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Discovering Unity
From Socrates to Lao Tsu, Confucius to the Hindu Vedas, Ibn Arabi to the ancient pharoahs, the call to Know Yourself is universal and crosses the ages.
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When: Sundays, 13 April 25 May 9:0012:00 Where: Pondok Indah, South Jakarta Cost: Rp 600,000 Contact: Eva Muchtar emuchtar@gmail.com 0816 800 475
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Discovering Unity
A course combining theory and practice, group investigation and private contemplation, uncovering some of the profound meanings entailed in being human. Our premise is the ultimate unity of all existence. The courses development reflects this unity as it reveals itself by degrees in our everyday experience, as light and love, knowledge and beauty. The course is a journey of self-enquiry and discovery of the unified whole that is our human nature. The course consists of seven evening meetings held weekly over forty-three days, together with personal enquiry through selected readings, audio, video and contemplative daily practice at home. Its inspiration and direction derive principally from the teachings of two spiritual giants of the 13th Century, Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi and Jalaluddin Rumi. The course material and its method have been distilled from forty years experience of running Beshara School courses at Chisholme House in the Scottish Borders. This course is designed to be complete in itself. However it might also be an introduction to further study with the School or to ones own personal research.
Hearing from everyone else in the group helped me to find new perspectives and to deepen the focus of my own perspective - which resulted in more open awareness of the reality of being human.
Feedback from a student, August 2012
Week 1: Beginning from the Beginning How can we create an ideal space, within ourselves and as a group, for this course to happen? How can we establish beginners mind? Week 2: The One and the Many, Being and Consciousness An exploration of the principle of unity and its relationship to diversity and multiple points of view. Week 3: The Human Reality and Experience What is the place of the human being and how do we experience unity in everyday life? Week 4: Relationships What is the nature of relationship, be it to ourselves, to others, to the earth and its other inhabitants or to God and reality? Week 5: Closing the Shop that Sells Fishhooks What kind of work is required to realise our essential reality and to become free of our habitual mindsets? Week 6: Love & Beauty What do we mean when we speak of love and what is its relationship to knowledge, service and beauty? Week 7: Conclusions and Beginnings A final meeting to address endings, new beginnings and to tie up as many loose ends as possible.