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One of the MIndsprings members asked a very pertinent question today about starting out on her meditation journey: Where am I going to do...

The final blog in my series of seven from 2013 is perhaps the juiciest of them all. I was all tender from a very intense, heart-breaking...

This is a rather epic blog about the future and the nature of stress. Looking back from the vantage of 2022, I can see how the eight...

The sixth of the blogs from 2014. This one is quite self-contained and doesn’t require many annotations from 2022. There is a Nibbana...

I have been really deeply inspired by the experience of leading the Dharma Days for Mindsprings. After my initial introduction to the...

Karen spoke about feeling trapped in the present. As meditators, we’re always encouraged to stay in the present and “be here now”, but...

One of the lovely things about being a teacher for a while is that ex-students pop up in unusual places. I was really incredibly...

These are the Silence Islands where what outsiders would consider almost imperceptible aural amusements land like coconuts on the...

It feels like the start of term. After our unseasonably early Summer and hot spells, the year seems to have been teased into running a...

A couple of weeks ago I went to a day-long conference in Brighton hosted by the political journalist, Paul Mason. There were a number of...

Samadhi, the forgotten twin sister of mindfulness practice, is a meditation approach that focuses on spaciousness and steadiness. In this...

It’s been a couple of week’s since I left the Island. And the resonance and awareness of what we explored there seem to be growing. First...

Being lost in our storyline is usually boring and fusty-dusty. The ego is characterised by a mirthless and relentless quality. Space is...

In contrast to yesterday’s feeling of constriction, take time in your meditation practice (lying or sitting down) or at any other quiet...

Central to the project of samadhi is recognising the scrunched-up, constricted feeling of being ‘lost in your thoughts’. Spend time today...

Like all practices, samadhi builds up over time. We are cultivating the mental habit of placing our awareness where WE chose to place it...

The key tool in samadhi practice is coming to recognise that where we breathe is parallel to where awareness flows and settles. The...

The defining emphasis of samadhi is on dropping down into space. Practice here is relentless and repetitive from the ego’s point of view...

Energetically, the lower belly is the arising point of this fundamental space of life. This is where we train our awareness to drop into....

This is not mindfulness practice. That encourages a wide field of awareness and growing comprehension of all the phenomena that unfold...