I am writing on the move again. I am sitting in Waverley station waiting for a train down to Newcastle. I am giving a talk there tonight. The title I landed on, when I was arranging it, is The Transformative Power of Positive Emotion. Yesterday, speaking to one of the Order Members from Newcastle he commented that he was delighted to hear that was the topic. As he said, it feels very needed at the moment. How true is that! The world has been dragged into an insane and illegal war, causing...

I didn’t manage to write a blog last week but there are a couple of things I wanted to share this week. We had a busy weekend at the Buddhist Centre. On Saturday we hosted around 60 participants on a walk around places of Faith, organised by Interfaith Glasgow (IG). From the press release on the event: Around 60 people from across Glasgow’s diverse communities—ranging from children to older adults—came together on Saturday (28 March) for a major interfaith sponsored walk across the city. The...

Yesterday I travelled back from Adhisthana to Glasgow. There was - as there often is - chaos with cancellations and delays, meaning I spent hours sitting in draughty waiting rooms in Birmingham, Stafford and Motherwell. I listened to various people getting upset and angry about things we had no control over and which, generally speaking, were nobody’s fault. At least nobody in front of them. It is human nature, I guess, to want to blame someone when things don’t go our way and it doesn’t...