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Creativity starts with the facts
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.
From prapanca to insight
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.
Bringing Buddhism to life
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?
This world which conceals the truth, reveals the truth
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.
Making the Dharma your own
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.
Think inside the box
How to make 2024 your most creative year yet! (Or the post where I let out my inner nerd.)
Going beyond life and death
A few, non-linear, reflections on the meaning of death, and therefore, the meaning of life.
Creative ways to honor the dead
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.
6 improv rules for a creative dharma life
Life is the ultimate improvisation, why not learn from the pros?
Everyone is an artist
An introduction to the 5 skandhas and how we build our self and world from their raw materials.
What to do with craving and aversion
Here's a meditation to calm our reactions and an inquiry to look into them.
Why are we not already Enlightened?
The teachings on the fetters offer one answer to this question.
The Dharma of vanlife
I've stepped out of my comfort zone and taken to the road for a taste of the wandering life. New situations always bring new learnings, here's what Eddie the van has been teaching me.
A simple explanation of 'not-self'
The ‘house of cards’ is an image of how we construct ourselves and our world, with everything dependent upon everything else.