pression, moving meditation and activated imagination into a potent, playful and prayer-full ecstatic dance experience. We will let the dancing past, present and future deliver us into the timeless Mystery. Spaciously facilitated, all movement is at your own pace and interpretation.
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E. Self Beholding the Self, Prasanna 10:30am–12:30pm
BELVEDERE ROOM
Join Prasanna in sharing the light of IAmness expressed in his paintings. T ese paintings are part of a series that happened in the past 16 years of deep meditation on the nature of the Self. T ere will be 3 sessions: 10:30-11:10am; 11:15-11:55am; 12:00pm-12:40pm
Concurrent Sessions Friday Oct. 21 9:00AM–12:30PM C1. Time and Timelessness
T e Infi nite Rhythm of Love & Freedom, Florian Schlosser, Teacher and Author 9:00–9:35
SAUSALITO ROOM In all of us there are two existential forces moving everything in life. On the one hand there is FREE-
DOM. It is the force that does not need, want or demand anything. Its inner quality is free of content. It is its own fulfi llment and joy. On the other hand there is LOVE. It is the force that looks for unity, empathy and connection. Its inner quality is wanting to meet and being met. Feeling each other and savoring life as our own embodied experience is its natural expression. T ose forces cannot exist independently of each other. Life is the infi nite rhythm between these apparently exclusive opposites. Just like electricity can only fl ow between the diff erently charged poles. In this experiential SAND workshop we together explore BEING SPACE—Consciousness itself. In THAT the natural rhythm of love and freedom can play—feel and explore itself—look for completion, and eventually fi nd rest and peace. Just like a swinging pendulum returns to its point of stillness. T is can neither be attained by any activity or mental understanding, nor through any method, concept or philosophy. It can only be experienced directly. All that it requires is the willingness to allow the human experience to fully show up, and to move freely in consciousness. T en the separation between an apparent 'dual reality' and an apparent 'non-dual reality' comes to an end naturally. T e opposites are recognized and experienced as the all-inclusive ONE.
Dongshan's Five Ranks: A Zen Teaching on Nonduality, Zoketsu Norman Fisher 9:40am–10:15am
SAUSALITO ROOM
Soto zen specializes in the nondual relationship between the relative (the phenomenal everyday world of separation) and the absolute (the transcendent world of oneness). the classical teaching about this relation- ship is found in zen maser dongshan's fi ve ranks, fi ve positions/practices for experiencing relative and absolute. T is talk will discuss this teaching.
Nondual Vipassana: Timeless Essence, Infi nite Being, Peter Russell, (M.A., D.C.S., F.S.P.), and Shauna Shapiro, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University 10:25am–11:15am
SAUSALITO ROOM
With his distinctive blend of physics, psychology, and philosophy, Peter Russell presents a new worldview in which the fundamental essence of the cosmos is not matter but mind. Despite the remarkable success of modern science in so many areas, it encounters great diffi culty around the fundamental questions of con- sciousness. Western science is based on the assumption that the ultimate essence of the cosmos is matter- energy, in some shape or form. In this talk, Peter will share his latest thinking on why consciousness is the fundamental essence of the cosmos. Many have claimed this from metaphysical perspectives; what makes Peter's model unique is that he arrives at this conclusion using contemporary physics and psychology. With consciousness as primary, everything remains the same and everything changes. Time and timelessness co- exist. And our own inner essence is known to be the essence of that is.
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