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.

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.

The arts can be a parallel path to the dharma, with the potential to open up similar insights.

Being creative requires skill, to become skilled you must be prolific and to be prolific means making a lot of mistakes.

Wanting anything to be other than what is hurts