This month’s cult cinema club is showing Pedro Almodovar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown tonight. I haven’t seen it since it first...
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2025
Not being bullied
At school I was a prime target for bullies. To avoid the inevitable I somehow managed to develop a way of evading them. I became...
Good morning.
“"Before I studied Zen, mountains were mountains and rivers were rivers. When I had studied Zen for some time, mountains were no longer mountains and...
Where are you?
Where do you think 'you' are? More specifically, where is your sense of self located when you think or say 'I', 'me', or 'my'. What...
‘TIL THE END
I’m not going to get carried away by my team, Sunderland AFC, making it to the playoff final at Wembley next Saturday. They face a...
Who’s that?
Spent the day battling the garden and have the bramble scars to show for it! Exhausted but glad to have kept the effulgence at bay....
““I have been filled with hopes, fears, despairs, longings, happiness. Expansive moments, contracting moments. All of these fluctuations have at one stage been called 'me.'”...
The Assembly
Originally a one off on the BBC but now a series on ITV, The Assembly is currently my favourite TV show and the best thing...
Sunderland vs. Coventry for a place in the playoff final…
““Don’t think different thoughts. Or better thoughts. Or spiritual thoughts. All thinking does is take us to more thinking.”” — Stop, Men’s Work
Good afternoon.
““The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”” — Bertrand Russell
Good morning.
““Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”” — Joan Didion
The full fruition of Zen arises as it disappears.
Everything we need to know, or can understand about consciousness, is contained within the experience of consciousness itself.
““But by what immediate apprehension can we grasp this principle that is higher than intelligence? We may answer that we apprehend it by that part...
Good morning. Wet and lush after the rain.
