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We are the field of awareness within which our mind, body, emotions and perceptions take place. We can use those beautiful gifts to engage with this world. We can listen with our hearts to engage with the infinite, eternal Field Of Awareness from which all things arise. Our field meets that Field, and we realise there is no difference.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

We human beings are dependent on each other and on nature. Interdependence is the starting point of the patterns of trust. When we truly understand that we are not separate from each other we can focus on the building of trust.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

Home is the place of our essential awareness. The place that is really not an actual “place” but the experience of where our awareness meets the Awareness from which we, and all things arise.

We are all walking each other to that home.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

A Warm Cup Of Tea

So often we are looking for a grand experience to confirm that we have indeed “reached” enlightenment. I know I spent decades in that endeavour, always aware of my shortfalls.

But perhaps our most essential nature is so close that we miss it, in its simplicity. Perhaps it is so simple and uneventful, that it is like a warm cup of tea.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

Work As A Practice

Our Awareness And Our Work Cannot Be Separate. We Just Need To Recognise That.

Most of the time we would not put work and meditation together as a practice. But for most of us we spend hours each week at work. It is the place we interact with people in all kinds of ways. Bringing peace, compassion, trust, respect into all of our interactions at work…takes practice.

This meditation is about the journey to the place within, the field of our awareness, from which we can always operate, including at work.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

The Listening Heart

The Centre Of Who We Really Are

We are temporarily dwelling in this mind and body we each have. We are best guided by and supported by our listening heart, the essence of who we are beyond time and space.

It is a place so close and so real we so often don’t notice it. Yet it is the very foundation of how best we can operate in this world or ours.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

The Field Of Love & Trust

There is no distance between your essential self and the field of love and trust.

This field is not just a beautiful place to visit, but a place that is always within you, and an essential place to allow you to deal with the sometime chaos and madness of the world we live in externally.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

The Arms Of Trust

Our longing to find those we can trust arises from our essential nature. We are part of the arms of trust that embrace all of life.

Love is the experience that we are not separate. We can trust that we are part of the Love from which we are created. We cannot be separate. We can trust that.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

Arriving Home

The journey to our essential centre is a journey home. It is a journey of no distance.

The illusion of distance is the very discovery we make. We come home to discover that we are in the very place we are now, and have always been.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

The Freedom Of Surrender

We hold so tightly to our ideas of who are are, who we should be, how we should act. So much of what we have come to believe is our “self” is but a conglomeration of the thoughts, emotions, concepts and perceptions we have gathered in order to survive in this world.

When we experience that there is no distance between our awareness of our own existence and the Awareness from which we arise, we are free to surrender that which we have held so tightly.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

Removing The Blindfold

The blindfold that so many of us wear is the illusion that we are actually separate from other humans, from Nature, and most importantly from Awareness (God).

This illusion has been the root of so much of our historical and present day suffering.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

Wisdom Calls From The Heart

In this meditation we simply practice building the quiet place within where we can hear the whisper of The Wisdom at the heart of all that is, and at the heart of each of us.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

Wisdom Lived

Here is part of a David Whyte poem I read this morning….A Seeming Stillness

Your essence has always been that first vulnerability of being found, of being heard and of being seen. and from the very beginning and out of nowhere the one who has always needed, and being given, so much invisible help.

There is vulnerability to the wisdom within us, and vulnerability required to discover that very wisdom.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

The Words Of Love

Words are important, but when it comes to things that really matter, it is the unspeakable Wisdom and Awareness beneath the words that will best communicate. In matters of love, peace, sacred relationship and community we are called to a silent place to discover the best words.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

Holding To The Sacred

Discovering the sacred is not a journey, but a discovery of what is always there within us and around us.

We cannot fully find the sacred in others or in our environment until we can fully experience our own sacred nature.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

Our Hands To God

The journey to open our hands and the hands of our heart is the journey to receiving. It is a journey of no distance.

Thank you for sharing this meditation with me. It is simply about receiving. Receiving who we are. Receiving the love that arises because of who we are.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

Opening To The Blessings

There is a place in our hearts that is open to seeing the blessings all around us. We just need to go there a little more often.

The suffering of the world need not be ignored, but we need to carry with us that stillness that recognises the blessings midst the chaos.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

The Two Hands Of Awakening

Awareness is our most precious gift. We need only open our two hands, and the open and humble heart they represent, to receive the experience of it.

We already are the awareness, but it is our job to open to recognising the nature of the gift.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

The Mountains Of Our Dreams

This meditation is about the Mountains Of Our Dreams. Why are we dreamers? I think it is the harkening back before our thoughts to the ground of who we are. Our dreams reach back to what is our true nature, the infinite from which we arise.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Ian

The Heart Of Devotion

The place of devotion in spiritual traditions is an ancient one. As many move away from mainstream religious institutions and beliefs, we sometimes leave the precious value of devotion behind to. We may not need to. There is precious value I think in devotion as a path to awakening.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

A Surrender - Choosing The Field On Which We Play

So often we feel the world pushes us into places that cause us suffering. This meditation is designed to help you in making choices.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Joining Together

I was inspired to create this guided meditation after listening to the musician and performer Jacob Collier. The way that he engages with his audiences and creates a beautiful beautiful choir is stunning, and tear producing.

The example of the crowd singing is a deeply hopeful illustration of what we humans can do together, when we let go our fears and surrender to being with each other as we are.

If we can do it singing, then we can do it in all kinds of ways. I wish for a world where we do that.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

A note…during this meditation you will hear a hail storm arrive. That is the noise you hear in the background including the whistling window noise. I thought to redo it of course, but I decided to leave it as it is, because meditations happen in all these kinds of situations. Peace will pass through many storms and has done so already.

Please feel free to leave a comment if you wish.

In addition to these meditations you can read my posts on Substack, and there are some videos and podcasts as well. Living Your Wisdom is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Living Awake In The World

Hello Everyone:

I wish you peace in this new year of 2025.

This meditation is a simple journey to our “home” within. The place in our lives where our awareness is palpable and present. It is always palpable and present, we just need to practice visiting so often that we can carry our connection to it with us in every part of our day.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Embracing The Miracles

The journey to our essential centre is a journey home. It is a journey of no distance.

The illusion of distance is the very discovery we make. We come home to discover that we are in the very place we are now, and have always been.

Not only that, we can discover in the silence, in the stillness, that we are in the home of miracles. The miracle of awareness, of “I am ness”. The miracle of having a life, body, mind and life beyond the body and mind to express the essential nature of our “I am ness”. The miracle of the inseparable nature of existence. We are not separate from each other. Awakening to that reality causes the miracle of love to arise.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

The Wings That Fly Us Home

Across every spiritual tradition, particularly in the writings of the mystics there is reference to the wings of love, the flight of awakening, the soaring possibilities of peace.

It is our effort to put words to the wordless. It is the effort to describe an ecstasy that just doesn’t stay within the gravity of earthly existence.

We are the wings, and we are the winds of love that give support to the wings.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

The Field Of No Judgement

To experience unconditional love is to experience no judgement. We must journey to the field of no judgement within, to understand we are free to be accountable to God.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

To Our Essential Centre

The journey to our essential centre is a journey home. It is a journey of no distance.

The illusion of distance is the very discovery we make. We come home to discover that we are in the very place we are now, and have always been.

I hope you find this meditation valuable.

I wish you peace.

Hello Everyone:

Up until now I have published here on Substack my own “Living Your Wisdom” videos. Today I wanted to share something different. This is a podcast I appeared as a guest. The essence of the discussion was about the value of failure in pointing us in the right direction of our own wisdom path.

I appeared on this podcast with Paul Padmore.

I really enjoyed this podcast with Paul. Please take a moment to check out his website and see the incredible array of people he has interviewed around the idea of My Perfect Failure.

Enjoy.

Thank you for taking time here.

I wish you peace, and love.

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Hello Everyone.

These up a dirt road contemplations are created to simulate your own contemplation and consideration.

I really look forward to your comments and feedback.

Thank you for taking time here

Ian

Hello Everyone.

These up a dirt road contemplations are created to simulate your own contemplation and consideration.

I really look forward to your comments and feedback.

Thank you for taking time here

Ian

Hello Everyone.

These up a dirt road contemplations are created to simulate your own contemplation and consideration.

I really look forward to your comments and feedback.

Thank you for taking time here

Ian

Hello Everyone.

These up a dirt road contemplations are created to simulate your own contemplation and consideration.

I really look forward to your comments and feedback.

Thank you for taking time here

Ian

Hello Everyone.

These up a dirt road contemplations are created to simulate your own contemplation and consideration.

I really look forward to your comments and feedback.

Thank you for taking time here

Ian

Hello Everyone.

These up a dirt road contemplations are created to simulate your own contemplation and consideration.

I really look forward to your comments and feedback.

Thank you for taking time here

Ian

Hello Everyone.

These up a dirt road contemplations are created to simulate your own contemplation and consideration.

I really look forward to your comments and feedback.

Thank you for taking time here

Ian

Hello Everyone.

These up a dirt road contemplations are created to stimulate your own contemplation and consideration.

I really look forward to your comments and feedback.

Thank you for taking time here

Ian

Hello Everyone.

These up a dirt road contemplations are created to simulate your own contemplation and consideration.

I really look forward to your comments and feedback.

Thank you for taking time here

Ian

Hello Everyone.

These up a dirt road contemplations are created to simulate your own contemplation and consideration.

I really look forward to your comments and feedback.

Thank you for taking time here

Ian

Good Morning Wisdom Walkers:

Beautiful sunny day here today. Walking up the road was a joy. It always is, but today particularly because the rain and chill we have had for a couple of weeks now, departed and a hint of Spring showed up.

Today’s walk is about moving from fixer to helper. Kind of a confession of a fixer who took way too long to change.

We all need help. We are designed to need help. It is a gift to receive help, and to give it.

Thank you for listening,

Ian

Please feel free to comment and to add your thoughts and wisdom. Like help, I think the nature of wisdom is that it grows when we share it with each other. I am of the mind that we all have a deep, infinite in fact, wisdom within. I would love to learn more about yours.

Good Morning Wisdom Walkers:

I hope that you are doing really well. I have been struck this week by the challenge of living in this world. On one hand is the pull to the internal world, on the other a sadness, stimulated by the news of the world, about how far we have to go to actually live in peace with each other.

One of my favourite writers, Parker J. Palmer speaks sagely about the skill of “holding the tension” between what we long for, and know is right, and the reality of what is actually in front of us. Holding that tension is a way to abide in the peace that is our birthright, and being present to, connected to, the pain all around us. They are not mutually exclusive. We do not need to run away from either of these worlds, but can hold them both. Though I believe this is profoundly true, it lands in the easier said than done basket for me.

I wish you the inner strength and resilience to hold this tension well in your life.

Thank you for reading and listening to my posts and I hope you have a wonderful week.

Please feel free to comment and contribute your wisdom to this community. We all need open, safe and authentic community!

Cheers,

Ian

Good Morning Dirt Road Walkers:

Today’s contemplation is “The Nature Of The Simple Heart”. I thought if I was going to give this name to the series, I should share my experience of this.

When we get to the fundamental things about living they seem to be simple, yet wordless. Having children helped me discover this. There is almost nothing about actually raising children that is simple, but at the core there is something simple…I love them, I want to do everything I can to help them have a happy and fulfilling life. More simple…I wish for them happiness. More simple…I wish for them… love. More simple…no words…tears.

More on this in the video.

Thanks for listening and sharing this journey with me.

Ian

Good Morning Wisdom Walkers:

Today, the contemplation on our walk up the dirt road is Stillness.

These contemplations are short and not meant to be a deep dive, but perhaps better described as a “contemplate this, how does this touch on your life”? They are really designed to encourage you to take some quiet time, even if you don’t have a dirt road, to just be still, and wonder.

Thank you for listening. Please feel free to share and to make any comments that you think can be helpful to our growing community of listeners. What is your experience of stillness?

Thank you.

Ian

Hello Wisdom Walkers:

A few days ago on my morning walk I decided that I would share my space and my contemplations with you on video. The theme of all of these videos is Finding Your Simple Heart. We each have this simple place within. Sometimes the challenge is finding it, experiencing it, and abiding in it, midst the many activities of our lives.

So here goes…

I live up a dirt road in rural Australia.

I feel really blessed to do so, having lived in New York City, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Melbourne, Brisbane and a couple of others. I loved those times (mostly 🙂), but feel deeply grateful to be living here.

To say that city life has an energised cadence different than our country road living is an understatement🙂.

My walks on our road are often times of contemplation, along with some puffing and sweating. I plan to take a moment on these walks to share some of these contemplations, and to share the quiet and the beauty, knowing that many of you are living in cities and might appreciate something paced a little bit country.

This first one is not so much a contemplation, but an introduction about my plan to do these videos.

Thank you for taking time here. I hope these brief moments bring a little quiet and possibly some reverie.

All The Very Best,

Ian