Category Archives: Message From John
Point of peace …..
Dear Friends
So often we miss the ‘point of peace’ which is always and only right – here – now, when we don’t get caught into wishing or wanting something other than what is!
Whilst we do need to use discernment and wisdom based judgments in life, when we make ‘judgemental judgements’ we trap ourselves and often others too in frustration and fear.
Have a read of my verse below for Mindful Reflection and the development of your own Life Wisdom.
Kind Regards
John
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Relax into uncertainty
RELAX INTO UNCERTAINTY
Relax into uncertainty;
For uncertainty is the fundamental foundation
and underlying reality of our life.
Uncertainty is the binding element
that collects and connects all conditioned things;
that both allows and is the cause of their arising and their passing.
While both frustrating and fascinating,
Uncertainty has much more to offer us than our thought
would like us to consciously consider.
For uncertainty is the mother of our creativity and the father of possibilities.
Uncertainty is the child of our hope and excitement
while also being the grandparent...
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Transitional Zones
Dear Friends
Maybe its time for some mind time, free from the roles and responsibilities of our self? Finding or making a ‘Transitional Zone – time and space in your day or week could be the answer to ‘Sustainable Well-Being’ and the Transpersonal experience of just Mindful Knowing free from being caught up as the ‘knower’! Have a read of my idea of ‘Transitional Zones.
Kind Regards
John B.
TRANSITIONAL ZONES
Transitional Zones or Space are important in our life and integral to...
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Ultimate truth and freedom
Dear Friends
Spiritual Practice is the mindful engagement of wisdom based perspectives and practices, purposed towards mental calm, clarity, insightful understandings and the realisation of Ultimate Truth and Freedom.
Our Spiritual Practice is the mindful engagement and expression of our Mind-Heart and as such the Mind-Heart will find the best supportive environment for it lessons, learnings and Liberation.
Last week on the 25th July my student, friend and friend to many, Stephen took Monastic Ordination as a Samanera – a Novice Monk...
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Ode to Trees
Dear friends
Over the week I have been contemplating the wonder and the worth of our friends the ‘Trees’.
Please find joy and appreciation in my ‘Ode to Trees’.
Take time to find yourself a tree to visit and share with, make friends with and you will never feel lonely.
ODE TO TREES
To the beloved company of our tall and sturdy many varied friends, the Trees;
Wherever you are; whatever you are;
We give thanks.
We thank you for growing and greening this planet, our...
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Beautiful Friendship
We need to Connect, Communicate and Care.
Why?
Because, the ‘psychological-self’;
The you and the me;
The I and the we;
The them, they and us;
Is a ‘relational tool’.
The mind’s ‘relational tool’ for connecting and collecting experience; for calculating and communicating with others is the ‘psychological-self’.
This ‘I-self’, is fed and fuelled, nurtured and nourished by the activities of connecting and communing, communicating and caring.
The ‘I-self’ is a psychological relational phenomena;
Created and construed, constructed and conditioned to connect; to relate and create relationships.
The ‘I-self’ is...
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Now …. the right side
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing
...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all,
though few put it to use. - Plotinus
Our whole brain and mind is important for full functioning in life. Both the left and right sides of our brain interact extensively to understand, make sense of our world, to communicate and engage in life.
However, we have become a culture and a species of what we can call ‘Left-Brain Dominance’.
Whilst this has...
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Let’s get right now
LET’S GET RIGHT NOW!
Don’t look for the Spiritual, Sacred or Divine.
Don’t listen for the Spiritual, Sacred or Divine.
Don’t think to understand the Spiritual, Sacred or Divine.
But rather simply Be!
Be Mindful and Heartful,
Be present to Life Right-Now.
By being so; we will see what we were looking for.
We will hear what we were listening for.
We will know with no need to think.
And in the seeing, there will be just looking.
In the hearing, there will be just listening.
In knowing, there will...
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Heart inspired
HEART INSPIRED
The source of my Love is not my Love.
The source of your Love is not your Love.
The source of our Love is not our Love.
For this Love is the primordial, trans-personal dynamic energy of connecting.
The fundamental, radical relatedness
At the Heart and as the Heart
Of us all.
It can be most helpful to mindfully monitor, be aware and wise to, the movements of our mind.
This is especially so with what the mind identifies and so easily becomes identified with, as...
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Mindful Morning with a Monk Ajahn Tiradhammo
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 England. Together they were Abbot and Vice Abbot of Dhammapala Monastery in Switzerland until John left Monastic Life in late 1992.
Ajahn Tiradhammo has regularly given teachings at...
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