We each go through a journey to understand what's meant by The Two Truths. We negate too little, then too much, then again too little, till bit by bit we feel our way into the The Middle Way.

The Dharma cannot transform our lives until we’ve made it our own. We have to breath life into the teachings, bring them alive with our own breath. This is the art of living a dharma life.

How to make 2024 your most creative year yet! (Or the post where I let out my inner nerd.)

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

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.

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.

I think I have 'aesthetic sensitivity disorder'!

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

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

Two methods, minimalist and maximalist

Here's a meditation to calm our reactions and an inquiry to look into them.

Can the 3-fold path contain our whole life?

Reactions of wanting and not wanting seem inevitable. But are they?

The teachings on the fetters offer one answer to this question.

A little love letter to all the objects that make us smile.

The ‘house of cards’ is an image of how we construct ourselves and our world, with everything dependent upon everything else.

The arts can be a parallel path to the dharma, with the potential to open up similar insights.

A beauty that shows us the truth of impermanence, imperfection and insubstantiality.

They’d lived so long despite harsh conditions, or was it because of them? Here’s what their secrets to a long life might be.