Dear Friends, Trusting this message finds you mindfully moving forth into the blossoming of our...

Dear Friends Trusting this message finds you well and warm as we progress through our...

FINDING OUR WAY HOME! Dear Friends In some way or another we are all looking for...

Easter Personal Retreat: BODHI TREE FOREST MONASTERY – SATIPATTHANA VIPASSANA MEDITATION CENTRE Dear Friends This Easter...

Dear Friends, Trusting this note finds you settling in to our Autumn months and cooler...

Dear Friends – we often think and feel that our life is mostly about...

Dear Friends Happy New-Year 2019. I do hope that you have had a pleasant Christmas –...

Dear Friends Like all things that come into being and then change or pass...

Dear Friends Welcome to Summer. I trust this note finds you well and warm having arrived...

STILL-HERE; STILL-NOW; STILL-LIFE; STILL KNOWING Dear Friends There is a way of ‘Knowing’ that is...

Dear Friends I hope this note finds you venturing forth from the hibernation that Winter...

REALISING RETREAT We all need to experience a ‘Retreat’. A retreat certainly can be a specific...

‘SUSTAINABLE WELL-BEING’ – Reflections by John Barter More than anything else, we seek to be...

Dear Friends – Welcome to Winter. We certainly know that the year is moving on...

THE FOUR WAYS OF MINDFULNESS Mindfulness is a ‘Conscious Clarity’ and an ‘Awakened Awareness’. Mindfulness...

Dear Friends Now in the fourth month of our year; why not take some time...

Half Day Meditation Retreat Sunday 25th March 10.00 – 1.00pm NSW time (9.00am to 12.00...

Here are the dates for my retreats for the rest of this year -...

 Miracles. We love ‘Miracles’. Human beings love miracles! For the fact remains that we as human beings...

Dear Friends A ‘Mindful’ and ‘Kind-ful’ welcome to our New Year of 2018. I do hope...

YEARS END Dear Friends Welcome to another – Years End in this journey of Life. Such a...

Our WELL-AWARE-NESS Monday Evening Meditation Group will have its last session for the year...

Recent reflections around the experience of Dementia, Alzheimer’s and the process of aging, inspired...

Dear Friends OUR LIFE – TIME Our Life is our time and thus our ‘Life Time’! In...

LIFE AS OUR ‘STRESS – TEST’ So, as it turns out, ‘Life’ is our big...

Dear Friends ‘Ten thousand flowers in Spring, The moon in Autumn. A cool breeze in...

NOW - THIS - HERE Before ‘then’ – NOW Before ‘that’ – THIS Before ‘there’ – HERE Our...

Mindfulness is not enough! The Great Forest Meditation Masters, including my own teacher Venerable Ajahn...

Buddhist Psychology - The Four Noble Truths Buddhist Psychology is much more that a psychology...

Mindfulness moves us! Mindfulness. Mindfulness moves. Mindfulness moves us! Mindfulness moves us from havoc to harmony. Mindfulness moves us...

Psycho Spiritual Well-Being through Winter. We all seek to have health and happiness. We probably do...

Reflect – Contemplate and Meditate: One of the fundamental Truths of Realty – which the...

‘Coming to our senses’, both literally and metaphorically, is made possible with mindfulness. But are...

The ‘psychological self’, what we call ‘our self’ or ‘myself’; is a ‘descriptor’. As a...

Dear Friends in Dhamma We welcome the new season of Winter. This means that another season...

No One Comes to Light Our Meditation is time out of time. In our meditation...

Our Meditation Practice helps to develop ‘MIND SIGHT’. Meditation leads to INSIGHT. Meditation helps the mind...

The engagement into life requires commitment. The commitment to attend consciously to life now...

30.04.17:  Meditation – Dissolves and Resolves all Issues. In our Meditation, many issues and problems...

What is the ‘meaning’ of Life? This sounds like a reasonable and rational question. Certainly...

Dear Friends Autumn Greetings. Our life is a continual process Change and Transition. We transition from this...

With only 3 weeks left in North Sydney, do make the most of John's...

With only 4 weeks to go until WELL-AWARE-NESS Psychology closes it's doors in Ridge...

Dear Friends The Buddhist phrase below offers insight and inspiration as to the reality of...

Dear Friends Spring has arrived offering the opportunity of new life, new growth, fresh opportunities,...

This 5 week Meditative program is a unique offering by John of Readings, Reflection, Meditations...

Life with Care How, could, should, would a mind free from the delusion of identification...

As we live into the middle of winter and the weather becomes cooler and...

Get Inoculated against the STRESS VIRUS -  Psycho Spiritual Immunology (Urban Retreat June 18th -...

Qi Gong is a Moving Meditation and Mind-Body wellness practice which is a combination of Movement, Posture,...

  Dear Friends There are many feelings and emotions that may be described as defining being...

Our calendar of upcoming events - Retreats, Workshops, Groups, Courses (all ages) Saturday April 30 :...

Important News at WELL-AWARE-NESS We are all aware of the reality of change and impermanence,...

Our spiritual path is made up of many factors that at times may even...

We are a lifetime of breathing and half of this time is breathing out. Before...

Dear Friends Trusting that you have had a pleasant and peaceful Christmas/New Year break and...

As this year 2015 winds to conclusion, we may well note that how we...

We have a number of practitioners offering services and support from 14 Ridge Street,...

Finally the world is catching onto the important of Mindfulness - especially governing foundations! John...

We now have a HICAPS machine. What HICAPS enables - to pay by Credit Card (including...

The First Miracle of life as a human being is that we can think The...

SPRING HAS SPRUNG We often become so caught in our mind, we forget about our...

How important is your life to you and others around you????? Quality of life is...

One month to go - Are you ready? The 4 things you need to...

Imagine if trees gave us us free wifi We'd all be planting like crazy It's a...

  John is back at Well-Aware-Ness in North Sydney and looking forward to resuming weekly...

John has had a fall in the garden and broken his ankle. After some surgery,...

From my own experience, life can be challenging and disappointing at times but if...

Thank you for your help and support through the Ajahn Tiradhammo Sydney visit last...

John is away from 8th April to 20th April 2016 Thursday Group Meditation - Thursday 14th...

Venerable Tiradhammo has been a Buddhist Monk for over 30 years. He is one of...

We completed our 4 week HSC - Help Stay Calm during the HSC Journey ...

We ran SIX Saturday workshops in 2014 and enjoyed many new people coming to...