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Original APG Articles List

Andy and Ella Portman

Gardening the Self

- What it is to embody the Tao in every day living

Ella and Andy Portman

Loves Way, the Tao of Love

- The Tao is indefinable and unknowable within the limitations of our rational minds. Yet it is the Source from which all manifestation springs. The Tao underlies all things, in the Tao we are all one. In Love we are moving with the Tao. To be in love is to be beyond the limitations of personality, ego or even the body. In love we flow with the ultimate, we are one in the Tao.

Andy and Ella Portman

Rebirth of the lover

- This is a time of identity crisis for many men. Much has been written about changing roles and work patterns; many questions have arisen.

Ella and Andy Portman

Tao of Growing

- Reflections on life in the flow on land and the processes of having"permission" to live on the land.

Ella and Andy Portman

Growing with the Flow

- There has been a marriage in our garden, the bedfellows are well suited and their joining was inevitable.

“There is something obscure which is complete before Heaven and Earth arose. Tranquil, quiet, standing alone, unchanging, infinite, eternally present. It is the mother of everything. I don’t know its name and call it Tao.”

Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching c.500 BC

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