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Transcending Mindfulness: 7 | Trauma and Healing

Jamie and Martin discuss trauma and its effects on the mind and body, looking at therapeutic techniques from modern psychology and its place within spiritual practices.

The Cause of Dissatisfaction and Suffering

The Four Noble Truths
If we know the cause of our suffering it becomes far easier to let go of. Dr. Alan Sidi explores the theory behind the Second Noble Truth.

Cultivating being in the body and working with the emotional household

Exercises in Mindfulness
To create the mind-body connection we have to empty the heart, to empty the heart we need to fully come into the body.

Enthusiastic Awareness

By Katharine Haggiag
"When I started Zen training many years ago, I had no interest in learning how to clean properly. I would never have guessed that the physical act of cleaning, done wholeheartedly and with reverence, could lead to increased awareness in life."

Towards Wholeness by Venerable Myokyo Daiyu Zenji

Book Review
The title Towards Wholeness is telling. What is wholeness? In this context it is the full expression and life of each one of us and therefore a connectedness with all that is.

Latest Articles

Audio Talks

Transcending Mindfulness: 7 | Trauma and Healing

Getting Beyond Light and Shade

How to sit Zazen | Zen meditation

Practice

The Sword that Slays 10,000 Thoughts

Exercises in Mindfulness
If not one thought arises, you will at once climb up the Bodhi tree
Series

The Five Hindrances | Martin Goodson

These are the factors that hinder progress in meditation and daily life practice.

“Is there someone else I can ask?”

Exercises in Mindfulness
Why can life be so upsetting? Cut through the mental noise in this simple exercise. 

Chanting

Exercises in Mindfulness
The benefits of chanting are many! Find out how to get started in this introduction to a key component of Buddhist practice.

What is Samadhi Power?

Exercise in Mindfulness
Daily life practice gives us the key to freeing the mind.

Magazine

Enthusiastic Awareness

By Katharine Haggiag
"When I started Zen training many years ago, I had no interest in learning how to clean properly. I would never have guessed that the physical act of cleaning, done wholeheartedly and with reverence, could lead to increased awareness in life."

Towards Wholeness by Venerable Myokyo Daiyu Zenji

Book Review
The title Towards Wholeness is telling. What is wholeness? In this context it is the full expression and life of each one of us and therefore a connectedness with all that is.

Extract Audio: The Zen Way

Life in a Japanese Zen Monastery by Irmgard Schloegl
This is an extract from The Zen Way by Irmgard Schloegl who spent 12 years training in Zen Buddhism at Daitokuji. In this extract Martin Goodson reads an extract from the book detailing the daily routine of the monks plus the ordeal of entrance begging undergone by all monks to gain entry to the monastery. 

Quality not Quantity

Blog
Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp continually reminds us that the amount of time we have been practicing means nothing; it is the quality of that practice which counts.

The Zen Garden: A Path towards 'Right Mind'

Sophie Walker takes us on a guided tour around the Zen Garden, an experience which can bring the heart to a state of rest

Buddhism

Verses from the Dhammapada 96

The Search for Peace
In freeing the lion from its thorn, Androcles frees himself—fear becomes friendship.

The Heart that Doesn’t Settle Anywhere

A Celebration of the Buddha’s Birthday
In the more northern climes of the Buddhist world, spring is a natural time of year to celebrate a birth/re-birth as the world comes alive after the dark, cold winter months.

Verses from the Dhammapada 160

Who is the Master of Self?
The Buddha taught that the 'self' is a delusion. Who then is the Master of Self?

Verses from the Dhammapada 177

In order for intuition to function freely in all situations we must be prepared to give away something very precious to us.

Verses from the Dhammapada 114

Why are we so easily carried away by the tides of the heart-mind and what awaits us on the other side?

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