The Awakening Group: STARTS TOMORROW!

Tomorrow morning is the birth of

The Awakening Group & Talks with Erin

Friday, March 20, 2015

10:30 to 11:30 am Pacific

via Skype

This introductory meeting will be offered via Skype video on Friday, March 20, 2015 at 10:30 am Pacific Time. We will end by 11:30 am. 

In this talk, I will discuss “The End of Suffering” and open it up for questions. 

To join the group:

1.       ASAP - Please send Erin confirmation of:

·         Your Skype ID

·         Your phone number (just in case)

I will send you a "Skype request" and then add you to the call.

   

 2.       The group will be on donation basis – via PayPal, or on my website, erinreese.com.

3.       Suggested preparatory short reading (totally optional): Ramesh’s Grace: A Simple Story of Waking Up by Erin Reese (2012, Amazon Kindle, $2.99) 

 IMPORTANT NOTE: Please try to log onto Skype around 10:15. I will add you to the “live” group by 10:25 and we will sit in present awareness, silently, together for a few minutes. At 10:30 I will add any last minute folks to the call, and we will officially begin. 

What is this all about?

Perhaps you are someone who, like me, had done all the seeking, personal growth explorations, therapy, yoga, meditation, and recovery you could take, and were still suffering. Perhaps you are getting to the point of just being plain DONE with the search. Perhaps you are finally to the point of full renunciation, at the point of surrendering everything and finally saying, “Please, help!”

The missing piece for many is the attachment – the final attachment to ego, to existing as a separate identity. This is the part that still self-identifies and needs to drop or be dropped. In order to fully make the launch to the next cycle, the disidentification with the egoic self must occur. You are not the doer; grace is flowing through you, both making successes and victories, and making "errors." It is all perfect, even when it's not. There’s never a reason to worry, never a reason to hurry, said my teacher Ramesh. “Everything is a happening according to God’s will/Cosmic Law.”

For those of you who don’t know, that is called advaita vedanta (non-duality). In my experience, it is the yogic understanding (perfectly realizable in this lifetime!) that one is drawn to after the other practices and approaches of yoga (mindfulness and awareness) have been traversed (in a non-linear fashion). It is the limb of awakening, when all principles, practices, concepts are seen as false – and all is realized to be as it is, beyond our singular control. It is Samadhi, yogic union, Oneness. Existence is as it is, an infinite number of causes and effects happening simultaneously.

If you’re asking nothing more and nothing less than the End of Suffering, you will be at the end of seeking. Ultimately, this is the end of the superego and the end of the inner critic. It is the end of the identification with the ego, the illusory central locus of operation. There is no more separation causing unnecessary shame or guilt, or egoic pride. It is the end of the identification with the “me.”

I am happy to share this with you. It's been about four years a-knocking!

With love,

Erin