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 Hi Radiant Mind friends,
Marie and I are in the middle of
packing boxes right now. We are in a slow-motion move from France to
Seattle. I am about to head off on a long trip that begins with
teaching in Paris, Munich, Geneva and Boulder. Then I will spend a
month in Australia with my family (and new granddaughter, who I haven’t
met yet) before returning to the US. Next year will be a full year
again. We will give ourselves two months to settle in Seattle.
Teaching will begin with a Teacher Training in California and the first
Radiant Mind in Canada in Vancouver.
If you are interested in
the Nondual Teacher and Therapist Training we have a website
specifically for this Training, nondualtraining.com. If you have
any questions about the Training please ask them during the
Nondual Training Intro Telecalls. We
have also scheduled a number of Radiant Mind Intro Telecalls. These
will give you a flavor of Radiant Mind.
I look forward to connecting with you.
Warm wishes,
Peter
 The Conference (running from Oct 21-25) will feature top scientists, philosophers, psychologists and
researchers from around the world. This is a unique
opportunity to experience the insights of some exceptional minds in such fields as neuroscience, quantum physics,
art, Buddhism and cosmology.
Peter’s presentation Beyond the Beyond will be dialogical in nature:
“Together we will presence and clarify how nondual awareness is a
totally paradoxical space wherein there is no suffering, and equally,
no absence of suffering.”
Wednesday, October 28 7-9pm, Mill Valley, California
This
evening presentation will focus on how to listen and communicate from
the space of no-mind, or nondual awareness, in ways that create bridges
for clients to enter the same state.
This event is sponsored by Community Integral Transformative Practice. A $10 donation is requested
for this event, if you are not a member of CITP. No
registration is required.
Email: G. Mark
Spitalny, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
 Awaken
your heart and infuse your wisdom mind with joy, spaciousness and
clarity. Discover the richness and joyful play of unconditioned
existence.
This workshop is an introduction to Radiant Mind. It offers
a precious opportunity to taste the experience of unconditioned
awareness while being engaged and connected with everyone around you.
Call:
+1(503)665-8733
Visit the new Radiant Mind website for more information on our 2010 Courses.
Interview with Gary Smith of Evolotus PR
An excerpt from the interview…
Gary:
How would you define surrender? Who or what is one surrendering to, in
your opinion? God, Universe, Self, Soul, What Is, present
moment…?
Peter: A term that makes more sense to me
than ‘surrender’ is ‘receptivity.’ Surrender can easily sound as if
there is someone doing it. Someone is surrendering. I feel that real
surrender is receiving and being touched by everything that is. No
effort is needed to do this: to be in this state of pure receptivity.
We are not trying to manipulate or change the environment at all,
either what is happening inside of us or outside of us.
When
we are engaged in spiritual seeking, the seeking creates distance.
Seeking stops us from realizing what we are looking for. So long as we
are looking for something to happen in the future, we can’t be
fulfilled in this moment. The state we are looking for is the state
where there is nothing more that we need. The only way to be in this
space is to abide as awareness. Abiding as centerless awareness, is a
more profound state than even the highest spiritual ecstasy. Why?
Because spiritual ecstasy comes and goes. Awareness does not come and
go. It is ever present.
Gary: Is there a practice or methodology you follow that would create surrender? If so, please share!
Peter:
There is nothing we have to do to be here. Simple things often work the
best. Simple contemplation, simple meditation, being with what is,
meditating and connecting with space, feeling the space of our
existence. In simple contemplation we take a break from the routine
activity of daily life and bring awareness into the foreground. We can
ask questions like “Who is aware? Who is doing this?” This creates
openness into this place that is infinite, that has no center, that
which allows everything to be as it is. It can be done just as well
with eyes open as with eyes closed.
We can also pray to
that which has no source. We can extend the prayer, and not know who or
what we are praying to. Listening can also be profound. Not listening
for anything in particular, but being in a state of total receptivity.
Just listening. Listening to the silence of pure being.
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Interview with Vince Horn of the Buddhist Geeks
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Whether it is called enlightenment, pure awareness, or "unconditioned awareness," there exists an awakened state of pure liberation that is at the heart of every contemplative tradition. According to Peter Fenner, this experience of boundless consciousness does not have to exist separately from our day-to-day, "conditioned" existence...