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802 Desert Creek Road,
Numbugga via Bega NSW 2550
Phone: 6492 8498
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Last update of this page: 20 November 2018

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1) Our next activities Next meditation weekend: From Friday 8 February 6pm to Sunday 10 February 9am. Silent weekend of meditation Following Meditation days will be on: 1-3 March / 12-14 April / 10-12 May / 7-9 June / 12-14 July / 9-11 August / 13-15 Sept. / 11-13 Oct. / 8-10 Nov. / 13-15 Dec. Next community day: on the 23 March 2019 from 9am for a 9.30 start to 4pm. Contributing some food to share. Working bee replaces donation. Following Community days (generally on the fourth Saturday of the month, except when there is a workshop on the same month - because the workshop is considered as a community day) will be on: 27 April / 22 June / 26 October (AGM) Next workshop: Fri. 22 (5pm) to Sun. 24 February 2019 (9am) The Power of the Powerless - Facilitator: Yves de Morsier Inspired by a text by Vaclav Havel (ex-"dissident" and ex-President of the Czech Republic) - download here the complete version (47p) or the short version (extracts only - 7p) or to be sent to you. Our true power is not imposing; it relies on our ability to live in the Truth. It is not very different if we live under a totalitarian system or if we live in a materialistic society, whether our search is focused on a social-political level or on a metaphysicalspiritual path. The price to pay is certainly not the same in these different cases, but these are the same desires and forms of attachment that prevent us from finding simplicity and freedom. When we are free to live in the Truth, we acquire the simple power of the powerless. We will investigate how to find a leading vision or guide for our life and we will search together for tools how to live in the Truth and to become free. Cost: DCH donation plus contributing some food to share. Further activities: See further program on this website (in a new window) 2) Most recent documents on this website (Each one in a new window) About individualism and community  About generosity  About nonviolence  About Aboriginal people and us   (November 2018) Documents from one of our last workshops: Individualism, Friendship, Community: what is true love? The main text and documents of the workshop "Individualism, Friendship, Community: what is true love?" (23p in pdf) (Of course this was only the starting point for the sharing we had) (May 2018) After our community day and sharing about generosity (26th May), Jen provides here her text for further reflection: The text and the quotations: About generosity (6p in pdf) And Sunny asked for the text about the four categories of goods: Four categories of goods and the ways to share them (7p in pdf) This is an extract of Yves' book about wealth and poverty (p183sq). For the whole book, see: Vocation and subsistence: towards a reconciliation between simplicity and wealth on the search for care and equity (233p in pdf) (April 2018) About nonviolent communication, after our community day and sharing (28th April), Sunny proposes the following texts for further reflexion: Borrowed from the Center for Nonviolent Communication (www.cnc.org): Spiritual Basis of Nonviolent Communication (6p in pdf) Borrowed from Pennsylvania University (http://ceteseerx.ist.psu.edu): Nonviolence in World religions (135p in pdf) And the following link for a video: A talk on Nonviolence by an eloquent young woman called Jamila Raqib who works at the Albert Einstein Institution (April 2018) What can we do at DCH to discover a true connexion to Aboriginal people and culture? The Uluru statement (written by elders at Uluru in 2017: this is an admirable very short text, so deep, so true. Uluru Statement from the Heart- 1p in pdf Through my readings and writings I had a modest insight into the Aboriginal issue and have here a proposal about what we could try to do at DCH. Warning: I do not know much about Aboriginal people and their culture but I'm very touched (in my ignorance) by the wealth it represents in terms of human gifts. There is a certainty: we would be all enriched to tap into the huge potential of true (re)conciliation. I need your insights, your advices, etc. Help me! Tell me please what you think of this proposal! Two insights - One proposal - 4p in pdf Further readings: See other texts published on this website (in a new window) 3) Main practical documents about DCH (Each one in a new window) We need your help: List of various works of maintenance to be done at DCH. Concerning our next activities: All the important dates on 1 A4 sheet. How to get to DCH: Map and instruction how to access DCH. DCH is a non-for-profit association: Constitution of Desert Creek House Incorporated.

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