I’m on retreat this week at Sharpham - teaching on Buddhism and psychotherapy. It’s a wonderful space - tiny bit funky but in a...

Some photos just have something that makes them special. I’m thinking of one of the meditation hall of a Zen centre in New York....

I seem to be on a Jungian roll! After writing the last blog Philippa and I went for a walk with our dog and talked about what I had...

Last night, listening to several parents of young children talking it became apparent that they were so concerned to get everything...

Why is it so difficult to really understand something so deeply that we feel it is part of who we are? Our small sangha has been...

What it's like to ask our manager subpersonality to stand back? Recently I was thinking about my subpersonalities and how all the...

It’s strange how we can be afraid of the most extraordinary and precious part of ourselves. A very dear friend was recently telling me...

So many of these blogs have been about the ‘doing nothing meditation’ in which we (hopefully) manage to rest for perhaps at first no...

Having supper with two very dear friends last night the subject of which was better, Buddhism or Jungian psychology came up. This is a...

Quite recently our small sangha has been introduced to the meditation practice of ‘guru yoga’. One or two were perhaps initially alarmed...

Philippa woke me this morning to tell me about a dream. What did I think it meant? This is what she told me: “A woman has disappeared...

Good Friday, and a sudden insight comes to me that at the heart of different forms of spiritual practice is a re-enactment of a pivotal...

I just keep realising how important the very first things we learn about mindfulness are and how over and over again these lessons are...

It’s strange how an idea for a blog pings into existence. This one is made up of three elements: a rather strict Buddhist teaching I...

This morning I decided to really notice what my mind did when I sat to practice meditation. I talk a lot about the importance of really...

Along time ago I asked someone I knew what sort of meditation they were doing. They, like me, were interested in Tibetan Buddhism so the...

Once again our small group has struck gold. In the book we are reading - Henry Shukman’s Original Love - he throws in a section on the...

Yesterday was a dark day, a narcissistic monster took the reigns of one of the most powerful countries in the world and immediately...

Yesterday we had lunch with two friends - one of whom is soon to become a Jungian Analyst. Chatting, an idea came up which I said during...

A member of our group - I’m sure she won’t mind me saying her name, Suzanne - very kindly gave me a book for Christmas. It’s called Into...