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Welcome To Spring
Dear Friends,
Welcome to Spring!
Certainly a season of the year that many people look forward to, not to mention all the flora and fauna that express their beauty at this time of year.
The changes in the temperature, the different light that Spring brings in the sky compared to Winter and the sight and sounds of Nature are all expressive of this time of the year.
Here in the Southern Hemisphere, the arrival of Spring is a statement that our year is...
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Sunday Retreat with Special Guest Venerable Mettaji
GUEST VISITOR TO RATANATAGIRI – FARRANTS HILL
We are very fortunate to welcome Venerable Mettaji, a Buddhist Monk resident at Bodhinyana Monastery in Perth, to visit us at Ratanagiri from Thursday 14th March to Sunday 17th March 2024.
Venerable Mettaji visited us last year and shared teachings on the importance and the practice of Metta – Loving Kindness. This year he will talk about Virtue and Composure. This will extend on the teachings and reflections that I gave last month on...
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Spring Newsletter 2023
Dear Friends,
Welcome to Spring!
Yes, another Spring, yet always a new Spring, never quite like the last nor the same as the next!
Spring is only possible after a Winter, it is the natural and normal way of things. Certainly, Spring is a season much appreciated as a significant change from the season that was Winter, unlike Summer that tends to flow on from the warmth that is Spring.
Certainly, here in the Southern Hemisphere, Spring reminds us that we are beyond...
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Winter Newsletter 2023
Dear Friends
Welcome to Winter 2023.
Whilst Winter comes around each year, and certainly we have had many of them, each Winter is unique and special! Hopefully we are a little more mindful, kind-ful and wise-ful as each Winter comes to our life.
This is because Winter can be a time of more inner Meditation and Contemplation, more introspection and reflection; as we spend more time at home and inside.
Certainly Nature, flora-fauna and fungi, are quieter during the Winter period. As we...
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