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Not all of the same sense!
Dear Friends
How do we sense what we sense and what sense do we make of that?
From what is senses through our senses – is that sensed with common sense; even an uncommon common sense or is it sensed with mental non-sense. All of what is sensed and known does go to create our sense of self or self-sense!
Enjoy my verse below and make what sense of it you will!
John B.
NOT ALL OF THE SAME SENSE!
Of sensory experience;
Received through the...
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The Bodhi Tree – Any Tree and All Trees
Easter Personal Retreat: BODHI TREE FOREST MONASTERY – SATIPATTHANA VIPASSANA MEDITATION CENTRE
Dear Friends
This Easter 2019 I took the opportunity to take a Personal Retreat at Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery and Satipattana- Vipassana Meditation Centre.
I saw this time for Personal Meditation Retreat as a both a gift to myself and to all those that I come into contact with; appreciating that if I have greater Calm, Clarity and Insightful Wisdom, this is shared with others.
On Retreat, I delighted in this...
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Live With, For and As
Dear Friends – our life abounds with continually alarming information about distressing events and happenings all around our world, this planet that we share.
We are surrounded with examples of how not to be, but find it difficult to discern and see what is an example of the Good, the Great and the Gracious.
At this Religiously Significant time of year; lets get Spiritually Significant by living and being an example both to our self and others; be they our partner,...
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COME AROUND AND COME DOWN
Dear Friends
Sometimes we need to remind our selves as to where it is at, with regards to some peace and quiet, some calm and clarity. Sometimes we need to invite our selves to come to that place, not as a demand or command but as a caring invitation. Enjoy my verse as an invitation to do just that!
John B.
COME AROUND AND COME DOWN
Come around and come down;
Drop by and drop in;
Come in and get close;
To that place of peace...
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Autumn Newsletter 2019
Dear Friends,
Trusting this note finds you settling in to our Autumn months and cooler weather. Amidst the rain over the last few days we did have wonderful weather Sunday 31st March for our Half Day Meditation Retreat at Ratangiri – Farrants Hill. Our Retreat was well attended, and I thank all of you that attended for giving up your Sunday to share your presence in Mindful reflection and meditation.
The theme for our Retreat was The Four Foundations for Mindful...
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Life at the Corner
Dear Friends – we often think and feel that our life is mostly about what has been and what will be.
However, this particular philosophy or thesis may be missing the point?
The point being that our life might just be happening right at that still point, that small corner between the past and the future. Take a meaningful pause in the present and breath-in and read-in my poem!
John B.
LIFE AT THE CORNER
It seemed to many of us; most of us;...
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On My Way Home
Dear Friends
We are meaning making beings!
One of the most important tasks of our ‘self’, the ‘psychological self’, is to create and make meaning from the ongoing flow of data that appears in perception through the five physical senses and the mental sense of thinking. Not to find or make meaning can cause great confusion and distress.
From what someone says, from what words are written, from what senses are sensed, we formulate and forge meaning so as to find our...
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Knowing the Unknown
Dear Friends
We live our life in the realm of change and
uncertainty. Whilst this includes the known, it also creates the unknown; like
the two sided of the one coin; like the back and front of the one hand.
Whilst we may feel okay with the known; maybe we can
also become comfortable with getting to know the unknown and not filling it
with fear and trepidation.
The unknown can be acknowledged, accepted and allowed
into our life as my verse below expresses.
KNOWING THE UNKNOWN
How do...
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STEP OUT OF VIEW
Dear
Friends
It is so easy and so often that we become caught in and caught up as a particular limited view or perspective. Such a view excludes other views and other people. Being caught in and as a limited view becomes a source of separation, division, confusion and conflict.
Our Meditation Practice is a way of helping the brain and mind move
from the particular to the universal and from the exclusive to the inclusive.
My verse below expresses this point...
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Always and Forever – Ever Leaving and Arriving
Dear Friends
How long do we ever spend in one place?
So often we may be here but thinking about going there; and in being there we have thoughts about being else-where.
Life is a process of ongoing flux and flow. Becoming more aware of this we can find flow in the flux without so much stress and struggle.
My verse below expresses the wonder and the mystery of the ever arriving and leaving.
John B.
ALWAYS AND FOREVER – EVER LEAVING AND ARRIVING
We are...
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