Alistair AppletonJan 21, 20224 min readMeditationEvery broken heart is sacredThe 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...
Alistair AppletonDec 15, 20214 min readPsychologyBut now there is a forestThis 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...
Alistair AppletonDec 15, 20216 min readBuddhismLike worms towards the motorwayThe sixth of the blogs from 2014. This one is quite self-contained and doesn’t require many annotations from 2022. There is a Nibbana...
Alistair AppletonDec 3, 20216 min readDharmaIntention destroys the zombie mindContinuing my excavation of blogs from the past. These are my ponderings following a teaching that Ajahn Sucitto gave in Portugal. If you...
Alistair AppletonNov 3, 20216 min readDharmaSucitto Thoughts #1Today is the birthday of one of my early Buddhist teachers, Ajahn Sucitto, who was the abbot of Cittaviveka monastery in East Sussex when...