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Refuge Recovery, Brisbane Australia

Locality: Bethania, Queensland

Address: 88 - 118 Station Road 4205 Bethania, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 1-to-1 ... Online Zoom Meeting Send message for Meeting ID Password

22.01.2022 Duck Your practice is like raising a duck. Your duty is to feed it and give it water. If it grows fast or slow is the duck’s business, not yours. Let it go and just do your own work. Your business is to practise. If it’s fast or slow, just know it. Don’t try to force it. This kind of practice has a good foundation.

21.01.2022 Itchy Head If we don’t know how to handle suffering when it arises, we won’t be able to get any relief from it. It’s just as if we have an itch on our head and we scratch our leg! If it’s our head that’s itchy, then we’re obviously not going to get any relief by scratching our leg.

19.01.2022 A year before his death, Franz Kafka had a very unusual experience. Strolling through the Steglitz park in Berlin, he found a girl crying heartbroken: she had lost her doll. Kafka offered to help look for the doll and prepared to meet her the next day at the same place. Unable to find the doll, he composed a letter "written" by the doll and read it when they met again: ... Please do not cry, I have gone on a trip to see the world. I'm going to write to you about my adventures." This was the beginning of many letters. When he and the girl met, he read these carefully composed letters of imaginary adventures about the beloved doll. The girl was comforted. When the meetings came to an end, Kafka gave her a doll. She obviously looked different from the original doll. An attached letter explained: "My trips they have changed me." Many years later, the now grown-up girl found a letter tucked into an unnoticed crack inside the wrist of the doll. In short, it said: "Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way." May you be free from hostility, affliction and distress and may you live happily.

18.01.2022 Blind Man A man married a beautiful girl. He loved her very much. One day she developed a skin disease. Slowly she started to lose her beauty. It so happened that one day her husband left to go to the market. While returning he met with an accident and lost his eyesight. However, their married life continued as usual. But as days passed she lost her beauty gradually. Blind husband did not know this and there was not any difference in their married life. He continued to love ...her and she also loved him very much. One day she died. Her death brought him great sorrow. He finished all her last rites and wanted to leave that town. A man from behind called and said, how will you be able to walk all alone? All these days your wife used to help you. He replied, I am not blind. I was acting, because if she knew l could see her ugliness it would have pained her more than her disease. So, I pretended to be blind. She was a very good wife. I only wanted to keep her happy. Sometimes it is good for us to act blind and ignore one another's short comings, in order to be happy. No matter how many times the teeth bite the tongue, they still stay together in one mouth. Even though the eyes don't see each other, they see things together, blink simultaneously and cry together. The razor blade is sharp but can't cut a tree; the axe is strong but can't cut the hair. That's the beauty of human relations. We are nothing without each other. 1. Alone I can 'Say' but together we can 'Talk'. 2. Alone I can 'Enjoy' but together we can 'Celebrate'. 3. Alone I can 'Smile' but together we can 'Laugh'.

14.01.2022 Feeling unpleasant ... you can't forgive ... realise you need to ... this might be for you. Learn the practice of Forgiveness Meditation. We spend more time with ourselves than anyone else while we are alive, and sometimes we need to forgive and love ourselves before we can give anything to others. Forgiveness Meditation can help with many memories from the past that you might be attached to and which can be blocking your progress in many areas of your life.... Sometimes in our lives there can be a feeling of letting someone down by not doing enough to help them. Of course, this is just mind saying I should’ve been better; I could’ve done better; I would’ve done better; I failed and I am not worthy and because of that I should suffer even more. The practice of Forgiveness Meditation eventually makes things change in your mind so there will not be any guilt, frustration, sadness, anger or making excuses for making mistakes and then feeling hard about yourself. Therefore, Forgiveness Meditation is a way of opening yourself up to the possibilities of true healing. This is a soft gentle way of learning how to accept that unpleasant feeling when it arises and to leave it be, without trying to control it with thoughts, alcohol, drugs, food, etc.

14.01.2022 The Buddhist path to healing and recovery is for everyone.

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10.01.2022 Cobra Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, it simply goes its own way. Even though it may be extremely poisonous, we are not affected by it. We don’t go near it or take hold of it, and so it doesn’t bite us. The cobra does what is natural for a cobra to do. That’s the way it is. If you are clever, you’ll leave it alone. Likewise, you let be that which is not good you let it be according to its own nature. You also let be tha...t which is good. Don’t grab onto liking and disliking, just as you wouldn’t interfere with the cobra. One who is clever will have this kind of attitude towards the various moods that arise in the mind. When goodness arises, we let it be good. We understand its nature. In the same way, we let be the not-good. We let it be according to its nature. We don’t take hold of it because we don’t want anything. We don’t want evil. We don’t want good. We don’t want heaviness nor lightness, happiness nor suffering. When our wanting is at an end, peace is firmly established.

10.01.2022 As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequa...l justice, many people have reached out asking how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change. Ultimately, it’s going to be up to a new generation of activists to shape strategies that best fit the times. But I believe there are some basic lessons to draw from past efforts that are worth remembering. First, the waves of protests across the country represent a genuine and legitimate frustration over a decades-long failure to reform police practices and the broader criminal justice system in the United States. The overwhelming majority of participants have been peaceful, courageous, responsible, and inspiring. They deserve our respect and support, not condemnation something that police in cities like Camden and Flint have commendably understood. On the other hand, the small minority of folks who’ve resorted to violence in various forms, whether out of genuine anger or mere opportunism, are putting innocent people at risk, compounding the destruction of neighborhoods that are often already short on services and investment and detracting from the larger cause. I saw an elderly black woman being interviewed today in tears because the only grocery store in her neighborhood had been trashed. If history is any guide, that store may take years to come back. So let’s not excuse violence, or rationalize it, or participate in it. If we want our criminal justice system, and American society at large, to operate on a higher ethical code, then we have to model that code ourselves. Second, I’ve heard some suggest that the recurrent problem of racial bias in our criminal justice system proves that only protests and direct action can bring about change, and that voting and participation in electoral politics is a waste of time. I couldn’t disagree more. The point of protest is to raise public awareness, to put a spotlight on injustice, and to make the powers that be uncomfortable; in fact, throughout American history, it’s often only been in response to protests and civil disobedience that the political system has even paid attention to marginalized communities. But eventually, aspirations have to be translated into specific laws and institutional practices and in a democracy, that only happens when we elect government officials who are responsive to our demands. Moreover, it’s important for us to understand which levels of government have the biggest impact on our criminal justice system and police practices. When we think about politics, a lot of us focus only on the presidency and the federal government. And yes, we should be fighting to make sure that we have a president, a Congress, a U.S. Justice Department, and a federal judiciary that actually recognize the ongoing, corrosive role that racism plays in our society and want to do something about it. But the elected officials who matter most in reforming police departments and the criminal justice system work at the state and local levels. It’s mayors and county executives that appoint most police chiefs and negotiate collective bargaining agreements with police unions. It’s district attorneys and state’s attorneys that decide whether or not to investigate and ultimately charge those involved in police misconduct. Those are all elected positions. In some places, police review boards with the power to monitor police conduct are elected as well. Unfortunately, voter turnout in these local races is usually pitifully low, especially among young people which makes no sense given the direct impact these offices have on social justice issues, not to mention the fact that who wins and who loses those seats is often determined by just a few thousand, or even a few hundred, votes. So the bottom line is this: if we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We have to do both. We have to mobilize to raise awareness, and we have to organize and cast our ballots to make sure that we elect candidates who will act on reform. Finally, the more specific we can make demands for criminal justice and police reform, the harder it will be for elected officials to just offer lip service to the cause and then fall back into business as usual once protests have gone away. The content of that reform agenda will be different for various communities. A big city may need one set of reforms; a rural community may need another. Some agencies will require wholesale rehabilitation; others should make minor improvements. Every law enforcement agency should have clear policies, including an independent body that conducts investigations of alleged misconduct. Tailoring reforms for each community will require local activists and organizations to do their research and educate fellow citizens in their community on what strategies work best. But as a starting point, I’ve included two links below. One leads to a report and toolkit developed by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and based on the work of the Task Force on 21st Century Policing that I formed when I was in the White House. And if you’re interested in taking concrete action, we’ve also created a dedicated site at the Obama Foundation to aggregate and direct you to useful resources and organizations who’ve been fighting the good fight at the local and national levels for years. I recognize that these past few months have been hard and dispiriting that the fear, sorrow, uncertainty, and hardship of a pandemic have been compounded by tragic reminders that prejudice and inequality still shape so much of American life. But watching the heightened activism of young people in recent weeks, of every race and every station, makes me hopeful. If, going forward, we can channel our justifiable anger into peaceful, sustained, and effective action, then this moment can be a real turning point in our nation’s long journey to live up to our highest ideals. Let’s get to work. - obama.org/policing-civil-rights-org-toolkit - obama.org/anguish-and-action

06.01.2022 Practice Wherever you are still lacking in your practice, that's where you apply yourself. Place all your attention on that point. While sitting, lying down or walking, watch right there. It's just like a farmer who hasn't yet finished his field. Every year he plants rice, but this year he still hasn't gotten his planting finished, so his mind is always stuck on that. His mind can't rest because he knows his work is not yet finished. Even when he's with friends, he can't rel...ax. He's all the time nagged by the thought of his unfinished field. Or it's like a mother who leaves her baby upstairs in the house while she goes to feed the animals below. She's always got her baby on her mind, for fear something might happen to it. Even though she may be doing other things, her baby is never far from her thoughts. It's just the same for us in our practice. We should never forget it. Even though we may be doing other things, our practice should never be far from our thoughts. It should constantly be with us, day and night. It has to be like this if we're really going to make progress. May you be free from hostility May you be free from affliction May you be free from distress May you live happily

05.01.2022 I was not born into your typical family of middle class, my mother was a heroin addict and my father was not around. We lived in a very small town called Moe in... Gippsland Victoria. We moved when I was a toddler to a Melbourne suburb and from there on we lived in a huge commission block of appartments, we called them the Bronx or as in the states they are referred to as the Projects. This is what I called home. We were living in complete poverty where things often happened that no child should ever experience. By the age of five I had already experienced sexual assault, neglect, knew about drug use and was a frequent flyer with the department of children services. I spent the majority of my childhood in foster care. It was not uncommon for me to not be fed or bathed. I would be riddled with head lice and sometimes got bullied at school for smelling of urine. I felt out of place to society, I felt different to everyone else, I had no self esteem and had no idea how to connect with others on an emotional level because really I was so emotionally detached I didn’t even know how to cry. At twelve I got intoxicated for the first time and fell in love with the feeling of not having to worry about a damn thing. It was like suddenly the weight was lifted off my shoulders!! I would drink to black out and it wasn’t uncommon for me to have no idea what happened most of the time. At 14 I was introduced to narcotics and finally I felt strong, invincible and untouchable but what I found very quickly was that my life was starting to spiral out of control. As the years went on it got worse and worse and I lost more and more and before I knew it I was doing things I didn’t want to do in order to use. In the end I spent seventeen years in addiction and it took me eleven years in and fourteen relapses to get where I am today. I’m lucky to be alive. I wasn’t going to be another statistic. I had been one my whole life. I didn’t want to die and I didn’t want people to look at me in pity as they had since I was a child. I wanted to be safe and free. I had never felt that my whole life. I wanted to be an inspiration to others just like the ones I looked up to. If I could stop one person with my experience from going down the path I had, or give them hope that you can have any life you want despite where you came from, then I would bare my shame, my pain, my truth, my hurt, my EVERYTHING if it meant they didn’t have to experience it for themself. Today I am clean and sober have been for a bit of time. Today I am not in housing commission or poverty. I feel safe and loved. I am educated and kicking goals. I have self love and awareness around my addictions. I don’t feel different to others I feel like me and me is enough. I am the happiest and healthiest I have ever been. I have a huge bunch of crazy like minded kids and friends who I love dearly. I have the life I never thought someone like me would be blessed with. You can follow Zowie Tydeman’s blog and journey @ Change2surrender -Insta or surrender2change -Facebook #advocateforcleanandsoberliving #anythingispossible #wedorecover #dreambig #surrendertochange #somebodyschild