This blog is another starting from a question asked within our small meditation group last night. What is the difference between dual and...

Has it ever occurred to you how odd it is that a non-dual Buddhist meditation should start with preliminary mindfulness practices that...

Following on from our conversation last Wednesday about the different types of meditation - basically fabricated and unfabricated - I...

This weeks theme for our Wednesday evening sit and ‘book club’ is thinking and I have been thinking about it! The actual theme on...

Hold onto your hat - this is a complicated one I’m not even sure I can convey. I have just read one of those brain bruising Buddhist...

As we get to the end of our ‘Buddhist Book Club’ before the Summer break, it offers a moment to just pause, sit back and ask ourselves...

In the very last part of the section on ethics in Present With Suffering, I say that each of us is one hundred percent responsible for...

Here is something from Henry Shukman - it's the Zen tradition but speaks so much to what we try to practice: "So what is the "gateless...

Philippa was talking to me about generosity, the problem of practicing it in such a way that it’s really generous and not something else...

Every religion or spiritual tradition that has as its basis a force that is entirely good, has a problem when it comes to explaining the...

I have been thinking about the experience of receiving a Buddhist teaching - particularly one that is full of alien and complex details...

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is only the difference between the narrowness and openness of space. Sentient beings...

My advice, don't be a Buddhist. In the end it's all personal gain. fame and business. Just be a person with a good heart, that's the...