Are you aware? Yes, I am. How do you know? Because I’m aware of being aware. What are you aware of? This present moment experience. What does this present moment contain? It contains the world, the body and the mind. I am aware of places, things, sights and sounds and smells, body parts, bodily sensations,…
Imagine you’re in a meadow and a rain shower comes down. It creates little tributaries in the grass, and then out comes the sun, dries up all the rain, and the grass pops back up. The shower made a change to the meadow, but it was soon forgotten – but hey, if the shower was…
If you’re lost, suffering, looking for answers, what can you do? It’s simple, so keep it simple, and get really good at it: practice shifting your focus from thoughts to being. Shift your focus from a noisy mind to a quiet mind. How do you do that? Become aware of being tuned into an almost…
Lights! Cameras! Suffering! Let’s get down to some good old repetition. Let’s look at this present moment. Let’s call this entire present moment experience – the totality of all that’s happening right now, all those sights and sounds, thoughts and sensations – let’s call it an experience. It is one thing: an experience. The present,…
Once upon a time I wrote little e-books on non-duality, and I haven’t self-published one since about 2013. Why? Because my life has been up and down, and down and down, and then up and up since then. I’ve been through a lot and I’ve learnt a lot, and now it’s this – what is…
When you’ve got why on Earth you’d want to abide in being – why a quiet mind is all you need – simply get down to feeling the sense of your aliveness, your presence, the sense of existence. Simply become aware of this simple sense of being for a moment or two. You do this…
I learnt much of this in school – here’s the very slightly updated version of my wonderful 80s school education: A body-mind is born into a world. Sense receptors in the body pick up data from the body and the world around it. This data is sent through the nervous system to the brain. In…
Only the very coolest of troubled seekers come to the path via Nisargadatta Maharaj, right? When I was nearing my wits end, I found his big compilation of talks, I Am That, and then dropped it for a plethora of other paths and teachers, possibly because it was too simple. I wanted more. Over the…
Hey, fellow pilgrim. welcome to the present! It is all that is appearing right here and right now. It is all the sights, sounds, smells, sensations, thoughts and feelings, and everything else, that make up this moment. It is the totality of this moment-to-moment experience of what is – it is all there is –…
Neuroplasticity! It is the concept that your mind, your abilities, your talents, your habits, your beliefs, your memories, your absolutely everything up in the brain, can be changed. It is the brain’s ability to form and reorganize synaptic connections. They are not set in stone, the connections are wondrously mouldable, the vastly complex reality filter…