I’m Malcolm Holmes. I’m a software engineer, Buddhist and innovator.
I’m deeply interested in the impact of modern neuroscience on the understanding of traditional spiritual and religious teachings, and how scientific understanding can lead to more efficient teachings that reduce human suffering.
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What I've been thinking about recently
As we develop and clarify the Odoki Method, one term that has become clearer is “inquiry” - describing a practice that an individual undertakes to discover more about themselves and bring about meaningful change.
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In my last post, I noted how I was changing gear, and planning on focusing on the Odoki Method. In this post, I want to mention progress so far, which is kind of hard to believe.
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At the end of August I marked a significant life change. For a long time, I’ve been exploring the topics discussed in this blog part time, alongside working full time as a software engineer.
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In 2001, I became a parent. I was already a Buddhist and a meditator. But I didn’t understand how to integrate meditation into my daily life as a parent.
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In both of my previous posts (TEAM CBT and Yan Shou Gong), I’ve mentioned “testing”. Testing is also an extremely important discipline in software engineering.
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Since my teens, I have had an interest in the Martial Arts, and practiced Nanbudo for a few years back then.
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Odoki Method
A broad method aimed at “Deep Wellbeing”, a form of wellbeing that is independent of external circumstance.
Parents Meditation
A site and online course sharing an approach to meditation that can work for parents of any age.
Yan Shou Gong UK
A site detailing activities in the UK relating to Yan Shou Gong, a form of Nei Gong, an internal martial art of chinese origin.
Mouthpiece Generator
A collaboration with Peter Holmes, to make a parameterised generator for brass instrument mouthpieces.
Grizzly
A command line utility for Grafana facilitating the move of the source of truth for dashboards and more out of the Grafana database and into version control.
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