Two of my favourite books

Hi Everyone 👋 Yay it’s Sunday morning 09:30 🎉😊 The sun is shining, I’ve had my breakfast, done my morning 30 minutes of meditation, I’ve written a couple of posts for Skool and replied to DM’s and comments 😊…. So, what to do for the rest of my day?…… My retreat guests are on their last day, they have plans to visit some beaches and D-Day memorial sites today, so I’m free for the day 😊 So I’m off out on my motorcycle with a friend, not sure where we will be heading but I’m sure it will include a stop off for lunch somewhere by a beach 😊🤞🏍️ How about you guys? What are your plans for today?

Many people spend their whole lives chasing happiness outside themselves while ignoring the condition of the mind within. But no amount of success can create lasting peace for a restless mind. True peace begins when awareness becomes stronger than craving.

Hi Everyone 👋 Please take a few minutes to relax and read through this post, as it means so much to me, and I hope it will for you too ❤️ I wrote the first version of this post in 2015. I was younger then. Not in years, maybe...but in how I thought change worked. I believed if I just loved hard enough, wrote clear enough, stood firm enough, the world would tilt toward peace. It hasn’t..... Not yet. Some days it feels like we’ve gone backwards. But here’s what eleven more years of Buddhism and Daoism have taught me….The goal was never to fix the world. The goal is to keep showing up inside it without closing my heart. I still run a blog in the format of Skool. I still try to live compassionately, in how I speak, how I spend my money, how I fail and try again. But I no longer pretend it’s easy. The negative comments still come. Sometimes crueller than before. The world is louder now. Meaner in some corners. And I have days where I want to shut it all down and walk into the woods and never read another argument about things that should be simple, like feeding the hungry, or not bombing children. But I don’t shut down. Not because I’m strong. Because I’ve learned something from sitting still. Anger is not my enemy. Burnout is. So I practice wu wei, not laziness, but knowing when to push and when to let the river carry what it will. I practice metta, starting with myself, because you can’t pour from a cracked bowl. The wars haven’t stopped. Poverty hasn’t ended. The environment is bleeding faster. And yet. And yet, I see more people waking up than I did in 2015. Young people who refuse to accept this as normal.Communities sharing food, not just recipes. Strangers on the internet choosing kindness in the middle of a flame war.... That’s not nothing. That’s the dharma moving through sneakers and hashtags and tired parents posting at 2am. So here’s what I actually believe now, not what sounds hopeful, but what keeps me getting up... We may not see peace in our lifetime.