It seems that nowadays, people like to get more of a look behind the scenes, rather than simply consuming the finished product. They want a sense of the real person — the artist at work, making something. It’s taken me a while to get my head around this, as I grew up in the time of the album. £5 pocket money, all spent on a record. No downloading individual tracks, just the whole shebang — vinyl disc, cover with artwork on the front and back, and, if you were lucky, a printed

Music has always had the potential to be more than entertainment. It has been employed in forms of prayer, meditation, and as a means of transformation and healing. It can help inspire listeners to both reflection and action. Here, let’s consider music as an avenue for the practice of awareness and compassion. One lens through which we can explore this is the Buddhist teaching of the Six Pāramitās — qualities cultivated by the wise and conducive to living a compassionate life

Why does so much modern-day politics seem so out of tune with a wise and compassionate view of life? Ecologically, it is very clear that Planet Earth functions in interconnected ways. The trees give out oxygen, we breathe it in. When we pollute the rivers and oceans, we poison ourselves. Many of us intuit that life is all one big family. Yet psychologically, fear can narrow perception and limit the sense of safety that makes collaboration and wise action more possible. Here w

“ Systemic problems trace back in the end to worldviews, but worldviews themselves are in flux and flow. Our most creative opportunity of all may be to reshape those worldviews themselves .” — Antony Weston From a Buddhist perspective — and echoed in many other contemplative traditions — human beings have always carried an inherent potential for compassion and wisdom. Yet, it seems clear that this potential requires certain conditions in which to blossom and mature. Sadly, a

We often assume that politics fails because people lack information. But perhaps the problem isn’t so much about knowledge, but a trance state that the vast majority of us are living in. Everyday life in capitalist society functions like an unrecognised ritual. It trains us — without our knowing — to see ourselves as separate individuals in a world of scarcity, competing for status, security, and more. Capitalist materialism is therefore not just a type of economy; it is what

“Listen to this song,” I might say, “I wrote it.” But did I? Is it really mine ? What does I wrote it even mean? Let’s sit with this question for a moment or two.... Did I create the language it’s written in? No. Obviously, I inherited it — language is a system of communication passed on from generation to generation. Did I make the computer or the software it was recorded with? Not at all. I can’t even begin to explain how any of it works. Did I make the guitar it was writt

I think we are living in a very paradoxical age. The world seems simultaneously both better and worse than ever. By many measures, life has improved beyond anything our ancestors could imagine. As Rutger Bregman (2025) reminds us, child mortality has plummeted, slavery is almost universally condemned, and even the poor in much of the world enjoy comforts once reserved for kings. And yet - war, inequality, ecological collapse, and mental health issues hang heavy in the air. Th

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