"For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them." - Jesus
"If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen." - Adyashanti
with Jeff Foster
"To meet Jeff is to meet the embodiment of Oneness, not just the talk of it. He sees that no word could ever capture 'this'. He knows that he is not a teacher. Yet he knows also that people come to him seeking to be taught what 'this' is. His absence allows for pure love to express itself without trying to stay within any particular lineage or way of expressing the inexpressible. That is the hallmark of a 'good' nondual expression. It's that free, like water flowing wildly down a stream.
The value in Jeff's sharing is not that you will walk away with fancy nondual concepts, but rather you will walk away as nothing, seeing yourself in everything. Those who meet Jeff see that nonduality is not about doctrine or dogma. It is not about positions such as 'there is no self'. When you meet Jeff, you meet that which is free of all positions. Therefore you meet love. You meet yourself."
- Scott Kiloby, author of "Love's Quiet Revolution" The open meetings are always very friendly and informal, and there are plenty of opportunities to ask questions, if questions arise. And of course, if you just want to sit in silence and listen, then that's fine too. Some of the meetings are very small and intimate, with only a few people, some are larger. But the message is always the same: what's happening presently is the only miracle, and you are already Home. We hope to see you soon!
Some recent emails about the meetings:
"Dear Jeff, thank you for your beautiful simplicity in expressing non duality. Your words have pierced straight through the 'fuzz' and made me sigh with relief at the ordinariness (beauty) of it all."
"I enjoyed the meeting in Midhurst very much ... It was the first time in my spiritual search that I've experienced such a 'satsang' ... so simple, informal, without an exotic background, just like friends sitting together in the remembrance of what we really are..."
"I feel moved to write to let you know that at some point in yesterday's meeting the need/my need to understand, to be given the secret, the key, etc., just was no longer there. The best that can be said is that 'here' it was undramatic, utterly familiar and fresh, with a sense of something like relief and an expansive gratitude for Jeff and everything. Thank you for not being a guru, for not answering my questions, for being an unpretentious, loving, humourous, ordinary bloke, and for something/nothing that cannot be explained, understood, conceptualized, given, taken, improved, but always IS..."
"Dear Jeff, what a week it was in Someren [Holland retreat]. Beautiful and overwhelming. For me it was awakening from the dream of separation and I feel very thankful. Thankful for everything I see, for every smell, touch, sound, thought, heartbeat... When I look back I see that I was looking for God outside, whilst thinking that I was looking inside! And in that one moment during the meeting with you, inside and outside fell away. And since then there is only this, here, now, wow! And somehow in this now I found eternity. Dear Jeff, once more, thank you for bringing me home. What you brought to us is really beyond words. There is really nothing more to say, just to live it..."
"While I have also listened to other 'teachers' I have always come back to you because of your refreshing, loving yet uncompromising way of conveying this message... Listening to you talk about it the way you do lets me sigh with relief; nothing wrong with whatever is and THIS is already - no matter which stories mind produces. Thank you very much, Jeff."
"What we are noticing since we saw you is that things are seen with greater clarity. Love is felt in more fullness. There is a peace a lightness that feels beautiful... The desire to hold on to concepts fell away and with it the feeling of heaviness is gone... Everything you said penetrated us with so much clarity, it sounded like common sense... You speaking with such purity, always pointing us back to the moment, triggered something to pop..."
"No one drives home this truth more than you that every thing, absolutely every thing and non thing is It (and of course not it). Somehow, someway it resonates so deeply that even while writing this tears stream down my face... You also so very clearly, succinctly impart the ordinariness of the awakened life. That there is nothing to aspire to or aspire for is sinking deeper and deeper into this life, as well as there is nothing "I" can do to experience/realize what is already there."
You can also view photos of some meetings on the Gallery page.
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NONDUALITY MEETINGS IN THE NETHERLANDS
IN AMSTERDAM:
Next meetings: Saturday 6th February 2010 2-6.30pm, 40 Euros
Sunday 7th February 2010 2-6.30pm, 40 Euros
Future dates:
Saturday 15th May 2010 Sunday 16th May 2010
Saturday 7th August 2010 Sunday 8th August 2010
Saturday 13th November 2010 Sunday 14th November 2010
Meetings are English spoken. Please pay at the door. BOOKING RECOMMENDED: Please mail your reservation to mennovdmeer@adsltotaal.nl (note new email address!) LOCATION: Oranjekerk Tweede van der Helststraat 1A 1073 AE Amsterdam Map
Next meetings: Sunday 25th April 2010 2-6.30 pm, 40 Euros
Meetings are English spoken. Please pay at the door. BOOKING RECOMMENDED: Please mail your reservation to mennovdmeer@adsltotaal.nl (note new email address!) LOCATION: Padma Verwerijstraat 51A 4331 TB Middelburg (Zeeland) Map
7-DAY WINTER RESIDENTIAL IN FRANDEUX, BELGIUM. 12-19 February 2010
BOOKING NOW
Frandeux is located in the Belgian Ardennes, a region of great historic, cultural and natural beauty. The château is a stately mansion, built beside a lake and a 25 hectare forest. This is a beautiful, spacious venue with a lot of history and atmosphere...
Dates
Starting on Friday 12 February 2010; arrival between 16:30 & 17:30 hours (before dinner). Ending on Friday 19 February 2010 at 10:30 hours (after breakfast).
Venue: Château Frandeux, Rue des Pèlerins 4, 5580 Frandeux (Rochefort), Belgium
NONDUALITY MEETINGS IN HASTINGS, EAST SUSSEX, UK Next meeting: Saturday 27th February 2010 2-5 pm
- Pay at the door. - Please call 01424 717083 for details and to reserve a place. Location: Hastings, East Sussex. More details when you call.
NONDUALITY MEETINGS IN LONDON, UK Next London meeting: Sunday 28th February 2010 2-5 pm
- Pay at the door. Cost £15 (Concs. £10). Please bring the exact change if possible! - No need to book - just turn up on the day! There is usually a break about halfway through the meeting. Tea, coffee and biscuits (and maybe cake, if you're lucky!) are provided.
Location: The Philadelphia Association, 4 Marty’s Yard, 17 Hampstead High Street, London, NW3 1QW.Maps hereand here. (Marty's Yard is a tiny lane just off Hampstead High Street. It is just a few minutes' walk from the Hampstead Underground Station. It is served by Number 46 and 268 buses, which stop in Hampstead High Street.) If you have any questions, please contact the organisers Jenny and Mike: E-mail opentotruth@gmail.com or Telephone 07779 620 470
NONDUALITY MEETINGS IN BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX, UK Next Brighton meetings: MEETINGS AT THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
TBA
(Sorry we haven't been able to organise meetings in Brighton recently - this has been due to travelling and illness - but we hope to arrange some new Brighton meeting dates in 2010)
- Pay at the door. Cost £10. Please bring the exact change if possible. - No need to book for these meetings - just turn up on the day! Location: Room 4, Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AF. Map here. The Friends Meeting House is 10 minutes' walk from Brighton station - down Queens Road, left at the Clock Tower into North Street, right into Ship Street, and bear round to the left.
MEETINGS AT ANGEL HOUSE, HOVE
TBA - Pay at the door. Cost £8. Please bring the exact change if possible. - No need to book for these meetings - just turn up on the day! Location: Angel House, 1 Brunswick Terrace, Hove, BN3 1HN (opposite the Peace Statue on the seafront). Map here. Visit the Angel House website: www.angel-house.org.uk
NONDUALITY MEETINGS IN HEBDEN BRIDGE, YORKSHIRE, UK Next meetings: TBA No need to book for these meetings.
Location: The Hope Centre, 9 Wragley House, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 7BN. Directions to the Hope Centre.
"Beyond the words, something else is happening, and it’s too extraordinary to talk about. These meetings aren’t really meetings at all: they are bonfires, in which all the questions of the mind unravel and burn up, leaving only the wonder of what is. Actually, nothing can be said about this burning, because even the attempt to talk about the burning burns up in this! And yet, words continue to come, and life continues to unfold, and it’s quite clear that we are not in control of this astonishing dream world, and that we are constantly being embraced by Oneness, in each and every moment, from cradle to grave, and beyond..."
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