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We've started a little mini-series of teachings on the Tuesday live session, where our focus is on using simple two-syllable mantras to calm the body-mind. People seemed to respond well, so if you'd like to come along, please book. Here's a taster from the Q&A afterwards: https://share.descript.com/view/xKlZBbjPkCL

I'm so delighted to have been invited along with my friends Kai and Shokti to look after the Queer Dome at this year's Buddhafields festival in July. We are creating a safe and welcoming LGBTQI+ space to meditate, chat, hang-out and make friends in the middle of this great Dharma-inspired festival - the "Buddhist Glastonbury". As part of the offering we're going to be hosting some workshops showcasing queer dharma teachers, practioners and thinkers. So I'm reaching out to this lovely community to ask if. you can think of anyone in the UK who might be a good fit for this? Sadly, we don't have the funds to fly people over from around the world, so it's folk in the UK or who are already visiting the UK this July. Put your rainbow-coloured thinking caps on please! All suggestions in the comments below - preferably with a contact/website as well. We're looking for the whole spectrum of queer spirituality - trans, bi, gay, lesbian, POC, the disabled community. Anyone who fits into the rainbow!

Following a lovely exchange with Zana Frood in this morning exploration of the Noble Eightfold Path, we ended up talking about understanding right view (the first thread of the eightfold weave) as a fitting understanding of how reality works (i.e. through constant impermanence/emergence). This understanding then allows us to stop faffing with all the constituent bits of our existence (form, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness = the aggregates in Buddhist jargon).

Found this short video and found it a succint yet enlightening perspective on human consciousness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE27M-FG904. "Umwelt" is a great word I'd not heard before!

Joining you from Nova Scotia, Canada. I’m an Escape to the Country fan and from learning about Allister’s info years ago became aware of Mindsorings.org and used to listen to some of the meditations which I very much enjoyed. So decided to join.

This morning was the Spring Equinox and I thought I'd post this extract from our Thursday session which had a decidedly Springy feel to it. https://share.descript.com/view/R8yzkwqrlpl

Tricycle put this online event on every year and always have fascinating sessions and fantastic speakers - https://tricycle.org/events/the-buddhism-ecology-summit-2025.

… and no broken limbs! This Monday sees us moving the Beingfulness lens to our thoughts and mental formations (the 4th Field). And on Tuesday we’ll be completing our tour of Somatic Practice. And Thursday - fanfare🎺🎺- continues our Satipatthana exploration with the Seven factors of Enlightenment.

In a quaint little cafe in Dolgellau that used to be the old prison downstairs and court room upstairs and noticed this old clip displayed which mentioned “fetters” and reminded me of Thursdays meditation!

I really love this video and thought others might appreciate it too - https://www.instagram.com/p/DAgEXSvJPYO/ Miracles are happening all the time - you just need to think something new about old things! 😍