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Comments from our last Urban Retreat and Weekly Meditation Group …..
On Saturday 27 June a one day workshop entitled 'Stress Less Live More Love Life' was led by John at 14 Ridge Street, encouraging participants to consciously let go of wasting time on stress, by not identifying with the ego, by transcending the ego, and living in the 'just now'. The workshop, including several specially guided meditations, was very well received.
I thought I'd do one for the paramitas course too (but don't worry if you don't need it) :
From May to...
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Stress consumes so much of our precious Time & Energy …..
Stress consumes so much of our precious Time & Energy.
If we could stress less - we would have more time and energy for our life.
If we could live more Mindfully into our life - just here, just now; rather than wanting for our life which is past or wishing or worrying about our life in the future -
we would then Love into our Life - FULLY!
John B
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Reflections on the passage and process of time passing ……
Reflections on the passage and process of time passing.
And yet in reality - time is both subjective and relative - only a concept held in the mind.
For when is it never not now? The timeless present - the eternal moment?
In Realising Reality, we realise what we are, beyond, identification with past or future and all things time based.
The eternal JUST NOW - no beginning and no end!
Freedom - Peace.
John B
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Facebook – how does it make you feel?
With progress comes change, choice and challenge. Here the challenge is to adopt or develop new methods and modes of being, to live with such changes.
A colleague this week emailed me some information about current Psychological research on the use of Facebook.
The research indicates that the use of Facebook is related to depression - through people comparing themselves with others.
I reflected that Buddha offers some Psychological medicine for this in pointing out the importance of MUDITA - 'Joy With...
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Interview with John Barter – All Things Meditation
Interview transcript: Jen Ng from the University of Technology, Sydney, with
Buddhist psychologist and Mindfulness Meditation teacher from Well-Aware-Ness,
John Barter
Dated: April 2015
How does Buddhist psychology differ and contribute to western psychology?
There is a growing movement from the spiritual and sacred to the secular within
contemporary western culture. This is something that has occurred for some time and
more specifically and more recently with regards to meditation. There is a movement
from what has been the specific domain of the monastery, especially Buddhist
monasteries, into...
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Qi Gong at Well-Aware-Ness with Patrice Thomas Sunday 31st May
Join us in May for our monthly
GENTLE EXERCISE (Qi Gong) and MEDITATION CLASS –
A wonderful way to restore and replenish for the coming week
with Patrice Thomas
Patrice with Sifu Wing Cheung
When: Sunday 31st May 2015
Time: 4pm
Where: 14 Ridge St, North Sydney
Cost: $20.00 (teens 14 & up can come with parent/s free of charge)
Email: patrice@mindfulconnections.com.au to register
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John’s Easter Message
Easter is a time of spiritual reflection, not just a holiday to eat chocolates!
Easter, a time traditionally for renewal and rebirth as in the Pagan Festival of Fertility - Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre) was the Great Mother Goddess from which Easter originates - hence the symbols of eggs and rabbits!! Many of you will be taking a break over the Easter holiday period. Enjoy this special time of the year.
Easter also marks the start of the cooler months when finding...
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Friendship is both a life support and a support for life.
John's Message .......
FRIENDSHIP is both a life support and a support for life.
To find a friend to share with, care with, learn with, love with and even live with - is a blessing indeed.
And if such a friend encourages us - and inspires us to Realise Reality and live from Dhamma - Truth - such a friendship is very precious.
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John’s Message
Do you ever wonder why you’re not getting what you want?
Trying to gain or attain calm, wisdom or enlightenment is no more possible than trying to gain or attain your head or feet.
Calm clarity; insightful wisdom and spiritual enlightenment are our fundamental nature.
The more we stress and struggle, strain to attain, the more we move away from what we already always are – Real Peace & Perfect Freedom.
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Do you ever find yourself caught up in a mental mode or mood that feels very …… ‘ordinary’ ??????
John's thought for today -
Do you ever find yourself caught up in a mental mode or mood that feels very 'ordinary'?
No JOY - just getting by????
Life can even feel TIRESOME.
Having Mindfully recognised this state - we can 'pep up' -
with some Psychological Medicine.
Use the MENTAL MANTRA - JOY!
Suggest to your mind by voicing inwardly ..... JOY JOY JOY JOY
x 3 times
'Think It', 'Feel It', 'BELIEVE IT' - 'Become It'!
Life is too short to be caught in the Hum Drum...
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