Inquiry Sunday at the Centre, June 3, 2018

Inquiry Sunday at KECC
June 3, 2018

The Inquiry Sunday session at the Centre in Metchosin was attended by the two facilitators and four interested guests. In the morning we looked at a video recording of Shakti Caterina Maggi, and Italian non-dual teacher who has been a student of Rupert Spira. Rupert features significantly in the programs at the Centre. Caterina’s topic was “Embodied Awakening”, a talk given at the Science and Nonduality Conference in San Francisco. In various ways she emphasizes the significance of moving in life from the “heart” rather than from the thinking mind. Her sense of the heart is not merely the emotional centre but includes the vastness of pure awareness as our true nature without denying our human qualities. The participants very much enjoyed her presentation and found it relevant to their own self-inquiry.
For the afternoon session we began with an introductory video clip from GP Walsh, an American teacher who will be offering a weekend retreat at our Centre in late July. The video addresses the question “What is Nonduality?” and takes its listeners into a meditation on the nature of present-moment awareness and the sense of knowing which is present in all experience. Nonduality, he says, is experiencing what is here prior to our description of it. The way GP expressed this essence of self-inquiry was new to some of the participants and evoked some discussion and exploration. We look forward to having him with us in July to go further into his teachings.
Following the first video clip we watched a few clips of Krishnamurti speaking on topics of interest to the participants and entered into some fairly subtle points of inquiry concerning awareness and self-observation. It was a full day of meditation and seemed to be enjoyed by all.