Integral Enlightenment - Awakening to an Evolutionary Relationship to Life 9-week Telecourse

The Essential Course for Evolutionaries With Integral Enlightenment Founder Craig Hamilton

 

You're an evolutionary. You know it because you spend a significant part of every day thinking about how to evolve yourself and how to make the world a better place. You sense that we are facing a critical moment in the unfolding of our human story, and you feel called to participate in creating the pathways to a better future.

If you're like most evolutionaries, chances are you also feel a bit overwhelmed by the task at hand. You sense that there is a much bigger life calling for your participation. Yet, you know that to really participate in a way that will make a difference, you're going to need to evolve in a way that few human beings ever have.

You've realized that evolution doesn't just need more fans and cheerleaders. It needs awake, conscious, wise participants who have evolved themselves to the point that they're capable of serving and guiding the process of human emergence.

You know you're called to be one of these people. You only have two questions:

Where can you get the specific training you need for this kind of evolutionary transformation?

And, where can you find a supportive community of kindred spirits who are committed to living life on the same level as you are?

 

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Viðtal við Eckhart Tolle - What is "enlightenment," and why does there seem to be so much confusion about it in these times?

Well, the confusion arises because so many people write about it without knowing it directly. One can become an expert on it without knowing it directly. Because an expert means you know a lot "about" something, but you do not necessarily know "it.” Confusion arises there.

What is enlightenment? Again, it is so vast not any one definition would do it justice. It would be a tiny aspect of it. And you can look at it from so many perspectives, this one, that one, that one. And every time it looks as if it were different.

Another reason why it can be confusing is you reach one person's definition of enlightenment, he or she is looking from "this" perspective. And then you read somebody else's, and they are looking from that perspective. There's the ancient old Indian story of blind men describing an elephant, one touching the trunk, another a leg, the tail, and soon. (Laughter]

The confusion arises in trying to understand through the mind what enlightenment is. That is impossible. Any description is only a signpost. So the mind can only go a certain way, and then the signpost has to be left behind. And the mind gets attached to a signpost, which is a teaching or description, a concept. And then confusion arises because then it sees another signpost and says, "Oh, maybe that is the true one." It becomes defensive, identities with "this one" and says that's me.

So, to the question. "What is enlightenment?" one could say simply, it is when there is no longer any identification with thinking. When there is no longer self-identification with thought processes and self-seeking through thinking. Then the compulsive nature of thinking ceases. Then gaps arise in the mind-stream. That means the unconditioned consciousness arises and is realized as stillness or presence. There is nobody there who "realizes." It is realized. It realizes itself. [Chuckle]

 

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Dagskrá Guðspekifélagsins um helgina

 

Föstudaginn 20. nóvember  kl. 20:30 heldur Salvör Nordal

erindi: 
,,Hugleiðingar um samfélagslega ábyrgð.”  í húsi félagsins, Ingólfsstræti 22.

   

Laugardaginn 21. nóvember: kl. 14:00 er hugleiðing, kl. 14:30 fræðsluefni Sigvalda í umsjá Birgis Bjarnasonar.

Kl. 15:00: Opið hús og Kl. 15:30 Heldur Bjarni Björgvinsson erindi "Hugleiðingar frá Sigvalda"       

 

 

 

 

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... meditation is not devotion

 

And meditation is not devotion—devotion to an idea, to a picture, to a principle—because the things of the mind are still idolatrous. One may not worship a statue, considering it idolatrous and silly, superstitious; but one does worship, as most people do, the things in the mind—and that is also idolatrous. And to be devoted to a picture or an idea, to a Master, is not meditation. Obviously, it’s a form of escape from oneself. It’s a very comforting escape, but it’s still an escape.

 

Krishnamurti  

 

Þó ég sé látinn …

 
 
Þó ég sé látinn, harmið mig ekki með tárum.
Hugsið ekki um dauðann með harmi og ótta ;
Ég er svo nærri að hvert tár ykkar snertir mig og kvelur,þótt látinn mig haldið…
   En þegar þið hlægið og syngið með glöðum hug,
Sál mín lyftist upp í mót til ljóssins:
Verið glöð og þakklát fyrir allt sem lífið
gefur,og ég, þótt látinn sé, tek þátt í
gleði ykkar lífinu …

 
 
Óþekktur höfundur (þýð: Jakob Agnarsson)

Guðspekifélagið í dag, laugardag

 

 14. nóvember: kl. 14:00 er hugleiðing, kl. 14:30 fræðsluefni Sigvalda í umsjá Birgis Bjarnasonar.  

Kl. 15:00: Opið hús og Kl. 15:30 Örn Guðmundsson ræðir við Erlu Stefánsdóttur.

 

 

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Námskeið fyrir þá sem hafa áhuga á því að kynna sér Zen búddisma

 

Zen á Íslandi – Nátthagi hefur aðsetur á Grensásvegi 8, 4h. Gengið inn á suðurgafli. Fyrsta mánudag hvers mánaðar kl .19 er námskeið fyrir þá sem hafa áhuga á því að kynna sér Zen búddisma. Allir eru velkomnir. Námskeiðið kostar 2.500,- og er innifalin iðkun í einn mánuð.

 

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Zen. . . does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
 

-Alan Watts-

Dharma Talk með Suzuki-roshi frá árinu 1965

Suzuki-rōshi: If you have a question, please give me.  I want to answer about what I told you during sesshin.

 

Student A: Sensei?  I’d like to refer to a question someone else asked a couple of mornings ago, about helping other people.  At that time you said that unless a person were enlightened, it wouldn’t do much good to help other people.  It seems to me that that would mean that probably most people in this room should not do anything for anyone else.  I doubt we’re all enlightened in this room, and since I have been thinking of [it], I wonder if you could expand on this idea?

 

Suzuki-rōshi: Oh.  “Enlightened” means, maybe, many things.  And in the word “enlightenment” is very wide.  So “enlightenment” does not mean to attain perfection, you know.  Bodhisattva—for bodhisattva—bodhisattva’s way is to help others, even before he save himself.  That is bodhisattva’s way.  So the point is how to help others, you know.  Enlightenment—enlightenment, or bodhisattva’s mind—I have to go back to my talk about bodhisattva or bodhisattva-mind.

 

 

Hér getið þið hlustað á eða lesið restina af ræðunni (Dharma Talk): http://suzukiroshi.sfzc.org/dharma-talks/?p=334#more-334 

Yoga eyðir allri kvöl ...

 

17. Yoga eyðir allri kvöl hjá hverjum þeim manni, sem etur í hófi, skemtir sér í hófi, vinnur í hófi, vakir í hófi og sefur hófsamlega.

 

18. Sagt er, að maður sá sé hugrór, er hefir vald á huga sínum, festir hann á frumvitund sinni og girnist ekki girnilega hluti.

 

19. Yoginn, er hefir vald á huga sínum og iðkar yoga í frumvitund sinni, er sem lampi, er logar stilt, þar sem ekki gustar um hann.

 

 

Hávamál Indíalands (Bhagavad Gita) - Þýtt hefir Sig. Kristófer Pétursson

 

Dagskrá Guðspekifélagsins um helgina

Föstudaginn 6. nóvember  kl. 20:30 heldur Anna S. Bjarnadóttirerindi: 
Að hlusta, í húsi félagsins, Ingólfsstræti 22.

Laugardaginn 7. nóvember: kl. 14:00 er hugleiðing, kl. 14:30 fræðsluefni Sigvalda í umsjá Birgis Bjarnasonar.

 

Kl. 15:00: Opið hús og Kl. 15:30 heldur Lilja Steingrímsdóttir, hjúkrunarfræðingur erindi: Öndunartækni eykur orku og léttir lund.

Á fimmtudögum kl. 16.30 - 18.30 er bókaþjónustan opin með miklu úrvali andlegra bókmennta.

 

 

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