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Loch Kelly ~ Direct Inquiry: The Power of How
The two most common approaches of direct awakening are 1) the do nothing or resting method and 2) the looking or inquiry method. The Direct Inquiry approach begins with a looking method of awareness of awareness. However it does not stop with pure awareness but continues to untie knots of confusion to abide and live an awakened life. This natural unfolding moves from Waking up --- from small self, Waking as---the ground of awake awareness, Waking in --- awake awareness arises simultaneously as energy, love and embodiment, Waking out --- to create and relate from embodied, loving, awake consciousness. How do we recognize our True nature if it can’t be done by the seeker, ego, doer, self, will, attention or a meditator? Our already awake awareness can intentionally unhook from being identified with our small self-center. Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW is an author of the award winning book The Way of Effortless Mindfulness. He is a licensed psychotherapist and recognized leader in the field of meditation and awakening. Loch is known for his warm sense of humor, and his trust that awakening is the next natural stage of development. He teaches the advanced, yet simple, nondual pointers and direct methods of effortless mindfulness, informed by psychology and social justice. “Loch Kelly is one of the clearest expressions of authentic awakened freedom and love that I know. He offers wise, loving medicine and direct, practical guidance which evolved from Loch’s vast experience and deep commitment to help others awaken to spiritual freedom.” ~ Adyashanti
Sunday, November 1, 2020 @ 10:00am-12:00noon (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Isira ~ Awakening in a Time of Significant Change in the World: 3 Part Retreat
The world is experiencing many challenges and changes. As spiritual seekers we can be experiencing an even greater gap between what we are living and feeling, and the spiritual ideals of awakening and consciousness. In this three-part workshop series Isira will explore with us how to bridge the higher principles and elements of the spiritual path with the raw reality of the challenges being experienced as a human on the planet right now. Isira will share how we can find relevance in our spiritual ideals and apply them for the greatest benefit and effect. We will acknowledge and recognize both the upper realm of spiritual (more abstract) ideals and principles and the ground level experience of what we are living in. We will recognize the challenges we are faced with and bring a new perspective to both of these. Isira (pronounced "a-SIRE-a") is a spiritual teacher from Southern Australia of mixed European and Aboriginal heritage whose teaching ─ rooted in non-duality ─ revolves around the primacy of love, the necessity to transform limiting beliefs, and the profound need for deep communion with the Earth, its creatures, and elemental forces. From infancy onwards, Isira experienced profound meditative states, prophetic dreams, powerful visions, psychic abilities, vivid past life memories and auspicious synchronicities. She received ordination from the Dalai Lama and spent several years living in Himalayan hermitages before returning to Australia to explore her indigenous roots. Today she functions as a wisdom keeper, a spiritual leader, an ardent advocate for conscious change in the world, and an exemplar of the life of love.
Sunday, November 8, 2020 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm (Pacific Time), continuing Nov. 15 & 22 at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Meeting with Mukti
What is the most essential you that is present regardless of thought or emotion? Who or what has been present for all of your life experience? How does this spirit of constancy touch your life? Mukti will speak on these compelling topics and follow with time for questions and answers pointing directly to the true nature of Self. Mukti’s name originates in Sanskrit and is most often translated as “liberation." Mukti has been the Associate Teacher of Open Gate Sangha since 2004 and has been a student of her husband, Adyashanti, since he began teaching in 1996, when they founded Open Gate Sangha together. Mukti's years of study with Adyashanti and her background in body awareness and the healing arts inform her presentation style, her recommended inquiry methods, and her interest in the energetic unfolding of realization and embodiment.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 @ 11:00am-1:00pm (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)