Articles

---

Most of these articles were written in response to the questions of curious Norwegians, most of whom had some meditation experience but were relatively new to the Buddhist path. All links are to PDFs.

---

Dhamma practice

A summary of Dhamma practice	Body awareness as a vehicle for enlightenment
Body wisdom	Mindfulness of the body - the body in the mind
Save your life	Skillful thought
The dhamma warrior	The four noble truths
The knowing ground	The point of focus
Wisdom in action	Working through our karma
Art and poetry in Dhamma practice	Anger and ill-will
Mindfulness in action	Policing the mind
Practising with a sense of humour	Buddhism and Yoga
Finding a sense of urgency	Self criticism or self love
Right mindfulness	Practise in lay life
Natural mindfulness	Knowing in action
A buddhist attitude	Meditation for world peace

Reflections

A bit like Nibbana	A radical rewiring
Buddhist Monasticism in Modern Western Society	It had been a cold winter on retreat
Just part of the furniture	Nordic Theravada
Preserving the Dhamma	Psychic phenomena
Real merit	Skiptvet
Spiritual friendship	Stuck-in-the-head Buddhism
The people-pleasing world	Timeless religion
What is an emotion?	Would you believe it?
Introspection revisited	True wisdom
True spirituality	Homesick
Gay abandon	Beyond secularism
Stuff and nonsense	The riddle of the real fairy tale
Finding freedom in right view	fairy tales - prince and princess
Teacher and student	Oh, what a tangled web
Awakened to the air	Seeing is believing
True love	Reading between the lines of my life
Equality	The doctrine of Anatta
Buddhism as a religion	The Lord is time
Positively empty	Words fail me
The introvert revolution	Enlightened society
The beastly priestly stuff	Transformation
Drugs and spiritual experience	Buddhist ecology
The problem of suffering	The euthanasia debate
Buddhism and sex	Mudita - sympathetic joy
True freedom	True beauty
The mindfulness movement	Tough love
Buddhism and the ecological crisis	Buddhism as deep psychology
Spiritual magic - healthy and unhealthy	Monasticism and lay lifec

Meditation instructions

Forest samadhi	Forest wisdom
Bringing the dog back to the heel	Meditation for the committed beginner
Open to experience	Peaceful breathing, peaceful mind
Placing the moccasins	Reaching out with kindness
Singing and walking in the rain	The art of sitting
Effects of Mindfulness on the body	Hyperventilation breathing techniques

Times of Crisis series

Value	44 - keeping a sense of humour
​45 - wise reflection as a possible refuge from the virus	Value