I woke this morning not knowing quite what I was feeling but not happy. Then when I sat I realised that there was something disturbing...

I think I’ve been bullied. It’s an unfamiliar feeling and it took me a while to recognise it. The context was a conversation. I felt...

There are a lot of emotions around at the moment about the horror of the Middle East. Why wouldn’t there be, emotions tell us what...

Yesterday I was talking with a friend about the similarities between the first nation Americans and the Tibetans, both have a very...

There’s a saying: you never know what goes on in other peoples relationships. I guess it means the weird stuff. Well, one of the weird...

A new friend recently told us how hard being at a retreat had been for her. Her mind had just gone on and on. She then told us about a...

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,...