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If I’m not careful, my discourse becomes the opposite of caring. It’s election day in Britain. I’m a staunch down-to-the-bones socialist...

This is an old blog post, but so relevant to my investigation of place in Buddhism. Now I’m no longer feeling so tied to the Tibetan...

I want to write about my relationship with Reggie and his (now-defunct) organisation Dharma Ocean. As you probably know I have studied...

A form of mansplaining that covers the cracks in its own method with bluster There is a practice that I am drawn to from Reggie’s...

In 1855, when he was 36, Whitman wrote this stirring manifesto for life. Feels just as relevant in 2019, when he’d be 200 years old....

Perhaps to comfort myself in the midst of a lot of turmoil in my practice community, Dharma Ocean. (more on that in a later post) I have...

This is an interview with Alistair in the September 2019 Issue of “Yoga Scotland Magazine” by Trudy Morrison. Thanks to Trudy for her...

Following on from my blog about the butterflies on my fig tree and the dawning realisation that the climate catastrophe is happening, I...

This is a blog post from 2006 that I am re-posting as part of a series on Ayahuasca. The visionary plant medicine had such a profound...

The second offering from Mindsprings TV is about the sea. Here in England, we are a sea-fringed nation, constantly relating to the wide...

Things are going to be violent, scary, less civilised – and I’ll be here As a Buddhist who made the bodhisattva vow to come back over and...

It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally combined my broadcasting skills with Mindsprings. Sit the downs: A 70 mile long snake of...

One of the glorious things about being a meditation teacher is that you get asked to teach it in the most unusual places. It’s the...

Here’s the Mindsprings news for the second half of 2019 and into 2020. What’s been happening 2019 has been a really rich year. I started...

The Summer busy-ness is getting amplified I’ve been away. Or rather I’ve been away from my computer. And therefore away from this. But I...

In the early summer, I ran a course at the Spa Road Buddhist Centre in Bermondsey, London. On the subject of tapping and meditation. It...

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of...