No Centre, No Edge

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A Guide to No Centre, No Edge

Here's a selection of reflections that will give you the flavour of No Centre, No Edge. Some are good places to begin. Others are about going deeper in practice. Some may feel a bit counter-intuitive, while others relate to questions that seem to pop up again and again for me in different guises. I’ll update this over time as the archive grows and the shape of the blog evolves.


Good places to begin

  • Truth or Experience?
  • Beyond Visualisation
  • Bringing Attention Into Action
  • A Key Principle in Practice
  • Working With Pain
  • Three Components of Emotional Reactions
  • What Is Compassion?

On deepening practice

  • What Am I Protecting?
  • Working With Numbness
  • Open to One Thousandth at a Time
  • How to Look
  • Trust You Will Ripen
  • Other as a Doorway to Practice
  • Anger As Intel

Unexpected angles

  • Always Already
  • A Simplicity That Costs Everything
  • The Rocky Path of Not Knowing
  • Two Temptations
  • No Enemy, No Separation
  • Freedom from Conventional Notions of Success and Failure
  • Leave No Ashes
  • How Mind-Killing Operates

Recurring questions

  • Looking for Truth
  • Don't Miss the Point
  • Looking for the Missing Piece
  • Making the Practice Your Own
  • When the Picture Falls Apart
  • People Work in Different Ways
  • Recognising Reactivity in Real Time
  • Practice Intensely With Little Fanfare
  • Dangers in Spiritual Practice


27 July, 2026
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