November 24th, 2012 in Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual)
Sam Harris recently released a book on the topic of free will.
I haven’t read the book yet, but watched a presentation he gave of ideas from his book.
Traditionally there are three positions offered…
October 18th, 2012 in Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual)
I haven’t been lucid dreaming for a while now, at least a few months…
June 16th, 2012 in Wood (Spiritual)
A year ago I did a retreat entitled The Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep with Rob Nairn and Charlie Morley…
June 14th, 2011 in Fire (Social), Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual)
This week Nicole Daedone gave a talk at TEDx San Francisco on orgasmic meditation (embedded below)…
May 1st, 2011 in Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual)
I wrote a post for the Ethical Co-op newsletter briefly mentioning gratitude. Since it’s short, I’ll quote it here in full:
Gratitude is a key to happiness…
April 14th, 2011 in Fire (Social) and Wood (Spiritual)
South African banking is dominated by the big four, Absa, First National Bank, Nedbank and Standard Bank, with little Capitec trailing in very distant fifth place…
February 18th, 2011 in Earth (Literature), Fire (Social), Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual)
Last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to Bearing Soul, billed as “An enviro-mental Exploration through Song, Music, Story and Heart”. This wasn’t the usual entertainment, a show at a theatre, a film. It was a friend, Dan Tree, doing just what he claimed…
January 20th, 2011 in Earth (Literature), Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual)
Lying on a log in the drizzle beneath the cement factory
Dodging dogs staring at the full moon on a Nyanga street
Dylan on the empty highway, the truck in the slow lane ahead inching slowly closer
Tai chi on the damp grass, my chair-bound legs awakening
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December 22nd, 2010 in Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual)
This week, I had another opportunity to reflect on my mind’s reactivity, another repeat lesson.
It was a day that began sleepless, thanks to the neighbour’s alarm being activated continually. With them away, their alarm had been going on and off all night long. There was a mess at work requiring tedious amounts of fixing…
November 21st, 2010 in Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual)
Ahimsa is the practice of doing no harm to living beings, even in ones thoughts…
