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Creative ways to honor the dead
Looking back on our lives, we find a landscape of death. How and when it happens is different for each of us, that it does happen is something we all share.
During the laundry, the ecstacy
Moments of insight can arise at anytime. Often in the middle of the most mundane activity
6 improv rules for a creative dharma life
Life is the ultimate improvisation, why not learn from the pros?
Diary extracts Oct ‘23
I’m always finding the Dharma in unexpected places! Here are a few snippets from my October diary.
Why I adore the night
At this time each year I read this piece by Jeanette Winterson. It’s about the night and darkness, but also about winter, the season of ‘nighttime’.
The girl chewing gum
John Smith illustrates the Buddhist insight that there isn’t any essential ‘me’ running the show.
Being stuck in an in between place
What is it like to have an insight and then to lose it? How do we root out the tendency to delusion?
Everyone is an artist
An introduction to the 5 skandhas and how we build our self and world from their raw materials.
Optimise your phone for a creative dharma life
How I stopped my phone from grabbing my attention.
What is klesharama?
When you start practicing Buddhism, you expect to become a nicer person, and you usually do. But what happens when you don’t?
Let your favourite problems guide you
Assignment: Make a list of burning questions that can show you where you want to go.
How I use social media
The secret to consuming content online is to have very strict limits on how much I subscribe to.
What to do with craving and aversion
Here's a meditation to calm our reactions and an inquiry to look into them.