Taking Football’s Ups and Downs

Taking Football’s Ups and Downs

Here in Wales, we’re simultaneously mourning the Football team’s exit from Euro 2016 and celebrating their achievements. How the Buddha’s teachings help us manage life’s ups and downs? Weekend Word, 16.07.08 ‘Gutted but proud’. That’s been the...
You Can’t Change the Weather

You Can’t Change the Weather

Britain is being battered and much of Europe is being battered by storms. However much we dislike it, the truth is we can’t change the weather. Facing the raw power of the natural world shows us our vulnerability and challenges our inner resources. Weekend Word, BBC...
Responding to Praise and Blame

Responding to Praise and Blame

A vivid account in one of the earliest Buddhist texts describes how the Buddha guided his disciples in responding skilfully to both praise and blame. The story is full of his wisdom about how we can avoid harming ourselves or others through our speech and how we can...
The Fall of a Banker

The Fall of a Banker

Fred Goodwin was a start of the banking world. His risks failed, the market turned and he’s been stripped of his knighthood. The worldly winds are blowing again: Weekend Word (Good Morning Wales, 03/02/12) I wonder what it’s like to be Fred Goodwin right now? An...
Memento Mori

Memento Mori

Insight, Wisdom and Enlightenment are big, impressive and rather scary words. It’s easy to think that they are far beyond the level of our daily practice and that what’s relevant right now is just simple ethics, mindfulness and trying to be kind. But digging a bit...