What on Earth is Insight Dialogue?
When meditators ask me what I teach and I explain what Insight Dialogue is, there’s often a pause accompanied by a quizzical expression and sometimes some thinly veiled distaste. The idea of pairing up,...
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The Buddha’s First Teaching: R.A.F.T.
There is a lovely simile that the Buddha uses about someone needing to cross a large expanse of dangerous water because the current shore is dubious and risky, but the further shore is secure...
Reverence is the Nature of My Love: A Buddhist Response to Climate Change
When we see ourselves clearly’ we cannot help but relate to the world around us, and all other creatures, with wonder, curiosity and reverence, for we are all composed of the same elements and...
Luminous Darkness: Restoring Our Undivided Self
My book is about meeting the unknown, the mystery, the darkness, with an open heart… in order to see clearly. I’ve spent a long time compassionately investigating the human tendency to avoid discomfort and...
Community: “As-One-ity”
The Buddha talked about the Three Jewels of this practice being Buddha, Dharma, Sangha. Buddha means awakening—the gradual and sudden extraordinary awakening to the way things are. Dharma means the nature of things—and the...
Resting in Receptivity: Opening Up to What Liberates
Instead of seeing enlightenment as something far away from us, we can realise that it’s closer than close. Seeing our experiences as empty opens a way of resting in our own centre. What if enlightenment...
Announcing: Sangha Live Connect
Sangha Live Connect is a meeting place for our online sangha; our worldwide dharma hall for daily meditation; our interactive course portal.
The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together
We all long to be happy. Not happy as in glee but deep contentment. We forget that this experience we long for is already seated in the heart of who we are—and that it’s...
Pride Every Day of The Year
As Buddhists we are committed to cultivating compassion to all sentient beings. We must remember wherever we are on the sexuality or gender spectrum we are part of Indra's net, we are all interconnected.
Wise Approaches to Working with Anticipatory Stress and Fear
Recently my husband and I visited the desert southwest to visit Ancient Puebloan sites. Despite choosing early June to beat the summer heat, a massive heat wave had already blanketed the region as climate...