Even when someone is being an asshole, they are still a person, and every person is worthy of compassion.

Are those worrying thoughts in the night just there to protect me from my own essential vulnerability?

You make more of a difference than you think. Why we should gather in big numbers.

A few, non-linear, reflections on the meaning of death, and therefore, the meaning of life.

Notes from an interview with Marina Abramović on the Talk Art Podcast

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.

Moments of insight can arise at anytime. Often in the middle of the most mundane activity

Life is the ultimate improvisation, why not learn from the pros?

I’m always finding the Dharma in unexpected places! Here are a few snippets from my October diary.

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’.

I think I have 'aesthetic sensitivity disorder'!

John Smith illustrates the Buddhist insight that there isn’t any essential ‘me’ running the show.

Looking for the wabi-sabi aesthetic in Eddie the Van.

What is it like to have an insight and then to lose it? How do we root out the tendency to delusion?

An introduction to the 5 skandhas and how we build our self and world from their raw materials.

How I stopped my phone from grabbing my attention.

When you start practicing Buddhism, you expect to become a nicer person, and you usually do. But what happens when you don’t?

Assignment: Make a list of burning questions that can show you where you want to go.

Two methods, minimalist and maximalist

A creative definition of nirvana is ‘simply stopping’.