The Just Meditation Blog
As soon as we start to meditate, we find out how distracted we really are. Sometimes we are so distracted, that we can’t meditate at all. So, what are these distractions, and what can we do about them?
When we meditate we set an intention to sit quietly and focus our attention on one thing,...
In 1994-95 I spent six months living with a small group of Thai Buddhist monks in a forest just north of Aukland, New Zealand. It was, in so many wonderful ways, one of the happiest and most liberating periods of my life, and I wrote about it in my book ‘Tantalus and the Pelican’ (an...
Sunna means ‘empty’ in Pali – the language of early Buddhism – and if it wasn’t for the sign at the top of the drive, one could have been forgiven for thinking that the aptly named ‘Sunnataram Forest Monastery’ was nothing but an empty field on the...
I started Just Meditation in 2014, because I felt there was a need for an approach to meditation that was independent and inclusive as well as simple and accessible.
What do I mean by that?
Well, let’s say you hear something about meditation that makes you think you’d like to give it...
Between 2016–2020, the Newcastle Meditation Centre, at the bottom of Westgate Road in Newcastle city centre, provided a safe, welcoming and ideologically neutral space – wholly dedicated to the learning and practice of mindfulness and meditation.
It was the first independent high...
