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Modern Monk Modern mindfulness training for individuals and organisations. Join our daily online practice. Welcome to Mallas Mindfulne. We teach Mindfulness.

We'll show you how and why to practice and how it applies to your situation. We believe that mindfulness – understanding and managing your mind – is a fundamental and required skill to living a good life. Because the practice works on the root levels of your mind, you'll notice improvement in yourself and in your life, across the board (including your physical and mental health, performance, creativity, relationships, happiness and peace of mind).

​We hope you'll find something useful here, and would love to hear from you if you have any questions or comments, or would like to explore the possibility of working together.

Saw this on a walk and agree completely. We say loving involves just 2 things:— Awareness of what is, such that you noti...
29/08/2026

Saw this on a walk and agree completely.

We say loving involves just 2 things:

— Awareness of what is, such that you notice more over time.

— Acceptance of what is, in your body. (What you think and feel isn’t enough! Something has to physically let go.)

04/08/2026

The Inner Oven

Not everything that comes into us arrives as love.

Sometimes what lands in the body is fear, anger, hurt, anxiety, or reactivity.

The practice is not to throw it straight back into the world in the same form
or often worse!

The practice is to build an inner container strong enough to hold what arrives, transform it, and send something different back out.

That is where the real work happens, in learning how to cook.

21/07/2026

If You Weren’t There, What Happened?

We spend so much of life arguing with things that are not actually here.

The Yogi’s question is simple: what do you know from direct experience?

Not what you imagine.
Not what someone told you.
Not with the mind built around it.

What did you actually see, hear, feel or experience for yourself?

The practice begins there. With what is present.

What a wonderful poem (by Andrea Gibson) to lose yourself into, Zen koan style. I’ve spent like 25 years helping people ...
19/07/2026

What a wonderful poem (by Andrea Gibson) to lose yourself into, Zen koan style.

I’ve spent like 25 years helping people see where they’re making their own suffering,

and I reckon this absolutely nails the essence of (and solution to!) the whole issue
and does it in style!

What a surprising and delightful way to end up at the very deepest end of the practice! Namely, the profound emptiness, ...
02/04/2026

What a surprising and delightful way to end up at the very deepest end of the practice!

Namely, the profound emptiness, freedom and peace at the heart of all phenomena - found and experienced in each one of us at the very roots of our minds. đŸȘ·

This excerpt is about philosopher David Woods’ latest book: Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist

đŸ˜ŻđŸ€”đŸ˜‚đŸ€— This is a rather surprising and fantastic way to arrive at the ultimate point of the practice - the experience and ...
02/04/2026

đŸ˜ŻđŸ€”đŸ˜‚đŸ€— This is a rather surprising and fantastic way to arrive at the ultimate point of the practice - the experience and freedom of the emptiness underlying all phenomena, found for each one of us at the very root of our minds. đŸȘ·





This pretty perfectly describes our two core principles of: Awareness & Acceptance. The two practiced together are how w...
27/03/2026

This pretty perfectly describes our two core principles of: Awareness & Acceptance.

The two practiced together are how we *love*
anything.

So you could say that mindfulness is a practice of loving yourself and your life. đŸȘžđŸ˜

The feeling came back
 now what?There’s a moment in practice that almost everyone meets.You’ve worked through something....
23/03/2026

The feeling came back
 now what?

There’s a moment in practice that almost everyone meets.
You’ve worked through something.
You’ve felt it.
You’ve understood it.
And then
 it comes back.

The same feeling.
The same pattern.

And something in you says:
“Not this again.”
It can feel tiring.
Disheartening.
Like you’re going backwards.

But you’re not going backwards.
You’re going deeper.
The mind doesn’t resolve all at once.
It unwinds in layers.

Each time something returns, the question isn’t:
“Why is this still here?”
The question is:
“Can I meet this differently now?”

This is where the practice lives.
Not in removing the feeling.
But in how you hold it.
Awareness on the balcony.
Acceptance in the body.

That’s the work.
That’s the shift.





The feeling came back
 now what?There’s a moment in practice that almost everyone meets.You’ve worked through something....
23/03/2026

The feeling came back
 now what?

There’s a moment in practice that almost everyone meets.
You’ve worked through something.
You’ve felt it.
You’ve understood it.
And then
 it comes back.

The same feeling.
The same pattern.

And something in you says:
“Not this again.”
It can feel tiring.
Disheartening.
Like you’re going backwards.

But you’re not going backwards.
You’re going deeper.
The mind doesn’t resolve all at once.
It unwinds in layers.

Each time something returns, the question isn’t:
“Why is this still here?”
The question is:
“How can I meet this now?”

This is where the practice lives.
Not in removing the feeling.
But in how you hold it.
Awareness on the balcony.
Acceptance in the body.

That’s the work.
That’s the shift.

27/02/2026

🚱 You’re Already on the Ship

Rumi says: Day and night, you are a traveler on a ship.

You don’t get to step off.
This body-mind is the vessel.

The breath?
That’s the life-giving spirit filling the (emotional and cognitive) sails and moving/changing us.

“Step aboard” means take captaincy.
Stop drifting. Start steering.

And where are we headed?
Toward the Beloved.
Toward the far shore of peace — not by doing more, but by inhabiting now more fully.

“Without hands and feet” reminds us:
This isn’t about outer busyness.
It’s an inner voyage — along the spine, the breath
awareness.

The destination isn’t somewhere else.

It’s timelessness.
It’s now.

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