Directions to Ratanagiri: If travelling south on the Pacific Motorway take the Clothiers Creek exit. Turn right onto Clothiers Creek Road for 10 kms, turning right onto Farrants Road.
If travelling on Tweed Valley Way, turn right onto Clothiers Creek Road at Condong. Travel along Clothiers Creek Road for 7 kms, turning left onto Farrants Road.
200 metres along Farrants Road turn right into Double View Road. 100 metres on left just before the ‘Ratanagiri’ & ‘Private Road’ sign posts Car Parking spaces available or park on street.
Walk up the ‘Private Road’ & ‘Ratanagiri’ on left, in through the black farm gate. Turn sharp right up the gravel driveway, small orange flag at the entrance.
Pass the Bali Spirit House up to the house.
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
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 […]
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More than anything else we strive to be happy. The happiness that we really seek is more of a ‘Well-Being’ than a light hearted happiness that does not last long. This ‘Well-Being’, includes both being well and living well. For the Happiness of ‘Well-Being’ to be worth while it needs to be ‘Sustainable’. Where we […]
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 […]
Mindfulness Meditations & Reflections for ‘Inner Listening, Seeing, Feeling, Knowing & Being’ With John Barter BA.(Psych)(Uni. Syd.), Grad. Dip.Sci.(Psych) (Uni. Syd.), M. Coun. MAPS Half Day Retreat So often and so easily, we become attracted and distracted by the external world of things. In doing so we miss out on the great wealth of information, understanding […]
THE THREE WAYS TO WISDOM Much of our experience of stress and suffering would be alleviated if we used more Wisdom in making choices and dealing with the challenges of our life. Living and relating from Wisdom can enhance our well-being and the welfare of others that we connect with. Wisdom is a faculty that […]