These talks come directly from my Weekly Meditation Circle, where we explore the ordinary and extraordinary moments of life together. Over the years, I’ve shared insights on mindfulness, non-duality, self-inquiry, meditation, presence, and the nature of consciousness—all aimed at helping you see the freedom and clarity already available in your life.
Whether you’re curious about the mind, seeking inner peace, or exploring spiritual awakening, these talks offer practical guidance, reflections, and exercises to support your journey. I invite you to listen, reflect, and join our global community as we explore these themes together.
1. Who is the Meditator?
Life is a vast, interconnected field of relationships, in which separation does not exist. You didn’t make your body—life did. You didn’t create your mind—life did. This means there is no separate “self” running the show. If this is the case, then who meditates? Who lives? Who reads these words?
2. Is this Perfect?
What is perfection, and where do we find it? This talk explores the limitations and fragility of our personal preferences, and the freedom that comes from admitting we don’t really know what things are—or how they should be.
3. Look What You Made Me Do!
In this talk explores the Default Mode Network, free will, the illusory self, and the deep peace that comes from no longer saying, “Look what you made me do!”
4. Happy New Moment!
It’s not only a New Year—it’s a brand-new moment in the unfolding cosmos, never to be repeated. Blink and you’ll miss it! This talk explores the value of becoming empty and seeing the world with a beginner’s mind.
5. What is Spirituality?
What does spirituality mean to you? Do you have a spiritual practice? Often, it’s an attempt to transcend or escape ordinary reality in search of mind-expanding experiences. But what if the mind-expanding experience is already here, in the present moment?
6. Myself, No Self, Many Selves
Buddhism teaches the truth of No-Self, while Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way speaks of many fleeting selves. Both point to the absence of a solid inner entity and reveal the still, steady ground of being.
7. Sitting Beneath The Rose Apple Tree
The Buddha spent years as an ascetic, attempting to find freedom by controlling his mind and starving his body. But one childhood memory shifted everything, leading him to abandon self-mortification and reach full Enlightenment. What can we learn from this story?
8. You’re An Animal!
How can we change our relationship with our animal natures and unhook from endless cravings, desires, and impulses? Following our appetites doesn’t lead to true fulfillment—they are based on concepts, not reality in motion.
9. What Are You Waiting For?
Even if you were reborn 10,000 times as royalty, you’d still face ordinary experience—thoughts, emotions, body, world, birth, and death. Everything needed for liberation is already here.
10. Sitting Quietly, Transforming Everything
Who would have thought that simply sitting still could transform mind, body, and world? This talk explores the basics: breath-awareness, body-scan, and open awareness.
11. Everybody Look What’s Going Down
And what is going down? The mind constantly spins dramas, daydreams, and fantasies, taking them as truth. Only by observing the thought-stream can we unhook from its craziness and find peace.
12. Your Wish is Minds Command
Your mind is the most powerful tool you possess—it creates your world. This talk explores how to use affirmation to generate life-enhancing qualities.
13. Exploring Non-Duality
How can we live in a state of Oneness all the time? This talk explores Non-Duality and why the duality we see around us isn’t an obstacle.
14. What is Meditation?
Is meditation something we do with our eyes closed, or an approach to life itself, including all its ordinariness?
15. You Don’t Have to Know Anything
Mindfulness is the practice of letting go of all thoughts, stories, and memories. What remains is simply what is.
16. The I Cannot See Itself
The method of self-inquiry does not show us what we are but reveals what we are not. When there’s nothing left, there you are!
17. It’s All You!
The dreams we experience each night are nothing but the creative display of our own minds. This waking moment is no different. Pop the bubble of small mind and marvel at the glory of Big Mind.
18. Relax into Life
We presume that we’re in charge of life and yet it doesn’t always do what we want it to. What happens when we let go of the need to control everything and everyone and relax into the flow of each moment, each breath, each cup of tea?
19. Three Questions to Measure Your Practice
How can we measure our spiritual progress? In this short talk I offer three questions to reveal our relationship to the mind, the body and life itself.
20. Awareness, Knowing Itself
First we recognise that everything comes and goes through our own vast open awareness. Then we recognise that our vast open awareness is appearing as everything.