Encouragement to follow the Middle Way. Writings, March 2025

In these times there are many provocations for those of us who seek to maintain the integration of wisdom and compassion. When we encounter disturbing events it is very easy to enter into judgement, reifying those whom we take to be the source of problems and then enjoying the dualising egoic pleasure of examining their faults. Then our own responses […]

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Dependent arising. Teaching retreat. Todtmoos, 17-20 Oct 2024

Dependent arising The myth that the autonomous ego is master of one’s own destiny is a delusion that leads to lack of cooperation, conflict and lonely isolation. The Buddha gave us many opportunities to see the falsity of our popular belief in inherent existence. By examining how we continue to believe in ourselves as a separate entity despite all evidence […]

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Love your Mother

There are three sections to this book. The first section explores our origins and uses the clarity that arises from this to ease us out of our isolation.
The second section describes how we wander in samsara due to the de­pendent arising of the twelve links on the wheel of becoming.
The third section describes how we can use the teaching of the The Heart Sutra to awaken to emptiness.

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