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Contemplation leads to liberation
Dear Friends
One of the blessings but also blights of being human is our ability to think!
That we can think is a great virtue but also a great vice. It can bring great joy but also be a great source of psychological stress and suffering.
Maybe that is why the Buddha in his wisdom stated the need for ‘Right Thought’.
Right Thought is the second of the eight factors of the Practice Path of the Buddha’s Teachings.
Right Thought includes, thinking at the...
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Can we go quietly …..
Dear Friends
Our life is a process of happenings, all involving beginnings and endings. How we experience such beginnings or endings determines the particular experience and quality of our life. Whilst every beginning has implicit within it an ending, how we approach or feel about these is up to us. A beginning may be experienced with fear and anxiety or with curiosity and excitement. An ending may be met with disappointment and despair or with a resolving and release.
The following...
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Life Limiting Factors
Dear Friends
Often, so much of our precious life energy is affected by certain psychological factors. We may find that we are only living and feeling a portion of our life’s vitality and aliveness.
Be moved and motivated to find out what is causing this loss of life for our selves. Enjoy my verse for this week.
Kind Regards
John
LIFE LIMITING FACTORS
What is the factor; what are the factors;
That limit, lessen or cause the loss
Of our alertness and aliveness to life?
What are they,...
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The Life Given Moment
Dear Friends
Welcome to the warm of Spring.
This new season brings forth the blossoming, blooming and bursting into life of nature and hopefully our selves included, out from the hibernation that was winter.
The first few weeks of Spring, call us to our senses as much as they call us to life. To see, hear, sense and feel alive to nature and alive to life. Our senses are only receptive to present moment data, so we need to ‘come to our...
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Real Home
Dear Friends
Have you ever wondered about what is a home and what is our ‘Real Home’?
This can become a powerful consideration or reflection for contemplation when we think about such concepts as ‘Unconditioned’, ‘Unconditional’, ‘Timeless’ and ‘Boundless’.
Take time to pause and ponder my verse on our ‘Real Home’ as a state of ‘No State’.
Kind Regards
John
OUR HOME STATE IS NO STATE
A home is a place where we can feel ‘at home’.
A home is a place to feel safe, secure and...
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Point of peace …..
Dear Friends
So often we miss the ‘point of peace’ which is always and only right – here – now, when we don’t get caught into wishing or wanting something other than what is!
Whilst we do need to use discernment and wisdom based judgments in life, when we make ‘judgemental judgements’ we trap ourselves and often others too in frustration and fear.
Have a read of my verse below for Mindful Reflection and the development of your own Life Wisdom.
Kind Regards
John
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Relax into uncertainty
RELAX INTO UNCERTAINTY
Relax into uncertainty;
For uncertainty is the fundamental foundation
and underlying reality of our life.
Uncertainty is the binding element
that collects and connects all conditioned things;
that both allows and is the cause of their arising and their passing.
While both frustrating and fascinating,
Uncertainty has much more to offer us than our thought
would like us to consciously consider.
For uncertainty is the mother of our creativity and the father of possibilities.
Uncertainty is the child of our hope and excitement
while also being the grandparent...
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Transitional Zones
Dear Friends
Maybe its time for some mind time, free from the roles and responsibilities of our self? Finding or making a ‘Transitional Zone – time and space in your day or week could be the answer to ‘Sustainable Well-Being’ and the Transpersonal experience of just Mindful Knowing free from being caught up as the ‘knower’! Have a read of my idea of ‘Transitional Zones.
Kind Regards
John B.
TRANSITIONAL ZONES
Transitional Zones or Space are important in our life and integral to...
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Ultimate truth and freedom
Dear Friends
Spiritual Practice is the mindful engagement of wisdom based perspectives and practices, purposed towards mental calm, clarity, insightful understandings and the realisation of Ultimate Truth and Freedom.
Our Spiritual Practice is the mindful engagement and expression of our Mind-Heart and as such the Mind-Heart will find the best supportive environment for it lessons, learnings and Liberation.
Last week on the 25th July my student, friend and friend to many, Stephen took Monastic Ordination as a Samanera – a Novice Monk...
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Ode to Trees
Dear friends
Over the week I have been contemplating the wonder and the worth of our friends the ‘Trees’.
Please find joy and appreciation in my ‘Ode to Trees’.
Take time to find yourself a tree to visit and share with, make friends with and you will never feel lonely.
ODE TO TREES
To the beloved company of our tall and sturdy many varied friends, the Trees;
Wherever you are; whatever you are;
We give thanks.
We thank you for growing and greening this planet, our...
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