Author Archives: John Barter
Now …. the right side
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing
...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all,
though few put it to use. - Plotinus
Our whole brain and mind is important for full functioning in life. Both the left and right sides of our brain interact extensively to understand, make sense of our world, to communicate and engage in life.
However, we have become a culture and a species of what we can call ‘Left-Brain Dominance’.
Whilst this has...
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Let’s get right now
LET’S GET RIGHT NOW!
Don’t look for the Spiritual, Sacred or Divine.
Don’t listen for the Spiritual, Sacred or Divine.
Don’t think to understand the Spiritual, Sacred or Divine.
But rather simply Be!
Be Mindful and Heartful,
Be present to Life Right-Now.
By being so; we will see what we were looking for.
We will hear what we were listening for.
We will know with no need to think.
And in the seeing, there will be just looking.
In the hearing, there will be just listening.
In knowing, there will...
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Heart inspired
HEART INSPIRED
The source of my Love is not my Love.
The source of your Love is not your Love.
The source of our Love is not our Love.
For this Love is the primordial, trans-personal dynamic energy of connecting.
The fundamental, radical relatedness
At the Heart and as the Heart
Of us all.
It can be most helpful to mindfully monitor, be aware and wise to, the movements of our mind.
This is especially so with what the mind identifies and so easily becomes identified with, as...
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Message from John
Dear Friends
Now in the fourth month of our year; why not take some time to pause and be present, contemplate and consider how we are pacing and progressing on this journey through life this year?
Consider my reflections below and arrive fully right where you are!
Kind Regards
John B.
FULLY ARRIVING IN EVERY STEP IS THE DESTINATION
How do we Walk through the World and Live through our Life?
Do we walk like we are trying to get somewhere, living our life ahead of...
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Mindful Morning with a Monk Ajahn Tiradhammo
MINDFUL MORNING WITH A MONK
Ajahn Tiradhammo is a Canadian born Buddhist Monk of the Theravada Forest Tradition.
With over 40 years of monastic life he is one of the Venerable Ajahn Chah’s most senior Western Students.
Ajahn Tiradhammo and John have been friends for nearly 30 years, meeting in 1989 at Amaravati Monastery in England. Together they were Abbot and Vice Abbot of Dhammapala Monastery in Switzerland until John left Monastic Life in late 1992.
Ajahn Tiradhammo has regularly given teachings at...
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Fully arriving in every step is the destination
Dear Friends
Now in the fourth month of our year; why not take some time to pause and be present, contemplate and consider how we are pacing and progressing on this journey through life this year?
Consider my reflections below and arrive fully right where you are!
Kind Regards
John B.
FULLY ARRIVING IN EVERY STEP IS THE DESTINATION
How do we Walk through the World and Live through our Life?
Do we walk like we are trying to get somewhere, living our life ahead of...
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Make Meditation the Mindful Life
MAKE MEDITATION THE MINDFUL LIFE
Don’t be caught into self-doubt and deprecation,
Sit down and practice some Meditation.
Why agitate or cogitate?
Just bring your mind to Meditate.
Move beyond grief and despair,
Focus on Compassion Joy and Self-Care.
Beware of negative thoughts that creep by stealth,
Resource your Mind-Hearts strength and wealth.
Don’t be caught into worry and mental strife,
Make Clarity and Peace the focus of your life.
Meditation makes Well and Good,
This needs to be appreciated and Understood.
Let-Go of being caught into self-centred ‘I and me’,
Become Wise...
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The Three Way To Wisdom
THE THREE WAYS TO WISDOM
Much of our activities and engagements in life are purposed to towards the experience of Happiness.
Whilst we may wish, want or even will Happiness to happen; we can wisely appreciate that Happiness generally is the result of living in a certain way.
The opposite of Happiness is stress, distress, upset, discontent and suffering. Certainly, much of this unhappiness occurs when we do not act wisely and live with Wisdom.
The wiser we are, then it is likely...
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For the Contemplatives, Without and Within
For the Contemplatives – Without and Within
We need to rediscover and reclaim Spirituality for the Contemplatives.
The Contemplatives that are around us; in quiet corners of silent rooms, in dim lit caves in foreign lands; in green moist jungles and in cathedrals of forest groves.
Yet we also need to rediscover and reclaim Spirituality for the Contemplative that is within us; dwelling deeply beyond the surface level surging of worldly issues and concerns, fears and frustrations, fictions and fantasies.
If we leave...
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The Science of the Self – Three Levels
The whole experience of life, the experience of our life, is referenced from, back and to the self – our self.
It is well worth, wondering, what is this reference point, what is the form and function of this phenomena that we call the self – ATTA?
Accommodating a scientific, psychological and spiritual perspective; a personal and trans-personal appreciation; the self maybe seen to find form and function on three interrelated levels.
These Three Levels of the Self are:
The ‘Psychological Self’
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