Awakening

A small child walks into a hardware store with his parents. He doesn’t register the screws and nuts or any of the other materials he has no prior knowledge of, but does see the display of brightly coloured buckets and spades and is instantly drawn there. The father, who has been working on a DIY … Continue reading Awakening →

Peace of mind

When I went for my early morning walk this morning, my head was filled with the chatter of my thoughts. Half the time I wasn’t even fully conscious of it but knew the buzzing was incessant. Then, as I turned the corner, two hares leapt out onto the path in front of me. They didn’t … Continue reading Peace of mind →

Mind imposed order

We are incredibly conditioned creatures, far more than we are consciously aware and our minds control almost everything we see, hear, experience and do. If we learn a new word, something unusual that has caught our interest, so we remember it, we begin to see or hear this particular word much more frequently in the … Continue reading Mind imposed order →

Thought

We have all experienced that one moment of pure clarity of mind, even if we can only see it retrospectively. It might have been when we were in a foreign country, driving on the other side of the road, through a busy city. It may have been when hanging over the precipiceof a mountain rock … Continue reading Thought →

Beauty

Imagine strolling through a field full of wild flowers. the soft, warm wind is blowing gently through your hair and your senses are taken over with the scents and vivid colours of the flowers around you. Bees and butterflies are everywhere you look and there is no sound but their buzzing, not a cloud in … Continue reading Beauty →

Sea of Consciousness

The mind is like the sea. Sometimes it is still and serene, at other times turbulent, troubled. It's depths are unfathomable and we do not know all that lurks there. It is made up of millions of tiny droplets, just like our minds have countless thoughts and processes, yet it is all connected together, the … Continue reading Sea of Consciousness →

Unconsciousness

What do we think of by unconsciousness? We can be 'knocked unconscious', we can 'fall into a deep unconscious sleep', we can 'act in an unconscious manner' - all these ways imply a non thinking, a time when we are not using our intellect or our minds, we are blind, blank. Let us compare it … Continue reading Unconsciousness →

Greed

While at this time of year it is easy in the West to overindulge, one should always bear in mind there is a fine line between enjoyment and greed. This of course is easy to see where food and drink are concerned, but more difficult when other material possessions are in question and even more … Continue reading Greed →

Moving mountains

The ‘accidental miracle’ that brought each and every one of us into being, the process of chance meetings and love affairs, embryos born from the earth, fed star dust in the womb, growing into a physical human from a collection of fluid particles – this being we are, made from constituent parts of the universe, … Continue reading Moving mountains →

Seeing

When someone covers our eyes with their hand, but we still have our eyes open, we can see their hand. When we close our eyes our mind is telling us we can no longer see, as we have our eyes shut, yet if we concentrate we can see the inside of our eyelids and whatever … Continue reading Seeing →