Author Archives: John Barter
Reflections on the passage and process of time passing ……
Reflections on the passage and process of time passing.
And yet in reality - time is both subjective and relative - only a concept held in the mind.
For when is it never not now? The timeless present - the eternal moment?
In Realising Reality, we realise what we are, beyond, identification with past or future and all things time based.
The eternal JUST NOW - no beginning and no end!
Freedom - Peace.
John B
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Facebook – how does it make you feel?
With progress comes change, choice and challenge. Here the challenge is to adopt or develop new methods and modes of being, to live with such changes.
A colleague this week emailed me some information about current Psychological research on the use of Facebook.
The research indicates that the use of Facebook is related to depression - through people comparing themselves with others.
I reflected that Buddha offers some Psychological medicine for this in pointing out the importance of MUDITA - 'Joy With...
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Gratefulness – How being grateful can help you to be happy
From my own experience, life can be challenging and disappointing at times but if we are relating and interfacing from the mind set and heart set of Gratefulness – Appreciative Joy, it can make all the difference between feeling disheartened and feeling heartful.
Gratefulness is that healing balm for the pains of progress and allowing our positive potentials to be fulfilled.
Just a simple saying like – ‘what experience have I had today to be grateful for’ – can be a...
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Interview with John Barter – All Things Meditation
Interview transcript: Jen Ng from the University of Technology, Sydney, with
Buddhist psychologist and Mindfulness Meditation teacher from Well-Aware-Ness,
John Barter
Dated: April 2015
How does Buddhist psychology differ and contribute to western psychology?
There is a growing movement from the spiritual and sacred to the secular within
contemporary western culture. This is something that has occurred for some time and
more specifically and more recently with regards to meditation. There is a movement
from what has been the specific domain of the monastery, especially Buddhist
monasteries, into...
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Qi Gong at Well-Aware-Ness with Patrice Thomas Sunday 31st May
Join us in May for our monthly
GENTLE EXERCISE (Qi Gong) and MEDITATION CLASS –
A wonderful way to restore and replenish for the coming week
with Patrice Thomas
Patrice with Sifu Wing Cheung
When: Sunday 31st May 2015
Time: 4pm
Where: 14 Ridge St, North Sydney
Cost: $20.00 (teens 14 & up can come with parent/s free of charge)
Email: patrice@mindfulconnections.com.au to register
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John’s Easter Message
Easter is a time of spiritual reflection, not just a holiday to eat chocolates!
Easter, a time traditionally for renewal and rebirth as in the Pagan Festival of Fertility - Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre) was the Great Mother Goddess from which Easter originates - hence the symbols of eggs and rabbits!! Many of you will be taking a break over the Easter holiday period. Enjoy this special time of the year.
Easter also marks the start of the cooler months when finding...
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Ajahn Tiradhammo’s Sydney Visit Warmly Received
Thank you for your help and support through the Ajahn Tiradhammo Sydney visit last week.
Everyone warmly received the great inspirational teachings and guidance.
Ajahn thoroughly enjoyed seeing so many familiar faces here at Well-Aware-Ness.
We hope to welcome him again during his next visit to Sydney.
If you would like to connect to Ajahn Tiradhammo - visit www.forrestsangha.org.uk
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Friendship is both a life support and a support for life.
John's Message .......
FRIENDSHIP is both a life support and a support for life.
To find a friend to share with, care with, learn with, love with and even live with - is a blessing indeed.
And if such a friend encourages us - and inspires us to Realise Reality and live from Dhamma - Truth - such a friendship is very precious.
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John’s Message
Do you ever wonder why you’re not getting what you want?
Trying to gain or attain calm, wisdom or enlightenment is no more possible than trying to gain or attain your head or feet.
Calm clarity; insightful wisdom and spiritual enlightenment are our fundamental nature.
The more we stress and struggle, strain to attain, the more we move away from what we already always are – Real Peace & Perfect Freedom.
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Ajahn Tiradhammo – Sharing his Wisdom Teachings
Venerable Tiradhammo has been a Buddhist Monk for over 30 years.
He is one of the world’s most senior western Theravada Forest Monks and a senior disciple of the Meditation Master Ven. Ajahn Chah.
After many years in North-East Thailand, he was invited to England to help in the establishment of the western monastic communities there. He has been the abbot of several monasteries including Dhammapala Monastery in Switzerland for 15 years, and is now the abbot of Bodhinyanarama Monastery in...
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