Sometimes the things that matter most to us are the hardest to do. I’ve noticed that the more meaningful a task feels, the stronger the resistance — as if my longings and my fears are somehow linked.

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?

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.

Why don’t I do this more often, I thought, go to a rock concert with a crowd of pensioners?

Dana means ‘giving’. But deciding how much we want to give isn’t always easy! Here’s how I decide how much dana to give.

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?

The secret to consuming content online is to have very strict limits on how much I subscribe to.

Can the 3-fold path contain our whole life?