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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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...