Dharma notebook
This digital notebook is where I capture momentary insights into modern dharma themes; the meaning of Buddhist teachings for our everyday lives and the connections between the dharma, art and culture.
Below is an archive of posts, search for any themes that might interest you.
Realisations can only be understood backwards
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.
Thoughts and vulnerability
Are those worrying thoughts in the night just there to protect me from my own essential vulnerability?
Marina Abramović on Talk Art
Notes from an interview with Marina Abramović on the Talk Art Podcast
During the laundry, the ecstacy
Moments of insight can arise at anytime. Often in the middle of the most mundane activity
The girl chewing gum
John Smith illustrates the Buddhist insight that there isn’t any essential ‘me’ running the show.
Being stuck in an in between place
What is it like to have an insight and then to lose it? How do we root out the tendency to delusion?
What is klesharama?
When you start practicing Buddhism, you expect to become a nicer person, and you usually do. But what happens when you don’t?
