The most sophisticated teachings are often surprisingly simple; so simple they are taken for granted. Here’s the simplest, and most taken for granted, teaching on how to live a truly good life.
We don’t realise how important and vital complete and utter rest is. Doing nothing allows us not only to do things better; it means life itself can take on a much deeper significance and meaning.
Waiting is part of life. But the important part is always your attitude while you’re waiting. It’s a life skill; and one you’ll never master. So the greatest skill is being patient with yourself while you learn.
For something so natural and every day, we are surprisingly poor at communicating well. There's so much misunderstanding, so many missed opportunities for deeper, more gratifying connection in our lives. So – what can you do about it?
Doing what needs to be done without complaining is a valuable skill. But so is knowing when you need to lean on others for help. A little pressure release at the right time makes life so much easier. Yet if you’re not used to it, opening up and “just talking” can be the hardest thing in the world.
If we never do anything, nothing gets done. But it needs to be balanced with switching off – with walking away and letting go. This feels lazy. It’s something we’re not very good at; but we need to be. Here’s why.
We can glorify the grind and insane hard work. We find it difficult to switch off, to let go. But letting go is poorly understood too – it only makes sense in relation to a goal worthy of us. Here’s about finding the middle path. And my favourite monk.
Never meet your heroes – they will disappoint you, you may even become bitter and twisted. But actually the disappointment is all on us. Here’s how to avoid it.
We all know what it’s like to be stuck in worry or frustration. We also all know what it’s like to be completely free, present and alive. How do you have more of the latter?
Learning is uncertainty; but it is also part of life itself. ‘Grow or die’ might seem simplistic, but there’s something to this imperative that we must all face.
We don’t realise how crucial peace is to living the kind of life we want to live; to being the person we want to be. Here’s why you want to prioritise your peace.
I’m not on holiday and I should be. Yet there’s a valuable lesson there about things that just won’t happen no matter how hard I push, try, or control.
Our minds directly shape our lives. Changing the mind is one thing to change our life; but when you go beyond the mind, you find a different level of living altogether.
The spiritual attainments of a Buddha may seem frivolities in the modern world; but undistracted focus and deep understanding are possibly even more valuable today than thousands of years ago.
