The Magic of No Escape
Growing up in a Christian world (I was an Anglican choirboy for many of my most impressionable early years), my mind has been suffused...
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Alistair Appleton
- Jan 9
- 6 min
Sitting Out practice
The January full moon over the Seven Sisters, 2022. WHAT IS SITTING OUT? I’ve been exploring a practice called ‘sitting out’. It’s not a...
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Alistair Appleton
- Jan 21, 2022
- 4 min
Every broken heart is sacred
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...
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Alistair Appleton
- Dec 15, 2021
- 4 min
But now there is a forest
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...
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Alistair Appleton
- Aug 6, 2021
- 3 min
Avebury Magic and Anti-magic
Another scoop from the archives. Funnily enough, I may have changed my mind from the rather Puritan stance voiced in this blog in the...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 23, 2021
- 4 min
The Supersumptuous
That voice is all wrong, really. It’s not formal, it’s not ‘correct’ but it gushes and it’s unstoppable. It IS supersumptous. And that’s wh
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Alistair Appleton
- Mar 22, 2021
- 5 min
Understanding the weather of emotions: Candace Pert’s “Molecules of Emotion”
that phrases like ‘I’ve got a gut feeling about this’ turn out to be literally correct.
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Alistair Appleton
- Mar 5, 2021
- 8 min
Mother Nature doesn’t care about suffering. Buddha does.
I have been really deeply inspired by the experience of leading the Dharma Days for Mindsprings. After my initial introduction to the...
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Alistair Appleton
- Feb 25, 2021
- 5 min
Dynamiting the prison of the present
Karen spoke about feeling trapped in the present. As meditators, we’re always encouraged to stay in the present and “be here now”, but...
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Alistair Appleton
- Feb 21, 2019
- 6 min
Mögu & My Problem with Teachers
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...
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