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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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Beautiful Friendship
We need to Connect, Communicate and Care.
Why?
Because, the ‘psychological-self’;
The you and the me;
The I and the we;
The them, they and us;
Is a ‘relational tool’.
The mind’s ‘relational tool’ for connecting and collecting experience; for calculating and communicating with others is the ‘psychological-self’.
This ‘I-self’, is fed and fuelled, nurtured and nourished by the activities of connecting and communing, communicating and caring.
The ‘I-self’ is a psychological relational phenomena;
Created and construed, constructed and conditioned to connect; to relate and create relationships.
The ‘I-self’ is...
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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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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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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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Renovate our real home with meditative mind training
RENOVATE OUR REAL HOME WITH MEDITATIVE MIND TRAINING
Of all the varieties of practices and processes, psychologies and psychotherapies for ‘self-improvement’; there is however no adequate replacement or alternative for Mindfulness based Meditation.
Mindfulness based Meditation is the main way to exercise, develop and enhance the fundamental functioning of the ‘hard ware’ of the brain for enabling and engaging the resultant mind and functioning ‘self’. Many of the life- long unhelpful habits of self can be brought into the calm and...
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The Freedom Gift of Forgiveness
We are all seeking Freedom in some form or another.
One special form of Freedom is through the gift of Forgiveness.
Have you noticed that in giving the great gift of Forgiveness it offers Freedom on various levels.
1. Forgiveness firstly frees our own mind from the psychological poison and prison of anger, resentment and self- centered concern.
2. Forgiveness frees the perpetrator from our directed anger, resentment and disconnection.
3. Forgiveness frees the troubled relationship from distress and fear, allowing understanding,...
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