Have you've experienced frustration in getting past your sense of self (ego) that many teachers instruct us to get past? Do you experience a spaciousness and different quality of connection with life when at a retreat or satsang only to have this wane when confronted with daily life challenges? Do you have a deep longing to stabilize abiding in nondual dimension of existence and stay in this space?
Many nondual teachers support people in deconstructing their sense of self. They say the sense of self is constructed and can not be found when looking. Instead of a solid self, we find memories referring to one's self that are assumed to be true. If we can just awaken or realize this self-sense is fabricated, we can experience a different dimension of being. Often times the byproducts of "seeing through" this self-sense is an experience of openness, connection to life, lightness of being, compassion, etc.
These are important teachings and I'm not wishing to take anything away from them, however, one burning question I've lived for 12 years pertaining to these teachings is this: How can we deconstruct our ego when some of our sense of self is unconscious? In other words, how can we see our ego as illusory when we have no awareness of aspect of it? Yet another way to put it: How can we dis-identify from the thoughts/beliefs that constitute our self-sense in daily life when we don't have awareness that we are identified with them?
To answer these questions I went about creating a nondual inquiry work called inner empathy. It uses our daily life triggers as trailheads for deep inquiry. This work efficiently and gently discloses these unconscious senses of self that impacts our lives in so many ways. On October 24th-26th I am offering a nonresidential retreat in Fairview to those interested in experiencing or witnessing this powerful nondual inquiry work.
You are invited to my Go-With-The-Flow Farmstead which is...
...surrounded by the trees that will hold us
...organic gardens that will feed us
...as the music of two soothing creeks serenade us
...and a fire circle that invites us to share, to drum, to sit in silence
The weekend cost is $250 and includes two organic lunches and a potluck. For more info: http://www.innerempathy.com/weekend.html
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