by Vishvapani | Jan 15, 2015 | Featured, Secular Mindfulness
The Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group (MAPPG) launched its interim report on Wednesday 14th January in the UK’s Westminster parliament, with proposals for how public policy can help make Britain a more ‘Mindful Nation’. Lord Richard Layard, the leading...
by Vishvapani | Dec 18, 2014 | Buddhism, Featured, Thought for the Day
What are the ultimate causes of the Pakistan school massacre, and how can we how can we stop violence proliferating – in our minds and in the world? Of all the horrors we’ve seen in the international conflict with radical Islam, Wednesday’s...
by Vishvapani | Dec 17, 2014 | Buddhism in the West, Featured, Mindfulness
I’d like to share news of a unique, project I’m involved in right now: The Mindfulness Initiative and the Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) in the UK parliament. I’m a Mindfulness Initiative Associate and part of a team editing APPG’s report called, A...
by Vishvapani | Nov 28, 2014 | Featured, Thought for the Day
The UK faces an obesity crisis. But what are the underlying causes of poor health and what conduces to flourishing? Weekend Word, BBC Radio Wales, 28/11/2014 Yesterday we heard that Wales’ has the biggest childhood obesity problem in the UK and one...
by Vishvapani | Aug 21, 2014 | Featured, Thought for the Day
Following the execution of journalist James Foley by ISIS the video was posted online. Foley is the victim, but not the target. We are. The horror and revulsion most of us naturally feel at these images has been calculated and prompted. How can we engage responsibly...
by Vishvapani | Aug 14, 2014 | Buddhism, Featured, Mindfulness, Thought for the Day
In the wake of Robin Williams’ suicide, we’re talking more about mental illness and distress. Here’s how mindfulness can help in working with difficult mental states Hearing the reflections around Robin Williams’ death, I wonder if we’re finally...
