17 NOV 2017 · In the world of meditation, TM (Transcendental Meditation) is Coca Cola and Mindfulness is Pepsi. These two ubiquitous brands are everywhere meditation is taught. They both use famous personalities to sell their product and to surreptitiously emphasise that theirs is the ‘real thing’.

4 JUN 2007 · I was happy, but I was not getting any happier, and I had no idea how to increase my happiness.

30 MAY 2007 · Explore the energy within the universe and look at 'string theory' and how it relates spiritually.

30 MAR 2007 · There are so many chains that we drag around with us. Chains that might be attached to the heaviest, most cumbersome loads but we struggle on, fighting against our own very nature most of the time, because we simply do not know how to, or fear, letting go.

9 MAR 2007 · Most of us have spent our lives living 'outside' of our real nature. We often have confused the desires of our body, ego and intellect, with the divine wishes of our soul. If you just reflect upon for a moment the way we habitually walk anywhere currently, you might be aware that most of the time, we are thinking about another place we want to be, or things we have to do, or any number of extraneous thoughts. We rarely are conscious of the present moment, and our heart and soul in the process of walking. Meditation, our spiritual life, seeks to redress the balance. It seeks to deepen every moment of our lives with the richness of experience of our own heart.

5 MAR 2007 · The human ego is a wonderful tool, but can also leave us in a wonderful mess. It is very common for those studying spiritual philosophy to feel that their intellectual understanding is a spiritual truth, but this is a particularly dangerous trap! Everything understood must also be realised.

1 FEB 2007 · How to direct your spiritual life effortlessly to more and more of your so-called "outer life"

1 FEB 2007 · It is impossible to feel unhappy when we are offering love for real joy is the result of the flow of love. There is no more 'in-nature' a state, no closer to heaven, in fact, heaven's singular characteristic is the constant offering of love. To be sure, heaven wishes nothing more than to flow through each of us, empowering and inspiring us with the infinite, spiritual force of the universe.

11 DEC 2006 · It is very easy to philosophize and talk and muse about all kinds of deep spiritual perspectives, but from the point of view of our actual spiritual progress, what we be is the most important thing. That is, how we live our spirituality.

9 DEC 2006 · As we release ourselves from the outer constructs of ourselves what naturally radiates from the inmost recesses of our existence is the lightness and freedom and joy of the real the kingdom of heaven within us that defines our real and eternal nature. Is it not also uncanny the fact that when we are in the dark we feel ourselvesFree Learn to Meditate - Meditation Society of Australia imprisoned, enslaved that even though our conditioning usually paints freedom as the ability to have any material or physical need immediately fulfilled the reality of the darkness is that far from freeing it enchains us.