Recently my grandson, now 5, tried to pick a stinging nettle. Of course, he stung his hand and ran to ...
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I have never identified myself as a perfectionist. No way, that is not me at all, I relax and go ...
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It’s the first of April.  April fool’s day. And I feel like a fool. I woke up this morning just ...
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Hello all and warm wishes from the Membership team! This week's blog has been a hard one to write. I ...
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From Mindfulness to Insight I thought I would write a little about how our book From Mindfulness to Insight came ...
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Reflections on hearing that Mary Oliver has died. The poet Ezra Pound once said that “literature is news that stays ...
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Big blue skies and so much sunlight – it felt good to be alive and waving to my son as ...
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Within the last month I’ve had the pleasure of teaching on two “Insight” courses with Heather Regan-Addis and Choden, both ...
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One of the things I love about my home in Scotland is the birds. The little birds that come to ...
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It is my last day in India. We have empowerments this morning with Tai Situpa Rinpoche and then our teachings ...
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I am in India this week for year four of a six or seven year training in Mahamudra meditation. The ...
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On Saturday I travelled from Scotland to London for the People’s Vote march. I stopped on the way in Manchester ...
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It may be that when we no longer know what to dowe have come to our real work, and that ...
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These shriveled seeds we plant,corn kernel, dried bean,poke into loosened soil,cover over with measured fingertips These T-shirts we fold intoperfect ...
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Sometimes simplicity riseslike a blossom of firefrom the white silk of your own skin.You were there in the beginningyou heard ...
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May you be blessed in the holy names of thoseWho, without you knowing it,Help to carry and lighten your pain ...
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