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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 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...

A participant in the last retreat I led asked a very good question that often arises in retreats. “It’s all very well us pondering our...

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 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...

NOTE: I think in this last blog I am in some sense arguing myself OUT of a position that I have thoughtlessly held for many years. That...

In the first part of this blog on language and thinking, I argued that the human experience of thinking is fundamentally grounded in...

Impermanence and the awakened heart I’m halfway through my Edinburgh weekend and sitting back in the Salisbury Centre guest room, resting...