‘When meditating good focus is important. If you lose your object of meditation you might still be sitting in a meditation posture, but you’re not meditating. Try doing one or two minutes […]

‘The Buddha’s teachings spread throughout India, then to southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Russia and many other countries. Although each tradition has its own methods and techniques they all share the essence of […]

‘On his journey, the Buddha gained deep realisation into the three types of suffering; the suffering of suffering, the suffering of change, and the suffering of conditioned existence. This is the first […]

‘Often when reading Dharma books we read quite fast and when we finish we say, ‘that was a nice book’, but we don’t remember much of it. Instead before reading calm the […]

‘The Four Noble Truths can be likened to going to the doctor. First you recognise you are sick and suffering. The doctor identifies the cause of your suffering. You find out it […]

‘The Tibetan word for meditation, ‘gom’, means ‘to become familiar with’. All our lives we’ve become familiar with many destructive emotions. By replacing these destructive emotions with constructive ones we can transform […]