A Revolution in Healthcare

Economies and government coffers are groaning under the load of escalating medical and healthcare expenditure. Some medical authorities claim that many of the thousands of Australia’s medicare funded procedures are useless and even harmful. The health minister...

YOU finding YOUR way

Regarding learning meditation, on the front page of this website I have written: “In the end it is YOU finding YOUR way. The teaching supports you in exploring, trying things, and ultimately trusting your experience.” Putting it in a different way one...

To move or not to move

Stillness is often named and described as a key feature of meditation; physical and mental stillness. In a previous blog essay titled ‘What is Meditation’ I described meditation as “just sitting … Just sit, and then sit some more for a...

Walking, simply walking

Taking a walk is a great thing to do for so many reasons. It can be good exercise, particularly for those not suited to more vigourous exercise. For me I often find it great ‘thinking time’. Walking can include the enjoyment of being out in a natural...

Prime Minister Whitlam and me

Gough Whitlam has died; he was a towering figure in the Aussie landscape of my very young adult years. I am sure many people of around my age, young at the time of Gough Whitlam’s prime ministership, will be having all kinds of reflections on his impact upon...