Dear Friends, Dear Gentle Minds, Here are Study Notes for Part 1 of Thich Nhat Hanh’s book The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching These notes cover Chapters 1 to 8. If you see any mistakes or things to add please email … Continue reading →
Contemplating the Five Elements: A Global Earth Day Meditation Journey On April 19th, 2026, I had the privilege of participating in a 90-minute Five Elements Contemplation meditation as part of the 24 Hours of Mindfulness Earth Day celebration initiated by … Continue reading →
The first Contemplation of Nature Zoom session with Ajay Rastogi and Paul Erhard took place on Saturday, 21st March 2026, on International Forest Day. 76 people gathered across geographies to sit together; not in a forest, but to contemplate nature … Continue reading →
Autonomous Zine Factory presents The Autonomous Zine Atlas! Zines have always moved through informal infrastructures. A zine library might exist in the back room of a bookshop or a community centre. A distro might operate out of someone’s living room … Continue reading →
Most of us spend our days surrounded by screens, walls, notifications, and noise. Yet just outside the door there is another world quietly continuing; clouds drifting, leaves moving, water reflecting the sky. Just spending some time shifting your awareness to … Continue reading →
These notes are a response to the beautiful text Eating clay is not an eating disorder, by Zayaan Khan. We are all connected. I can feel your heart through the rice paper of a White Rabbit candy and the silkiness … Continue reading →
A chef stands outside the Israeli embassy in Tokyo shouting “Stop Genocide!” He goes back every week on his day off. A man on the southern of coast of Sweden collects plastic from the beach. He goes on holiday once … Continue reading →
Zines, in their current form, emerged from science fiction fan magazines (fanzines) in the 1930s, says Google: which is always whitewashing everything. The term “fanzine,” it says, was first used by sci-fi fans to describe and discuss their self-published works. … Continue reading →
Dear friends, Welcome to the transcripts and my own summary notes from a series of dharma talks from Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, California:- ‘The Forty Tenets of Plum Village’. This class is based on the book in Vietnamese by … Continue reading →
Take a break and practice some nature-centred meditation with my friend Ajay!This is a short guided meditation instruction video about 22 minutes long. The Founder of the Foundation for the Contemplation of Nature, Ajay Rastogi, introduces an easy meditation technique … Continue reading →
“When you know how to suffer you suffer less” is a zine of aphorisms or short statements expressing a general truth or advice on how to conduct yourself. These aphorisms were taken from notes jotted down over a period of … Continue reading →
NORDIC BY NATURE; New voices on deep ecology; Arne Naess in the 21st century is available as an e-book and Chapters 1-3 are available in Spanish translated with the collaboration of Planeta Sostenible in Chile. These are the trasncripts from … Continue reading →
GREAT NEWS! The Majkhali village homestay mothers’ group, the Jagrati Swayam Sahayta Group, has won the ICIMOD Mountain Prize 2020. (www.icimod.org/mountainprize) This is a really a great honour for everyone involved. This award really rewards the tremendous effort and achievements … Continue reading →
45 YEARS AGO, in the 1970’s, there was a non-violent grassroots protest movement aimed at the protection and conservation of biodiversity of trees and forests in India, and how more actions needed to be taken to protect nature that supplies … Continue reading →
Simple transistor landing page. Direct download of mp3. Voice intro: Welcome to Nordic By Nature, a feature length podcast on ecology today inspired by the Norwegian Philosopher Arne Naess, who coined the term Deep Ecology. In this episode, ON … Continue reading →
Podcast episode 8: ON KNOWLEDGE Simple Landing page. Direct download of mp3. Intro: Welcome to Nordic By Nature, a podcast on ecology today inspired by the Norwegian Philosopher Arne Naess, who coined the term Deep Ecology. This episode, ON KNOWLEDGE, … Continue reading →
In this sixth episode, On Belonging, we meet three people who have thought a lot about what ‘home’ means to them and how that relates defines their relationship to a place. All were present at Standing Rock. Dark Mountain contributor … Continue reading →