Inner questioning Articles
21 Ways to Stay in the Peace
From Byron Katie Compiled by Mary Lynn Hendrix Introduction The following are simple, yet powerful practices that can give you new ways of looking at your life circumstances, and in that, create n read more...21st Century Gods
Whenever I hear the word “god’, I get a sudden rush to go and let go of something. I guess that comes back to my Catholic upbringing, where god was this omnipotent being that knew whatever you d read more...A Good Time for Gross National Happiness
Happiness is a fundamental human quest and may be understood as a state of physical and emotional well-being and inner contentment, founded on principles of sociality and of not harming other sentie read more...Being who we really are
In Byron Bay, wherever there are seekers, what is heard most about is the desire for enlightenment, to be free. Free of what is rarely articulated. What do I want to be free of? The desire for a new read more...Do dolphins have orgasms?
It’s funny the thoughts you have when you stop thinking. After a hectic few months of being out there, organising and making decisions, I decided to take some time out. A friend was going on holid read more...Dreams
Probably more than any other place on earth, at least that I know of, Byron Bay is a place where people come to live out their dreams. What these dreams are will be unique to each person. Some have read more...Initiation with Darpan
I was thinking about initiation and what that means in our society as it heads into another millenium, and thought I'd speak to some friends, get the low-down, and then put it all together in a cohe read more...Initiation with Graeme Innis
Re-earthing Graeme Innis first discovered the powers of burial as a protester in the Daintree Rainforest, Queensland, when he was buried for 3 days. Being in the earth with the ancient trees of the read more...Initiation with Michael Light
Michael Light was for years involved with the Byron Bay local community, and has seen himself as a medium through whom healing can happen. He's worked in the prison system, as a social worker on the read more...Is Byron Bay a myth or a strawberry?
That day in the Bay I hadn’t bumped into anyone I knew. It was busy and bustling with the faces of strangers, no one said hello. By chance, a friend phoned and told me about a Buddhist talk on read more...It's Easy to Listen to A Scotsman
I feel like listening. Deep listening. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, talking, debating on issues and a lot of doing. It’s time to listen. Not just to the people I find interesting and pass read more...Letting go
Letting go. How the f**k is one supposed to let go? So many times over the last few months I’ve heard “Mark, you must let go! You’ll get everything you desire (!) if you’ll just let go!”. read more...Lies and our relationship to truth
Written in 2003 in the early days of the Iraq War and the COW, this is particularly pertinent in these times of Wikileaks, with the international uproar over the fact of the leaks, Julian Assange, a read more...Love sets us free
Whether someone admits it or not doesn’t matter, I think everyone wants to be touched — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Everyone wants to be loved. To be heard. To feel special. People read more...Making sense of this place
No other place evokes my sense of self more than the long, straight line of the horizon. As a child you know where you belong. Your name, address and family ties you to a place and helps define who read more...Nothing but the tooth
The truth excites me. Yet the more I thought and talked about it the more confused I became. I found that I knew nothing about truth. I could write pages on what truth isn’t. It wasn’t so diffic read more...Ordinary Life
How do you stay in touch with the opening and powerful experiences that can occur in workshop situations or during a session? How do you integrate this experience into ordinary daily life? I believe read more...Relating as a window to the soul
Our relating stories are perhaps the richest arena there is for teaching us about life and ourselves. Whatever unresolved issues we have lurking in our emotional closets will come to the surface – read more...Sexual violence - not just about men
I have been thinking recently about male sexuality and how it seems to have become one of the unmanageable things in our society. The papers are full of assault, rape, men spiking drinks, child porn read more...Stories, stories stories
Believing our own stories. Where would we be without our stories? In silence perhaps, in boredom? Now and again I find myself lost in stories, stories about this one or that, what is happening and w read more...The Awakening
A time comes in your life when you finally get it - when in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks, and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH! Enough read more...The Biology of Enlightenment
The "near-death experience" that U.G. Krishnamurti had during a lecture in Madras in 1953 was to lead him up to the "final death" and awakening into the Natural State in 1967. It seems, the near-dea read more...The car as a metaphor for life
My car is sending me messages, or it was until it died. In my haste to ‘do’ I seriously neglected my mode of transport. I drove to meetings, appointments and other ‘important’ places and fai read more...The Courage to Trust
Finding the courage to trust. What does that mean? When we say we trust someone, or we ask to be trusted, what exactly are we saying? Osho spoke often about trust, and of course he managed to say di read more...The masks we wear
Over the years I have heard and experienced so much around masks. It is even, in a way, old hat to even talk about masks, but their unconscious existence keeps popping up like that single sock. One read more...There's nothing like a bit of oxytocin between friends
Within ten minutes of meeting and greeting each other a group of women are likely to have discussed the new teacher at school, Jean’s haircut, the film they saw last night and Brenda’s latest tr read more...Unworthy? Who? Me?
I remember once in the ashram in Pune I saw the signs promoting the Unworthiness group that was about to happen. No way! I’m not gonna do that. God, it will be a room full of dorks, of people whos read more...What are the ethics of belonging?
'What does it mean to belong in the world, in Australia, in our community? Belonging invokes a sense of place, home, and safety. To belong is the core of being human and we define ourselves through read more...What is real? The Holy Grail.
Byron Bay is such a spiritual supermarket, with all kinds of people offering truth as an experience, a commodity. “Come and sit in truth”, “Discover the truth of your being”, “Know the tru read more...World Dharma and Natural Freedom
An interview with Alan Clements read more...