These days meditation is popping up everywhere. In fact, the “business of mindfulness” is quickly becoming a foundation of the multi-trillion dollar wellness industry. In the United States alone, the “meditation industry” is worth...
We sometimes think of not knowing as something negative, but is it really? Truly not-knowing allows spaciousness, openness, and much greater intimacy. When we make not-knowing an intentional action, the barriers that hold us...
I used to find asking for help incredibly difficult, especially when I languished in the hell realm and / or the hungry ghost realm of the traditional wheel of life. In fact, I am...
This coming weekend is Easter. Raised here in England in a Christian culture, I associate this time of year both with a bursting forth of incredible beauty in the natural world, of trees coming...
When people ask me how I’m doing these days and how my practice is holding up, I respond by explaining that these are the times I have practiced for and what my practice is...
Pali: Yadidam cattàri purisayugàni attha purisapuggalàEsa bhagavato sàvakasängho English: That is the four pairs, the eight kinds of noble beingsThese are the Blessed One’s disciples. These phrases are in daily chants in the Theravada...
Over the last two hundred years, scientists have been finding more and more evidence to show that we humans are part of the evolutionary process, having emerged from the life stream as descendants of...
In a world rife with division, stress, strife and injustice, many of us rely on Buddhist teachings and practices to address the challenges we face. But the Buddha was not only a wise spiritual...
I find it interesting how in these times of being at home, where plans and future continually evaporate into an amorphous sense of the ever-now that can’t quite get things done, that even without...
This week, the news told us more than 100,000 people in the UK have died from Covid-19 in a year. That’s the fourth highest of the 215 nations. One in 63 people in Britain...
