Resources
Some of these resource pages originated as questions my clients have asked me. Others started life as handouts, others are topics I felt moved to post about after some particular session brought the topic to mind. They are therefore not systematic or comprehensive, but I hope may be of interest.
Mindfulness can’t escape the sacred
Real meditation, of any school, moves inevitably towards the sacred. Secularised mindfulness...
“Radical” meditation
Some schools of meditation, including Advaita, Buddhism, Osho, Zen and many others,...
“Thoughts” includes EVERYTHING
Watch your thoughts - yes. But "thoughts" includes all your hopes, dreams,...
Radical non-duality: The Song of Ashtavakra
The Song of Ashtavakra presents in a few compressed pages the same...
Thoughts are physical, not mental
The buzzing thoughts that interfere with happiness and won’t go away when you meditate...
Meditation is not Stop Action
There’s nothing in the definition of meditation about sitting still or closing...
Meditation: not sitting still
The definition of meditation: relaxed, alert, no judgements. No reference to breathing,...
Mindfulness madness in the US military
Soldiers meditating before they fight and kill; how scientific "mindfulness" has misunderstood...
Love songs with a truth, not merely a feeling
Most popular songs about two people in relationship express an emotion. A...
If it doesn’t work, do anything different
Are you caught in repeating loops? Don't wait for tenderness and openness...
Don’t say what you don’t want and get not understood
If you don't know what you want, you won't get it.
Questions to ask from the heart
This post is about trying different things. Particularly it’s about doing what...
Everyone longs for love, few long for meditation
All of us long for love. Very few long for meditation.
Meditation and mindfulness in therapy
I can’t imagine therapy separate from meditation. They are intertwined. Many aspects of...
Following your inner voice: Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill
This is the first of a series of posts on changing your...