sick desert of the mind
Only in the imagination We believe imagined separation. Is all this outside ourselves? Are we one with the changes that just happen Exploring together in discourse, playing in a shared Ocean of waves.
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Masanobu Fukuoka
I was introduced to Masanobu Fukuoka’s farming methods by a woofer who came to stay here from Italy. Stephano contacted me asking if he could come to stay to help with any forestry work I might be doing. He had just finished a forestry degree at Florence university but had never done any practical work. […]
Continue reading →Missing Link to changing is Enquiry.
Like a graft in the tree of one’s life. When we question we’re steered to ask ” Who is asking the question”? It opens a chance to knowingly live in thanking As an opportunity to stop the hating And the repetitive watching what we feel about the future As a thread running through one’s life […]
Continue reading →Bill and Carol
We came to Ireland as WWOOFers to spend two months on a small horse farm near Innishannon, west of Cork. We liked Ireland and started strategizing how we could stay longer. Ann was not in the market for WWOOFers at that point but the website for South Reen Farm retreat center sounded like a perfect […]
Continue reading →Empty the trash can of the mind.
start small with one thing connect the dialogue you have with yourself look closely at a line of thought see the so called future in it wishful thinking grasping hoping the way we live in relation to objects of the phenomenal life don’t say too much see how our stories start cut the trash of […]
Continue reading →Live the moment
We can not speak because we do not know, but still try to explain the indescribable and look at things afresh, keen to understand and rummage in the dark as friends, together exploring self inquiry. Words exchange between us like confetti, then mind makes space and clears the room, circling silence in the air, […]
Continue reading →Woofers
Wwoof is “World wide opportunities on organic farms”. For a full explanation of this organisation go to www.wwoof.ie and all will be explained. I have been fortunate to have woofers coming here to help on the farm since 2001 when the first people came over from U.S.A. and stayed for one year! Bill and Carol […]
Continue reading →Carolyn
Carolyn came from Canada last summer. A fun person with a great easy going nature. We had many interesting chats over the time. she got up one morning, extra early, disappearing on a kayak out to the mouth of the harbour in order to go through the talked of hole in the rock only […]
Continue reading →Matt and Brittany – “I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud!”
Matt and Brittany came to stay for two weeks this November. What can I say… So many things were both given and received by listening to each other and appreciating what each of us could bring to the mix. So very many thanks to you both and for your great positive energy, with the willingness […]
Continue reading →Dessi and Alex
Dessi and Alex arrived from Spain last winter in the worst of the gales and rain. Luckily Alex said he was keen on gales so we spent a bit of time travelling to stark spots on the coast to view the waves. When the gale was at its worst and the tide going over the […]
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