by Neil McKinlay | Mar 17, 2018 | Daily Life
“Mercy, mercy coming to you,Feel her beauty flowing through you.”- Glen Hansard, ‘Her Mercy’In a recent comment, Emily raised that most pertinent question: “How do I do this?” How does one honour the body – the clear, potent wisdom of the body – while, in...
by Neil McKinlay | Feb 7, 2018 | Daily Life
“Will this be easy to maintain?” While designing this website, this question arose a lot. While I did hope the site would become a useful resource for us, it was not something I could afford to spend hours updating. So again and again I voiced these...
by Neil McKinlay | Feb 4, 2018 | Daily Life
I woke early last Sunday morning; shortly after one. Normally this is cause for distress, realizing another sleepless night may have arrived. This time around, however, was different. A sense of delight pulsed through my body. Simmering excitement suddenly came to...
by Neil McKinlay | Jan 16, 2018 | Meditation Instruction
I’m not yet two days back. I returned from Colorado Sunday evening. A full day’s travel concluded the remarkable journey that was this year’s Winter Meditation Intensive at Dharma Ocean’s Blazing Mountain Retreat Centre in Crestone.Roughly one hundred fifty...
by Neil McKinlay | Nov 26, 2017 | Meditation Instruction
I recently spent a few days in Boulder, Colorado. This was pretty much unexpected. Dharma Ocean was hosting a series of meetings in which the overall direction of this lineage was to be explored and I was invited to take part. It was a fascinating, illuminating, and...
