September 2025
John Prendergast ~ “Letting Go” ~ Bay Area Daylong Retreat
While the essence of the awakening process is a letting go, it cannot be willed. Rather, it arises from a spontaneous upwelling of our deepest desire to be completely emptied out, opened, and freed from any internal resistance to abiding in and as our true nature as loving awareness. Through guided and silent meditation, dyadic inquiry, a talk and experiential conversations, we will explore attuning with this deepest of desires and recognizing and welcoming the inevitable resistance that arises......
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October 2025
Jim Newman ~ SIMPLY THIS
Co-sponsored by Open Circle and The Open Way
You can join one date or the full Series:
Fri, Oct. 10 ~ 7:30-9pm ~ Sat, Oct. 11 ~ 2-6pm ~ Sun, Oct. 12 ~ 2-6pm
Simply This meetings share the simple message that what is truly longed for is already "what is"........
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Jim Newman ~ SIMPLY THIS
These meetings share the simple message that what is truly longed for is already "what is". This obvious simplicity is overlooked by a personal sense of separation that "what is" is missing something, and a conviction that something needs to happen. This sense of a personal reality can be recognized as a need for more experience or knowledge. The hope is that enough of the right experience or knowledge will lead to fulfillment or endless happiness. In the meetings this sense of a personal reality and the need for becoming as necessary is exposed as unnecessary and illusory. In his early twenties, Jim experienced an awakening that completely upended his search within the realm of what could be known. Not understanding what had happened, he turned to those who claimed to know: spiritual teachers and gurus. But it didn't work. The practices and explanations didn't resonate. Then he encountered a radical message: one that stated, without compromise, that there is no one. Upon truly hearing this, the dream and the dreamer dissolved. Never having happened.
And yet, all of this being said: there is no path to what is.
* You can join one date or the full Series: * Friday, Oct. 10 ~ 7:30-9pm * Saturday, Oct. 11 ~ 2-6pm * Sunday, Oct. 12 ~ 2-6pm *
Jim Newman ~ SIMPLY THIS
Co-sponsored by Open Circle and The Open Way
You can join one date or the full Series:
Fri, Oct. 10 ~ 7:30-9pm ~ Sat, Oct. 11 ~ 2-6pm ~ Sun, Oct. 12 ~ 2-6pm
Simply This meetings share the simple message that what is truly longed for is already "what is"........
LEARN MORE HERE
Jim Newman ~ SIMPLY THIS
Co-sponsored by Open Circle and The Open Way
You can join one date or the full Series:
Fri, Oct. 10 ~ 7:30-9pm ~ Sat, Oct. 11 ~ 2-6pm ~ Sun, Oct. 12 ~ 2-6pm
Simply This meetings share the simple message that what is truly longed for is already "what is"........
LEARN MORE HERE