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I was doing this practice with Mingyur Rinpoche, and he was teaching what's known as the Abhidharma, which is a very old form of Buddhism.

New member Fran, coming from a progressive Islamic mosque in Canada, was interested in Buddhism’s stance on gender and sexuality and so I...

This is an edited transcript of a lovely discussion we had this Tuesday in our anxiety/stress class on Zoom. We were discussing the...

This transcript is from our 2nd exploration of the paramita of discipline or in Sankrit, shila. From the outside, these disciplines, -...

In our ongoing exploration of the six paramitas, we have come to the second which is discipline (shila). We can think of shila as a...

This transcript comes from the second week exploring the transcendental action (paramita) of generosity. You can join in the cornucopia...

From the first of two live sessions dedicated to the "transcendental action" of generosity, in November 2023. A recording of the practice...

If you've been following our Live Sessions of late, you may have noticed this word paramita cropping up again and again. Apologies if it...

I am entering one of my periodic periods of great doubt. I have these on a fairly regular basis - once every five years, perhaps - and...

Growing up in a Christian world (I was an Anglican choirboy for many of my most impressionable early years), my mind has been suffused...

The final blog in my series of seven from 2013 is perhaps the juiciest of them all. I was all tender from a very intense, heart-breaking...

This is a rather epic blog about the future and the nature of stress. Looking back from the vantage of 2022, I can see how the eight...

This is the third of the set of seven blogs I wrote back in 2014 following a chance encounter with one of my Buddhist teachers Ajahn...

The sixth of the blogs from 2014. This one is quite self-contained and doesn’t require many annotations from 2022. There is a Nibbana...

Continuing my excavation of blogs from the past. These are my ponderings following a teaching that Ajahn Sucitto gave in Portugal. If you...

Today is the birthday of one of my early Buddhist teachers, Ajahn Sucitto, who was the abbot of Cittaviveka monastery in East Sussex when...

“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.” Soren Kierkegaard This is a very old book review from...

From the date on the cartoon, this blog was originally written in 2008. An almost mythically long time ago. But the thoughts on caring...

I was on a powerful retreat in the Devon countryside a few weeks back and I had a startling flash of memory from my childhood. I recalled...

I have been really deeply inspired by the experience of leading the Dharma Days for Mindsprings. After my initial introduction to the...