Nature of Meditation

25/03/2026

On route to the West County to check on the fine painting restoration of my late eighteenth century Bow Top Wagon. Dorset Wagons I deeply feel the spirit of my ex-partner Collar (Dougie) here with me this week. I feel he wanted me to have this beautiful arts and crafts antique wagon, and that he would have wanted it painted in traditional gypsy style. His spirit definitely helped manifest this work of art in my life. It is his child as much as it is mine. 😢💜🙏🏼

25/03/2026

March is Women’s History Month. Never mind His story, remembering Her story this Women’s History Month 2026. National Women's History Museum

https://www.history.org.uk/historian/news/4507/womens-history-month-2026

Women’s History Month 2026 Published: 23rd February 2026 Add to My HA Email Share Tweet March is Women’s History Month, which conveniently overlaps with International Women’s Day (IWD). This year’s IWD has the theme 'Give to Gain', emphasising that providing resources and opportunities to...

24/03/2026

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24/03/2026

This week I am writing a long technical Agricultural Buildings (Barn, Greenhouse, Tool Shed, Pergola) planning application for The Departmental Directorate of Territories (DDT) of Lot-et-Garonne in southwest France. It is tedious gathering so many technical details, but a very important task requiring sustained concentration and focus. Spiritually my family are prompting, encouraging, motivating and pushing me to do it very well myself this week, thoroughly and brilliantly, so that the DDT Directorate of Territories love it and immediately authorise it.

Trusting in the goodness of my planning application. It's good to be writing a technical planning application. It's good to be doing this now whether I like it or not. It's good to be at peace with this. It's good to relax and dissolve my avoidances, resistances, worries, neuroses, defences, my concern with self and self-reifying, self-doubting, self-pitying tendencies, patterns and habits. It's good to have the time, space, capacity, energy and spiritual support to write a technical planning application. It's good to be guided by love. It's good to relax into technical writing. It's good to be here now, in the right place, at the right time, doing what I need to do... being what I need to be... just this... nothing to get, or get away from.... on the way... continually unfolding... nowhere to go, nothing to do, nothing to be, because it naturally keeps happening anyways, uncontaminated by neuroses.

💚🙏🏼 Thanks again to Martin Aylward on Sangha Live for his wonderful teaching on Goodness each morning this week.

The Departmental Directorate of Territories (DDT)
https://www.lot-et-garonne.gouv.fr/Services-de-l-Etat/Agriculture.-environnement.-amenagement-et-logement/La-Direction-Departementale-des-Territoires-DDT

https://youtu.be/Q_nxgjIY6qQ?si=dHOZWvmDxXDj_foA

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23/03/2026

"The heart knows that it’s the only thing that will completely satisfy it. When the Beloved appears within the heart, it’s so clear and so obvious: ‘That fits exactly. That completely hits the spot.’" — A. H. Almaas, The Inner Beloved: https://ridhwan.co/Inner-Beloved

23/03/2026

Dear The Lotus Institute I will be zooming in on a train journey on Wednesday at 4pm BST travelling from the West Country back to London. 🤎🙏🏼

This monthly practice unfolds in a simple, flexible rhythm: a grounding exercise, followed by 20 minutes of silent meditation, and a closing poem or prayer to carry into the day. Sometimes what opens the practice closes it, and what closes it becomes the beginning.

Available only to Lotus members. Membership includes access to five monthly events, a curated weekly practice, a supportive community of practitioners, generous discounts for courses, and more. Plans begin at $15/month.

Wednesday, March 25
12:00–12:45 pm ET / 9:00–9:30 am PT
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23/03/2026

Psychotherapist Sonica Mushi explores why change doesn’t happen through pressure alone – and how internal shifts and new experiences make lasting change possible. 👇 http://ow.ly/m1T8106vXSj

23/03/2026

A kind Blessing from Martin Aylward this morning, dismantling the Inner Critic before the meditation session:

"Trust in the goodness of your meditation practice".

May I recognise and acknowledge the goodness and blessing of my meditation practice. May I dissolve temporary anxieties, neuroses, delirium, distractions, frustrations and judgements and feel glad about being here. Whatever is going on now in my mind heart and body, its good to be awake, open, kind and clear. May I emerge into the goodness of my meditation practice and taste the fruits of my meditation practice.

Namo Shakyamunaye Buddhaya 🤎🙏 Homage to the Sage of the Shakya Clan, the Enlightened One.