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“Margit Bantowsky offers online group experiences for participants pursuing and integrating embodied awakening. She is a very skilled individual who side-steps the traditional role of teacher/instructor for the more artful role of “attuned facilitator.” She asks participants to explore intelligent and philosophically rich questions relevant to awakened life and then draws out each individual’s unique…
I am also you
from: Dancing in the Fire: Stories of Awakening within the Heart of Community, edited by Bob Valine I thought for a moment in silence. “I am dual, both limitless and limited.” Senior Waking Down Teacher, Sandra Glickman asked, “Who are you?” “Tell me more,” she prodded. To describe my unlimited nature was easy. I had…
Invitation
When you are ready, come. I will be waiting by the river’s purling hurry, slim or sleek with spring. We will walk there and your story– river in ice, river hurling — will quicken. Our two hearts nodding, knotted in knowing. When you are ready, I will be waiting. Green as daylight rich in wonder….
Guru Dynamics – Good vs Bad
One of the key elements at the heart of “guru dynamics” is that of projection. Psychological projection can be seen as an egoic defense mechanism in which we resist and deny our unconscious qualities or impulses – positive or negative – and instead attribute them to others. Projection happens in everyday encounters, but gets amplified…
Testimonials
In my mind I had given up on “Enlightenment” a decade ago, yet some irresistible impulse had brought me to these pages. Here I discovered in Steve a humble man about my age who had also tried meditating for decades without much result. With a sharp and refined intelligence Steve was also down to Earth,…
The Well of Onlyness
In the Trillium Dharma, Onlyness is defined as the quality of seamlessness of consciousness with phenomena; the recognition that all phenomena, objects, and others are of the “same essence” as your conscious embodied, non-separate nature. For many of us, myself included, Onlyness is easiest to experience with phenomena and objects, and not so easy with…