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It’s easy to lose your head on the spiritual path – but true insight comes with practice

REVIEW Headless Way: A Day With Richard Lang The room is filled with smiling, headless people, or so they are claiming to be. As am I: a headless man looking at headless men and women looking back each other. Our teacher, Richard Lang, gleefully, if a little bafflingly, says we are all “face to noContinue reading “It’s easy to lose your head on the spiritual path – but true insight comes with practice”

Steve Hagen’s ‘mysterious figure’: cheap parlour trick or a glimpse of enlightenment?

Many people say the American Zen priest Steve Hagen’s primer Buddhism Plain and Simple is excellent, and I drifted through its early pages thinking the same. He has a clear, direct style that avoids a lot of the clunky dharma translations that often serve only to confuse. However, just as he is settling in toContinue reading “Steve Hagen’s ‘mysterious figure’: cheap parlour trick or a glimpse of enlightenment?”