An introduction to the 5 skandhas and how we build our self and world from their raw materials.

How I stopped my phone from grabbing my attention.

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

Assignment: Make a list of burning questions that can show you where you want to go.

Two methods, minimalist and maximalist

A creative definition of nirvana is ‘simply stopping’.

Finding the 10 Fetters in the poems of Rumi.

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

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.

A little love letter to all the objects that make us smile.

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.

Being a Buddhist is about what is in your heart. Likewise being an artist about learning to paint or to write. It’s about engaging with the world as an artist would.

A beauty that shows us the truth of impermanence, imperfection and insubstantiality.

They’d lived so long despite harsh conditions, or was it because of them? Here’s what their secrets to a long life might be.

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

We long for a soulful life full of real, earthy, handmade things. But how do you are getting the real deal?