As we walk into a room and look around what do we see? The walls, the surfaces, the objects, the decor, all of it. All, that is, apart from the space. And yet most of it is space. If you plotted the contents of the room on a pie chart by volume, perhaps 90% of […]
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… regardless of how well we plan. Not sure? Well ask yourself this, when was the last time your ‘to do’ list actually got done, exactly when and how you intended when you wrote it. That was on Thursday 12th Never, right? So why doesn’t life go to plan? To answer properly we need to […]
The question of control is very closely tied to the sense of self. It’s a challenging area to explore; it can be hard to imagine not having control. We make choices and there appears to be an ‘I’ that makes them, so it’s a natural assumption that we’re in control. We know we may not […]
Life has got complicated, hasn’t it? I was noticing it just this week; computers were supposed to make life quicker, and make our jobs easier but what happened? We just made everything much more complex and detailed to compensate and so we really haven’t made any progress. Layer upon layer of bureaucracy and not much […]
I wouldn’t say I have a lot of certainty in my life. In fact I’m not sure I have any (no pun intended). This isn’t because my life is wild and unpredictable; it’s more of an inner attitude that recognises that change is present in every moment. When I look back on it this […]
When you speak to people about mindfulness they often say, ‘Oh, I do that already.’ And this can be true. The Buddha wasn’t inventing something new when he taught mindfulness, he was summarising and sharing a practice that had supported him and had the potential to support others. It might be seen as a system […]
Preamble: Rather than qualify every individual statement in this post, let me say that nothing written here should be taken as an assertion. These are just invitations to look and consider and if they are helpful please feel free to make use of them; if not then equally, feel free to set them aside. One […]
What is the Great Flow; this drifting purposeful, purposeless current of life? It seems I’m now in it. Which is fine as long as I remember not to believe in thought. Thought says, ‘Do this now. Stick to the plan; the timetable.’ But it doesn’t happen like that. It just happens when it happens. ‘Don’t […]
Few people really want to awaken. Much like physical sleep we don’t really want to wake up. Not when we’re in the middle of having a nice dream; when we’re cosy and comfy and not ready to face the day. Why would we? Why would we want to face the cold reality of day when […]
It’s hard not to have expectations in life. When we set off on a journey we expect to arrive at the other end and we imagine what that will be like. If we wait for a bus, a train, our meal to arrive, we have expectations of having our desires met; perhaps with a certain […]
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