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Years ago I heard about a man who collapsed and was taken to hospital. His condition deteriorated and so he was hooked up to quite a number of tubes and hoses, which took recordings of his condition or helped him to breathe. He wasn’t expected to live and so the local priest was called. The … Read more

I was reminded this week of a story I told readers over 10 years ago. It’s worth repeating, I think. In 1766, the Burmese army attacked Thailand, wreaking chaos and destruction wherever they went. Temples were destroyed, homes burnt to the ground and many people massacred. Everything of value that could be looted was taken. … Read more

As small children you and I are simply “here, now”. We don’t inquire as to where we were before or worry about where we’re headed. We simply are. We’re simply here. We eat, drink, cry, laugh, sleep, play unaware of any separation between ourselves and the world around us. Our innocence reflects the Truth of … Read more

IN CASE MY ARTICLES ARE STARTING TO BORE YOU…… A healer put a sign up outside his house which read: Healings: Just $20 – $100 refund if I fail. A solicitor saw the sign and tried to be clever. He complained about having a total lack of taste. So the healer picked up a jar … Read more

This Week………. THE VALUE OF REGULAR MEDITATION & PRAYER “The long term studies of spiritual practices such as meditation and prayer have increasingly shown that the brain can change over time. Individuals who practice prayer and meditation over many years have been found to have thicker and more active frontal lobes than non-practitioners”. (adapted from … Read more

Dear Friends, WHAT ACTUALLY ARE YOU!?!?! Have you ever considered what you actually are? Are you primarily a body with a brain? (When the body stops the brain does too). Or maybe simply a brain operating through a body? (When the brain stops the body does too). When you look at your naked self do … Read more

Groundhog Day is celebrated on 2nd February in the USA. It’s supposedly the day that groundhogs come out of hibernation and peek out to see if it’s Spring yet. If it’s not, they return to their burrow for another six weeks or so of slumber….. In the 1993 movie Bill Murray relives the same day … Read more

This Week………. Lao-Tzu once wrote….. We shape clay to make a pot. But without the emptiness inside what use would it be? We create doors and windows to make a room. But only the space inside makes it useful. Living beings create many things – jobs, houses, cars, furniture, nations, gardens, clubs, songs, books, plays, … Read more

Dear Friends, Do you think that the humble caterpillar ever sees itself as a butterfly? (There it is wandering along the branch of a shrub singing to itself “Me oh my! Soon I’ll be a butterfly!”……). No. It simply focuses on being what it is right now. And that is a caterpillar. Not a caterpillar … Read more

Dear Friends, Exactly 100 years ago AA Milne wrote his famous children’s book. In it Piglet asks Winnie : “How do you spell L-O-V-E?” And Pooh replies: “You don’t spell it – you feel it!” Ah!! There’s the problem, eh?! Most of us know how to spell it – our problems often arise because we … Read more