Being In Awareness – June 24th Stillness Within Gathering

A lovely Saturday afternoon welcomed 8 of us to Swanwick Centre for a series of group exercises or experiments in sensing and falling into awareness in deeper ways.  The group who came together had walked many paths but all shared a passion for discovery, sharing and deepening into stillness or presence (we all gravitate to different language it seems).

Lincoln Stoller provided a guided meditation on subtle awareness of internal ‘movements’ or senses and external perceptions.  For me this led to a sense of settling in to an ‘sense-continuum’ where that which was sensing could not be distinguished from the objects being noted.

The group watched a snip of an interview with Mooji, where he covered a number of themes…   One key point was that the wholeness of Being does not seem to have the job of teaching anything – it simply is.  This truth is the only thing that is here, pointing to uncreated space, prior to any movement at all.  There was lots of laughing in the video as the Jetz-TV interviewer himself (Reinhold) seemed to take delight in Mooji’s sparkling way of expressing (the dancing blue light surrounding him may have added a sense of magic as well).

Other activities of the afternoon included a Pure Conscious Experience talk and solo practice on the grounds surrounded by nature (the focus was on open-hearted pure sensual seeing without judgement or thought).

Perhaps Krishnamurti was also pointing to something similar when he said:  “When the mind is creatively empty – not when it is positively directing – there is reality. ” Ojai, California | 2nd Public Talk 21st May, 1944

We closed off the afternoon with a Lester Levinson inspired collective awareness circle.  Another non-mind based experiment, it brought us together in a lovely space of supportive openness.

It was a joy filled afternoon with wonderful people!

Thanks to Krishnamurti Centre for hosting us once again.