“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.” Oscar Wilde
Common Ground Mini-Series -The Awakeness That Is Always Already Here – Nirmala
Join us in the online Awakening Together Sanctuary this Sunday Evening at 9pm ET/6pm Pacific for Common Ground, our Guest Teacher Mini-Series. Our newest Mini-Series presenter is Nirmala. Nirmala will be here, September 25, October 2, 9 and 16. Please join us!!
Awakening is simply a sudden expansion or increase in awareness. When this expansion is especially large, profound, and transformative, we call that a spiritual awakening. While there is nothing we can do directly to cause a pronounced awakening, all spiritual practices and teachings are designed to make us more available for when Grace touches us and opens our awareness profoundly.
A very direct way to be more available for a sudden expansion or awakening is to become intensely curious about the awareness or awakeness that is always already here. Just as a single drop of water is still liquid, transparent and wet, the awakeness that is present in this and every moment has all of the fundamental qualities of our true nature. Awakeness is always spacious, alive, discriminating, loving–and aware. In this mini-series, we will explore these fundamental qualities of awakeness and discover how they operate in our lives before, during and after any spiritual awakening we may experience.
By paying attention to the mysterious and miraculous awakeness that is always here, we can start to notice the many openings and expansions of awareness that occur in our daily experience. Then if a large opening happens, we will be available and present for it. As one of my teachers put it, “You never know when Grace will come for a visit, but it’s a good idea to be home when she does!”
Visit Nirmala at: http://endless-satsang.com
His free ebooks can be found at: http://www.freespiritualebooks.com
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Nirmala’s mini-series is offered on Sundays from September 25 – October 16 at 9pm ET. Since Nirmala is offering a 4-week mini-series, the total one-time suggested donation is $8-$40. Thank you for your generosity.
Options for listening to Nirmala
The Awakening Together Online Sanctuary can be accessed using information from this page. You can listen in the Paltalk room, from our online listening link, or via recordings on our website.
September 22, 2016 Daily Quote
“The direct route is to let reality be the guide to your needs — “What I need is what I have.” This is not something to believe; it’s the way things are right now, whether you believe it or not.” Byron Katie
September 21, 2016 Daily Quote
“You do not need to believe in Reality for it to be true, but you do need to believe in illusions to make them seem ’true’.” Joel Wright
September 20, 2016 Daily Quote
“Your mind is always wrong no matter what it thinks because thinking is not of God. The closest your mind is capable of coming to truth is in realizing that there must be a better way.” Joel Wright
The Bhagavad Gita – Karma Yoga – 9/19/16
Living a life of service. Offering up all our actions to the benefit of others.
Listen to this recording
September 19, 2016 Daily Quote
“In an age where there is much talk about ‘being yourself’ I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is little chance of my being anybody else. Rather it seems to me that when one is too intent on ‘being yourself’ he runs the risk of impersonating a shadow.” Thomas Merton
Awakening Together Satsang with Tess Hughes #2
or watch the video below.
Tess is the author of the book: “This above all, a journey of self discovery”. In this second interview of Tess Hughes, she discusses her own awakening and her conviction that “enlightenment isn’t just for … exotic person[s] from by-gone eras. Rather, this potential is in every one, and this is what all seekers are seeking.” In addition to discussing her own path to spiritual enlightenment, Tess shares helpful perspectives and practices for other spiritual aspirants making their own journeys.
Tess’s website: tesshughes.com
Tess’s book: This Above All: A Journey of Self-Discovery
Common Ground Mini-Series: Craig Villarubia – Part 3 of 3
AWAKENING TO HEAVEN
Why wait for Heaven? It is here today and awaiting only your awareness of it. Listen in on this 3 part series as we learn to awaken the mind’s natural ability to experience beyond the physical world and into the Reality of Heaven NOW. In this course we’ll explore the thought system that filters out the recognition and experience of Heaven. Learn simple practices and exercises that dissolve the veil to our inheritance to perfect peace. We’ll embark on a meditative discussion on metaphysics and the non-dual teachings of ACIM. Together we’ll journey into definition awareness, where our True identity is revealed. Our aim is to expose, weaken and undo all that fogs and distorts the experiential presence of Holiness.
Listen to this audio
Craig’s website: www.craigvillarrubia.com
Craig’s movie: A Course in Miracles – Enlightenment or Bust!
September 18, 2016 Daiy Quote
“What is serious to men is often very trivial in the sight of God. What in God might appear to us as ‘play’ is perhaps what He Himself takes most seriously.” Thomas Merton
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