Entering The Realm Of Non - Thought
Alistair starts to explore with the retreatants on Holy Island the realm of "non-thought". If we no longer identify with our thoughts then what is left? What is our true identity?
19 Nov 20185min
Emotions Are Not Thoughts
In this excerpt from the 2018 Retreat 'Being Still Still Being', Alistair looks at the experience of thinking as a phenomenon. What is thinking? And how does it feel?
31 Okt 20189min
Beatniks, Blake And The Body In Space
In a second excerpt from the 2018 Summer retreat on Holy Island, Alistair looks at the potent connection between Tibetan Buddhism and poetry. Touching on Trungpa and the Beatniks and Reggie's strange ...
31 Okt 201810min
All Your Thoughts Are Garbage
An excerpt from Alistair Appleton's 2018 Meditation retreat up on Holy Island. Do our precious thoughts actually add up to that much? Can you remember what you were thinking 5 minutes ago?
30 Okt 20187min
The Container Of Retreat
In this talk from the 2018 "Being Still Still Being" retreat on Holy Island, Alistair lays out the fundamental principles of "retreat". What needs to happen for us to really sink into our experience? ...
21 Okt 201814min
Compassion 4 - Topsy Turvey Logic Of Tonglen
In the final chunk from the 2017 Holy Island Compassion retreat Alistair introduces the mind-boggling practice of tonglen, one of the classic Buddhist techniques for rousing the compassionate heart.
17 Jun 201817min
Compassion 3 - The Heath Robinson Self
This is the second excerpt from Mindsprings' 2017 Compassion Course on Holy Island. Alistair explains how the strategies we come up with as children to survive might not be ideal as adults - but they ...
10 Jun 201816min
Compassion 2 - The Prosocial Roots Of Compassion
This is the second excerpt from 2017 Holy Island course on Compassion, where Alistair explains that our bodies are actually perfectly tuned to be compassionate and that we are successful as a species ...
5 Jun 201810min
