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Monthly Archives: November 2014
PERFECT NORMALITY
It’s perfectly normal, isn’t it, to want a better life, achieve ambitions and fulfill desires, solve problems, let go some baggage, drop a few unnecessary habits – especially the more expensive ones! Lose a few fears or phobias. Funnily enough, … Continue reading
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Tagged albert einstein, lady gaga, life mastery, martial art, motivation, mozart, normality, secrets of love, Stress, stress management, stress relief
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Working Zen
It took me a little time to get my head round Zen as a spiritual yet non-religious practice. A Catholic childhood had given me insights into mysticism but generally put me off religion, which, until middle age, I equated with … Continue reading
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Tagged bodhidarma, buddha, buddhism, dalai lama, dharamsala, himalaya, lao tse, meditation, religion, spirituality, suzuki, taoism, taoist, tibet, yellow emperor, zen
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Death and Birth
My own story nearly ended there, on that beach, under those palms. Too many mushrooms, not enough water, too much dancing, from midnight until the sun was high. Some still danced, in the pools of their shadows. At breakfast a … Continue reading
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Tagged birth death, inner smile, magic mushrooms, near death experience, spirit of love, VIP
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Gratitude Revisited
Listening to Psychic Sahar’s interview with me, there began a trickle that became a waterfall of memories: this time last year I had lost the sight in my right eye and my left was getting dimmer. I could no longer see in … Continue reading
Travelling Light
Sitting quietly in the Tao Garden some months later I noticed a young man giving me the keen interested glances of someone seeing someone he thought might be a highly evolved spiritual being. I was cultivating the long hair and … Continue reading
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Tagged buddha, kris deva north, mercedes, nlp, rainbow family, Richard Bandler, tao garden, vipassana, Waikiki, zen, zen shiatsu
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Thirteen and a Half Broken Fast
Just a routine check-up, said the receptionist when I registered at my new doctor’s, nothing to worry about at all. She said. But she wasn’t the one having the check-up. Armed with a phial of freshly drawn urine I presented … Continue reading
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Finding Spirit
When I first began teaching Zen Shiatsu I tacked signs to palm trees on the dusty path from the boat-landing to catch the eyes of new arrivals on the hippy island of Koh Pha Ngan. The notices invited people to … Continue reading
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Tagged shiatsu, shiatsu massage, shiatsu training, zen, zen massage, zen shiatsu
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