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SUMMARY:Engaged Nonduality ~ With David Loy and Lisa Ferguson
DESCRIPTION:Engaged Nonduality: Nondual Values in Action\nwith With David Loy and Lisa Ferguson \nRecording will be emailed to participants within a week.\nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend the live session. \n“Compassion arises and manifests itself naturally when we have overcome our sense of separation from the world.” David Loy\, Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond \nJoin Lisa and David Loy\, leading advocate in connecting spirituality with engagement\, for an exploration of nondual values in action\, and practical responses to our planetary crises from the perspective of non-separation. We’ll explore how our world situation mirrors that of our own personal misconception of separation\, and how the wisest response to our planetary crisis is to address separation on both of these levels. David will introduce us to the Bodhisattva path as a nonsectarian archetype that offers a new vision of the relationship between spiritual unfolding and social engagement\, and orient toward our true “home\,” which spontaneously expresses itself in skillful action. \nThis session will include a meditation\, talk\, Q&A and experiential tastes of nondual recognition and exploration of practical engagement. \nThe Engaged Nonduality series\nThis Engaged Nonduality series\, hosted by Lisa Ferguson\, explores how nondual wisdom may respond to our world in crisis. We live in a time of multiple intersecting crises that threaten the wellbeing of all life\, including climate breakdown\, unaligned tech and AI\, injustice\, war and authoritarianism. The recognition of nonduality has much to offer in these times\, including a deep knowing of our wholeness and shared Being\, as well as opening to the wellspring of our wise and creative response. This series invites guest presenters to explore how nondual teaching may respond to planetary crises through talks\, practices and group participation. \n“David Loy is the most significant and inspiring advocate for the meeting of Eastern Wisdom and Western social reform writing today.” – Henry Shukman\, Zen teacher \nDavid Loy is a professor\, writer\, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is the author of many books\, including Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond and Ecodharma: Buddhist Teaching for the Ecological Crisis. He is especially concerned about social and ecological issues. In addition to offering workshops and meditation retreats nationally and internationally\, he is one of the founders of the new Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center\, near Boulder\, Colorado. In June 2014\, David received an honorary degree from Carleton College\, his alma mater\, during its 2014 Commencement. In April 2016 David returned his honorary degree\, to protest the decision of the Board of Trustees not to divest from fossil fuel investments. \nLearn more about David at www.davidloy.org \nLisa Ferguson\, Ph.D. is the founder of Climate Compassion\, and has focused on supporting planetary wellbeing as a healing arts practitioner\, climate justice activist\, organizer and contemplative. She offers psychospiritual support to activists through one-one sessions and small groups\, weaving together a focus on awakening\, healing and wise action. \nSuggested Donation: $15 to $40\n(any amount acceptable\, no one turned away for lack of funds)\nPlease register early if you can.\nREGISTER \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/engaged-nonduality-apr-13-2025/
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SUMMARY:Engaged Nonduality ~ With David Loy and Lisa Ferguson
DESCRIPTION:Engaged Nonduality: Nondual Values in Action\nwith With David Loy and Lisa Ferguson \nRecording will be emailed to participants within a week.\nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend the live session. \n“Compassion arises and manifests itself naturally when we have overcome our sense of separation from the world.” David Loy\, Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond \nJoin Lisa and David Loy\, leading advocate in connecting spirituality with engagement\, for an exploration of nondual values in action\, and practical responses to our planetary crises from the perspective of non-separation. We’ll explore how our world situation mirrors that of our own personal misconception of separation\, and how the wisest response to our planetary crisis is to address separation on both of these levels. David will introduce us to the Bodhisattva path as a nonsectarian archetype that offers a new vision of the relationship between spiritual unfolding and social engagement\, and orient toward our true “home\,” which spontaneously expresses itself in skillful action. \nThis session will include a meditation\, talk\, Q&A and experiential tastes of nondual recognition and exploration of practical engagement. \nThe Engaged Nonduality series\nThis Engaged Nonduality series\, hosted by Lisa Ferguson\, explores how nondual wisdom may respond to our world in crisis. We live in a time of multiple intersecting crises that threaten the wellbeing of all life\, including climate breakdown\, unaligned tech and AI\, injustice\, war and authoritarianism. The recognition of nonduality has much to offer in these times\, including a deep knowing of our wholeness and shared Being\, as well as opening to the wellspring of our wise and creative response. This series invites guest presenters to explore how nondual teaching may respond to planetary crises through talks\, practices and group participation. \n“David Loy is the most significant and inspiring advocate for the meeting of Eastern Wisdom and Western social reform writing today.” – Henry Shukman\, Zen teacher \nDavid Loy is a professor\, writer\, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is the author of many books\, including Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond and Ecodharma: Buddhist Teaching for the Ecological Crisis. He is especially concerned about social and ecological issues. In addition to offering workshops and meditation retreats nationally and internationally\, he is one of the founders of the new Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center\, near Boulder\, Colorado. In June 2014\, David received an honorary degree from Carleton College\, his alma mater\, during its 2014 Commencement. In April 2016 David returned his honorary degree\, to protest the decision of the Board of Trustees not to divest from fossil fuel investments. \nLearn more about David at www.davidloy.org \nLisa Ferguson\, Ph.D. is the founder of Climate Compassion\, and has focused on supporting planetary wellbeing as a healing arts practitioner\, climate justice activist\, organizer and contemplative. She offers psychospiritual support to activists through one-one sessions and small groups\, weaving together a focus on awakening\, healing and wise action. \nSuggested Donation: $15 to $40\n(any amount acceptable\, no one turned away for lack of funds)\nPlease register early if you can.\nREGISTER \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/engaged-nonduality-apr-13-2025-2/
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SUMMARY:Izzy Cloke ~ This Boundless Freedom
DESCRIPTION:“This Boundless Freedom points to the natural reality that is all there is. There is no such thing as separation. All there is\, is what appears to be happening: boundless energy\, which is whole and complete simply by being itself. There is nothing to find because nothing has been lost. All seeking is born out of the sense that there is something missing. A sense that turns out to be entirely illusory and to have never actually happened at all. Freedom never went anywhere. It was always just this.” \nIzzy Cloke is a young non-dual teacher from the UK\, visiting the U.S. for the first time. Izzy first met Andreas Muller in 2021\, after which she listened to Tony Parsons and other so-called speakers of this radical message. She points to the natural freedom that is already everything. She has been giving talks on Zoom and around the world since 2023. \nCo-sponsored by Open Circle and The Open Way \nNorthbrae Community Church\n941 The Alameda\nBerkeley\, CA 94707 \nSuggested donations can be taken at the door. \nFor more information\, please click here. \nwww.thisboundlessfreedom.co.uk
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/izzy-cloke-april-13-2025/
LOCATION:Northbrae Community Church\, 941 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,SF Bay Area In-Person Events
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SUMMARY:Amita ~ Your True Nature  (In-Person Event)
DESCRIPTION:Amita began her journey in the early 1970’s in San Francisco\, and later in the remote jungles of Hawaii.  Amita set to break through her conditioned way of knowing herself and the world she lived in.  The conscious search for “Who Am I” began when she read the biographies of Einstein and Gandhi\, opening her mind to a way of life that was larger and deeper than she understood at the time.   \nAmita was introduced to the world of Shamanism through the teachings of Carlos Castaneda.  In the late 70’s\, she studied the Enneagram with Helen Palrmer.  She meditated and chanted at the Siddha Yoga Ashram in Oakland in the early 80’s.  During this time\, she also sat with Baba Hari Das at Mt. Madonna.  He gave her the name “Amita” meaning “infinite light”.   \nAmita has worked as a seer and spiritual mentor\, focusing on healing the thoughts\, emotions and past experiences that keep us from knowing the natural state where true grounding and support begin. Her background is in the non-dual teachings of Advaita and Kashmir Saivism as well as Shamanism and the teachings of Rumi and the poet saints of Turkey and the Middle East.   \nAmita is a spiritual teacher\, seer\, and healer.  Her talks\, meditations & intensives are centered around “direct experience” of who you are:  the original True Nature of the Universe.   \nSatsang:  Amita’s events focus on direct experience of True Nature.   She invites you to rest in inner stability and silence\, deepening your experience of spiritual nourishment as the world continues to turn.  You become the still point of the turning-world.   \nAmita holds a direct transmission to the Awakened State.  Her core teaching is that you are already whole and complete.  She asks you to let go of the false and fixed ideas that you use to identify yourself\, and through that letting go experience the Truth of your Being.  \nAmita’s website: amitatestsite1.weebly.com/ \nYouTube \nSatsang: 2-4 pm\nRefreshments: until 5\nSuggested Donation:  $10- $20\, no one turned away.\nNo pre-registration. Pay at door when you arrive. \nLocation: 8476 Sonoma Ave\, Sebastopol\, CA. Park on Sonoma Ave.\nNote: The address sign says 8474/8476.  Park on the street\, and walk down the short driveway to the house with the carport.\nPlease dress mindfully\, doors & windows will be open!\nIf you have covid-like symptoms\, or have had a recent Covid exposure or positive test\, please stay home out of consideration for others.
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/amita-apr-13-2025/
LOCATION:Sebastopol\, 8476 Sonoma Ave.\, Sebastopol\, CA
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