by Vishvapani | May 26, 2026 | Featured, Thought for the Day
At Hay Festival this weekend, the River Wye was granted legal rights to flourish and be free from pollution. Walking a river I love, I find a thirteenth-century Buddhist teacher has something unexpected to say about what that really means. An odd group gathered in May...
by Vishvapani | Feb 17, 2026 | Buddhism, Featured, Thought for the Day
Thought for the Day, 17.2.2026, BBC Radio 4 In a divided America, a 2,000-mile walk by Buddhist monks reveals how mindfulness can transform our response to global suffering and offer radical hope. The worse the news gets, the closer we come to some underlying...
by Vishvapani | Dec 9, 2025 | Featured, Thought for the Day
There is no more vexed issue in politics at present than the status of asylum seekers. It’s a complex debate that understandably focuses on the difficulty of absorbing more people and the struggles of those who are already here. But for now I want to focus on just one...
by Vishvapani | Oct 31, 2025 | Featured, Thought for the Day
Turning towards pain and suffering is a key to healing and it’s a key to creativity. Abeer Ameer’s remarkable journey helped me face what’s happened in the Gaza War About ten years ago a young Muslim woman called Abeer Ameer came on a mindfulness...
by Vishvapani | Mar 25, 2025 | Thought for the Day
A few weeks into the first Covid lockdown I cycled into the centre of Cardiff to pick up some medicine. The roads were empty, the shopping streets largely deserted, and the few shoppers wore masks. Seeing the strangeness of the world the lockdown had created...
by Vishvapani | Sep 23, 2024 | arts, Thought for the Day
How can drawing engages with the present moment, and what can it offer our wellbeing and mental health? Last week I picked up a pencil and, for the first time in many years, I started to draw. I was co-leading a retreat with an artist friend that combined meditation...
