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Meditation helps develop Mind Sight
Our Meditation Practice helps to develop ‘MIND SIGHT’.
Meditation leads to INSIGHT.
Meditation helps the mind see ‘me’!
Mindful Awareness of the ‘me – making’, the activity of the ‘me-ing’ and the ‘my-ing’ that leads to the mental making of the self or ‘I-ing’.
Our meditation helps the mind dis-identify from the thought and thinking that fire up, fuel and continue to feed the ‘I – dentity’.
The identity, as a relational tool is required, but the mind needs to have skilful, wise and...
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Commitment …….
The engagement into life requires commitment. The commitment to attend consciously to life now – the present.
With the conscious attention and caring commitment to life – just now; whether in a mindful moment of meditation, or the ongoing unfolding of life’s happenings, great potential is unleashed and finds fulfilment.
This is wonderfully expressed in the wise words of the 20th Century Scottish Mountaineer William Hutchison Murry, who draws inspiration from Goethe.
Please enjoy these words – Kind Regards John B.
Until one...
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Meditation – Dissolves and Resolves all Issues
30.04.17: Meditation – Dissolves and Resolves all Issues.
In our Meditation, many issues and problems resolve and dissolve.
Sometimes, such issues or problems may resolve and then dissolve, or they may dissolve and then resolve.
How and why does this happen?
All our issues and problems, worries and woes, are the result of and belong to ‘someone’. Here the ‘someone’ is the ‘someone self ’, a self, a reference point ‘I’ for receiving and sending data.
The ego, I, self, someone is both made...
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What is the ‘meaning’ of life?
What is the ‘meaning’ of Life?
This sounds like a reasonable and rational question. Certainly it is the perennial pondering of many a person and the making of philosophy for many millennia.
However could the question be wrong?
Might the question be based upon a false assumption; the assumption that there is a meaning to life and that we need to find out what that meaning really is in order to have a meaningful life?
Could it be that there is no implicit...
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Anzac Day – Remembrance
‘PUJA’ is a lovely sounding word in the Pali language of traditional Buddhism.
Puja means the act or activity of devotion or dedication, to respect and honour, that or those that are worthy of honour and respect.
The morning and evening chanting done in Buddhist Monasteries is referred to as Puja.
Puja is a way of aligning the mind and body for focus and skilful activity.
Another way we can engage Puja – is by ‘Puja to the Present’.
Puja to the present is...
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Autumn Newsletter
Dear Friends
Autumn Greetings.
Our life is a continual process Change and Transition.
We transition from this moment into the next moment; this minute into the next minute. From this hour into the next hour; from this day into the next day - the next week, the next month, the next season, the next year, next decade and finally - the next life.
More recently we have moved into the wonderful season of AUTUMN. Autumn brings cool relief from the heat of summer. Autumn...
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New Year Message
Dear Friends
Trusting this message finds you well and mindfully engaged into this New Year.
Certainly our Year 2017 is moving forward, we have moved beyond Australia Day – 26th January and have also now had Magha Puja – the full moon on 11th February this year, which marks the occasion that the Buddha gave a significant teaching. This Teaching of the Ovada Patimokkha – is an essence summary of teachings stating 'Refrain from all that is unskillful, develop all that is skillful...
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John interviewed by Tweed Daily News
John was recently interviewed by Tweed Daily News at The Brain Mind and Memory Centre at Tweed Heads, discussing how you can improve the brain and wellbeing through mindfulness, meditation and Buddhist wisdom.
Watch the unedited video below
https://youtu.be/ixNmiHH37QI
In this interview you will also discover how and why John became a Buddhist monk and then a psychologist years later.
The above photo is of John as a monk in Switzerland.
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Farewell from WELL-AWARE-NESS North Sydney
Dear Friends
As we close the doors on the North Sydney Practice of WELL-AWARE-NESS tomorrow, I would like to thank you for connecting with myself and the space here whether it be for a short time or over many years.
I have enjoyed sharing my teachings with each and every one of you.
I hope we can stay in touch through my newsletters and my visits to Sydney from time to time.
I wish you and your family a Happy Christmas, with much...
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Transcending and Transforming
Dear Friends
Welcome to NOW where it all appears to be happening. All that has been has arrived into now. All that will be will occur from now. However, for now, as you are aware, WELL-AWARE-NESS is in the process of transcending-transmigrating from Sydney and metamorphosizing into its new home, form and function on the Tweed Coast.
This is a busy time of year for myself but also for most others as well, a time to wind down without getting wound...
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