If we can practice a radical hospitality towards ourselves—dropping judgements and just letting ourselves be—others will see this and learn that they too can take a far more generous attitude towards themselves.

Like the gardener selecting seeds, we can pay attention to what works in our lives, and in our Dharma practice, and choose to “save” the habits, attitudes, and practices that bear the most fruit.

Sharing a few nuggets of wisdom offered by the Dzogchen teacher James Low on a recent retreat. The essence of Dzogchen is, ‘do not correct’. How do we make that a practice?

Is it a mistake to think that Dharma study—with its conceptual and necessarily dualistic nature—can’t lead to non-conceptual, non-dual insight?

Whether you want to create a blog post, an article, a book, or even a retreat plan, I’ll show you how simple and rewarding the process can be—when you start with a well-crafted collection of interconnected ideas.

We’ll do anything to avoid the discomfort of not knowing. So instead, we speculate. We worry. We overthink. What if we tried not knowing—just for a day?

I've been discovering, or maybe creating, a new system for thinking about the Dharma. What started as a practical way to organise my notes has become a creative part of my Dharma practice.

The first thing I noticed when joining was that here in Sweden is that there are lots of older people, in their 70s and 80s. The other notable thing is the nakedness.

One can look at the path to ‘awakening’ in terms of what we find along the way or what we lose. I seem to have lost the sense that something is missing. I think I’ve found trust.

Fasting has become a way of combining my epicurean nature with my equal and opposite desire to practice simplicity and renunciation! We live in a world of excess. We are undernourished and overfed. But not just with food.

David Lynch described sound as "invisible" in movies. And of course, it is, but not only to our eyes. What he meant is that while we can’t physically see sound, its impact on us is enormous, yet it often goes unnoticed.

The dharma wants to reveal itself to us all the time. If we think we already know what the dharma is and isn’t, we’ll miss it. It’s everywhere and until we find it everywhere, we won’t be enlightened.

An exciting new thread for me: working with feng shui in my home can also be a way of working with the lakshanas and vimokshas.

Take inspiration from the birds and move through life like the crane—totally relaxed, letting the qi carry you along.

Place yourself in the ‘power position’ a place that supports confidence and security. It works, I feel so much more relaxed.

The season of winter is full of opportunities. It’s a time of rest, stillness, silence and reflection. When we develop ‘a mind of winter’, a wabi-sabi mind we find beauty in the barest of places. 

What I’ve learnt from Laurie Anderson about Dharma, art and life. A first draft.

It’s as if something only has worth if it refers to something else. That’s a kind of craziness! It’s always looking elsewhere for what is actually right here.

It turns out that the basis for all creativity is acceptance. Being willing to be with what is. With acceptance we unlock an energy that we didn’t know we had.

The more I think about it, the more I’m struck by how planning has its own aesthetics. It’s like curating our time the way we’d curate any visual space.