January UVic Spiritual Awakening Meetup

It was my pleasure to organize and facilitate the January UVic Spiritual Awakening Meetup. 21 Awakeners attended, and the discussion was very meaningful. I’m always pleasantly surprised by the insight that people bring to such gatherings.             We explored approaches to overcoming self-limiting thoughts, with a special focus on beliefs and the meaning and practice of mindfulness. The evening included a Krishnamurti quote from The Book of Life, followed by a short Mooji video clip called “Unhappy Is Just A Thought”. After some discussion, we then looked at a definition of mindfulness, and watched a relevant clip featuring yogi and Buddhist teacher Michael Stone, who also happens to be from Vancouver.             I have received some great feedback from enthusiastic Awakeners, which will help make this an even more meaningful and engaging gathering in the near future.             We’re certainly off to a good start, and I’m looking forward to the next UVic Spiritual Awakening Meetup.             Here is the K quote that was featured in the Meetup: “One can see how political and religious beliefs, national and various other types of beliefs, do separate people, do create conflict, confusion, and antagonism which is an obvious fact; and yet we are unwilling to give them up… One can see, obviously, that belief is separating people, creating intolerance; is it possible to live without belief? One can find that out only if one can study oneself in relationship to a belief. Is it possible to live in this world without a belief? Not change beliefs, not substitute one belief for another, but be entirely free from all beliefs, so that one meets life anew each minute? This, after all, is the truth: to have the capacity of meeting everything anew, from moment to moment, without the conditioning reaction of the past, so that there is not the cumulative effect which acts as a barrier between oneself and that which is.”   J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life