Michael in India
Dear friends I will be leaving Australia November 21st and will be back Febuary 21st 2006.
From 23rd November until middle December I will be staying near Ramana Ashram. While in Tiru I am available to give sessions of the work 200R a session. So if you are finding any problems in Tiru and would like to contact me feel free to e-mail me and we can set up a session to enquire together..

In Love
Michael

Michael can be contacted on 0266847022
Michael is living in the Byron Bay area. He is available to facilitate The Work in groups or private sessions and can be contacted by phone on 02 66847022...

August Newsletter
Welcome dear friends to this months newsletter.

The future is what I would like to look at this issue,
or more truely - the illusion of it.
What is the cost of this thinking?

What is it that I run after or run from? ( How is it for you when this running stops - even for a few seconds?... I invite you to fall into this?)

What are the thoughts that attract you away from the beauty, delight and simplicity of this moment?
I invite you to find one right now and take it to in - quiry.

Can you really know that if you had that future, you would be happy, ok, feel wonderful or at ease?

What infinate possibilities await in living without such fixed positions of believing what I think "I want or need".

And this infinate way of seeing can begin right now with our capacity to notice what incredable gifts are in our life right now.
How many different colours can you see if you pause for a moment and take in what's looked at?
Will you receive this gift?
Here - Now..

And sound.
Would you feel the touch of them, where they delight you and open to swim in this abundance?

Future... Why hold to one?

When this Life and Love is all around..
Waiting for you - to join ......
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Sky - Boy - Bike - Footpath - Words - Chair - Birdsong ..

What gifts to enjoy...

What a future to embrace.
What a future to celebrate in, with music of inner openings..

2 Day Adelaide Residential Retreat in August..
Michael is very much looking forward to facilitating and leading new and old friends in the delightful questions of The work. Opening mind and finding the heartspace that lives in all. The Retreat will be from the 27th 28th of August in the tranquil hills of Adelaide. For more information about the retreat contact Cathryn (who will be organizing the retreat) in Adelaide.
See Below for more details..

Who would you be without your story?


Weekend Residential
Workshop
in the Adelaide Hills
Saturday & Sunday
August 27 - 28th 2005

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Workshop Information
You are invited to leave your daily schedules
and responsibilities behind to experience a new
way of being with yourself and others. In a
small intimate group we will do The Work and
unravel ourselves, to begin to discover who we
are without our story…

What is The Work?
The Work has been called the most powerful
method ever developed to end human suffering,
and yet is so simple that even a child can
do it. It offers a way to go inside and find your
own happiness, to experience the freedom
that already exists within you. You are the
one who can end your own suffering.

The Work consists of a simple written exercise.
Using a series of specific questions, we investigate
our thinking and become aware of our
confusion and stress. This is self-realization.
People who use The Work experience an extraordinary
and lasting impact on their daily
lives.

Who will benefit from The Work?
Anyone who ever found themselves angry, annoyed
or upset with the world and/or other
people because you didn’t get what you
wanted. Anyone who wants to know the truth.
After doing The Work for a while, you may find
pain and suffering slipping away, until eventually
you love and genuinely look forward to
whatever life brings.

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Location
A beautiful and tranquil rural setting in the
rolling Adelaide Hills. The spacious and
heated workshop area overlooks gracious
gardens and is framed by magnificent
views of Mt Lofty. The Carlton Club is approximately
35 minutes from Adelaide via
the South Eastern Freeway. Specific directions
will be given upon receipt of your deposit.

Sleeping Arrangements
Cosy, separate sleeping spaces for men
and women. BYO bedding, including mattress,
& a towel.

Meals
All meals are wholesome
and delicious
vegetarian. If you
have any food sensitivities
please let us
know prior to the
event.

Cost $250 all inclusive
A deposit of $50 will
secure your spot, as numbers are limited.
Full payment is required by 12th August.

Arrival & Departure Times
Registration is from 9.00 - 9.30 am Saturday
27th August. Departure will be at approximately
5 pm on Sunday 28th August.

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To benefit as much as possible from the
workshop, we suggest you introduce yourself
to The Work of Byron Katie prior to attendance.

Good introductions to The Work include:

? the best-selling book Loving What Is
(2002)
? Katie’s new book I Need Your Love - Is It
True? (both books are available in audio
format on cassette and DVD)
? listen to others doing The Work on any of
Katie’s many audio or video cassettes and
CDs
? Do The Work yourself by filling out a
worksheet (available online) and answering
the questions. If you are new to The
Work you may like to ask someone with
some experience to guide you through
this process.

"Byron Katie's Work is a great blessing for
our planet. The root cause of suffering is
identification with our thoughts, the 'stories'
that are continuously running through our
minds. Byron Katie's Work acts like a razorsharp
sword that cuts through that illusion
and enables you to know for yourself the
timeless essence of your being. Joy, peace
and love emanate from it as your natural
state."
Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now.

“From just one session of The Work, I learnt
more about myself than 10 years of therapy.
Why don’t more people use this as a direct
route to happiness??”
Satisfied client, Brisbane QLD

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Michael Walker is passionate about The
Work. For the past two summers he staffed
and participated in intensives and nine day
schools with Byron Katie in Europe.
For the past four years, Michael has introduced
this revolutionary process to people
around Australia through workshops and inquiry
circles. Based in Byron Bay, NSW he is
also available for individual sessions.

Michael will be assisted by Cathryn Nitschke
who also immersed herself in The Work by
travelling to Europe to attend intensives
with Byron Katie. Cathryn uses The Work
with clients in her private practice in Hahndorf.


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Please make your cheque or
money order payable to ‘Michael
Walker’ and send with your
registration to:

Upcoming Day of The Work in Tyagarah
Sunday 17th July we be the next Day of The Work offered by michael. E-mail or phone for more directions or questions about...

Some writtings from michael


When the mirror of illusion
has been broken and love is no longer reflected.
All time and space lives as the free one, not found.
No movement becomes a great dance and nourishment
to falling.
Loss and gain,
a mirage,
never existing.

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Awake.
Come awake.
It is news of death,
that brings me awake.
Death.
The uncertain calling that calls and takes
disappointments and wantings and happy memorys.
Death.
The friend who hides in our own shadow
and gently nudges us awake.
Awake.
Here, no hands to cling with
or fists to chase away.
Here.
Here.
Here, friend death waits.
And calls us.
And calls us.
And calls us.
Here.
Here.
Right here.
Inside tears and sobs
and fading lifetime thoughts.
Friend death.
I know you wait while time runs down
looking to claim your inheritence
of ease and love in space unbounded,
The holy, holy unborn ocean.
Water is water.
And all raindrops will return home.
Return home.
Return home.

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Silience now for the golden one is here.
On the highway,
in the home.
It speaks.
Can you hear?
Enough foolish games of want and need.
Life offers everything,
to receive.
Live to caress and whisper sweet words
to the true love.
Bring fragrant flowers and rich oils to massage
the beloved's soft flesh.
If you want another it is only because you have not yet tasted the tender lips of love.
Do not dispare.
Listen.
Look.
Feel.
Smell.
and Taste
the lushiousness of the world.
The beloved rolls around on the green grass playing.
Join and know
the delight...



As dream love comes,
it must go.
As the full moon reflects it's beauty to the water and then wanes.
So must the illusion of two
become space unknown.
Tears live in the tenderheart,
that longs to be touched,
by dirt and sky.
Sun forgets moon and consumes itself.
Before creation and destruction,
the glorious unborn...

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They say it's all about time and money.
Rubbish!
It's all about space and energy.
It's all about peace and aliveness.
It's all about the God-King being at home and ruling his kingdom.
Stop!
And let the world crumble.
What is real can never be lost.
It lives all around,
for those with eye's to see.
Open them!
And no longer deny
the paradise that waits...

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A flame has a wick for its light.
The moon has the sun for its brilliance.
Like this a lover has his sufferings.
They are his darling that lead him to the hidden surprises that await in this garden of love...

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You scratch around the garbage looking for broken
glass,
while at home in the royal palace.
Desire! For what?
Open your eyes.
Hope! Tell me what treasure have you found there?
Fear! Ha. Show me what has ever really hurt you?
Pretending to be a begger is no act for a king.
Sieze your throne and behead your advisers.
Listen to no one and act.
Entertain the Great Queen in the timeless chamber of delight.
And fall into the place without dreams.
There.
There.
Every tiny thing matters
and nothing is true...

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It is done.
When the fireheap has become engulfed in flames.
The stick that lit it can no longer be found.
Of what use are questions or answers to a drunkard lost in his own shadow?
Too intoxicated to talk.
Too blissed to care.
He stumbles,
falling down
and down
in sleep.
Eyes open and the great star is everywhere.
The flames become glowing coals
and then ash
to grow pumpkins...

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Shiva has come.
Now is not the time.
This is not the place.
For anything else,
then total destruction.
Give me your demons to consume
and your misery to embrace.
I am a raging inferno and all is burning.
Last time I came to you
a hungry begger pleading for scraps.
This night there is only,
the lord who plays...

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Today my master awoke.
He is the passion in my loins.
A young stallion.
Full and wild as a river in flood.
He is the stillness in my mind.
Ramana's Hall.
Empty and content.
A cavern that's never glimpsed sunlight.
Today I live with my father and mother frolicking wildly in intercourse.
Amazed and abandoned in the opening that all must know.
No longer do I drink the milk of my mother or the sweat of my father.
I have found the blood of a freshly killed lamb.
With glee it sustains my reckless spirit.
No longer shackled in the cage of pleasing.
I roam a free man.
Following only a hearts longing...

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Mind,
do you not know that the lies of the past serve only confusion?
And the fantasy of tomorow only shallow footsteps that lead away from the sun?
Find heart,
in not knowing,
a single thing.
Then lose this.
Everyone misplaces first love.
Dying,
dying,
dead.
I am ash blowing in the wind...

Nearing the end of 3 months in Europe
Well friends I have been away from Australia nearly 3 months and what has happened to michael in that time...

Humm.....

inside/outside... here/now...

what comes ... must go...

A thought creates a world...

The indian masters called this maya or illusion...

This is the world...

Try it now , look at anything and ask...

Does it exist without the thought?

Interesting ...

Without the thought...

The holding, the belief in...

What's THIS feel like? How does THIS taste?

And yes any answer is again not it...

To live in a lie is to believe that a thought is IT... is TRUTH...


And a thought can never be that. Can it?
Simply a world coming now...

What exists before that world?

Before the dream, a thought...
Where are you?

This is what LoveAware is...
No space , No place , No position...
And in this where is IT not?

Losing is winning...
Lost is found...

I invite you to be lost, to lose...

To die...

In death to find life beyond any thought, any illusion...

Finding life is death...

And death is life...

Same/Same...

In this what more can be added to you?
What can be taken away from you?

You ARE

Now Question this...

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Welcome to LoveAware...

Snippets from listening to katie...................
Mind is a seeker. It's job is to prove what is true.
It thinks a thought and seeks to prove it..

Thoughts are not personal they arise and fall away.

To believe them is where the world is created,
projected out.

If painful/ stressful, question, not with motive only for the love of freedom , for the love of the good - couragous..

You are the one...............
Only takes one - you ( me )
to end the suffering in the world.
Be still go in for love and know the truth that passes understanding....
Here / Now ....... Only this without a story.....
A story can only be held up with another story . A thought that seeks to prove the story to be true and that thought itself can never be proved to be true/ real....
Only a thought............
Without holding to it........
Freedom - peace - love - .........
LOVE AT REST IN ITSELF......

michael in amsterdam again
Hi friends

I will be back in Amsterdam on the 6th and 7th of july contactable by phone at the number below.
After that I will be in london to staff the intensive with Byron Katie..........

Do you believe everything you think?

At what cost to your internal world? (the only real world)

Question for the love of truth and find that the greatest bad turns into the bigest good.

Michael in Amsterdam 22nd and 23rd June and then on the road...
Hello dear friends I will be contactable in Amsterdam on the 22nd and 23rd of June ( tueday and wednesday) on 31 203205614. After that I will be participating in Byron Katie Events and will not be contactable by phone. If contacting me by e-mail it may take me a little while to respond to you.
In love
Michael