Resources: articles, essays, interviews, podcasts, videos of Dr Peter Fenner’s teaching
by Peter Fenner Do you oscillate between thinking: I need help – I don’t need help This is a real problem – I’m just making this up I need to try harder – Trying harder just gets in the way This isn’t it – This is it? In general terms these pairs of contrary beliefs …
by Peter Fenner How much time do you spend wondering what is the best thing for you to be doing in the present moment, or at some time in the future, or what you should have differently in the past? How often have you mulled over, or even struggled with the question of finding the …
There is no need to reject or appropriate anything, or to refute or establish any position, because reality is unbiased. This is Complete Fulfillment – the optimum peak of all spiritual perspectives. Longchenpa In different ways we all seek an experience of deep and lasting fulfillment. We yearn for a way of being that will …
by Penny Fenner Emotions have a direct way of communicating to us, and as such their power can be very valuable. They can alert us to what we need to attend to. They can wake us up and remind us that we are alive. They can move energy in and through us in ways that …
The manifold of phenomenal appearances is primordially unoriginated and non-dual, just like an image reflected in a mirror. The nature of openness isn’t separate from phenomenal appearances, just as water and its quality of being moist are combined in a non-dualistic condition. Free of the limits of illusion, like an imaginary city, the instant things …
How is it that Unconditioned experience, is a conditioned experience? I hope you enjoy this video taken from our last Radiant Mind Course in Portland. While it is true that the Unconditioned depends on absolutely no conditions, simultaneously, it is also true that in order for us to bring the Unconditioned into our lives, we …
In the last Radiant Mind course that we had in Portland, a participant asked me a really great question. In his long time practice of meditation, he was encountering difficulties in ‘just sitting’ in the easeful way that we do in this course. I explained to him and the group how sometimes meditation itself can …
WIZARD: Peter is a living Arunachala. […] So Peter, of all those we’ve met thus far, I feel you’re unequalled in your capacity to demystify the mysterious changes that take place in a person who’s called upon to extricate him/herself from the suffering of conditioned awareness, what we might call ordinary consciousness so that they …
In Java, Indonesia, there are mystical communities who spend time silently together after an evening meal. They do not meditate, nor do they ‘relax’ or snooze. Rather, they sit attentively together in shared silence, just being with each other in the appreciation of existence. They may be smiling, gazing at each other, sitting quietly with …
One of the common things I hear from people when I’m running a workshop is that, “This space is great, but my life is so busy. I just don’t have the time to rest and be present to “what is.” I’ve got the meals to prepare, emails to do, phone calls with family and friends, …