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Amid the challenges of a demanding corporate life, Ashok has embraced daily meditation from 1994. His journey involves extensive travel, long workdays, and managing stress. Through diverse meditation practices, he found peace, strength, creativity, and resilience.

Ashok was fortunate enough to benefit from a deeply knowledgeable lineage of Himalayan masters. After being deeply influenced by the book, Living With The Himalayan Masters by Swami Rama, Ashok was seeking a master. He was fortunate to be accepted by Shri Dev Babaji. During the course of his time in the Himalayas, Shri Dev Babaji was a direct disciple of Swami Rama. Born in Northern India, Swami Rama was raised from early childhood by the Himalayan sage, Bengali Baba. Under the guidance of his master, he travelled from monastery to monastery and studied with a variety of Himalayan saints and sages, including his grandmaster who was living in a remote region of Tibet.

 Ashok continues to learn from Shri Dev Babaji and is offering his knowledge on his guru’s gentle encouragement.

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Sr Antonia Curtis is a nun from the Benedictine Abbey Jamberoo NSW.
She has extensive experience in teaching lectio divina having spent many years being responsible for guiding the new members of the community and also guests in our retreat cottages here at the Abbey. She attained a certificate in spiritual direction from the Centre For Religious Development Cambridge, Massachusetts USA and 1995. She is presently involved in giving online retreats for the abbey website, spiritual direction and serving as chronicler for the Abbey community.

Lectio divina is a contemplative practice with its Christian roots in the Benedictine tradition. It combines slow, conscious reading of a biblical or sacred text with contemplation and silent prayer. During Lectio Divina we put aside thoughts of studying the text. This is not the time to consider the historical or theological meanings of what we are reading. We read with a willingness to enter into text in a felt sense.

For many meditation teachers and practitioners, a book is often our first teacher, and we have those texts that we return to again and again for nourishment and inspiration. The Lectio provides a framework where the reading can become a meditation practice of its own.

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Meditation Australia council member Bishop Philip Huggins is an incredible role model. He is a changemaker at all levels. From a gentle, encouraging conversation with a child to assisting those in dire need on a National and International level. At the same time, he holds a sacred space of worship, meditation and quiet at his parish at Holy Trinity in South Melbourne. His community is diverse and very welcoming.
Meditative and Spiritual principles hold inner and outer peace at their core. Bishop Huggin’s peacebuilding activities are a great example of humble but powerful service.
We are pleased to share his deeply insightful article about the Israeli and Palestinian conflict and a group of brave and deeply honest people, seeking peace. “Two truths, one heart. Two people’s one land.”

FINDING HOPE, GIVING HOPE
BY REMEMBERING OUR ROOTS

On Wednesday 31 July we listened to two people who were speaking to us from near Hebron, where Abraham and Sarah are buried (see link below). We listened as news came through of an even further escalation in the hate, violence and suffering in and around the land called ‘holy’. As it happens,I helped host this immediately after co- leading our Retreat on ‘Inner Peace and Outer Peace’- how to better integrate our meditation and prayer with resilient peacemaking.

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