(5-minute read) - Mindfulness training is essential for appropriate action in the world. We experience reality as a series of inputs or stimuli. These inputs or stimuli affect us in one way or another. We feel emotions and we may react in response to these affects. A confrontational person may … [Read more...]
Changing the World. . . One Mind at a Time
(6-minute read) - We are changing the world... one mind at a time. Our minds are more, so much more, than we realise. Mind is more than brain. It is more than rational thought and assimilation of information through logic. Mind includes a much deeper ability to know and understand through … [Read more...]
Distant Shores
(2-minute read) - Let me tell you about a man that crossed over to distant shores the other day. He was a gentle man that loved his garden. Now his garden will have to do without his tender attention. His flower beds will need someone else to turn them, or they will harden and dry out. His … [Read more...]
Addiction or Silence
(2-minute read) - There are only two options for your mind - addiction or silence. Addiction is the state of being in thought. The mind's natural tendency is to be in this state because it is attached to the brain - a brilliant, energetic conglomeration of nervous, chemical activity. It is busy and … [Read more...]
A Chance Meeting
(4-minute read) - A little old Toyota pulled jerkily into the non-space between two parking spaces. Its faded paint didn’t gleam in the sun like it had the day it rolled off the Toyota production line. Only one brake light lit up as it came to a halt too far from the curb. The rattle of … [Read more...]
You Have Trivialised Love
(3-minute read) - You have trivialised love. Real love is so much more than the romanticised, physical experience that you call love. Real love is the fibre of everything. It is a cosmic energy. It connects you to all space and time, and beyond. Real love gets your soul dancing and singing from … [Read more...]
Divine Psychotherapy
(4-minute read) - Divine psychotherapy is simple - meditation. And meditation is simply letting go. Meditation methods have become more popular in post-modern western society as people seek integration between spirituality and psychology. Contemporary mystics like Thomas Keating liken meditation to … [Read more...]
The Fault in Our Religion
(4-minute read) - It is incorrect to think that all great mystical traditions come from the East. This error is The Fault in Our Religion. In fact, Christianity has a rich mystical tradition. Europe just lost sight of it for a while, and unfortunately much of Christiandom still misses it. The West … [Read more...]
A Tribute to Merton
(3-minute read) - This is a Tribute To Merton, Thomas Merton, born in 1915. His life lead him to spending the last twenty-seven years of his life as a trappist monk. The last three years of these were as a hermit. During this time he wrote many books and essays on the contemplative life, Christian … [Read more...]
Letting Grace Be
(Video Included at the End of This Article) We wonderful human creatures have a deeply ingrained, yet veiled, sense of all-connecting love - it is just a matter of Letting Grace Be. This veiled sense spurs us along a path to more fulfilling life – to freedom. It gives us a glad and grateful … [Read more...]
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