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HYPNOSIS, BUDDHIST MEDITATION & REALITY
Aug 25, 2017 09:40AM WST

I was recently asked by a friend if I thought he could learn to do self-hypnosis. He had experienced a past life under hypnosis when attending my hypnotherapy practice and thought he may be able to use self-hypnosis to ... Read More

“Why is Stillness Healing so Powerful?”
May 12, 2017 16:03PM WST

This is Part 2 of the previous blog “Consciousness is Us”The one who delights in mindfulness (and) who regards unmindfulness with fear is not liable to regression. He is in the presence of Nirvana. --- ... Read More

“Consciousness is Us”
May 11, 2017 13:10PM WST

I started this blog in an effort to explain why I believe the “Stillness Healing” I offer in my Hypnotherapy practice is just so powerful as a healing modality.Click here to go to Dennis Sheppard Hypnosis:But ... Read More

Euthanasia
Apr 30, 2017 11:21AM WST

Euthanasia is a topical conversation at present with many Governments looking to find acceptable ways of legalising a person’s right to create their own death. This is seen in the context of their life becoming too ... Read More

The World Sings the Truth
Apr 26, 2017 13:41PM WST

The world just keeps on singing the truth!Old cultures past and their people who were interested have always understood, they know Absolute Truth is there and have always had it covered!  Today is no different, ... Read More

The Truth, Beauty and Power of Stillness.
Apr 12, 2017 13:58PM WST

Stillness is the unmistakable energy that exists right in the heart of the present moment. Using a meditation practice that harnesses a stepped and increasingly refined calibration to observe the mind, anyone can experience ... Read More

The “RIGHT VIEW” of Reality
Mar 25, 2017 11:13AM WST

I love the various television documentaries’ that report on our connection to the planets stars and ultimately the vastness of space that contains it all. The narration can take us back into deep time and right to the ... Read More

Buddhism, Atrocities & War
Mar 7, 2017 14:14PM WST

A  friend has sent me this following text in an Email. It is a challenging statement that to my mind has the ring of truth to it. My apologies to those offended by its coarseness.“Unless you are willing to be as ... Read More

The reality of NOW
Feb 26, 2017 12:28PM WST

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand.And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand.And Eternity in an hour.”William BlakeWhile the “powers that be” seem to be a forcing a ... Read More

Relationships
Feb 12, 2017 09:20AM WST

The most important thing that we depend upon in our lives on this earth is our relationships. None of us is an island and even if we end up living life reclusively as a hermit or a monastic, this statement remains true. Our ... Read More

Consciousness and the Universe.
Jan 30, 2017 11:16AM WST

“Consciousness sleeps in the stone, dreams in the plant, awakes in the animal and slowly becomes aware of itself in man.”   ---- PythagorasLike others who have examined consciousness, my experience and ... Read More

Buddhism & No Self (Anatta).
Jan 24, 2017 07:19AM WST

The concept of Anatta or no self in Buddhism can be quite daunting for some of us to approach. I am writing this blog following a discussion that implored me to find another word instead of “finished” when ... Read More

Knowing
Jan 19, 2017 07:57AM WST

Last year I wrote a piece called “Belief Faith & Knowing”. In it I tried to show that “Belief” is totally conditioned and when we are trapped inside its ideas, we can only ever know a relative ... Read More

Short Term 12
Jan 13, 2017 09:30AM WST

Film released in Australia December 2013I came across this 2013 film on Netflix last night and the reality and truth it displayed is still with me. There is no doubt in my mind that this film is a 5 star production.It is a ... Read More

Can the World be perfect?
Jan 8, 2017 13:52PM WST

Much of the discussion and commentary that we hear on the media today is very forthright and often very appealing in the way it tries to convince us that doing things this way or that would certainly fix or ameliorate the ... Read More

LATEST NEWS/BLOGS

02 Aug 2020 : Understanding Fungible Consciousness

(‘How it creates & How it lets go’) --- (‘How it begins & How it Ends’)Consciousness is a condition. We can know this because it can be objectified. We can make an object of it. We can get above it, below it, and see all ...

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02 Aug 2020 : Eternity

Is eternity a desirable state to try and cultivate? What does eternity mean? In this piece I would like to look at the way this question might resolve itself for a meditator on the Buddhist path. Buddhist practice is usually a gradual inclination toward ...

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01 Aug 2020 : Release

ReleaseThe naturalness of ‘Letting-Go’ Buddhist practitioners (like me) often lament the difficulty of letting go. How do we let go? Any serious meditator who practices to ‘experience’ what the Buddha was pointing to will ...

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NEW ADDITIONS & FEEDBACK

24 Mar 2018 : A New Poem --- Letting Go of Life

I have just finished writing a blog that hits the spot for me. It is called "The Hero's Journey". (See my blog spot above.) This poem was written concurrently and addresses my fears and grief in letting go of life.(Click Here)

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05 Jun 2017 : New Poem "Perceptions & the Switch"

This new poem has been gestating for some time, and following a recent discussion with our Monday night Meditation group at the Cambodian Buddhist Society, (CBSWA) the time had come for it to be written.I think this poem is an important poem for ...

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09 Oct 2016 : New Poetry with a theme

There is a new poem called Fearing the Moment which is now listed in the cascade above. It is poem highlighting the depth into truth that our minds can see along with the joy of practice, but is also pointing to the subtle fear ...

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06 May 2015 : Hypnosis and Past Life Workshop

"Hypnosis and Past Life Workshop" added under "Public Talks" drop down.

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10 Apr 2014 : You Tube Poetry

I have added a new section to the cascade area to highlight some of my poetry that I have read and performed on You Tube. Doing this has enabled me to speak directly about the poems context. The first two poems are new. I hope you like them.

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04 Dec 2013 : 2 New Poems. Death the theme.

Two poems added.Death and the Brightening MindMeditation on Death

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29 Nov 2013 : 3 NEW POEMS Stillness the theme

Three new poems addedThe Subtlest EnergyThe Right Side of StillnessThe Burden of Stillness

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