Hi, kia ora, こんにちは, talofa, 환영, hola, 你好, bonjour, bula, mingalaba, welcome to ONEDHARMA.

This site is about being happy, being alive.  About freedom, and love and life, and living it to the FULL.  I do not think of this as my site (although it does include my journal) rather as a site for everyone, a site that through which they may feel a little happier, a little lighter, a bit freer, a little more chilled perhaps. This site is an open channel; between myself and my friends, and between me and those people who may yet become my friends. It is, to use some bullet points, about:

• Sharing my life and my dharma through which it is lived. I am still growing, as is my dharma.  
• My dharma is about happiness, and choice. It is about choosing to be happy. Happiness is GOOD, happiness is WONDERFUL. Choose happiness!! Practice happiness.  Like learning to play the piano, the more we practice the better we become.
• Friendship, about making new friends and keeping in touch with existing friends. It is important to me that there is a place where my friends can find me (even if most of then never do (sniff, sob…sob), and also a place where I can find new friends.
• It is a journal in part of my meanderings, places I have been and people I have met. Thoughts I have had when I have been there. It is an ongoing attempt to lay myself bare – to shine a light into all the dark recesses and expose them, reveal them. For I know the more we expose ourselves the less we have to hide.
• It is part of my process of letting go. Letting go, I have come to know, is a major part of what it is all about, for me. My life is, and always has been I believe, a journey of healing. Life is very much about getting the healing done – and one of the best ways I have discovered to assist in that, is by letting go. So here I am, as much on this website as anywhere else. Free of much of the stuff that I have collected, categorised and carried with me over the last 40+ years. And of course still with so much to let go of. This site is part of that journey, is part of the healing, is part of the letting go.
• And finally a more personal level, this site came into actual being after the death of my mother in January 2008 ( I had been dreaming of, and envisaging, it for may years before that). Myself and my sons (Tobias and Max, aged 25 and 21) cared for mum in her final 4 years. And we knew that when she passed I would start this part of my journey. Leaving my sons, leaving Aotearoa, the place where I had lived, worked, loved and been loved, been raised and raised a family myself, to venture out, to take myself and what I know into the wider world.

xx may you all be happy

may you all be liberated

may you all share in my dharma xx

bhavatu sabbe mangalum