Cultivating the attitude of letting be and letting go or non-attachment is fundamental to the practice of mindfulness. The Thai forest Buddhist monk Ajahn Chah invited his students: “If you let go a little, you ‘ll have a little peace, if you let go a lot, you’ll...
What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is our inherent ability to pay attention to each moment, with curiosity and openness, and to allow each experience to be just as it is, without judgement. It is a life skill and a natural ability we all have – to be fully aware and...
Introduction “Our beliefs create our thoughts. And our thoughts create our feelings. And the thoughts and feelings create our behaviour. And our behaviour creates our destiny.” – Gandhi There is something tragic that our lives are so full of possibilities and...
Over the next few weeks I would like to re-visit and explore body centred practice. As you know, mindfulness meditation is an embodied practice, an invitation to come back to our body, as a portal to presence. The Thai Buddhist teacher Ajahn Buddhadasa instructed his...
Today I would like to talk about why we meditate. Sometimes we might lose our motivation to practice, or forget the main reason why we are doing this. In our culture of rushing and doing, sitting and doing nothing for half an hour every day may seem counterintuitive...
