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One Garden
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- Stillness and Focus – an inter-spiritual perspective
- ‘One Garden’ Winter-into-Spring – going deeper, deeper, deeper & arriving back home here Now
- When terrible things happen I go back to the eternal truth-tellers – Jewish, Buddhist, Sufi, Hindu, Christian, Baha’i, Taoist
- THE GREATEST POINTER TO THE INEFFABLE
- Two meditations for Tomorrow’s ‘One Garden’ session
- How shall we get justice for women?
- Your vision will become clear
- How many reasons can you find to be grateful and therefore happy today?
- Birds and their spiritual significance – which one are you?
- Are you in the ‘One Garden’ state?
- Interspecies inner talk
- Ways not to define ourselves 1
- What is the deepest form of spirituality?
- Nic Askew’s new film is exciting. – ‘A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable t o their faith before they explore it.‘ The antithesis of curious?
- Brilliant short video by Dr Gabor Mate
- Look within to know your self
- Keys to Nondual Inter-spirituality 1: Heschel – ‘We are Citizens of Two Realms’
- On the devastating effects of…
- How does your mind work?
- In Christianity ‘the peace that passeth all understanding’ is Presence which is the Nondual state (until you talk or think about it)
- One of my better photographs: ‘Peripatetic piano-player has Max Miller standing on his ‘joanna’
- My rediscovery of Leonard Jacobson
- I used to think that…
- Awareness – A J Heschel
- AVAAZ has 47 million members…
- “The Soul appears to be…
- Ravi Shankar was a devotee of Sri Anandamayi Ma
- Hi dear
- The Hindu teaching ‘atman is Brahman’ consider c.f The Baha’i Hidden Word 13
- Rumi’s poem ‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing’ plus my preferred definition of ‘namaste’:- a very simple juxtaposition for a One Garden session
- Self-knowledge – as gnosis or ma’rifa’
- Is this the simplest, clearest, 10min presentation of spiritual Awakening to Presence?
- Pointer – Is awareness (only) personal, or is it our eternal soul?
- AWARENESS – Ken Wilber’s view
- The intellect is good but….
- Have you ever been so moved by a spiritual teacher that you smelled the perfume of humility?
- It’s a big day when you realize I = Awareness
- Rumi’s poem ‘That breath breathing – human being.’ & Shankara’s ‘Tree of Life’ – Advaita Vedanta summary
- My preferred definition of…
- A ‘One Minute daily meditation’- for work, home or when you’re out and about
- ‘Getting free of self to let the Divine shine through us’ – for Crawley Interfaith
- Meditation is simple – with conscious breathing – quieten the monkey mind
- Focus renewed
- The Heart – by Hafez
- Are you aware of your Awareness – great teaching from Ken Wilber
- Abraham Joshua Heschel speaking at UCLA
- Register your objection or send your prayers….
- ‘You Have No Source’ – Alan Watts
- Alan Watts on “The Magic of being Happy”
- A chuckle, a limerick from Alan Watts to start the week
- Soothing Chant that transports you to your true Self
- Nonduality – From wordlessness to words to wordlessness – the gift of Transcendence
- A short film featuring Chris Barber and his band set in Wood Green Jazz Club, London in 1956.
- Life as Walking the ‘Interspiritual Way’
- 3 Spiritual teachers who happen to be great comedians
- sue.birch@yahoo.com
- “He who knows one religion knows none.”……?
- Finding the Light: Tolle on awakening from depression
- Spiritual joy sublime – via Sabadell flashmob!
- A Guru is s/he who has the capacity to deliver man from the sea of becoming
- Exquisite Hindu chant
- “The Self is an ocean without a shore….”
- The need to de-mystify the mystical
- Stuck? – let go that guilt tripping
- The benefits of Meditation in relation to anxiety
- Beware the side effects of Medical Drugs
- This ayatollah’s courage ranks with Ai Weiwei & other world artists & stands against the persecution of Baha’is & other Iranian minorities
- Most important health lecture ever? It was for me! Prof. Simon Carding
- Don’t miss Andy Grammer’s video ‘Fresh Eyes’
- Adverse reactions to pharmaceutical 62,000 times more likely to kill you than food supplements?
- your self-shining magnificence
- 15 times when Jeremy Corbyn was on the right side of history
- The Inseparability of Awareness and Objects – from Reflections of the One Life, by Scott Kiloby
- How does our discipline grow? – Heschel, Maslow and human rights
- OUR MYSTICAL LIFE: “With what am I One – in nondual experience?”
- Mindfulness for children – is it enough?
- “I believe in the religion of God” – Ibn Arabi
- Beautiful chanting (Christian)
- What Good is the Church – two beautiful souls discuss
- I’m touching base with all…
- I would give every scrap…
- A great song for those…
- Hindu – The Glorious Bhagavad Gita: Sung in English
- HAFIZ & RUMI: poetry as the healing for our daily suffering
- Ken Wilber – on loving…
- BREATH MATTERS – YOUR FIRST, LAST BREATH ….and all the ones in between
- A new video by the great Ken Wilber
- JUXTAPOSITIONS: Spiritual awakening is a matter of becoming aware of awareness
- Transforming our negatives into positives
- Karla Mclaren on Empaths and Empathy: The Language of Emotion
- The Black History Month Series 2015: Maya Angelou; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014).
- A summary of Nondual spiritual teachings
- So, I am suspicious of education. (And History should always be taken in the morning.)
- Intellect AND character: Help your children become positively & wholly human
- Is this man the greatest activist for peace in our time? Can he help you act in the cause of peace?
- ‘What is awareness?’ – Rupert Spira’s contemporary.
- Just sitting still unplugged – quieten the monkey-mind – find true peace – Pico Iyer
- Wonder and amazement – Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Rays of the Absolute (the Legacy of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
- Zen mind – video
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