Quite literally, philosophy means love of wisdom. We seek to understand fundamental truths about ourselves, others, the world, and so on. What is free will? What is the mesh? We are the mesh! What might it mean to live a good life, given this.

Satya means The Truth, but it’s worth asking: What is Real?

Sep 23rd, 2022 6m 37s

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Beginning with the Good of Systems

Sep 23rd, 2022 4m 38s

This is an extract from my book, "Love is Green: compassion as responsibility in the ecological emergency". I've read a short section here on how we might understand entire systems rather than just individuals, or individual humans, as having a

Practice Realisation: what you are practicing is what you are making real, and also what you are becoming aware of.

Jun 2nd, 2022 2m 27s

An important idea that is central to Dōgen Zenji's Shōbōgenzō, practice realisation summarises an approach to existence which recognises that what we do, from cooking to cleaning, from conflict to communication, is an expression of our understa

There is no easy way out of the predicament we are in

May 1st, 2021 11m 57s

There is no easy way out of the predicament we are in: we are in an ecological emergency, and we are inevitably going to die. There are some similarities between our responses to these two inevitabilities!In this episode, I link our understand

ECOnnect Patanjali! Week Four assignment reminder due in two weeks …

Apr 25th, 2021 1m 31s

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://knowyogaireland.com/2021/04/25/econnect-patanjali-week-four-assignment-reminder-due-in-two-weeks/