September 2010
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Let it rain!
“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive”. Alan Watts. Buddhists use the practice of sitting mindfully as a fearless presence
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Seven Powerful Lessons
My eldest son was recently chosen to travel to New York with a group of young people to attend the UN Conference on the Millenium Development Goals. One of the speakers at the conference (Adam Braun founder of “Pencil of Promise”) in delivering an inspiring address outlined the following seven lessons: 1. Get out of your
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Feeling deluded?
As most of us live our lives on automatic piliot we delude ourselves that we are in touch with reality. We get up in the morning and travel to work and after completing a full days work we return home by the same route. We do this without registering where we are and what is happening.
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Water you talking about?
Did you know that at least 70% of your body is made up of water and that 80% of that is in your head? This could be just another useless statistic if it were not for the research that has been done into how human emotions can change the structure of water! When water is
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Resist and be attached at your peril!
It never fails to surprise me just how much of our unhappiness, stress and suffering is caused by our persistently recurring ability to want to resist what is happening to us and/or to become attached to the way things have been, are now or should be. I was reminded of this on my way to