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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...

This is the third of the set of seven blogs I wrote back in 2014 following a chance encounter with one of my Buddhist teachers Ajahn...

Continuing my excavation of blogs from the past. These are my ponderings following a teaching that Ajahn Sucitto gave in Portugal. If you...

Today is the birthday of one of my early Buddhist teachers, Ajahn Sucitto, who was the abbot of Cittaviveka monastery in East Sussex when...

“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.” Soren Kierkegaard This is a very old book review from...

This is an article I wrote almost 10 years ago but it still seems to hit the right note. COMING OUT IS GOOD FOR YOU. This article was...

This is a transcript from a Mindsprings Practice Space session. I’ve got a great question from one of our community, who submitted it in...

From the date on the cartoon, this blog was originally written in 2008. An almost mythically long time ago. But the thoughts on caring...

I was on a powerful retreat in the Devon countryside a few weeks back and I had a startling flash of memory from my childhood. I recalled...

A blog piece refurbished from the archives. But no one tires of hearing about amazing teenagers and the vast sweep of the future that...

Adrian’s boyfriend was telling me about epiphytic plants which are not directly parasitic on the tree they dwell on but rather hop on…

This is a tidied up transcript of an answer I gave in the Live Sessions in February 2021. Tamsyn mentioned her dislike of reading Freud...

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...

The need to be a ‘know-it-all’ I have a problem with teachers. When I was little – for various reasons I won’t bore you with – I always...

A horrible year of anxiety completely ruined my sleep cycle. I used to sleep like a log. Like my father in fact, who falls asleep...

While we up on Holy Island this month, the retreatants and I were discussing the ludicrous tangles our thinking minds get into. When we...

Speaking personally, the ‘ego’ and everything to do with it was a real turn-off for me previous to this Summer. There was something about...