Welcome to my blog. This is the first post so I thought I’d set out what you’ll find here. I intend to post on a whole host of topics such as: Meditation (Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, Vedanta/Non Dualism.) Buddhist emptiness teachings,…
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Welcome to my blog. This is the first post so I thought I’d set out what you’ll find here. I intend to post on a whole host of topics such as: Meditation (Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, Vedanta/Non Dualism.) Buddhist emptiness teachings,…
Zen and the art of letting go. I came across the Zen practice of the Unlearned State about two years ago. It immediately fascinated me. I interpreted it to mean the intellectual side of letting go rather than the…
I’ve seen no evidence that solely practising the cultivation of positivity heals people from their previous suppressed and repressed hurt. Watching what is, is no more than that. It’s seeing what’s arising and observing it. It’s not a system any…
EMOTIONAL COMPOSURE PRACTICE The intensity of a feeling is proportionate to our fear of it. Therefore each time a feeling is examined with curiosity it’s power diminishes. This ‘examining with curiosity’ causes each emotion to stop running the show and…
What is the way to find our spiritual guru? The true guru is inner stillness. Others can help us to find that stillness within us but they cannot be it for us. Even transmission does not occur unilaterally. It requires…
Buddhism has many ‘models’ of what happens when ignorance ceases in the mind. These are often called ‘models of Enlightenment.’ One of them is that all suffering ceases completely. Another is that only compassionate actions can occur, another is that…