Simply Being – at Vajraloka
At any moment we can recognise, directly and viscerally, that we are alive and awake. With a settled and embodied awareness, this may open into an intuitive glimpse of what […]
At any moment we can recognise, directly and viscerally, that we are alive and awake. With a settled and embodied awareness, this may open into an intuitive glimpse of what […]
On this retreat, I will be offering embodied approaches to dhyāna (jhāna) that people have found to be helpful and effective. This may well involve questioning both our own […]
‘Wings to Awakening’ is a poetic rendering of ‘bojjhaṅgā’ - seven ‘limbs’ or factors that support bodhi - awakening. The bojjhaṅgās are highlighted in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta as crucial to […]
Body Heart Mind Awake – taking the backward step Mind is usually taken to mean all kinds of mental activity, but what we’re interested in here is ‘mind itself’ […]
Bodhicitta – the awakening heart – is both the heart–response of wisdom to the suffering of living beings everywhere and the urge to realise full awakening for the benefit […]
“Quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states… one suffuses, fills, and permeates one’s entire body with rapture and pleasure born of seclusion, so that there is […]
Retreats evolve, and I’ve been leading ‘Emptiness and the Heart Sutra’ for many years now. I love the Heart Sutra as a chant, a text to study and as […]
The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, one of the most influential of the Buddha’s discourses, shows how wakeful, insightful attention to body, feelings and mind can enable us to wake up to […]
Central to our dharma life is a simple yet profound distinction; between our direct experience mediated through the senses, and the thoughts and ideas we have about those experiences. […]