The modern Western Economies have become casino economies in which work doesn’t pay. In order to accumulate wealth you must leverage up and gamble. I took me many painful years of struggle to realise this. I had almost given up on teaching as a way to build a future and…

I lived in London for 14 years, from September 2000 to March 2014, at which point I moved to SE Asia to continue my teaching career in Vietnam. I was born in St Bartholomew’s hospital within the City of London, and we my family briefly lived in Islington, North London…

As I was praying one day, I saw a barren desert in front of me. Above this desert I saw an intense punishing sun. This was not a desert of the world but a spiritual desert. …

In my previous post I wrote about my experience of Buddhists in South East Asia. I am often struck by how holy and simple they are. I often feel that they have preserved something that Western Christians seem to have lost. So what does this mean. Do Buddhists have a…

Having lived in Vietnam for a number of years I regularly witnessed Buddhist monks walking barefoot through the dirty streets of Vietnam. I was always struck by their humility a sense of grace. I once went to the memorial to Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist monk who self immolated during…