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Buddhist & Spiritual Wisdom
Wondering if any of this ancient stuff actually works? No robes, no Sanskrit homework. Just the parts I have found genuinely useful when life is hard.
SITS 176 · Love, Empathy & Other People · 6 September 2026 · 18:30Gates, Not Thorns: Are Your Boundaries a Prison?Are your boundaries keeping you safe, or keeping you stuck? I have never liked the word. This week a reader called Katherine gave me a better one: gates, not thorns.Listen to this episode 
SITS 175 · 22 August 2026 · 20:24There Is No Steven in Here: What I Learned at the Bottom of a Swimming PoolWho are you, really, behind all the roles? Sit properly with that question and no answer comes. That is the answer.Listen to this episode 
SITS 161 · 29 March 2026 · 19:48Finding Inner Peace: Do You Need to Be a Buddhist?Do you need to be a Buddhist to find inner peace? I am not one, and I do not think you need to be either.Listen to this episode 
SITS 160 · 15 March 2026 · 23:13"Is This All There Is?" Answering the Quiet Question in Your HeartIs this all there is? If that question keeps visiting you, it is not a fault. It might be the most important one you have asked.Listen to this episode 
SITS 157 · Steven's Story · 17 January 2026 · 16:56Apricity and the Calm After the StormHow do you stay calm through the strongest winds Cornwall has ever had? You watch the news enough to know what is happening, and then you stop watching it.Listen to this episode 
SITS 155 · 16 November 2025 · 24:15When Jesus and the Buddha Sit at the Same TableDo Jesus and the Buddha actually disagree? I do not think they do. You write the book for the audience in front of you, and that explains most of the difference.Listen to this episode 
SITS 141 · 22 February 2025 · 25:52Enlightenment in 2 Minutes: How Micro-Moments Can Transform Your LifeWhat is enlightenment, really? Waking up to what is true and suffering less for it. Not floating. And for me it started with a hundred and twenty year old book.Listen to this episode 
SITS 137 · 8 January 2025 · 21:15Unveiling the True Self: Beyond Ego and IllusionWho is the you underneath the you? There is a self below the ego, and the ego is the part doing all the suffering.Listen to this episode 
SITS 133 · 13 November 2024 · 13:46Beyond Mindfulness: Deepening Your Spiritual InsightWhat comes after mindfulness? Noticing the leaves is the start, not the finish.Listen to this episode 
SITS 132 · 3 November 2024 · 19:02Ego vs. Essence: Finding Peace Beyond Your LabelsWho are you without your story? Take away the job, the labels and the roles, and what is left?Listen to this episode 
SITS 117 · Self-Acceptance & Self-Love · 24 March 2024 · 26:51Deep Wisdom: The Power of Knowing Yourself and Nurturing Inner CompassionWhy does everything feel so shallow? We consume thirty second videos and headlines at speed and never dig into any of it. Going deeper is the whole answer.Listen to this episode 
SITS 116 · 18 March 2024 · 16:08Embracing Innocence: How I Was Wrong About Navigating AdulthoodWhat would your seven year old self do with today? Mine would not know he was supposed to fix everything, and that turns out to be an advantage.Listen to this episode 
SITS 115 · 8 March 2024 · 26:47Shining Your Inner Light: Exploring the Journey from Pure Thought to Complex EgoWhat is underneath the story of who you think you are? I took the whole thing apart, layer by layer, because I wanted to see what was at the bottom.Listen to this episode 
SITS 110 · 6 January 2024 · 17:32Unpacking Truths: Politics, Ice Cream & Spiritualism Unite!Can two people both be right when they completely disagree? Yes, and a mountain explains why. What you can see depends entirely on how far up it you are stood.Listen to this episode 
SITS 109 · 31 December 2023 · 15:45The Kensho That Transformed My Journey: A New Year’s MessageWhat one thing changed my life most? A book. As a Man Thinketh, and the line that I am not my thoughts, which raises a far better question straight after it.Listen to this episode 
SITS 106 · Inner Peace Foundations · 30 November 2023 · 21:35Voices of the Soul: Understanding and Embracing Internal DialoguesHow many voices are arguing in your head right now? I call mine the ten thousand, and I am tired. They do not go quiet just because you sat down to meditate.Listen to this episode 
SITS 101 · Inner Peace Foundations · 7 September 2023 · 26:24Embracing Your Humanity: Discovering Peace and Suffer LessWhat does it actually mean to be human? Nobody handed you a form to tick before you arrived. You are dealing with feelings that took millions of years to build.Listen to this episode 
SITS 94 · 7 July 2023 · 23:45How to Suffer Less Embracing Change on the Spiritual JourneyHow do you suffer less without going numb? Not by getting rid of the pain. By stopping the bypass.Listen to this episode 
SITS 93 · 29 June 2023 · 19:15Embrace Nature’s Wisdom: Overcoming Stress, Anxiety, and ConsumptionCan you clear muddy water by stirring it? Alan Watts said muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, and that is the whole of this one.Listen to this episode 
SITS 81 · 9 February 2023 · 23:23Simplifying Your Spiritual Journey: Finding Peace Amidst SufferingWhat if the spiritual path is far simpler than everybody is selling you? I needed it simplified or I was not going to make it.Listen to this episode 
SITS 50 · Inner Peace Foundations · 15 January 2021 · 16:54My 25% Rule to Help You Grow ConsciouslyWhat happens when you sit and properly listen to people you disagree with? I ran out of excuses, went to the council meetings, and found it genuinely fascinating.Listen to this episode 
SITS 46 · 14 December 2020 · 9:28Why Your Spiritual Journey is IncompleteIs the spiritual journey really from the head to the heart? Partly. But most people then try to disconnect the head entirely, and that does not work either.Listen to this episode 
SITS 34 · 1 August 2020 · 13:59The Middle Way | Life with less SufferingShould you cut the negative people out of your life? Everyone on the spiritual path says yes. I think that is how you end up unable to deal with anything at all.Listen to this episode 
SITS 31 · 11 July 2020 · 21:28Why the 'Spiritual Journey' WILL NOT Reduce Your SufferingWill a spiritual journey take your suffering away? No. Chasing one nearly made mine worse.Listen to this episode 
SITS 24 · 7 April 2020 · 15:59The TRUTH behind your 'SPIRITUAL JOURNEY' and you may not like it!Is my meditation even working? Toad read poems to his seeds and played them music, and they still would not grow. That is most of us, most of the time.Listen to this episode 
SITS 21 · 20 March 2020 · 21:48The Three Cultural Poisons and Coronavirus Covid-19What can one person actually do when everything is falling apart? A lot more than you think, and it starts with picking up the phone and asking who needs something.Listen to this episode 
SITS 10 · Letting Go & Forgiveness · 14 October 2019 · 11:45How to Free Yourself and Become FulfilledWhy do you not recognise yourself any more? Because your glass got filled by everybody except you.Listen to this episode Somewhere else
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