Part one (of three) of a retreat given by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Santa Barbara Vedanta Temple on Saturday July 29, 2017.
01:18:04 min
CLEAR ALL
Judith Blackstone leads us in a guided meditation to approach nondual awareness. Judith will teach practices from the Realization Process, an embodied approach to nondual awakening. She will discuss how embodiment is an integral aspect of nondual realization.
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What is non-duality? What do we mean by consciousness? Does it really exist? What is reality? Is there any thing "out there"? Why don't we see consciousness in the material world? What do we mean by "I"? Why is any of this important?
Non-dualism, often denoted with the Sanskrit terms advaita or advaya, is a metaphysical concept that literally means “not-two.” It is at once an ontological claim about the nature of reality and a description of the mystical experience.
Shinzen shares how the use of "witness' and "non-dual" has various meanings to different people. He shares some of the ways in his mindfulness system that this may be interpreted and compares some of these experiences to examples from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.
Dr. Robert Johnson discusses the role of the priest in protecting people from close encounters with god. Also, he contrasts the suffering of the modern western male to the eastern psyche in his film IN SEARCH OF THE HOLY GRAIL
The complexity of the present time seems to demand a deepening of our nature if we are going to survive. Deepening requires exploration.