Nothing Matters

Except how you treat others.

Song of the Abbey

In an ancient abbey on a remote hilltop they sang to their god in harmony.

A Meditative Road to Enlightenment

Is it too immodest to suggest that one may have found a path?

The Wardrobe

I have been through the Doors of The Wardrobe and I do not intend to return.

Communing with the Infinite

It is hard to express the profound experience to be found in meditation without sounding oily and unctuous.

Hoc Futui

Which sums up everything I now believe in.

Purpose in a Meaningless Universe

You are unlikely to find it, unless you provide it yourself.

Peace

Internal or external, the path to peace is the same.

Meditation – Nonsense or Nirvana?

Somewhere between these two extremes perhaps.

As Man Thinketh in His Heart…

So is he.

The Chapter House

Some weeks after their adventures with the Book of Ways, Polly and Eustace sat enjoying a breakfast of boiled eggs and generously buttered toast in their little sitting room…

Seeking economic benefit?

Wouldn’t you if you were living in the Third World on 10 cents a day?

Beyond

The urge to write seems to be a purge, to be taken from time to time to express what it is one believes one has learnt.

Taliban

Has it ever known peace, this sad and beautiful land.

Spring

What a difference a few weeks can make and how powerful the influence of the season upon the mood. If ever evidence were needed that we are mere creatures of nature, there be it.

Moving On

What now I wonder.

Sitting in the Rain

Gene Kelly may have danced; I just sat but with equal pleasure no doubt.

A Garden in the Night

Last night was a night of my soul, but not a dark one.

Make Believe

While there may be no god and no objective morality, we may act as if there were. Some of us find that we must.

And Did Those Feet

I felt it as soon as I sat down, the presence. Or was it a smell, a feeling a sound of silence.

Unspoken, Unwritten, Unthought

The happiest mind is the empty mind. The mind of pure experience. Empty of though but full of what is.

Achievement

What does achievement mean? What have you achieved and by what standards will you be judged? Will you be found wanting and if so should you care?

The Path of Slowness

Slowness is a vital ingredient, in my case at least, in encouraging me along the path I wish to follow.

Mystical Experience of Reality

There are certain activities or states of mind which trigger in me what Abraham Maslow calls “peak experiences”. Reading Keith Hancock’s Mystical Experience of Reality does just that.

A Funny Old Monk

My 26 year old son is clearly a perceptive fellow and he hit the nail on the head when describing his father as “a funny old monk”.

To Seek Silence

Silence is not the absence of sound but the absence of noise. Noise is not simply the presence of undesired sound.

In the World but not Of It.

A while back I found myself disturbed that a blogger could crusade in favor of violence and dissension and against ecumenism.

A Road Less Traveled

If we seek reality, I am told that we look in the wrong direction by obsessing over the human condition. I think that is right.

So, ecumenism is bad for society?

I was sad to come across a post on the internet entitled “The Ecumenical Slope” whose author is both anti ecumenism and pacifism and who appears to believe that such doctrines destroy “character”.

Messiah – Netflix

Profound and beautiful would be my best shot at describing this wonderful new series Messiah from the creative genius that is Netflix.

In, and out of the Silence

Can or should you remain in a state or place of “silence” or must or ought you return to the world?

Letting go

I hadn’t quite realized until very recently just how damaging the human ego is.

Mysticism

Fascinated by the concept of transcendence I have started to conceptualize what I believe such states of existence could be. 

To every thing there is a season.

There is a season for learning and a season to realize you know enough.

Dead Susan: Requiescat in Pace

The Good Aunt

Peace at Last

Very occasionally one gets a glimpse of peace and today was one of those all too rare days.

Isness

Happiness is only attainable once you recognize that everything just “is”.

God’s Bleak House

Said to be the second oldest parish church in the country, churches don’t come much bleaker than All Saints, West Stourmouth, Kent.  

Consider the Lilies of the Field…

…how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin…

Thoughts from the back of beyond.

The back of beyond is where I want to be.  And I am back, at the back of beyond. I have come in a full circle.

Thought as the enemy of Moksha

Analysis and thought are the very antithesis of the sort of behavior likely to lead to lasting peace.

Will the meek inherit the earth?

For some years I have assumed that far from inheriting the earth, the meek will be trampled underfoot.  I am beginning to wonder whether I am mistaken.

How to be a 21st Century Hermit

I wonder whether it is possible to be a hermit these days? And if so, where.

The Arab Israeli conflict is very, very Simple

The Arab Israeli conflict arose from vibrating energy “strings” – it really is that simple in a sense.

A Moral Dilemma

My own petty, unimportant and irrelevant moral dilemma should teach me something about the world and how to improve it.

Must Try Harder

Must try harder! Unfortunately as an imperfect individual I find it necessary to question my own behaviour on a daily basis. 

Peace which the World Cannot Give?

Can we find peace in this world despite what the Book of Common Prayer says?