Wisdom

The Rewired Mind Series — Part 3 of 3 The man who came back down the mountain. There is a story told in the old contemplative traditions — not of the saint, not of the master but of the student who sat long enough to become one. He had spent years in the Himalayas at the feet of a learned master. He received teachings that most seekers spend lifetimes searching for. He sat in caves where the silence had a texture. He touched something; a stillness, a clarity, a luminous aware

The Rewired Mind Series,Part2. We spend years trying to think our way through problems. Almost no time realising that some problems are caused by too much thinking. This piece looks honestly at the loop, why it starts, what keeps it going, and why the smartest people are often the most caught inside it. It traces the noise back to its source and offers the one exit the mind consistently overlooks. This is not about silencing your thoughts. It is about learning which ones are

The Rewired Mind Series — Part 1 of 3 The student who knew everything. There is a story in the Chandogya Upanishad that I heard once in a discourse which changed the trajectory of my life. A young student named Shvetaketu comes home after twelve years of Vedic study; full of academic pride and conceit. A manner slightly insufferable in the way that only the recently educated can be. His father, the sage Uddalaka, looks at his son for a long moment and asks him, "Have you ever

How children between 5 and 12 learn to feel their own edges and how we, as parents, can help them build that map. In that young age, a child is quietly forming their understanding of where they end and another person begins. This piece looks at how boundaries are drawn in the ordinary moments of a child's life and asks the question most parenting conversations avoid. We cannot give a child something we have not yet given ourselves. If you are raising a child or once were, thi