You, or any one person behaving generously, inspires observers to behave generously later, toward different people. In fact, the researchers (based on a study by James Fowler of the University of...
What is, is
Posted By Shanti Gowans,
05/10/2023 17:00 PM
The only time we suffer is when we wrestle with a thought that is contrary to "what is". When the mind is perfectly clear, 'what is' is what we accept in this moment. If you want your reality to be di...
Authenticity
Posted By Shanti Gowans,
05/10/2023 17:00 PM
We're trained to put our best foot forward, not to show our weakness, not to let 'them' know what's really going on behind the scenes. Don't let them see you fail. It's easy to reflect on your...
Karma
Posted By Shanti Gowans ,
05/10/2023 17:00 PM
Karma is the Sanskrit word for action. It is equivalent to Newton's law in physics, that every action must have a reaction. Every though you think, every word you speak or act you initiate, initiates...
Learn to live without self concern
Posted By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,
05/10/2023 16:57 PM
Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble yo...
Silent retreat
Posted By Chris ,
05/10/2023 16:50 PM
I spent Easter at Nirvana Wellbeing Retreat in the Gold Coast hinterland, on a 4 day silent meditation retreat with my teacher Shanti Gowans. Shanti has been my teacher for over half my...
Past emotions
Posted By Shanti Gowans ,
05/10/2023 16:00 PM
Past emotions, thoughts and impressions are stored in the mind and manifest themselves in the body. Past anger is stored in the hamstrings. To help release this, humbly and gently...
Most people struggle with forgiveness
Posted By Caroline Myss,
05/10/2023 16:00 PM
Most people struggle with forgiveness, precisely because it is against the nature of our reason to forgive. Forgiveness doesn't make emotional sense to us, much less appeal to our pride,...
Mindfulness
Posted By Krishnamurti ,
05/10/2023 16:00 PM
Mindfulness comes from the Sanskrit and Pali words for "to remember" and "clear comprehension". It is the ability to calmly concentrate and attend to the present, to what is. "The "what is" is...
Advertising and the internet
Posted By Bodhivana Buddhist Temple, Eas,
05/10/2023 16:00 PM
Advertising and the internet tell us we never have enough (and the internet often tells us we aren't enough). We need to take a step back from this and look at all the things we have been given...
