MDA Temple of Wellbeing
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Handy Advice for the Week
Lighten your load
Make sure you’re only carrying today’s burdens. Too often we carry far more than necessary. Reduce your load by dropping tomorrow’s worries, and yesterday’s baggage. Present pressures and problems are usually enough. Leave tomorrow’s until later.
From “Now Is The Time: 170 ways to seize the moment” by Patrick Lindsay.
Handy Latin phrase for the Week
De te scire volo solum ubi gentium sis cum alicuius indigeam.
The only thing I wish to know about you is where the hell you are when I want something.
Spiritual Wellbeing Tip of the Week
Watching the Thoughts
An early exercise in meditation is to take an objective look at the mind in order to see what goes on within it, and the tricks that it can play.
- Sit and relax. Close your eyes and turn your attention inward. As objectively as you can, watch the thoughts that pass through your awareness. Don’t judge them, or attempt to hang on to pleasant ones, or push unpleasant ones away. Just watch.
- Notice the nature and content of your thoughts – how one thought leads to another, and how quickly a chain of associations is set up. Notice how these associations sometimes follow a single theme, or go off at a tangent into a quite different set of considerations. Notice how intent your mind seems on distracting your attention, and observe the strategies it uses to do so.
- Notice how easily your objective awareness does in fact disappear, and you become “lost” in your thoughts. Each time this happens, gently re-establish awareness.
- Continue the exercise for as long as seems comfortable. Afterward, write down what you have discovered about your mind.
from: “Learn to Meditate” by David Fontana
Recipe of the Week
Perfect Scrambled Eggs with Crispy Bacon (serves 4)
Ingredients: 8 slices streaky bacon, 8 eggs, ½ cup milk, salt and freshly ground black pepper, 30g butter, 4 slices bread grilled or toasted, chopped parsley
Method: Either grill, fry or bake the bacon slices until they are crispy. Lightly beat the eggs with a fork just enough to break up the eggs. Add the milk and seasoning. Heat a non-stick fry pan to only moderately hot and add the butter. Pour in the egg mixture. When the mixture starts to set on the bottom, carefully scrape this off the bottom, letting more liquid egg run into its place. Continue in this way until there is only a small amount of the liquid mixture left. Remove the eggs from the heat at this point. Turn the eggs out onto the hot toast and serve with a scatter of parsley, topped with two slices of crispy bacon.
Suggestion: For a really special brunch, when serving the eggs, top them with a scatter of chopped chives, a small handful of rocket leaves and two slices of folded smoked salmon.
Tip: Always remove the eggs from the heat while there is still some moisture left in the eggs. There will enough heat left in the eggs to complete the cooking and you will have perfect soft curds with no puddle.
What’s On in Perth
Music
Joey Cape + Tony Sly at Amplifier: Wednesday, 19 May: Amplifier Bar 383 - 393 Murray Street Perth
James Zabiela – Villa: Thursday, 20 May: Villa Nightclub 187 Stirling Street Perth
DJ Havana Brown at Metro City: Friday, 21 May: Metro City Concert Club 146 Roe St Northbridge
Russell Peters at Challenge Stadium: Friday, 21 May: Challenge Stadium Stephenson Ave Mt Claremont
Ricky Peterson and Sheila E - Fly By Night: Saturday, 22 May: Fly By Night (entry on Parry St) 1 Holdsworth St Fremantle
Direct Influence - Fly By Night: Sunday, 23 May: Fly By Night (entry on Parry St) 1 Holdsworth St Fremantle
Theatre
Don Quixote at His Majestys Theatre: Friday, May 07 – Saturday, May 22: His Majesty's Theatre 825 Hay St Perth
Bedroom Farce at Hackett Hall: Friday, May 07 – Saturday, May 22: Hackett Hall Draper Street (off Underwood Avenue) Floreat
The Danger Age by Deckchair Theatre: Tuesday, May 11 – Saturday, May 29: Victoria Hall 179 High Street Fremantle
When Harry Met Harry at the Blue Room Theatre: Tuesday, May 11 – Saturday, May 29: The Blue Room Theatre 53 James Street Northbridge
The Shape of Things at PICA: Friday, May 14 – Sunday, May 30: PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts) in Perth Cultural Centre, James Street Perth
The Last Five Years at His Majestys: Tuesday, May 18 – Saturday, May 29: DownStairs at the Maj, His Majesty’s Theatre 825 Hay St Perth
Other
Year 12 Perspectives 2009 at The Art Gallery: 20 February – 31 May: The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth
Human Rights Arts and Film Festival 2010: Friday, May 14 – Saturday, May 22: Freerange Gallery in Perth and Cinema Paradiso, Northbridge
Wild West Comedy Festival 2010: Wednesday, May 19 – Sunday, May 30: Astor Theatre, Brass Monkey, Hellenic Centre, Harry's Bar Perth
Michael Connell in The Blues: Thursday, May 20 – Sunday, May 23: Brass Monkey Corner James and Williams St Northbridge
HBF Run for a Reason: Sunday, 23 May: WACA East Perth
