

New Newsletter Design

Open Evenings at Lillian Road

Phiroz Mehta Centenary Celebrations

Phiroz’s Birthday

Phiroz’s Books

Phirozshah Dorabji Mehta

Photographs

Resignation of Trustee

Sir Pherozeshah M. Mehta (1845 – 1915)

Spirit in Action

Sunday Afternoons at Lillian Road

Technology Open Day

The ASHA Centre Millennium Project

The Oakroom Talks on Buddhism

The Phiroz Mehta Scholarship

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Autumn School 1995

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Autumn School 1996

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Autumn School 1997

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Autumn School 1998

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Autumn School 1999

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Autumn School 2000

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Autumn School 2001

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Spring School 1995

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer and Autumn Schools 2000

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer and Autumn Schools 2001

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 1992

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 1993

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 1994

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 1997

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 1998

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 1999

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2000

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2001

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2002

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2003

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2004

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2005

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2006

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2007

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2008

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2009

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2010

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2011

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2012

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2013

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2014

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2015

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2017

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2018

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2019

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2020

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School/Retreat 2016

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer Schools 2008 and 2009

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer Schools 2009 and 2010

The Sisters of St. Andrew

The Tiger’s Mouth

The Trust in 1995

The Trust on the Internet

Theorhythm

Thought for This Moment

Tim Surtell goes to New Zealand

Transforum Two

Visit of Changchub Nyingpo to Lillian Road

The Iśā Upaniṣad

Thought for This Moment

The Venerable Ajahn Sumedho

Let go of Fire

The Venerable Myokyo-ni

A 90th Birthday

Thich Nhat Hanh

Exercises for Nourishing a Buddha Body and a Buddha Mind

Tim Surtell

A New Look

Being Truly Human

Holistic Consciousness Online

Phiroz Mehta Talks on Video

Talk Archive Updates

Talks Online

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Website

Trust Archive Refresh

Tim Surtell and Michael Piggott

Talk Archive Project

Tom Dolan

Immediacy and the Present Moment

Phiroz Mehta and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Reflections on the Trust Summer School 2010

Reflections on the Trust Summer School 2014

Tony Cashman

Interviews with Phiroz Mehta

Ursula Dyke

A Weekend at Cuddesdon House

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 1997

Victoria Adamson

“The Amazing Grain of Sand”. Sand Dune

Walter Hilton

Thought for This Moment

William Grice

A Matter of Life and Death

Childhood Memories of Phiroz

Is There Anybody Out There?

Phiroz is on the World Wide Web…

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2005

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2006

The Phiroz Mehta Trust Summer School 2011

William Shakespeare

Thought for This Moment

William Wordsworth

Intimations of Immortality

Zhuangzi

Thought for This Moment