Previous posts

• Full Moon – Heeding Wise Counsel – Saturday 26th September 2026
• Full Moon – Self Mastery – Friday 28th August 2026
• Q: How To Handle Loss?
• Q: Working With The Compulsive Judging Mind
• Full Moon – Following the Truly Wise - Wednesday 29th July, 2026
• Full Moon – Good Company - Monday 29th June, 2026
• Full Moon – Vesakha Puja – Sunday 31st May, 2026
• Full Moon – Helpful Advice – Friday 1st May, 2026
• Cultivating Wholesomeness: full moon - Thursday 2nd April, 2026
• Receiving Guidance: full moon - Tuesday 3rd March, 2026
• Heart Intelligence: full moon - Monday 2nd February, 2026
• Restraint: full moon - Saturday 3rd 2026
• The Way Things Appear: full moon - Friday 5th December 2025
• SEEING THE FLAWED AS FLAWED: full moon - Wednesday 5th November 2025
• INSPIRATION: full moon - Tuesday 7th October 2025
• EFFECTS OF RIGHT RESTRAINT: full moon - Sunday 7th September 2025
• EFFECTS OF RIGHT ACTION: full moon - Saturday 9th August 2025
• BALANCED OPINIONS: full moon – Thursday 10th July 2025
• FIVE spiritual faculties: full moon – Tuesday 10th June 2025
• Q: What Can I Do About My Unhappiness?
• Q: I Find The Lists In Buddhism Overwhelming
• WISE ACTION: full moon – Sunday 11th April 2025
• Q: Not Being Fooled By My Moods
• FOR GOODNESS SAKE: full moon – Saturday 12th April 2025
• FAITH IN HARMLESSNESS: full moon – Thursday 13th March 2025
• Q: A Time of Dhamma Declining
• Q: Issues Around Alcohol Consumption
• RIGHT COMMUNICATION: full moon – Wednesday 12th February 2025
• THE RIGHT SORT OF HEALING: full moon – Monday 13th January 2025
• INTENTIONAL ALONENESS: full moon - Sunday 15th December, 2024
• Q: The Increasing Of Greed Hatred And Delusion
• Q: Wholesomeness Helps With Deep Obstructions
• Q: Loneliness And Spiritual Companionship
• Q: How To Avoid Old Addictions?
• Q: "What Did The Buddha Mean By Being Unburdened With Duties"
• Stages of Dealing With Previously Denied Dukkha
• Q: "What practices do you recommend during the first few months of intense grief?"
• Q:  "How can we learn to really let go of deep trauma?"
• UNAVOIDABLE GOOD FORTUNE: full moon - Thursday 17th October 2024
• INTENTIONAL COMPOSURE: full moon – Tuesday, September 17th, 2024
• BEYOND OVERWHELM: full moon – Monday, August 19th, 2024
• 5 minute guided 'Judgement-free Awareness' meditation
• TRAINING IN TRUTHFULNESS: full moon – Saturday, July 20th, 2024
• Q: How To Move On From Relationships?
• Q: Developing A Truly Heartfelt Buddhist Form Of Devotion
• Q: Dealing With The Endlessly Critical Voice In My Head
• Q: How To Practice With A Conceited Sense Of Superiority?
• Q: How Important Is Physical Activity And Fitness In Practice?
• Q: Could The Mind Actually Become Our Friend?
• Q: How Do Buddhists And Non-Buddhists Handle Anxiety?
• Q: Dealing With The Disagreeable Side Effects Of Cancer Drugs
• INHERENTLY SECURE: full moon - 21st June, 2024
• Q: Can Tension Be Used Creatively In Practice?
• Q: Ways Of Increasing Chances Of A Good Rebirth?
• Q: How Can I Be Sure?
• ACCUMULATING BLESSING: full moon - 22nd May, 2024
• Q: What Challenges Does A Senior Monk Face?
• Q: How To Stay On Track When Others Are Being Obstructive?
• Q: "How To Stop Turning The Natural Pain Of Life Into Unnatural Suffering?
• Q: "Is Secular Buddhism Considered True Dhamma?"
• Q: I Can Get To The Heart Centre Though It Is Very Painful
• Q: There Is A Great Storm Raging In My Mind And In My Heart_PART_01
• Q: There Is A Great Storm Raging In My Mind And In My Heart_PART_02
• Q: "What Advice Would You Give To The Young Tan Munindo?"
• Q: Is Being Ordained In Your 50’s Or 60’s An Option?
• Q: How Do We Honour Both Our Spiritual Aspirations And Our Limitations?
• Q: Can one contemplate anatta and provide for a family at the same time?
• FEELING FEAR, FULLY: full moon - 23rd April, 2024
• Q: Identified As The Activity Of Awareness Or As Awareness Itself
• Q: “How Do I Forgive And Move Ahead On A Cheating Partner?”
• Q: Please Give Some Tips On Keeping Practice Consistent When Motivation Is Low?
• Q: Would Pursuing Monkhood Help Me Get Over The Suffering Of A Relationship Issue?
• Q: Please Would You Explain What Is Meant By Being Born And Dying Moment By Moment
• Q: Though I Am Practising Hard, I Seem To Be Going Backwards
• Q: Observing Impermanence Produces Fear In Me. How Do I Skilfully Work With This?
• Q: How Might Those With A Scientific Background Relate To Teachings On Rebirth?
• Q: Can You Recommend Methods For Dealing With Sensual Desires?
• PRAISE and BLAME: full moon - 24th March, 2024
• Q: How To Deal With Feeling Misunderstood?
• Q: A Contemplative Perspective On Compulsive Stress Eating
• Q: When Is It Appropriate To Give Others Feedback On Their Behaviour?
• Q: Learning How To Learn From Everything_PART_02
• Q: Learning How To Learn From Everything_PART_01
• Q: "Can You Recommend Ways Of Letting Go Of Painful Rejections?"
• Q: "Religion Has Been Used In A Harmful Way Over The Years. I Wonder About The Balance Between Benefit And Harm.”
• SEEKING FREEDOM FROM FEAR: full moon - 24th February, 2024
• Q: Isn’t It Selfish To Be Cultivating Contentment?
• Q: Could You Guide Us In A Contemplation On The 5 Spiritual Faculties?
• Q: Why The Buddha Was Beyond Being Triggered
• Q: Is This Just A Passing Mood Or Is It Denied Dukkha?
• Q: What Precautions To take To Protect The Opening Heart?
• Q: Reflecting On Death_PART_02
• Q: Reflecting On Death_PART_01
• Q: Can You Expand On, ‘Imbalance Can Also Be Beautiful’?
• Q: What Is The Right Amount Of Sleep?
• Q: Dealing With Entitled People And Their Hurtful Remarks
• Q: As Lay People How Do We Learn To Let Go?
• Q: Handling The Inner Fundamentalist
• Q: What Is Open-Hearted Awareness And How To Nurture It?
• Q: Are Contemplation And Meditation The Same Thing?
• Q: Weird Sensations In Vipassana Practice
• Q: Freeing Up Chronic Controlling
• Q: What Role Do You Address To Meditation Techniques?
• Q: Is The Open-Hearted State Our Home, Our Refuge?
• Q: What Helpful Daily Reflections And Practices Have You Learnt?
• Q: What Is Meant By ‘Fully Acknowledging’, Without Identifying?
• 5 Minute 'Judgement-free Awareness' Meditation
• 5 Minute 'Aligning' Meditation
• 10 Minute 'Aligning' Meditation
• Q: How To Encourage Myself To Sit More Regularly?
• Q: How To Deal With Feelings Of Frustration and Discouragement?
• Q: Why Do I Cry So Easily?
• Q: Am I Investigating Or Indulging
• EMBRACING DILEMMAS: full moon - 25th January, 2024
• Q: How To Handle My Ego Feeding On Suffering?
• Q: What Is sangha When We Are Alone?
• Q: What Is Your Life’s Work?
• Q: When We Chant, 'May All Beings Be Happy', Does That Mean The Only Good Is Happiness?
• CONTRIBUTING COMPASSION: full moon - 27th December, 2023