Swart Donkey

There are consequences to the numbers we use. Yogis will argue it is only possible to think of one thing at a time. Multi-tasking is what th...

Yoga is stilling the waves of the mind. I think of Financial Yoga as stilling the waves of money anxiety. I don’t see the point of meditatio...

“Restraining of thought waves means analysing your thoughts constantly, it does not mean suppression of thoughts.” Swami Durgananda (comment...

It is only possible for us to think of one thing at a time. We can do lots of things at the same time. Multi-tasking happens when it is no...

Ken Robinson points out that if you ask a classroom of five year olds who can draw, they will all put their hands up. It is only 10 years ...

Yoga is the stilling of the mind. There are various ways to do that. Vedantic Philosophy talks of four paths. Through knowledge, devotion, ...

The printing press was invented in 1440 . The telephone in 1876 . Radio, 1895 . Television, 1927 . The World Wide Web, in 1990 . Social Med...

Half of our job is looking after ourselves. Even if we care deeply about something, half of our job is protecting that ability to care. My ...

Airlines insist you put your own gas mask on before helping others. This isn't selfishness . Quite the opposite. Playing the martyr  is...

Even in our own version of Utopia, we would likely be uncomfortable, anxious, and dreaming of alternatives. Reality can't compete with ...

It’s a sad truth of life that when we grow older, we tend to become less spontaneous and less creative as we acquire more social anxie...

The old cliché of meditation is that it’s a blissful state of relaxation. Unfortunately, meditation is not always blissful. It’s a lot mor...

Matthieu Ricard While self-help and psychedelics may be dismissed as snake oil, the benefits of meditation are increasing well docum...

I am not sympathetic to the response, ' I don't have time '. We all have time. 24 hours in a day. We choose between various op...

The breakthroughs in new fields tend to come from young people. In established fields, there is normally a vast sea of knowledge to conquer...

We have a natural limit on how much we can interact with the world. Unlike the Artificial Intelligence that is being developed to drive c...

One of the disadvantages of our inability to keep lots of things in our head at one time is that we aren't great at stepping back, look...

We like to think we are in control. Much of where we end up depends on the path  we take. I moved to Putney because my brother lived here. A...

I am busy reading a little book by Matthieu Ricard entitled ' The art of meditation '. On my shelf I have Daniel Goleman 's ...

Further to my last post and having finished 'Eat Pray Love' , I have been thinking more about the idea of meditation. In the book,...