Exploring Ourselves Online dialogue with Jackie McInley December 21, 2024 For our last session of 2024, one of the group asked a question that was immediately adopted as this dialogue’s theme : “Why is it I take things so personally and often feel hurt ?” The group agreed on the very habitual reaction of being […]
Exploring Ourselves Online dialogue with Jackie McInley December 7, 2024 Present: 13 Once again we welcomed a new participant to our dialogue. It made sense to shed light on our intentions, since the deep art of dialogue inquiry is a process of discovery and essentially a work in progress for us all. The group highlighted […]
This final in the six-part series had 8 attendees; the Book Of Life themes were Relationship and Fear. We started with a deep discussion on how relationships – if they’re genuine – bring with them a certain necessary friction wherein one may meet their own conditioned expectations and needs for comfort and security only in […]
There were 12 international zoom Cafe attendees; most were returning supporters. The themes from K’s Book Of Life were Dependence and Attachment. We talked about the deep need to be free, and that the free mind that has humility can actually learn, and that all learning is only when one observes clearly, moment to moment, […]
“Intelligence is the understanding or the discovery of love. Intelligence has nothing whatsoever to do with thought, with cleverness, with knowledge. You may be very clever in your studies, in your job, in being able to argue very cleverly, reasonably, but that is not intelligence. Intelligence goes with love and compassion. You cannot come upon that […]
There were 11-12 international Zoom attendees, almost all were regulars. The themes from The Book of Life were Action and Good and Evil. We started with a discussion on ‘fact’, that it’s not personal, and that there is only the direct recognition of fact when one is communing with and as, what is, as it is […]
There were 16 international Aware Living Cafe attendees who registered for this second Zoom meeting in the series of six on K’s Book Of Life. There’s a growing, friendly communication in the group of regulars and new comers who share their keen interests in deepening understanding. The topics of Belief and Becoming (from ‘February’) […]
“The brain is the result of time, experience and knowledge. The very activity of the brain is based on past remembrances, whether illusory, actual or accumulated knowledge. […] So the past, the present and the future are a movement in time. The past is the present. […] See this fact, that thought and time together […]
There were 12 Aware Living Cafe Zoomers, most were repeated, all were greeted, 🙂 The themes from K’s Book of Life were Authority and Self-Knowledge. Each was presented by a selected full page reading and robustly discussed. The fact that authority prevents learning, that “A mind that is acquiring knowledge is never learning” was deeply explored […]
“If you eliminate the things that make you look at life fragmentarily, your mind is then not following the rut. Therefore it is free. If you want to see the view of the valley from the hill, you survey the whole thing, don’t you? That means your mind is no longer merely fixed on a […]