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25.01.2022 We all need to do whatever works during these times! For me, meditation really helps. If you'd like to join our weekly online groups, please message for more information. Sue x
25.01.2022 Guided relaxation this week - join us online for a check in/discussion and then practice on Thursday 6pm and/or Friday 10am. Guided relaxation can help us forget about life for a while and in that way can be a bit different to ongoing awareness practices in meditation. All welcome - message me for the link.
25.01.2022 It's no wonder Zen is such a thing in Japan, is it?!
25.01.2022 Stopping to remember the loveliness of the world. Works a treat.
24.01.2022 Online Meditation Group tonight/Thursday at 6pm & tomorrow/Friday at 10am. This week's discussion and practice is on different ways to work with pain. To join, or for more information, please message me here. Sue
23.01.2022 Pema's writings and teachings are magnificent and the first meditation teacher who inspired me to practice. Can't recommend her writing enough!
23.01.2022 This week's online classes will be a version of Metta style meditation. Metta can be translated as Friendliness and Goodwill for ourselves and all beings, without exceptions. To join us for live meditation & discussion (Thurs 6pm and/or Fri 10am), please message me. All welcome!
23.01.2022 Exist like a lotus, at home in the muddy water. Thus we bow to life as it is. + Zen proverb Photo: Bobby Joshi Photography
21.01.2022 Hahaha...Equanimity Now!!
21.01.2022 Today, like every other day, is a great day to be alive! A Hebrew prayer for the universal language of Gratitude. https://www.youtube.com/watch
20.01.2022 A beautiful guided meditation to listen & practice with here. Jack recorded them early in the Coronavirus days and they are so supportive. The Part 1 recording is also beautiful. https://jackkornfield.com/steady-heart-meditation2/
19.01.2022 We cannot control the outcome of our actions. Still, we can turn toward the world, plant good seeds, and trust that they will eventually bear fruit. Whenever a few people are committed to the vision of a free and just humanity, transformation can happen, despite the greatest odds - Jack Kornfield's The Wise Heart. Pic of Arizona sky - from Ruthanna Barnett
19.01.2022 In, out Deep, slow Calm, ease Smile, release Present moment, wonderful moment... If you use this poem during sitting or walking meditation, it can be very nourishing and healing. Practice each line for as long as you wish. - Thich Nhat Hanh Image: Celia Anahin
18.01.2022 Carl Jung wrote about the Wounded Healer and/but the Dalai Lama expresses it so magnificently here
18.01.2022 Don’t do it because it’s good for you.
17.01.2022 It's not easy being Zen. It's why we need practice. Over and over, again and again.
16.01.2022 It’s a new week, a new day, a new moment.
15.01.2022 The gratitude story never gets old or boring, especially in these times. Remembering to practice is the thing.
15.01.2022 All under the same moon.
15.01.2022 Stay safe & reach out to loved ones and all beings everywhere. (Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Services on 1800 512 348). xx
14.01.2022 I am grateful for the quiet of the mornings and the mothers and calves in surrounding paddocks. What are you grateful for? In this week's online meditation classes we will discuss & practice Gratitude (All welcome Thurs 6pm & Fri 10am)
13.01.2022 Stev'nn Hall - Synapse AP 1, 2018
13.01.2022 Great list of suggestions for our times! Written back in March but this is a marathon we are moving through. With love.
13.01.2022 Zen teacher Joan Halifax interviewed here by Dan Harris (from 13 mins in) on suffering, compassion, moral outrage, meeting the future teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, social activism and much more. Such a great listen! https://www.stitcher.com//ten-percent-happier-/e/54689871
12.01.2022 Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire Filipp Andreevich Maliavin
10.01.2022 JOY is a meeting place, of deep intentionality and of self-forgetting, the bodily alchemy of what lies inside us in communion with what formerly seemed outside,... but is now neither, but become a living frontier, a voice speaking between us and the world: dance, laughter, affection, skin touching skin, singing in the car, music in the street, the quiet irreplaceable and companionable presence of a daughter: the sheer intoxicating beauty of the world inhabited as an edge between what we previously thought was us and what we thought was other than us. Joy may be made by a practiced, hard-won achievement as much as by an unlooked for, passing act of grace arriving out of nowhere; joy is a measure of our relationship not only to life but to death and our living with death, joy is the act of giving ourselves away before we need to or are asked to, joy is practiced generosity. If joy is a deep form of love, it is also the raw engagement with the passing seasonality of existence, the fleeting presence of those we love understood as gift, going in and out of our lives, faces, voices, memory, aromas of the first spring day or a wood fire in winter, the last breath of a dying parent as they create a rare, raw, beautiful frontier between loving presence and a new and now blossoming absence. To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow ourselves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self, felt like a thankful death itself, a disappearance, a giving away, overheard in the laughter of friendship, the vulnerability of happiness and the vulnerability of its imminent loss, felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation, the sheer privilege of being in the presence of the ocean, the sky, a young boy running from shadow to light or a daughter’s face framed by the mountains, or from nowhere, a sudden turn of the tide in our favour - I was here and you were here and together we made a world. .. ‘JOY’ In ‘CONSOLATIONS’: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. David Whyte & Many Rivers Press 2015 live.davidwhyte.com Happy As a Lark Photo David Whyte Asilomar CA January 11th 2018
09.01.2022 Mindfulness on Thoughts is the focus for this week's online classes. In this practice we are aware of the changing weather patterns of all thoughts - heavy and light - as the anchor. To join us tonight at 6pm or tomoz/Fri at 10am, please message me. All welcome!
08.01.2022 A dose of Jack a day can go a long way.
08.01.2022 Sounds like the homecoming that we can feel in mindfulness practice.
07.01.2022 Good night, friends. Peace on earth, why pray for anything less.
06.01.2022 Yes... when we sit quietly, we realise we are constantly interacting with changing phenomena of thoughts, feelings and sensations. There is no fixed self. What freedom!
06.01.2022 Coz if we meditate "later'' or when things settle down or when we think we'll have more time, we know what often happens... Today''s mantra - Now
05.01.2022 Love our weekly Zoom catch ups to meditate and discuss the wonders of meditation together! Tonight at 6pm and tomorrow at 10am. All welcome! Message me for further info. Sue x
05.01.2022 For anyone particularly interested in Trauma and Mindfulness, David Treleaven is wonderful and runs monthly online gatherings. This conference also looks great!
04.01.2022 What are you grateful for right now?
03.01.2022 Taking refuge in the island of self doesn’t mean that you leave the world. It means that you go back to yourself, and you become more solid. It’s possible to wa...lk in the city and still be in the island of yourself. Your response to what’s going on around you will be quite different if you are solid and not overwhelmed. - Thich Nhat Hanh Image: Pep Ventosa
03.01.2022 Isabelle Allende's words always inspire
03.01.2022 For those interested, this is happening at 1pm Melbourne time today. I've just signed up. It will be recorded too.
01.01.2022 Today's mantra...Let Go. Or, Let Be.
