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9 things I learnt in 2009
photo credit: reynardkarman Yes I too have succumbed to the ubiquitous practice of list-writing. And while it may be a little cliché to compile a Top Ten at the end of the year, taking the time to review learning at a point of closing can be of ...
Gratitude 2.0
Dear Reader, Blogging is a funny business. You collect an clumsy idea or a reflection, shape them into still more clumsy words and by pressing publish send the bits out into space. And enabled by a network of protocols and technological infrastru...
Somebody told me…
Having just come back from the five day study retreat, I am a crucible of teachings and reflections at the moment which no doubt will shortly manifest into a blog post or two. So while I wait for all that material to settle down I thought I’d...
Dhamma in a downturn
As someone who works at what is essentially the major public innovation agency in the UK, the recession is naturally something that I have cause to think about often. There is a lot of “now-is-the-time” type rhetoric coming from all sor...
When there is nothing much more to say
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom Anaïs Nin So I’ve been preparing this post for for the last two nights and today as I sat down to finish it off I realised that it̵...
Internet dating and the contemplative heart
So I started 21awake.com with the instinct that blogging could be a central part of a 21st century contemplative practice. This hasn’t changed, and if anything it has deepened. However I realise that in order for the most insightful...
Big interweb, little interweb: a multimedia reflection
Ethan Nichtern over at the ID Project talks about the big internet and the little internet. Interweb terminology pedantry aside, Ethan makes the lovely distinction between the internet (little) as being a manifestation of the interconnected nature ...
Nothing left out
While hanging out with my favorite psychonaut Nick Jankel last night before an extraordinary Straight8 screening last night, we snacked into such an important topic…the binary nature of practice. For any wisdom tradition (ancient or modern) t...
