2025-01-08 Very curious to see Roberts Eggers’ Nosferatu remake. Mixed reviews but I always enjoy his work, …
2025-01-07 “What we’re really in the business of doing is helping people stay with the thoughts and feelings …
2025-01-07 Optimum evening posture
2025-01-07 Happy to have booked my first yoga class of the year. It will be good to get back on the mat …
2025-01-07 I’m enjoying the slow pace of micro.blog. And the lack of likes and follower counts and ‘re-posts’ …
2025-01-07 A blast from the past on the drive home this evening. 🎵
2025-01-07 🧘♂️
2025-01-06 When work is flow it’s no longer work.
2025-01-06 “When there is nothing left, the way opens. Only when you can sit still in the ruins of all you had …
2025-01-06 🧘♂️
2025-01-06 “Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there.” — Aldous Huxley …
2025-01-06 Only just made it in to work this morning. The combination of snow melt and overnight rain has …
2025-01-05 So it was the snow which caused problems yesterday and now and tomorrow it will be snow melt plus …
2025-01-05 🧘♂️
2025-01-05 🧘♂️
2025-01-05 🧘♂️
2025-01-05 Melting already.
2025-01-04 Just made it home as the snow started to settle and deepen. Switched to a later shift tomorrow so …
2025-01-04 “Thoughts arise and fall as flowers live and wilt. Stars fade over eons in the night sky and clouds …
2025-01-04 Listening to Zen teacher and psychoanalyst Barry Magid’s Ordinary Mind. Excellent so far. Within …
2025-01-04 This seemed like a suitable companion for the cold and dark drive to work this morning. “Dark and …
2025-01-04 “Zen is feeling life, not something about life.” — Alan Watts 🧘♂️
2025-01-04 Experience without language. Wordless being. 🧘♂️
2025-01-04 Thoughts and feelings are not a problem. Believing they are is. 🧘♂️
2025-01-03 Can’t believe it’s a year since I last watched Luke Littler in the final of the PDC World …
2025-01-03 “Human memory, driven by emotional self-interest, goes to extraordinary lengths to provide evidence …
2025-01-03 “Remembering and fiction-making are virtually indistinguishable.” “Remembering his country, he …
2025-01-03 “I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are and having the courage to share the …
2025-01-03 Really want to read this (and watch the companion documentary on Amazon). David Shields is one of my …
2025-01-03 She made it through another year but not sure she’ll make another one… 🐕
2025-01-03 It’s cold outside but not in here.
2025-01-03 Just checking the weather for the next couple of days and it looks like I could quite easily get …
2025-01-03 Tucking into my favourite Xmas present.
2025-01-03 Probably the most underrated feeling or state of mind that contributes subtlety but most powerfully …
2025-01-03 Morning
2025-01-02 The fire is slowly dying for the night…
2025-01-02 So here we go with micro.blog… Haven’t the faintest how I’ll use it or if I even will. …
2023-01-08 We become what we give our attention to.
2023-01-08 Let the nettle sting be. Who are we to claim it as ours?
2023-01-08 When we truly lose the overbearing sense of a self, what is left naturally inclines towards others.
2023-01-08 When we say we can’t take anymore what we’re really saying is we don’t want anymore.
2023-01-08 Don’t wait to be taught. Let your own intuition and insights guide you.
2023-01-08 Words and images have meaning in contrast to reality which simply is meaning.
2023-01-08 The real benefits of contemplative inquiry appear when we let go of acquiring any.
2023-01-08 It’s the holding on that hurts, not the letting go.
2023-01-08 Beware spiritual materialism. The subtle, seductive tendency to turn the formless, not only into …
2023-01-07 It is what we do when we don’t know, don’t understand what we are doing.
2023-01-07 We deceive ourselves by thinking it can’t be this obvious, this simple, this effortless. It is our …
2023-01-07 The eternal unfolding of the infinite everything includes the arising of the futile attempts to …
2023-01-07 Can we be still and attend to this open awareness without describing or narrating?
2023-01-07 We don’t experience things in the present. We are experience and presence simultaneously without …
2023-01-07 When we truly and honestly inquire into the present moment with open awareness, without concepts or …
2023-01-07 Notice how we don’t experience time in the same way as we experience bodily sensations. When we …
2023-01-07 “True freedom is the end of separation, this moment of life without ‘I’. The presence revealed …
2023-01-07 Life lives us without effort. We need do nothing to be fully alive. We can’t stop it, we can’t make …
2023-01-06 Can we take responsibility for the truth we find when we let go of wanting things to be other than …
2023-01-06 When our minds are open and not constricted by the blinkers of small ego, we realise there is wisdom …
2023-01-05 I love this insight from Amoda Maa: “…the willingness to surrender the argument with what is: to …
2023-01-05 “Falling into openness—a dissolution of the psychological knot of ego—is the doorway to freedom.” …
2023-01-05 If, sometimes, we must hold, hold lightly with gentle tenderness, full in the knowledge that that is …
2023-01-04 Whatever state of mind you find yourself in, rather than focussing on the content or the description …
2023-01-04 That which is undoubtedly here yet utterly inconceivable.
2023-01-03 What seekers are seeking is not ‘out there’ beyond but right here, right now before everything, even …
2023-01-03 Nothing is fixed or stable including us and our fantastical flights of fancy about identity and …
2023-01-03 There is no mistaking the raw actuality of this moment, right here, right now. Everything else is …
2023-01-02 If we attend closely and carefully enough we can observe how we take refuge and hide and imprison …
2023-01-02 All forms reveal emptiness and emptiness reveals all forms. Not two, not oneness, just difference …
2023-01-01 As ever, beginning again.
2022-12-30 Attend to the present moment carefully and closely enough and find everything that happens appears …
2022-12-30 The present moment will never let you down. Everything else will.
2022-12-30 The fear of death is the same as any other story we believe to be true. Just a story we have made up …
2022-12-29 This, this that is undeniable, self evident and simply here is ungraspable and without form or …
2022-12-29 All memories pale in comparison to the vibrant, visceral actuality of this moment of vivid …
2022-12-29 Thinking - the original virtual reality.
2022-12-29 We attribute fixed meanings to the ever changing phenomenal world. No wonder all meanings fail in …
2022-12-29 Pleasure or pain. Relaxation or anxiety. There is nothing confusing about the present moment until …
2022-12-29 Awareness is not beyond doubt or question because it is already present before either arise.
2022-12-28 “Feel your feet on the ground – listen and look.” John Butler
2022-12-28 Awareness includes everything and clings to nothing. We might call that unconditional love. Joan …
2022-12-28 Who exactly are you filing that complaint with?
2022-12-28 What does the statement: ‘I deserve…(insert what you think you deserve) actually mean?
2022-12-28 In the the condition of empty awareness, when the illusion of ego self is clearly seen through, what …
2022-12-28 Difference without separation.
2022-12-27 Thinking negatively, thinking positively - it’s still all just magical thinking and prone to the …
2022-12-27 Nothing special. Ordinary awareness in the midst of life.
2022-12-27 There is nothing we can think that can solve the problems that thought creates.
2022-12-27 We love to meet the stories we hear with our own stories instead of just sharing the truth of what …
2022-12-27 See through the leading character (the ego) in our story and the whole narrative collapses.
2022-12-27 You Don’t Have To Suffer Anymore You Don’t Have To Suffer Anymore
2022-12-27 Time is Thought Time is Thought by Dr Amy Johnson
2022-12-27 No path, no way, no method, no technique that endures. Everything changes. Only the ever present raw …
2022-12-27 This timeless present moment of eternal reality right now reveals everything we need to know about …
2022-12-27 We can recognise a great teaching to be true when it points away from itself to the heart of truth …
2022-12-27 Buddhism isn’t about becoming a Buddhist or even Buddhism. It’s about recognising the nature of your …
2022-12-27 When truly sought Even the seeker cannot be found. Thereupon the goal of the seeking is attained, …
2022-12-26 Listen, trust and learn from yourself. Ultimately we are our own best teachers.
2022-12-24 I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it. John Cage
2022-12-24 Shifting out of our world of images and stories about ourselves and the world is simple but hard, …
2022-12-24 If we are anything we may say we are fields of potentiality.
2022-12-24 We can discover everything we need to know about ourselves by observing how we behave when no one is …
2022-12-24 The universe includes us but isn’t about us.
2022-12-24 Others suffer because we suffer.
2022-12-23 Everything minus the ego.
2022-12-23 The non dual condition is fundamentally paradoxical. As quantum phenomena are real but make no …
2022-12-22 ‘Awareness’ is a word that points to the seeing that is never divided into seer and seen. Joan …
2022-12-21 Walking into each moment without history or expectation.
2022-12-19 The only way one really gets any of the most important benefits of meditation practice is by giving …
2022-12-17 Enlightenment is the end of the one who cares about being enlightened or unenlightened.
2022-12-17 What is beyond doubt takes no effort to maintain.
2022-12-16 “The entirety of practical spirituality consists of distinguishing fantasy from actuality. …
2022-12-16 The entirety of practical spirituality consists of distinguishing fantasy from actuality. The …
2022-12-16 This. This, that is utterly inconceivable and yet totally obvious and impossible to avoid. Joan …
2022-12-15 Thoughts are stories. Emotions are energy. Connect the two and cling to either or both creates …
2022-12-15 Stories are sophisticated patterns and we have evolved to create patterns out of chaos to survive. …
2022-12-15 We are constantly told that we love stories. I would amend that to; we are addicted to stories. …
2022-12-15 Nihilism is just another story. Open awareness is that which is prior to, and allows for, all …
2022-12-15 The fewer stories and narratives we have running in our minds the freer we become.
2022-12-15 As open awareness, walking along a deserted beach or a tranquil field is no different than being in …
2022-12-15 Whatever this is, cannot be pulled apart, divided or separated.
2022-12-14 Liberation is the aliveness and immediacy beyond belief. Liberation is when all the answers, …
2022-12-14 Since our first breath thoughts, feelings, concepts, ideas and experiences have come and gone over …
2022-12-14 This is always it.
2022-12-13 Suffering is feedback, showing us that we’re attached to ideas and thoughts that appear true, but …
2022-12-13 If we persist in looking to get or obtain something, anything from ourselves, others and the world …
2022-12-13 What stories are we going to believe and invest in about ourselves and the world today? What forms …
2022-12-13 Thoughts, ideas, theories, concepts, and stories are all for nought without the rigorous practice of …
2022-12-12 What is fear of death but a complicated tangle of images and stories about everything except the …
2022-12-12 Dissolving or seeing through the fabricated ego self automatically frees us from craving and …
2022-12-11 Allow everything without holding onto anything.
2022-12-11 Egos meet and remain separate but open, aware minds share presence.
2022-12-11 As Beckett was exquisitely aware, all language fails attempting to capture the formless absolute.
2022-12-10 Enlightenment, awakening, recognition, realisation, whatever, is not an answer, has no answers …
2022-12-10 Deconstructing the self automatically opens us to boundless possibilities.
2022-12-09 Myriad holograms of meaning come and go, arise and fade away over and over and over and yet the …
2022-12-09 No arrival, no conclusion, no ending, just perpetual freshness and unknowing.
2022-12-09 This includes us but is not about us.
2022-12-09 The illusion of a spiritual journey is just more hinderance, more occlusion of the infinite ground …
2022-12-09 ‘Symbols and conventions can be used for awareness rather than for developing worldly attitudes to …
2022-12-09 With complete recognition of open awareness the need for the crutches of meaning, purpose and …
2022-12-08 Data, information, knowledge - none have anything to do with wisdom.
2022-12-08 In spite of the famous phrase: ‘There must be more to life than this’, there is actually no more to …
2022-12-08 The infinite — the only condition where logic and paradox dwell without conflict.
2022-12-08 There are infinite ways to recognise the infinite.
2022-12-08 Things to be interested in come and go but the raw unmediated actuality of the present moment is …
2022-12-08 Whenever we look, whatever we witness is simply what is here now and that is always everything and …
2022-12-08 Trust not knowing.
2022-12-06 Words and images, words and images, so many, seemingly endless words and images describing and …
2022-12-06 The problems of thought are not clarified by more thinking. A ruler trying to measure itself…
2022-12-04 No hope nor fear here. Just what is.
2022-11-27 Nothing here now will remain.
2022-11-27 The weather alters our mood only to the extent to which we indulge the ideas and concepts that it …
2022-11-26 There is no elephant in the room. The elephant is the room.
2022-11-26 Here language always fails. Sometimes beautifully, sometimes less so But always unable to touch what …
2022-11-26 The anxiety and fear of a week ago is gone. Traces remain as ever-diminishing memory. Then as now, …
2022-11-26 Cold. Darkness. Street lights. Stillness. An alarm. Distant shouting. The merest hint of dawn.
2022-11-25 There is no right or wrong time nor right or wrong place.
2022-11-24 Open. Open to what is. Open to what is not. Open to everything and open to nothing at all. Open to …
2022-11-24 Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death… What is the Zen …
2022-11-24 None of this is about happiness or sadness, joy or sorrow, hope or despair per se. It is whatever we …
2022-11-23 This includes us but is not about us.
2022-11-23 The ordinary. The everyday. The shit on my shoe.
2022-11-22 Break the identification with thought and there is simply what is, and that includes thought too.
2022-11-22 To say that one is ‘spiritual’ is just more identification with something, sometimes any ‘thing’ …
2022-11-22 What is sought is not beyond. It is that which is already fully present before anything. Before joy, …
2022-11-22 There is nothing to be gained… that is all. There is nothing to be gained.
2022-11-22 There is no more or less life to be had anywhere other than right here, right now.
2022-11-22 Wherever and however we are is where must always begin again.
2022-11-22 Not knowing is true wisdom.
2022-11-22 Meditation techniques are easy to practise because they have a form. Awareness is harder because it …
2022-11-22 Knowledge and ignorance are both untrue, nothing but dream and illusion — the nonduality of true and …
2022-11-22 The truth of the moment is beyond all thoughts, all feelings, all ideas, all concepts, all systems, …
2022-11-22 Doing nothing but with full attention and awareness.
2022-11-22 Once you realise you’re distracted, that you’ve been thinking without knowing you’ve been thinking, …
2022-11-22 Meaning and purpose are just a distracted person's imaginary friends. Sam Harris
2022-11-22 Nowhere to go but here. All journeys lead home.
2022-11-22 If I am anything, I am the totality of everything and nothing that is and isn’t happening in this …
2022-11-22 Hanging, weightless in open awareness.
2022-11-22 Clinging to no tradition. Seeing through each of them to the common unicity of all of them.
2022-11-21 Darkness, wind and rain. The drip, drip, drip from a broken gutter.
2022-11-20 The dark night of the unknown. The steps one knows one has to take and the associated fear.
2022-11-20 Responsibility.
2022-11-18 I feel this is the heart of meditation: Simply being interested in what is here – being more …
2022-11-18 The dog, snoring at my feet. Loud chatter coming through the wall from next door. The smell of …
2022-11-17 The silence of not knowing.
2022-11-16 No doer nor nothing to be done.
2022-11-16 No thought can improve what is already here.
2022-11-15 We don’t have ideas, ideas have us. Carl Jung
2022-11-15 In times of trauma I have no idea what I’m doing except somehow saving myself.
2022-11-15 Sitting, wondering at the beauty of existence but also inquiring into the horrors here too.
2022-11-15 Pain yet complete aliveness.
2022-11-15 What is the duration of this moment? Does it last only until the the next instance of inattention?
2022-11-15 This is always it.
2022-11-15 Roaring tinnitus this morning in my now blocked, deaf left ear. My experience of the world is now …
2022-11-14 A solitary lamp illuminating the corner of the room. Ringing, hissing tinnitus; shrill, clean and …
2022-11-14 I am very lucky to have a job in which I spend most of the time in a state of flow. No distracting, …
2022-11-14 Noticing that which would otherwise have gone unrecognised.
2022-11-13 This is neither special nor ordinary as these words are referring to that which defies all …
2022-11-13 AE’s clear, bright eyes. Full of life lacking nothing but sight.
2022-11-13 Each of us has our own story about death and grief but in the end that’s all they are. Distracting …
2022-11-12 One fire unfolding as infinite flames.
2022-11-12 The fire again. Crackling and sputtering a fuss over damp logs. The dog is here, still but watchful. …
2022-11-12 Snoozing…
2022-11-12 There is no Buddhism here, no Zen, no Advaita, no Dzogchen, no awakening, no enlightenment, no …
2022-11-12 The raw, unmediated pain of grief of an individual I support at work. There are few if no words that …
2022-11-12 Nowhere to go but here, where everything and nothing already are.
2022-11-12 Birth, life and death are not personal but we make them so Who are we to claim them as our own? …
2022-11-12 On my way to work this morning, just letting everything unfold without explanation, rhyme or reason: …
2022-11-12 Early start. Still dark. Silence but for the ticking clock and the hum of the fridge.
2022-11-11 An evening spent in good conversation with my wonderful wife. Happily fuelled by a bottle of Baileys …