Here are the dates for the Mindfulness Retreats at Farrants Hill. Please mark your diaries – Sunday 10th February Sunday 31st March Sunday 19th May (John’s Birthday on 20th) (This will be a visit to a Monestery, see details below) Sunday 7th July Sunday 1st September Sunday 20th October Sunday 1st December Sunday […]
MEDITATIONS AND REFLECTIONS ON Coming to our Senses -The Art of Receptive Knowing – How we know and experience life is based upon how we see and perceive. So often we get caught in seeing things through our conditioned and conceptual mental perspective. This can cause us to not really see with our eye but […]
Our next retreat on the theme of ‘The Four Foundations of Mindfulness’ on Sunday the 31st March, 10:00am – 1:00pm (NSW time). At Ratanagiri – 11 Double View Road, Farrants Hill, Tweed Coast
Mindfulness & Buddhist Based Meditation Full Day Retreat ‘From Self-Centred to Reality-Centred Living’ With Venerable Ajahn Tiradhammo We easily become caught in living our life both from and for ourselves. However we may have found that this causes and creates ongoing stress and dissatisfaction. The Buddha’s teachings offer a way of moving from Self-Centred living […]
Monastery Day visit to Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery. For those of you living in the Northern Rivers – Byron, Tweed and Gold Coast Region, John is arranging a group visit to Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery near Lismore. Sunday 19th May is Vesaka Puja, one of the most significant Buddhist celebration days, celebrating the birth, enlightenment […]
NEXT RETREAT WITH JOHN: ‘Meditations and Reflections’ ‘Enlightened-Living’ Half Day Meditation Retreat Sunday 7th July 10.00am – 1:00pm It can be wonderful to write, read and listen to poetry, verse and reflections that brighten the mind, lighten the heart and inspire us to be more present to life. This Half Day Meditation Retreat will offer […]
MEDITATIONS & REFLECTIONS ON ‘The Four Foundations of Mindfulness for Insight – Vipassana’ with Venerable Pannyavaro One of the most significant and profound teach-ings on meditation given by the Buddha is that of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. This practice leads to insightful understanding of our Mind-Body condition and ultimately lead to the full and […]
MEDITATIONS & REFLECTIONS - Gratefulness with John Barter 'We all wish to be HAPPY, Gratefulness is a great way to realise this'. Gratefulness is an expression of communication and communion with our experience of life as a human being. Gratefulness is a response of the heart from both wisdom and compassion and allows a joy, […]
MEDITATIONS & REFLECTIONS - 'Maintaining Momentum of Mindfulness' with John Barter, We have grown to appreciate the importance of Mindfulness in our daily life and yet we so easily become distracted and distressed. Much of this is because we have not Mindfully managed the momentum of maintaining our Mindfulness. This Half Day Meditation Retreat offers […]
MEDITATIONS & REFLECTIONS - 'Mindfulness for Making the Moment Meaningful' with John Barter, So much of our precious ‘Life moments’ are lost in unawareness. Mindfulness collects attention and connects us directly to what is happening both outside of us and within us in a special way. Mindfulness transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, making the […]