Kaspa Thompson: Psychotherapist & Supervisor

IFS Psychotherapist, Supervisor & Buddhist Minister

Category: Buddhism

  • Reasonable attachments?

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    Are there such thing as reasonable attachments? In the training community I lived in, one of the old rules was that people should not be attached to their rooms, and trainees were moved around every few months, keeping their belongings in a single box. By the time I moved into that community that practice had…

  • Absolute Love —Total Freedom

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    I became a Pureland Buddhist in 2006. I didn’t know anything about Pureland Buddhism at the time. I had been practicing Buddhism for a few years, and then I met Dharmavidya and the Amida community. I knew that I wanted to join this community and have Dharmavidya as my teacher. That was enough. I learnt…

  • Learning to stay sane around people

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    After a very peopled few days it is quiet in the temple today. It is lunchtime, and the only other person I have seen waved at me from a top floor window, whilst I was in the garden, before disappearing again. Satya got up at 5:30am this morning and went to a half-day yoga retreat at a…

  • Foolish Beings in a Beautiful Land

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    There is a thin pink streak of light in the eastern sky. The sun is well over the horizon and that last thread of colour tells me what a glorious sunrise I would have seen if I had been up a little earlier. The valley is heavy with mist; a few hilltops and the tips…

  • The Power of Non-Rejection or Coming to Wholeness

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    “If I don’t like it, it doesn’t exist.” One of the most common ways of dealing with anything challenging is to pretend that it doesn’t exist. You come home huffing and puffing but claim to be fine when a friend asks you what’s up. Eventually you start to believe that you are fine. The general…