The Four Noble Truths

The Four Noble Truths

A Practical Guide to Life Buddha took a practical approach to his teachings, which he delivered by talking to people with real problems. He approached it as you would approach a problem that you face. First, you need to know what the problem is. Then you need to understand its nature and its extent. Once […]

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The Existential Vacuum - The search for Meaning after lockdown

The Search for Life’s Meaning After Lockdown

Lockdown has brought a massive change in routine for almost all of us. Normality for most of us involved;  getting up when the alarm goes off, packing the kids off to school, grabbing a coffee on the commute to work, settling into a day’s work, punctuated by a cuppa and chat. Heading home at the […]

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The Three Levels of Consciousness

The concept of the conscious, the subconscious and the unconscious There have been sophisticated theories of mind that have undoubtedly contained the concepts of conscious and subconscious for over two thousand years, most notably in Buddhist philosophy[1]. Greek philosophers also described concepts of mind, including Aristotle and Plato, although they might describe it as the […]

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The contents of the mind can be surprising, bizarre and shocking

Can Mindfulness Make Us Ill?

With the incredible rise in popularity of mindfulness practice, some are beginning to question if mindfulness is as good for you as some would have you believe. There are now various reports of adverse reactions — just exactly what is happening? I had always thought that mindfulness was a pretty uncontroversial topic. Although there was […]

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