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Sunday Morning Meditation with Michael DeForbes ~ 3/20/22

Michael DeForbes led our Sunday morning meditation. Michael is a student of Helen Hamilton. His guided meditations are based on the direct path, which is an integral part of our teachings here at Awakening Together.

Enjoy this powerful, deep meditation into ever-present peace and the now of the Noumenon which had the theme of embracing all aspects of the self.

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3/20/22 Weekly Gathering: “Dropping into the Heart”

Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Marisol Landin

Title: “Dropping into the Heart”

Description: Rev. Marisol shared how through a difficult life situation, she came to understand that clarity and peace cannot be found in the stories and “solutions” the mind has to offer. Clarity and peace became available only when she sat in the Heart and opened to what was.

Reader: Manuela Giaroli read from The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 4, v8-17, 1-12.

 

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Kate Brennan ~ Giving Up Kate! ~ “Reviewing the Resolving for Truth Retreat” 3/20/22

Kate shares her experience, poetry, and life with us as she goes about the business of giving up her ideas about herself and the world on her journey toward purification and awakening. Kate shares with wisdom and humor and allows us a glimpse into the beautiful and sometimes messy blossoming of life examined with an eye on Truth.

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Registration Open: Online Retreat with Dorothy Hunt

Dorothy HuntWe are excited to announce that Dorothy Hunt is joining us at  Awakening Together again. For those who had the opportunity to hear Dorothy speak during Satsang in 2021 you may be familiar with Dorothy’s direct and compassionate pointing. However if you are not, you can listen to her 2021 Satsang here.

We are excited to have Dorothy back with us as she has agreed to provide an online weekend retreat. The retreat is called:

Intimacy with the Infinite: Sensing the divine in human experience 

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.—Zen Master Dogen.

Dorothy describes the retreat this way:

Each breath is a gift of life from the Source of life. Every perception is a portal to the Infinite— be it of breath, space, silence, sound, feeling, thought, sensation, beauty, love, pain. When we consciously give our whole being to any moment, we discover there are endless ways to sense the divine in our human life.

Opposites play in the vast field of Awareness, flowing and dissolving in experience. Yet That which has no opposite is intimately awake to each moment of its own unfolding expressions. Do we stop to notice?

This three-day weekend retreat will focus on exploring intimate gateways to the Infinite in everyday life through meditation, experiential exercises, talks, poetry, and discussion. Whatever we may realize in the deep Silence of meditation is invited to consciously express its clear, compassionate, and undivided Presence in our living.

When:May 13, 12-2pm ET; May 14 & 15, 12-2pm and 4-6pm ET (There is a 2 hour break between sessions on Saturday and Sunday.

Retreat Fee: $150, $50 non-refundable deposit

Registration closes: May 9, 2022

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500 Days with NTI ~ Day 442

Day 442 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI 1 John 2 (v12-14) to the end of the chapter.

Tomorrow:

  1. Set a timer for the amount of time you want to meditate, and then meditate with this Awareness-Watching-Awareness audio.
  2. Find time to sit quietly and search your mind for any situation or circumstance that upsets you. Write down each upset that you find. When you feel the list is complete, practice the following steps with each situation, one at a time:
    (a) Accept your feelings about that situation. When you feel you have fully accepted your feelings, and you no longer resist or judge how you feel, move to the next step.
    (b) Love your feelings about that situation. When you feel love for how you feel, move to the next step.
    (c) Accept the situation exactly as it is without wishing for anything to be different. When you feel you have fully accepted it as it is, and you no longer resist or judge how it is, move to the next step.
    (d) Feel love while holding the image or thought of that situation or circumstance in your mind. When you feel you can remain as the presence of love while holding this situation in your mind, move to the next circumstance on your list and go through steps a-d with that.

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #362

Please read quotes 1241-1244 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Unbound am I, formless am I, without distinction am I, no longer able to be broken; in perfect peace am I, and endless; I am stainless, immemorial.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Gentle Healing Year 1 Tip – Lesson 63, The light of the world brings peace …

The purpose of today’s workbook lesson is to motivate us to practice forgiveness. When you allow related thoughts to come to you today, allow the thoughts that motivate you. Maybe your motivation is a little different than ‘salvation of the world.’ That’s ok. Whatever it is, let it come.

For my morning contemplation, I put pen to paper and just let the thoughts come as they did. I wrote that I want what I have always wanted:

1 – Truth.
2 – Purity/Be Only Love.

This was clarifying for me. Sometimes people say they are awakened, and then they do things I do not understand, things that go against my own heart. At this stage, that is all I need to know. What they do goes against my heart. Truth without purity, if that is possible, is not my desire. That does not motivate me. I want truth with purity. I trust that truth with purity, because of what it is, is healing for the world, and I am happy to let that energy flow through me to heal the world.

I have rewritten today’s lesson for me in order to have more motivating power for me. My lesson is:

The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness. I am the means God has appointed for the salvation of the world. I am purity, pure peace, pure love, truth unadulterated. That is my nature. My nature is realized through forgiveness.

As I look at this, I feel motivated. Each time I say it to myself, my heart opens. It is the right version of today’s lesson for me. Feel free to find the right version of today’s lesson for you. And then, let additional related thoughts come to you throughout the day.

 

MPP Course ~ Understanding Purification ~ Registration Open

Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or you’ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this course can transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you. By tapping into the tradition of mindfulness, discover how the development of conscious awareness can enable you to dwell in the present moment and heal the painful thoughts and memories that block Self-realization. You’ll discover what you can do to purify from habitual energy patterns that limit your consciousness.

In this class you will learn to:

  1. Discern purification practices that are helpful whenever one feels upset.
  2. Practice purification in one’s daily life, as applicable.

Course Duration: 4 weeks

Course Section Times & Starting Dates: Tuesdays, 10 am-12 pm ET beginning May 3 (Facilitator: Rev. Carl Lammers) OR Wednesdays, 6-8 pm ET, beginning May 4. (Facilitator: Rev. Christy Goldsmith)

Homework Begins: Tuesday Section; April 26 OR Wednesday Section; April 27

Last Day of Course: Tuesday Section; May 24 OR Wednesday Section; May 25

Facilitators: Revs. Carl Lammers OR Christy Goldsmith

Individual Homework Time Commitment: Five days per week, 45 minutes – 1 hour per day, plus exercises throughout the day.

Structure of Course: Four weekly 2-hour sessions

Textbook needed: The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer — If you make your book purchase through Amazon Smile and select Awakening Together as your designated charity, a small portion of your purchase will be donation to Awakening Together

Format: Classes will be held live on a Zoom Link weekly.

Holiday Breaks: No breaks are scheduled

Cost: $120

Registration closes: April 20, 2022

For more information on this class, click here.

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500 Days with NTI ~ Day 441

Day 441 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI 1 John 2 (v1,2) thru (v9-11).

Tomorrow:

  1. Set a timer for the amount of time you want to meditate, and then meditate with this Awareness-Watching-Awareness audio.
  2. Find time to sit quietly and search your mind for any remaining grievances with anyone. Write down the grievances that you find. When you feel your list is complete, practice the following steps with each person, one at a time:
    (a) Accept your feelings about that person. When you feel you have fully accepted your feelings, and you no longer resist or judge how you feel, move to the next step.
    (b) Love your feelings about that person. When you feel love for how you feel, move to the next step.
    (c) Accept the person exactly as he/she is without wishing for anything to be different. When you feel you have fully accepted him/her as he/she is, and you no longer resist or judge how he/she is, move to the next step.
    (d) Feel love while holding the image or thought of that person in your mind. When you feel you can remain as the presence of love while holding this person in your mind, move to the next person on your list and go through steps a-d with that grievance.

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #361

Please read quotes 1237-1240 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

This knower of the Eternal, ever bodiless, things pleasant or painful touch not at all, nor things fair or foul.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

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