Earlier this week I was giving a seminar called "Beyond Carl Rogers". Rogers was a humanistic psychotherapist who had been inspired in some way by exposure to Eastern ideas. Western psychotherapy all the way back to William James, has benefitted by s
Read more…It was a delight to join in with sangha in morning devotions at the Amida Mandala Temple. Then, after breakfast, we headed off to the Midlands for the day. I had some business to attend to in Narborough and then we went to the house of my daughter in
Read more…Today we spent the morning in Watford having discussions with our friend Susthama mostly on the topic of what it is like living outside of or on the edge of conventional society, and the compromises that one has to make in order to participate or sur
Read more…Today I led a day workshop at the Metanoia Institute in London on the theme "Beyond Carl Rogers".
COURSE TOPIC: Carl Rogers advanced a highly influential theory of counselling and psychotherapy and was himself an exemplar of his own method. On the on
Today we went into London. I had a meeting which we had arranged in central London and spent two hours there discussing Buddhist psychotherapy. It was a happy meeting covering a lot of ground. Then, being in town, we browsed some bookshops and purcha
Read more… This evening I am speaking on the topic Buddhism & the Brain.
Currently there is considerable interest in the dialogue between Buddhism and science, a dialogue that was originally begun by the Dalai Lama and has led to a number of very popular inte
On full moon day, visits to friends with discussions mostly about love and relationships. Does love have to involve jealousy and possessiveness? Are freedom and connection compatible? Do relationships go through predictable stages? How do we deepen l
Read more…More visits to friends and more close up information about the lock-down situation in Brussels plus discussions.
Read more…Today we are visiting Eleusis member Michel and his wife Francoise, our lovely friends. - a happy reunion. Arriving after a long drive we enjoyed spending time talking with our friends which, of course, included talking about the three days of "lockd
This weekend we have been busy making bookcases and reorganising rooms and also packing things up in preparation for winter. Here deep in the country, as soon as the weather turns cold, mice decide to move indoors and start looking for warm things wi
We have had very wet windy weather here the last couple of days. A time for indoor activities.
Read more…QUESTION: What is the right attitude to have toward guilt feelings?
SHORT ANSWER: It is unproductive and wasteful of life to attack oneself for being what one is.
LONG ANSWER:
An Assault Upon Ourselves
First we must distinguish between guilt feelin
Read more…Today we are in Bilbao leading a course called Adios a la Culpa which means "Goodbye to Guilt" but which carries (in Spanish) an undertone of giving the guilt to God since goodbye in Spanish is adios which is "to God". We are staying in an old monast
Read more…This diagram shows the principal goddesses revered here. The vertical axis represents personal inner transformation toward love, faith and resilience, and the horizontal axis represents outer transformation and creation of a healthy, rich, sustainabl
Read more…This is a discussion group for poems alluding to the elements.
Read more…This is a place for posting haiku.
A haiku is a 17 syllable poem, generally consisting of three lines with 5-7-5 syllables respectively. Normally the final line gives a twist or "turn" to the meaning or makes a reference to the season of the year. Tr
Read more…This discussion is a place for adding and talking about "Metaphysical Poems", a genre widely understood as including any poem that alludes to metaphysics, gods and goddesses, the human existential situation or philosophy that takes one beyond the ord
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