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A process finding the joy within
Does your mind always do as you expect or does it keep you on the run, stressed out and dying for a break? The human mind and the seat of our intelligence is a powerful tool and when used well can help to create a joyful life, but when it’s out of control it can create tremendous suffering.
The human mind is analogous to
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A time of appreciation
Held on the full moon in the Hindu month of Ashad (July-August) every year, Guru Purnima is an ancient tradition of festival dedicated to spiritual teachers. This festival is traditionally celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Buddhists as a time to pay respect to teachers and express gratitude for the teachings.
For many thousands of years, the acquired wisdom of humanity has been continually analysed, tested and
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An Activity Leading to Physical, Mental and Spiritual Wellness
Yoga is renowned not only as a way to keep fit, or as a way to get to know yourself from a new and meaningful perspective, it is also a comprehensive healing system in its own right.
Many practitioners state that there is no disease or illness that cannot be helped or even cured through yoga practise. Of course if you
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A transformational endeavour to know life
After 40 years of practising yoga and studying many philosophies, I have come to realise that must philosophies are insufficient and are now often used to justify inhuman behaviour.
We live in a world where might is right and while a population has grown almost to the carrying capacity of the earth we sat at the verge of wiping ourselves out of existence due
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Rejuvenating Holidays in New Zealand
It is a human need to take time out from work and schedules, to spend time in nature and reconnect with life in a simpler and more direct way.
This is the purpose of yoga, massage and meditation. When we put this in context of holidays and other motivations for timeout, making that time productive in terms of getting to know yourself a little
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The question of intelligent design
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Since scientists discovered DNA, they have been puzzling over its nature. But they couldn’t understand very much and labelled most of our DNA as being junk with absolutely no purpose or value. However ancient scientists had a deeper understanding which gave rise to the concept of Hinduism that still exists today.
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Ignorance is the cause of all suffering
Sometime near to 3000 years ago, the Buddha achieved his enlightenment and the understanding that ignorance is the cause of all suffering.
As a consequence of his realisation he described the eightfold Path that we know today as Buddhism. But this is not a belief system, it’s an experiential life path referred to as ‘Dharma’ that everyone can follow. It’s like a mathematical
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A choice to make you or break you
When you know something, it is completely verifiable through direct experience or scientific method. Yet most of us believe in things that may not necessarily be true or real. There was a time when people believed that the Earth was flat, there was a time when people believed that this earth was the centre of the universe and that the sun rotated
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Appreciating and Integrating an Essential Life Essence
The sun is like the beating heart of our solar system and there’s nothing quite like the Sun’s warmth to brighten your day. If it were not for our sun, there could be no life on earth and although it is highly improbable, if our son stopped producing heat and light, life on earth would quickly evaporate.
But if we think of
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Perception and reality
Over the past few hundred years, Western science has freed itself from the restraints of the church and is now free to ask what many consider as the ultimate questions. Science has also progressed and through modern analytics, the nature of existence can be explored in finite detail although as yet there is no Western technology that allows the exploration of the infinite.
Morgan Freeman has been
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