Traditionally, Halloween is known for being the night when the veil between the worlds of the dead and alive is thinnest. The concept of dead and alive can be equated quite easily with awake and asleep. Indeed, the acronym R.I.P. found on headstones and obituaries stand for Rest in Peace, suggesting that death is a…
I recently had the good fortune to teach on Module 2 of the Mindfulness Practitioner course up at Samye Ling in October with Heather and Kathy. First of all it was great to teach alongside Heather and Kathy again and right from the first weekend it was an easy prospect to be on the same team. Teaching with…
I was lucky enough to take part in a practice day set aside for the Mindfulness Association tutors. At the practice day, I asked Choden and Vin Harris to speak a bit about their new ‘Foundations to Buddhism’ course that will start in April 2015. Secular mindfulness has received some negative attention from Buddhists and…
I Am Prisoner in My Own Mind By Nick Williams: A ‘Just Blog’ Competition Entry I am a prisoner in my own mind. I am in a prison in my mind and I can’t get out. I don’t look like I’m in prison, but I am. I might look as if I’m…
As part of our support for the tutors at the Mindfulness Association, and any mindfulness teachers in our community, the Mindfulness Association holds CPD weekends on teaching skills. This past weekend we held a CPD weekend that explored the enquiry process that follows the guided practices on our courses. It was a huge success with…
This month marks the start of a new year long course that is being run by Dr. Rick Hanson, who happens to be the author of our book club selection ‘Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom’. (Join in on the conversation on member’s website: http://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/Membership.aspx). The course is called The Foundations…
Here we are on the top floor of the U of A’s beautiful new library on a sunny Saturday afternoon. The views out to sea are AMAZING. We have 17 third year MSc students here to prepare for researching and writing their work based project or dissertation. The student’s research topics vary from exploring the…
This week’s Mindfulness Challenge is the ‘Seven ‘Minute’ Itch’. I have been reading the book ‘Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation’ by Larry Rosenburg. He tells a wonderful story about being bitten by a mosquito while under the instructions to stay perfectly still: At the beginning of one morning sitting, after a…
The Insight that Everything is Perfectly OK -Nick Williams When I first heard of the blog competition I thought that this was a great idea, but writing it wasn’t so easy. Eventually I had some inspiration in our local supermarket and this is the result. The insight that I’ve been coming back to recently (and…
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