Dharma Reflections

I first arrived in India in 1967 six or seven months after travelling overland from that wet and windy island off the west coast of mainland Europe. This February, 2014, it will be 40 years of teaching in India. We have moved our silent retreat from the Royal Thai Monastery in Bodh Gaya to the Thai Monastery, Sarnath, near Varanasi. …

Do our Dharma retreats in India differ from the West? Oh Yes!Read More »

Dharma practitioners contact me

about teachers and teachings.

Here is a view on the teachings

of Adyashanti of San Francisco.

Dharma practitioners ask or email me regularly my views on certain teachings and teachers, modern and ancient. I might receive a quote to give a general comment or am asked whether I would consider certain teachings as enlightened.

I have some experience in these matters of the spiritual life and am happy to share a view. I appreciate such discussions or emails as they encourage to me read about these teachings or watch on YouTube, a recorded talk, inquiry or satsang of the respective teacher. …

A view on Adyashanti’s TeachingsRead More »

There are religious Buddhists who claim there is rebirth.

There are secular Buddhists who claim there is no rebirth.

Are they both extremists?

You probably think that the Buddha believed in past lives and rebirth. If you read in the English translations of the 10,000 discourses of the Buddha, you will see a number of references to “past lives” and “rebirth.” …

There are religious Buddhists who claim there is rebirth. There are secular Buddhists who claim there is no rebirth. Are they both extremists?Read More »

I regularly hear from people their intention to set up personal boundaries within which they feel they have their own space, feel secure so that others know what is permissible in terms of their behaviour around them.  There is quite a lot of use of the concept “personal boundaries” in psychology. …

A Point of View on Setting Up of Personal BoundariesRead More »