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Just a few shots of the incredible beauty of the Trees for Life Rewilding Centre in Dundreggan where we’re about to start our 7-Day Retreat exploring change. It’s a wonderful spot for practice and very comfortable. I slept for 10 hours last night!

Hi I’ve recently been exploring mindfulness and meditation. Had no idea my favourite “escape” presenter was involved in this fascinating world. Looking forward to learning more.

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

Good morning from northern British Columbia, Canada. Good to be back after a short break. I am a very ordinary woman of a certain age, enjoying retirement and all life is giving and gently offering. Looking forward to more Alistair wisdom and learning/sharing here.

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!