The season of winter is full of opportunities. It’s a time of rest, stillness, silence and reflection. When we develop ‘a mind of winter’, a wabi-sabi mind we find beauty in the barest of places. 

It turns out that the basis for all creativity is acceptance. Being willing to be with what is. With acceptance we unlock an energy that we didn’t know we had.

In Buddhism the tendency to continually comment on life is called prapanca, conceptual proliferation. Through it we complicate and distort our world. But it's possible to change the way we think.

For most people at the end of a retreat, there’s usually one question that comes into sharp focus: “How can I take all of this back into my everyday life?” So, how do we take our practice of Buddhism into the nitty-gritty of everyday life?

We each go through a journey to understand what's meant by The Two Truths. We negate too little, then too much, then again too little, till bit by bit we feel our way into the The Middle Way.

The Dharma cannot transform our lives until we’ve made it our own. We have to breath life into the teachings, bring them alive with our own breath. This is the art of living a dharma life.

How to make 2024 your most creative year yet! (Or the post where I let out my inner nerd.)

A few, non-linear, reflections on the meaning of death, and therefore, the meaning of life.

Looking back on our lives, we find a landscape of death. How and when it happens is different for each of us, that it does happen is something we all share.

Life is the ultimate improvisation, why not learn from the pros?

I’m always finding the Dharma in unexpected places! Here are a few snippets from my October diary.

I think I have 'aesthetic sensitivity disorder'!

Looking for the wabi-sabi aesthetic in Eddie the Van.

An introduction to the 5 skandhas and how we build our self and world from their raw materials.

Two methods, minimalist and maximalist

Here's a meditation to calm our reactions and an inquiry to look into them.

Can the 3-fold path contain our whole life?

Reactions of wanting and not wanting seem inevitable. But are they?

The teachings on the fetters offer one answer to this question.

A little love letter to all the objects that make us smile.