Living Dharma
We need to co-create a new story from a different understanding of ourselves. Somehow, we need to finish with the old stories that imprison human consciousness in cycles of fear, violence, shame, and a...
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Reflections from our teachers
Being with Change is a Skill
Reading the discourses of the Buddha, we find regular reminders to be aware of the changing and fluctuating nature of all experience. Maybe he repeated it this often to counterbalance the natural tendency of...
No Lesser Wing
Metta until the boundaries between you and all beings dissolve. Compassion until your heart covers the whole world. Joy to remember why this life is worth living. Equanimity to see the long arc of...
“We Are a River”
The symbol of the river has been used for centuries across cultures and traditions, to remind us of the flowing, fluid nature of all that is existent in the cosmos. From ancient Chinese Daoist...
The 5 Hindrances of the Mind
We might notice that one of our core challenges, the underlying quality of our practice, can also be a door to deepening our practice.
“Eat when hungry. Sleep when tired.”
The Dharma invites us to learn to work with the inner critic to let go of any limiting beliefs and behaviours that are holding us back. To free ourselves from Mara, we are called...
Connection as Dharma Practice
The Buddha taught that friendship is not just part of, but the whole of the spiritual life. But how do you begin when in the face of intimacy your fears, insecurities, doubt and judgment...
Touching What’s Wholesome Within
Each one of us carries within us beautiful, wholesome qualities that we can always be in touch with when we need them. I want to lift up four of them that have been incredibly...
Metta-Vipassana: Integrating Heart and Mind
Within the classical texts we learn to develop mindfulness within four foundations of experience. We learn to work with our bodies, feelings, mental states and mental activities and various frames of reference. Within the...
Gradual and Sudden Paths of Awakening: A Complementary Practice Approach
If you are a committed meditator then you probably have one of two notions about your practice; either, 1) you are on a path that gradually develops towards awakening, or 2) awakening does not...