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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ‘house of cards’ is an image of how we construct ourselves and our world, with everything dependent upon everything else.

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

The wabi-sabi state of mind is one that ‘coaxes beauty out of ugliness’. For me, it’s become a metaphor for insight.