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25.01.2022 When first reading this post by Brian Thompson reflecting on the Tao Te Ching, it so deeply resonated and still does. Hope you enjoy it! Less is More: The Beauty of Empty Spaces Brian Thompson... Tao Te Ching: Chapter 11 Thirty spokes share the hub of a wheel; yet it is its center that makes it useful. You can mould clay into a vessel; yet, it is its emptiness that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows from the walls of a house; but the ultimate use of the house will depend on that part where nothing exists. Therefore, something is shaped into what is; but its usefulness comes from what is not. translation by Kari Hohne (2009) There's many different translations of the Tao Te Ching, the ancient Taoist text that was written in the 6th century BC, and each version seems to uncover a completely different flavour to Lao Tzu's timeless wisdom. I'm amazed how at how such a subtle change in interpretation and style can impart such a considerable change to its insight and meaning. In this particular verse, Emptiness is explained in beautiful simplicity, a concept that's common in Zen, Taoism, and other traditions of non-duality. There's so much insight to learn from these few brief words. It explains why the space between the notes of a song are just as important as the music itself. It explains why simplicity in design is so effective, attractive and revered. In fact, much like the teaching itself... the beauty of this verse is found in the empty spaces found in between. Consider the differences between these alternate translations of the last two lines: Therefore take the useful as the useless, the useless as the useful. translation by Chao-Hsiu Chen (2004) Therefore profit comes from external form, but usefulness from the empty innermost. translation by Isabella Mears (1922) So the profit in what is is in the use of what isn't. translation by Ursula K. Le Guin (1998) We work with being but non-being is what we use. translation by Stephen Mitchell (1988) Therefore, The benefit of things lies in the usefulness of nothing. translation by Yasuhiko Genku Kimura (2004) We work with the substantial, but the emptiness is what we use. translation by J. H. McDonald (1996) So the existent may be regarded as profitable; the non-existent may be regarded as useful. The sage discards the outer life in favour of the inner. translation by P. J. Maclagan (1898-99) Thus, it might be something that provides the value, But it is nothing that provides the utility. translation by R. T. Ames & D. L. Hall (2003) How might this understanding of Emptiness and Nothingness be useful in your own life? Without empty time and space in your day, you'll never be able to think. With too many ingredients in a recipe, none can be tasted. Without the emptiness of quietude, nothing can ever be heard. Less is always more. http://www.zenthinking.net//less-is-more-the-beauty-of-emp

25.01.2022 For my friends in Adelaide......... This Sunday 2:30pm - 4:30pm I'll be facilitating a free 2 hr Practical Mindfulness Workshop - Thoughts, Emotions and Mindfulness, for Soul Talks at Hunab Ku, 18 Ebenezer Place Adelaide city. A practical workshop for anyone wanting to learn more about mindfulness and how to bring it into their everyday. You’ll walk away with several mindfulness practices that can be integrated into your day to support general wellbeing and inner peace. Mindf...ulness supports you to navigate life with greater ease. To rest present and aware and move ‘with’ thoughts and emotions rather than resisting and reacting to them. You’ll experience a range of practices in the workshop and have an opportunity to see what resonates for you. Finding those practices that you feel best support you. This is a free event brought to the public by Soul Talks. A charity honouring the work of health professionals who put heart and soul into their work. Book by emailing [email protected], or call 0411 754 168

23.01.2022 Shameless plug follows........... If you're wondering what to gift yourself or that special loved one for Xmas........ It's still early bird pricing for the 1 Day Self-Inquiry Meditation Retreat on Sat 20 March 2021! A day all about exploring and resting as You! ... I'm so excited by this day and being in this space with everyone! FB Event Page https://www.facebook.com/events/278561543535363 #meditation, #retreat, #selfinquiry

23.01.2022 Most of us have probably faced the fear of public speaking at some time or another. I know as a meditation teacher it's something that's been present for me. Reading through this article I found the tips resonated a lot! I've incorporated each of these at various times. It's a great reminder and support for anyone who does public speaking. Hope you find it helpful.

23.01.2022 *Weekend Wanderlust* Here's a little practice that blew my mind when I first came across it years ago through the teacher Kim Eng. It's for connecting with the energy body, your life force energy or Qi. Follow along if you'd like to experience it....... You may even have a sense of the energy extending beyond the body.... Oh - I only raised my hands that high so you could see them in the video he he...just raising them a few inches off your legs is cool! :)

22.01.2022 *Weekend Wanderlust* Hug a tree! Feel the energy. This little one surprised us in our front yard this morning and it's still there showing us how to be one with nature. ... Have a beautiful weekend! See more

20.01.2022 Hi everyone, I'm sharing a meditation tonight as part of the ACMM Free Online Meditation series. If you'd like to join me it's 7pm Adelaide time.

20.01.2022 Weekend Wanderlust! A definition of wanderlust I like is, 'the enjoyment of wandering'. To me the ultimate wandering is within, although even the term within doesn't speak to the truth of it, because it's neither within or without. :) For some 'enjoyment of wandering' on the weekend, you might like to try this little practice I've been doing for a while.....and let me know how you found it. With your eyes open, slowly looking at the scene in front of you without labeling anyt...hing. (great one for doing in nature sitting or standing still) Just being with what's there, as it is, in it's rawness, in it's newness before words. You might like to pretend you're a small child and words and labels mean nothing to you. If you find you're labeling, that's OK. You might like to label what you see and then can you rest in the heart of your childlike self without caring about words just for a short while. Words after all are just made up by someone to help give meaning to the content so we can communicate verbally. They don't really tell you the essence of what something is! Rest in the not knowing and invite yourself to again view the scene without labels. See what arises for you. I look forward to hearing. .....If it feels a bit strange then just step out of the practice and enjoy the feel of the air against your skin and your feet on the ground. Give your body a shake, jump up and down a few times noticing the sounds around you and roll on with your day. You might like to do this anyway afterwards - a fun practice for connecting with your body and environment. Picture of the Ganges in India

19.01.2022 Wishing you a merry Xmas! Thank you for sharing your time and heart with me this year. May you have the most amazing, peaceful and joy filled 2021! Lots of love, Tim Molly (the pug) really is smiling on the inside!

19.01.2022 Self-Inquiry Meditation tonight 7:30 in-person, Tea Tree Gully Adelaide. Pm me for details. Love this time of week. Just being, rugged up, resting back exploring, seeing, recognising the amazing isness of life together. #meditation

18.01.2022 Tomorrow night is the penultimate meditation session for the year!!! Can't wait to meet and meditate with the amazing group of beings who show up. This Gangaji quote sums up the meditation feel for the evening.... " When you don't know where to go ...... and you're willing to stop looking for 'where to go' .... then you're Here. " Gangaji #meditation

17.01.2022 Our FREE ACMM online meditation is tomorrow night! Join ACMM Founder and Principal Lisa Forde for a Mantra Meditation. Monday 28th September 2020 at 7.30pm EST... Connect with us on the night via: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3604767700

16.01.2022 Love this picture from our trip to India 2 years ago. Went to India with 2 great friends for an adventure and to research establishing meditation and yoga retreats over there! The pic (with some special fx) is of Humayun's Tomb. Humayun was the 2nd Mughal ruler of India and the tomb is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Sending love to all the amazing people we met in India, a beautiful country and people. Oh, the retreat's haven't yet gone ahead......one day..... Pic tak...en by Darren Harris of the awesome Darren Harris's :) #humayunstomb, #spiritualadventureretreat See more

16.01.2022 Sadly in-person meditation tonight is off. Was so looking forward to. We'll be back next week!

16.01.2022 Meditation is a beautiful resting back in your innate creativity. A dive into the depths of you. It supports a free flow of expression in many forms from art, to music, insight, poetry and the list goes on. Here's a little poem I came across on the weekend, that I must have written years ago. I've forgotten when, but I remember vividly where I was when it arose to me that 'everything is a picture'! :) In what ways does creativity arise for you?... .................................. Leaves drop gently from the gigantic gums. Birds fly overhead from tree to tree. I’m surrounded by a chorus of birdlife and their morning chatter. My page becomes one with the surrounds, the bugs and leaves adopting it without fuss. Another leaf slowly twirls its way down, gravity its guide. Nature has woken. The sun now rising in the soft blue sky. The moon partially visible high above, a silent witness to the earthly bound. Such beauty all around. Everything is a picture. Life flows, impermanence shows, as does connectedness. The fallen leaves lay dormant becoming part of the earths matting. A part of the woven tapestry, soon to be the very earth they rest on. A sign of the connectedness of all life forms. My attention moves to one small space of earth, so much life, so much movement, an abundance of nature. All simply being with one another and everything else. I become a part of the surrounds, the trees, ants, birds. All simply doing what they do, with me in the picture too.

16.01.2022 Self-Inquiry Meditation group tonight 7:30pm at Tea Tree Gully Institute in Adelaide's north east! These sessions acknowledge there are so many ways to inquire into who you are and that you and your experience are your best teacher, guide and guru. To 'walk the path of your own heart'.... We explore from ‘no practice’ to practice’s like Ramana Maharshi's Self-Inquiry. PM me if you're interested. #selfinquiry, #meditation

14.01.2022 Have a great weekend!

13.01.2022 Happy Monday everyone! Wishing you a beautiful week.

11.01.2022 I'm excited to be speaking with Nick de Zwart tomorrow evening 7:45pm Adelaide time and 8:15pm AEDT. Nick's an awesome guy and founder of Om & Alpha where he's inspiring the masculine to find balance between material & spiritual planes. Love to have you join us live! #meditation, #livechat

10.01.2022 After a brief sojourn online we're back to in-person meditation group this Wednesday night! Yay! Looking forward to catching up with everyone!

08.01.2022 Today is RUOK? Day. R U OK? Such a simple yet powerful and supportive question. R U OK? It has great personal meaning for me and so many others. ... Here's the website that has incredible tools and resources for how to ask R U OK and how to respond when someone says they're not OK. https://www.ruok.org.au/ If you're not feeling OK, I'm here and happy to chat See more

07.01.2022 There's been so many wonderful teachers on my journey with meditation. Very grateful to Nick de Zwart and Om and Alpha for the opportunity to share a little from my experience and also share some quotes/stories from my teachers and how they've resonated for me. We chat about my journey with meditation, allowing, the power of 'already', welcoming and lots more. It's probably a two cuppa talk!!! Thanks again Nick for the opportunity to be a part of the amazingness you're creating.

04.01.2022 ever had one of those hugs that splits you wide open...? space arises in your chest, a lump rises in your throat, maybe tears flow... you feel a naked raw acceptance....... you feel seen , known, without any words spoken... your frailty, your tears held without judgement, allowed to flow... a complete acceptance, love, pure, unspoken... a deep connection, a meeting of your self, your essence, in another... an emptiness washes through, clear, pure...no longer two, but one for me, self-inquiry meditation is like that, it opens us to recognising what's already always here...the aliveness within, the wellspring of life and to rest here, not two but one..... Photo by Anastasia Vityukova on unsplash

04.01.2022 Excited to announce that the amazing Wendy Davidson and I are offering a Self-Inquiry one day retreat here in Adelaide at the beautiful Sophia Centre in the new year! This will be a nurturing presence filled retreat inviting you to Stillness through Self-Inquiry Meditation, the Work of Byron Katie and connection with nature. It'll be a day complemented with incredible vegetarian food, time in silence, walks in the peaceful gardens and opportunities to share and connect. More ...details to follow in the coming weeks! We hope you'll join us. We're both super excited and can't wait to share this day with you. #meditation, #retreat, #selfinquiry, #mindfulness See more

02.01.2022 In those quiet moments, silence speaks the loudest. Are you willing to give up your activity for just a moment and sink into the silence? When the story telling slows and the striving to be somewhere other than now ceases, amazingness is recognised. https://mobile.abc.net.au//explorer-erling-kagge/12596282 #meditation, #mindfulness, #awareness

01.01.2022 Just did a meditation with the amazing Julie Bond-Rowe with the theme of joy! My meditation experience included observing joyful areas within my body, areas too that felt heavy or not so joyful which included a headache, and holding it all in presence, observing the sensations move and change, observing insights and thoughts, feeling into all the areas, letting it be Ok for all of it to be there - and it was OK! Yes the feeling of the headache was there and felt, it wasn't tr...anscended, or pushed away and the feelings of joy were there too, felt and experienced, thoughts were experienced, sounds, other senses and insights. Meditation practice supports a resting back with all life experiences, those that we might sometimes call good and those that we might sometimes call not good. Giving space for them all to be held in us with compassion and equanimity. Thanks Julie. So lovely to be guided by you.

01.01.2022 Weekend Wanderlust! Maybe you wake up and very first thing you do is get up and meditate? Not me, or at least I didn't used to. What I've started doing is in those first few moments after waking, watching the thoughts that arise like a cat watching a mouse hole and just being still observing, being still presence just observing.....so beautifully fascinating very first thing when you wake! You might like to explore this little practice this weekend whilst still snuggled up i...n bed. It's an invitation to deepen into the mystery of life..... #meditation, #mystery, #presence, #stillness Photo by David Clode on Unsplash