Ageing is a privilege. That was the sticker on my fridge when I was in my fifties. As I began to feel the effects of getting older, it changed to: "Old age is not for sissies.” Stories of ageing With time, I realised that both stickers were really an attempt to plaster over all the internalised stuff we accumulate about ageing —everything we absorb into our minds over a lifetime. In this meditation, we study the human mind, which is formed through an automatic, unconscious process. We take...

Socrates is said to have claimed, The unexamined life is not worth living. By this he meant that examining our lives, beliefs and values is what makes us fully human. An unexamined life is lived passively without a conscious understanding of why we think, act or choose as we do. Carl Jung echoed this when he wrote, He who looks outside, dreams; he who looks within awakes. Meditation then is not a modern invention. Yet in this era we often feel too busy for introspection. In a world geared to...

Recently I spent some time at our Main Centre in South Korea. Nestled in the mountains there are stunning views from every window It’s a...