All episodes
The Power of Thought Labelling
Reflection and Presence 3
Trusting Nature. The Call of the Reed Warbler
Persecutor Victim Rescuer
Dissatisfaction and Technology Addiction
Sesshin Day 5 - Giving and Receiving
Sesshin Day 4 - On not taking oneself so seriously
Sesshin Day 3 - Courage and Fear
Sesshin Day 1 - Looking into our Dark Side
Reflections on Death
The dark side of virtue signalling
Think neither good nor evil
When life can no longer humiliate you.
Melting the frozen block of emotion thought
Hakuin
Psychedelics and Zen
Breathing Our Way Into The Unknown
The Train Journey of Forgiveness
Tasting the Bitter and the Sweet
Strong back. Soft front.
Zen and our emotional lives
Practising with disappointment
Razzle dazzle and serenity
Not Harbouring Anger
Not Criticising the Faults of Others but Speaking with Loving Kindness
Zen and Tea
Sesshin Day 5 - Dwelling Nowhere Let the Heart come Forth
Sesshin Day 4 - The Paradoxical Nature of Suffering
Sesshin Day 3 - Bells and Blowflies
Sesshin Day 2 - Temperament and Transformation
Sesshin Day 1 - The Three-Legged Stool of Zen
The Freedom of Form
Feeding Emotion - Thoughts
Sesshin Day 3 - Samadhi Power
Sesshin Day 2 - “Gouging a wound in healthy flesh”
Sesshin Day 1 - Sacredness
Zen Mudras
“The sacred forms of the tathagatha’s never failing essence“
No Universal No Personal
Moral Philosophy and Zen
Spiritual Bypassing
Black Coal/Brown Coal
The Empty Canoe
The Virtue of Solitude
Dying On The Cushion
Cutting Off Old Grievances
Surface Calmness and Deep Serenity
A Tangled Knotty Mess
Building Moral Intelligence
Precepts and Psychology
Right and Wrong
Wise Ethics
Faith in Mind - Openness to Life
The Practice of Zen in a Toxic Culture
Mindfulness and Precepts
Emotions and Precepts
Like a Buffalo Passing Through a Latticed Window
An Appropriate Response!
Working with the Precepts
Zen, Philosophy, and the Nature of Life
Zen and Philosophy
Other Validation, Self Validation and Life Validation
Reflection and Presence 2
Buddhism and Wholistic Health
Poem and Precept Group
Sesshin Day 5: Zen and the Moral Spirit
Sesshin Day 4: Throwing a Pebble in the Pond
Sesshin Day 3: Zen and the Creative Spirit
Sesshin Day 2: Tototsu’s Three Barriers
Sesshin Day 1: Non - Stop Flow
Self and Other
Oryoki for Life
Personal Responsibility and Non Judgementalism
Words, Words, Words
World Suffering, Compassion and Equanimity
A Day In The Life Of A Tree
Paradox
What is Koan Practice
The Art Of Feeling
Organic Intelligence
Discernment and Karma
Ordinary Mind is the Way
The Cricket Chirps in a Forgetful Way
Remembering Thich Nhat Hahn
Transitions
Aspiration and Expectation Revisited
Identifying with Thoughts and Feelings
The Art of Listening
Don't Be Deceived By Others
Meditation, Assertiveness and the Bodhisattva Way
Bypassing, Fixating and Numbing Out
Sesshin Day 2 - Halloween and a Dead Crow
Sesshin Day 1 - Rinzai’s Person of No Rank
Practicing With The Raw Energy Of Emotion
Equanimity Predictability and the Unexpected
Reflection and Presence
The Identity Project
Sesshin Day 4 - Breaking the addiction to the inner narrative
Sesshin Day 3 - Living in the spacious mind
Sesshin Day 2 - Approaching relationships with a beginners mind