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...
by Neil McKinlay | Oct 22, 2017 | Buddhist Teachings
“…with the Raven-Headed One among them.”- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, ‘Four-Armed Mahakala’I enjoyed a short exchange with a friend not long ago. This is someone I have not seen in a while, but whose company was always rich and rewarding. Our back and forth took...
by Neil McKinlay | Oct 18, 2017 | Meditation Instruction
One of the most potent teachings I ever received was presented in an unusual way. I was meeting with a mentor for a reason I no longer recall. We sat face to face, knees a foot apart. I cannot remember whether our conversation had started or not. I do know,...
by Neil McKinlay | Sep 17, 2017 | Daily Life
“Oo-ee all the sights I’ve seen”- Bruce Cockburn, ‘States I’m In’Bruce Cockburn’s new album just came out. Bone on Bone is the twenty-fifth studio release in a recording career dating back almost fifty years. It also happens to be Cockburn’s first in quite a while...
