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Articles

Short pieces written for anyone curious about how the mind works, whatever their background or belief.

Each article can be read in a few minutes, though most are better read twice, a week apart.

  • 5 min read

    A thought is happening

    On the difference between having a thought and being taken by one.

  • 6 min read

    Fear is present

    Meeting fear as weather in the body rather than a verdict about the future.

  • 4 min read

    The sixth sense

    Why treating the mind as a sense base changes what we do with thinking.

  • 7 min read

    Ordinary returning

    Practice as something done at the kitchen sink, not only on a cushion.

  • 5 min read

    Kindness is not softness

    On meeting difficult feeling without flinching and without harshness.

  • 6 min read

    Talking with children about thinking

    Simple language that children recognise straight away.

Longer reading

The books gather these ideas into a fuller and more gradual account.

See the Books