Reading Archives (2020)
Four Stages Of Groundedness
The ground is both a metaphor and a felt sense. As a metaphor, it means to be in touch with reality. As a felt sense, it refers to...
An Unusual Gift From My Grandfather
Often, when he came to visit, my grandfather would bring me a present. These were never the sorts of things that other people brought,...
The Moment We Encounter True Happiness
The moment we encounter true Happiness, we are in fact outside time and space. The “ego” – with its intrinsic duality...
A 13-Year-Old In A Museum
On a recent visit to the Museum of Modern Art with a friend and her daughter, meandering through the museum’s exhibits, I was...
Parliament Of Subconscious Minds
You may object to the idea that your sense of being a self is a mere construct. After all, it feels very real. How can we reconcile this...
Time Confetti And The Broken Promise Of Leisure
It’s true: we have more time for leisure than we did fifty years ago. But leisure has never been less relaxing, mostly because of...
Half A Pomegranate
Early one morning, the Buddha and his disciples set off on an alms round. He announced that on that day all of the offerings they...
The Three Narratives
When we come together for this work, at the outset we discern three stories or versions of reality that are shaping our world so that we...
How Caterpillar Turns Into A Butterfly
If you kneel down on the ground and look at a caterpillar very carefully, you'd probably think he's a pretty nice furry...
The Game Is To Be Where You Are
When I was born I donned a spacesuit for living on this plane, it was this body, my spacesuit, and it had a steering mechanism which is...
Now I Become Myself
Now I become myself. It's taken Time, many years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run...
We're Voting With Our Attention
At the base of the brainstem there is a bundle of neurons called the Reticular Activating System (RAS). The RAS acts as a kind of bouncer...