John & Phil have a conversation about the film 'Perfect days' about a Tokyo toilet cleaner and find a lot to agree about - and surprisingly 'spiritual' themes.

Topics:

Ordinary Life as Sacred Practice – A Tokyo toilet cleaner’s repetitive routine becomes a quiet meditation on dignity, care, and simplicity.

Presence Over Plot – The film resists conventional narrative, inviting attention to how life is lived rather than what happens.

Mindfulness Tested by Disruption – Family visits and subtle losses wobble the calm, revealing the limits of composure when life intrudes.

Beauty in Small Things – Sunlight through leaves, cleaning by hand, tending plants, shared smiles—fleeting moments as meaning.

Honest Spirituality – Skepticism toward tidy spiritual answers; valuing sincerity, vulnerability, and “honest failure” over pretence. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Why is Jesus called the Lamb of God? The Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. This Lamb that came down into the world to die for man is not only what's called the incarnation of Jesus. It's every creature that similarly dies so that man may eat so that man's incompletion may be nourished. So not only every lamb but every grain of wheat, the porridge we had for breakfast, the egg, the avocado pear - every creature that is sacrificed for man is a mini Jesus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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To realise is to make real. Not through teaching but through personal experience. What is truth? That which doesn't change. And there we are safe. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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What are thoughts? Wobbly! The only thing you can trust is this Presence. I’ve almost forgotten what it is to think. Thoughts seem to me now a phenomenon long forgotten. I’m not a man. I don’t have a name. I don’t have a form. I’m this. I’m complete. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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John & Phil share their experiences with AI - for good or for ill - starting with a discussion on an AI generated video about Einstein which they both watched. John asks whether any words of man are reliable. "The tongue advertising its own ego. A work of the devil." Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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John and Nitya hosted this solstice weekend retreat at the Briery Centre in Ilkley on the theme 'Towards simplicity'. John introduces the theme and Nitya sings a beautiful kirtan chant as the solstice sun rises. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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"With words there is always a person, a me, an ego which spoils the purity of no words. The basic impurity that we have to deal with in our lives comes back to this ego - 'me'." Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Whether we look beyond clouds to the open sky above or into the deep earth beneath, beyond these few agitated years of life we come to rest. Meditation is just a way of looking at the sky within oneself - or finding rest beyond the restless mind. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Anything you can do to turn towards what we may call Truth, or God, or purpose, or meaning of life, whether it be meditation or prayer helps when we encounter the doubts and questionings in the mind. Anything we have – meditation of prayer – acts as a handrail to take you through the confusion of the mind. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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