Well, perhaps not, but should I try? It’s a good question for those of us who want to practice Buddhist loving kindness and compassion...

This morning I tried to write about why we practice this bodhisattva thing - why is it so good to not just do it for ourselves but...

Time for another short and practical blog. So what happens if we are invited to do a loving kindness meditation and we find ourselves not...

It seems Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s description of something that he calls ‘essence love’ is not only easily misunderstood but also, when...

In the previous blog on Essence Love I said, ”Tsoknyi Rinpoche offers some exercises that when practiced rebalance our subtle body and...

The genius of Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s How To Meditate book is that he takes ideas that we already know and repackages them in such a way that...

Last weekend I attended a two day teaching retreat led by someone called Jetson Khandro Rinpoche, a female Tibetan Lama. (Translated her...

We have two friends, a couple, who visited us recently. She is a Jungian and he a Zen teacher, a sensei. We don’t really talk about it...

This is a quick one but fun. When I came up with the image of our meditation practice being like three rooms with a comfy chair in the...

What does it mean to actually awaken? We frequently distinguish between practicing meditation to help us be healthy human beings and a...

How do we recognise our buddha-nature, the awakened mind that is already here and now? This is a tricky question for us, not because it...

There are so many words and phrases that are difficult to immediately understand in Buddhism. One is the word ‘mind’, which in Sanskrit...

Our small community of practitioners started a new book last night - Why We Meditate by Dan Goleman and Tsoknyi Rinpoche. So where does...

Writing a blog is interesting. You can see how many people read it - or at least momentarily open it! Out of all the posts on this site,...

This is a bit freaky. Reality changes the closer we look. So when we look through a microscope appearance change - we discover that...

This ’doing nothing’ meditation, resting in an awareness of awareness itself, can become a nightmare. The harder we try the more it...

A capital letter is an interesting thing - YES, it is! One of the ways we use it is to distinguish between two different types of self:...

I can remember the first time I read about looking into my mind for the source of who was looking. I thought that's mad, there's nothing...

During my training years as a psychotherapist, a colleague became pregnant and she attended all of our monthly weekend modules throughout...

Back to something more practical. Why do we practice with our eyes open and looking at a blank space? This question was asked by one of...