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Upcoming
Dates:
June 2, 9, 16, 30
July 7, 14, 28
August 4, 18, 25
September 8, 15, 22
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Special Event |
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Jon will offer Satsang as a guest of the East Bay Open Circle on Sunday,
August 24 in Berkeley, from 7—9pm. The location will be announced later this month.
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| Satsang
is the experiential sacred space of our shared oneness.
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Our evening together begins with 30—40 minutes of
silent sitting. The instruction is simply to allow oneself
to be present. Observe, listen, feel; gently open to “what
is.” Following the sitting, Jon asks what people
would like him to discuss. What ensues is a talk and dialogue
with further questions and interaction. |
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| At
its root, Jon's teaching is an invitation to allow what
is to be as it is, regardless of how the mind perceives
the content of this moment. The transmission of the
frequency of presence—the cornerstone of the Zen
and Advaita traditions—is also the root of Jon's
work with individuals and groups. |
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as with any teacher, certain "tones" or ways
of expressing non-dual truth emerge to fit the conditions
and era the students find themselves living in. In Jon's
satsang, there is an emphasis put |
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on sensing—on dropping below the neck and deeply listening
to the body and heart. In this teaching, the energy of emotion
is often the gateway to the presence and the vastness of the
Big Heart. |
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"We
learn how to return to the mystery of not knowing. This
is not the same as ignorance; rather, it is wisdom, to surrender
to not knowing. And when you find the truth that
you are, when you actually know it as being knowing,
or knowing through being, that’s the surrendering,
the guide, the teacher, the teaching and the path, all in
one. |
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"Not
knowing is really seeing directly what is. It doesn’t
mean understanding it or intellectualizing it. It doesn't
mean comparing it or analyzing it. It means perception,
direct perception of what is. That’s all
that’s really required, completely. Whether it’s
physical awareness, mental awareness, emotional awareness—that’s
all that’s required. Seeing things directly as they
are, feeling them directly as they are, hearing them directly
as they are. So you could come to satsang and listen and
not understand a single word of it, that’s fine. Just
hear it, just as it is, and let it be." |
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