Sharing a few nuggets of wisdom offered by the Dzogchen teacher James Low on a recent retreat. The essence of Dzogchen is, ‘do not correct’. How do we make that a practice?

Is it a mistake to think that Dharma study—with its conceptual and necessarily dualistic nature—can’t lead to non-conceptual, non-dual insight?

Whether you want to create a blog post, an article, a book, or even a retreat plan, I’ll show you how simple and rewarding the process can be—when you start with a well-crafted collection of interconnected ideas.

I've been discovering, or maybe creating, a new system for thinking about the Dharma. What started as a practical way to organise my notes has become a creative part of my Dharma practice.

One can look at the path to ‘awakening’ in terms of what we find along the way or what we lose. I seem to have lost the sense that something is missing. I think I’ve found trust.

The dharma wants to reveal itself to us all the time. If we think we already know what the dharma is and isn’t, we’ll miss it. It’s everywhere and until we find it everywhere, we won’t be enlightened.

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.

A realisation recently came into focus. It’s that I now see, in a way that I haven’t before, that everything that’s happened in my life, everything I’ve done, couldn’t have been any other way.

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.

Deep truths hidden in a goofy poem from Jack Kerouac

Are those worrying thoughts in the night just there to protect me from my own essential vulnerability?

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

Notes from an interview with Marina Abramović on the Talk Art Podcast

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.

Moments of insight can arise at anytime. Often in the middle of the most mundane activity

John Smith illustrates the Buddhist insight that there isn’t any essential ‘me’ running the show.

What is it like to have an insight and then to lose it? How do we root out the tendency to delusion?

When you start practicing Buddhism, you expect to become a nicer person, and you usually do. But what happens when you don’t?