If we never do anything, nothing gets done. But it needs to be balanced with switching off – with walking away and letting go. This feels lazy. It’s something we’re not very good at; but we need to be. Here’s why.
We can glorify the grind and insane hard work. We find it difficult to switch off, to let go. But letting go is poorly understood too – it only makes sense in relation to a goal worthy of us. Here’s about finding the middle path. And my favourite monk.
Never meet your heroes – they will disappoint you, you may even become bitter and twisted. But actually the disappointment is all on us. Here’s how to avoid it.
We all know what it’s like to be stuck in worry or frustration. We also all know what it’s like to be completely free, present and alive. How do you have more of the latter?
Learning is uncertainty; but it is also part of life itself. ‘Grow or die’ might seem simplistic, but there’s something to this imperative that we must all face.
We don’t realise how crucial peace is to living the kind of life we want to live; to being the person we want to be. Here’s why you want to prioritise your peace.
I’m not on holiday and I should be. Yet there’s a valuable lesson there about things that just won’t happen no matter how hard I push, try, or control.
Our minds directly shape our lives. Changing the mind is one thing to change our life; but when you go beyond the mind, you find a different level of living altogether.
The spiritual attainments of a Buddha may seem frivolities in the modern world; but undistracted focus and deep understanding are possibly even more valuable today than thousands of years ago.
What are the rules that you can follow and be guaranteed of success in life? There’s no shortage of books and programmes suggesting various options. Ah, if only life was that simple.
We say we’d love to do this and that, to go there and experience that, to make a change somehow … but how often do we actually get down and put something into the calendar? Here’s an invitation to stop sleepwalking into a rut.
From an early age, we’re led to believe that more effort means more rewards. But in meditation and mindfulness it’s the direct opposite – more effort means less. Here’s how to get what you want from your practice completely effortlessly.
