We don't choose how tall we are, the colour of our eyes or any other physical attribute. This is obvious, and we don't take responsibility for these qualiti...

Warrior one, B.K.S. Iyengar First photo on the left, from his book "Light on Yoga" next photo, years later at a public demonstration. Can you see the differe...

The sensation of hunger has no location. Hunger pangs do have a location - the fleeting abdominal sensation of cramping or restriction. I'm talking about the...

Notice your breath. Now try not to manipulate it or control it in any way while your attention remains on it. This inability to surrender control of that wh...

Transparency means to not colour or block the spontaneous flow of information. When we are incentivized to colour our perceptions, this colouring often happ...

This is probably as good a time as any to clarify that this author has not mastered how to be honest all the time. The amount of lying we doing daily - eithe...

This kind of binary view overlooks the value of some forms of valuable touch and doesn't investigate why other forms have little or no value or worse. 1) Dir...

The most straightforward example of the concept of truth is 1+1 = 2. Numbers are an abstraction: 1 does not refer to anything in particular, but to how many ...

A search for a definition of honesty yields mostly synonyms such as integrity, the absence of lying, and trustworthiness. To be fair, a clear and simple de n...

INTRODUCTION As evolved creatures, we are here because of millions of years of ancestor competition. Winning that competition didn’t mean being the most stra...

There is no more unwelcome emotion inside the circus tent of feelings than jealously. Jealousy makes us feel shame for feeling it - we feel its nature is to...

Is yoga teacher training over?

I've been thinking about a recent post concerning the benefits/hazards of prescribed breath (pranayama) in yoga. There is a claim that a certain form of con...

Excerpt from my soon to be released book: This book is about being more honest, not about finding The Truth. There's a reason for this. Looking for the tru...