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...

Last night I gave a talk for a group of Buddhist organisations in Italy. It was the first time I had done this and the more or less...

Philippa was talking to me this morning about learning something new. Just how difficult it is because we attach to the sensation of not...

How is it we make everything so complicated - especially when are trying to do something very simple? Today I was talking with a sangha...

How do we learn something new? Especially when it’s not a new behaviour or a new thought, but an entirely new type of experience -...

Christmas morning seems like a celebration of all the small things about who we individually are. I sit in our wrapper strewn bed draped...

It’s easy to fall into routine around the refuge, bodhichitta and dedication prayers that we recite at the beginning and end of our...

Our small sangha seems to have the ability to put their finger on really important questions. Last week one member said that when they...

A dear Zen friend used the term ‘samadhi’ recently which got me thinking because this word is a Sanskrit word that means an unwavering...

I don't know about you but I am feeling some really huge, painful and very difficult emotions about what’s going on in Israel and Gaza at...

There’s a lot of talk in our small sangha at the moment about doing something and doing nothing meditations and the thread that runs...