Grief as a spiritual practice
My sister, Fiona, passed away last month, unexpectedly. Yes, she was being treated for cancer, and had been for several...
Bodhipaksa
Why you don’t have free will (and why that doesn’t matter)
Free will is “the unimpeded capacity to choose between different possible courses of action.” We tend to believe that everyone has...
How and why to cultivate gratitude
“It’s not happiness that brings us gratitude. It’s gratitude that beings us happiness.”Why Practice Gratitude?Gratitude is good for us. Our...
New Year aspirations (rather than resolutions)
When I was younger I used to think that New Year’s Day resolutions would almost automatically bring about change. It...
My latest book: “A Year of Buddha’s Wisdom”
Over the summer I wrote a book. The idea was presented to me by the publisher, who had decided that...
The strange myopia of Buddhist teachings on suffering
I wanted to draw attention to a strange myopia that affects many people who comment on the Buddha’s teachings about...
