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An Invitation into Oneness
Meetings in Being are a gathering in Presence where we come together to inquire, explore, and awaken to the unbounded essence of our True Nature. The invitation into the experience of Oneness is offered, as is the space to inquire more deeply, reflect, and explore how to embody this realization into our normal human experience. Everyone is invited to give up the spiritual search and just notice what is already here right now, and simply rest in and interact from the profundity of our own Deepest Essence.
Greg Marian facilitates the satsang gatherings and invites everyone just as they are into the experience of Oneness in this very moment. He shares the timeless wisdom of Non-Duality in a very simple and direct way, offering refreshingly unique and intuitive pointers to the Absolute, as well as integrating teachings from various spiritual traditions. Words and Silence are offered to assist people in noticing the awake, still Awareness that is already here, and to help recognize that what we are seeking for is actually what we have already always been. Every inquiry, experience, and situation that arises is embraced as a portal for our Awareness to shift into its natural, unbounded state. Beyond awakening, the ever deepening process of embodiment is also openly explored whereby our realization becomes more integrated into our normal lives and relationships. Greg also encourages our True Nature to express itself through everyone gathered, inviting people to begin interacting with each other from Oneness. Greg's warm and engaging demeanor helps to demystify spiritual awakening and invites it right into the middle of your life as it is.
Our True Nature
Our True Nature is one undivided Wholeness that simultaneously embraces and transcends all things. The unbounded experience of Oneness is a direct realization that comes from a fundamental shift in our consciousness whereby our Awareness begins to be experienced in its unbounded and unlocalized state. With this shift in Awareness comes a direct seeing that our identity is not bound within the individual mind and body, but actually exists throughout the expanse of infinity. This perception reveals that the essential nature of all forms and phenomena is also this formless, alive Awareness, always at rest and always complete. Everyone and everything has this same one Awareness-Presence as its source, and this source is perpetually manifesting itself as all things and all beings.
The words spoken by awakened beings are expressions of their direct experience of a state of Consciousness which transcends the mind, emotions, and senses. Although the experience is described in various ways which utilize different names and terminologies, what connects all teachings of enlightenment is the realization of the state of unbounded Awareness that can be directly perceived and experienced. The stabilization, refinement, and integration of this recognition of Unity unfolds into the complete expression and embodiment of enlightenment. We come to realize and experience that what we are is the complete Totality of Consciousness, simultaneously embracing and transcending both its unmanifest and manifest natures. Our experience reveals that everything, everywhere is this one dimensionless 'no-thing-ness' regardless of what words are used to describe it. Eventually we move beyond even our 'experience' of the truth of this reality as Self into a wordless intimacy with what is that is completely beyond comprehension or conceptualization.
The Ultimate Truth can never be fully communicated and understood with words, only directly realized as our own True Nature. Whatever we can say about it never completely grasps it and is the reason that sages throughout time have often pointed to this non-dual Essence through negation, using such words as such as 'Advatia' which means 'one substance, not two'. Every being who realizes this has their own unique way of experiencing and expressing this wordless Truth, be it through Silence, words, poetry, dance, music, art, or any other activity or situation that emerges in the Moment of Now. When we know ourselves as That, its infinite intelligence spontaneously expresses itself through us in a countless number of creative ways.
The Essence and
Evolution of Satsang
The word 'satsang' is a Sanskrit word meaning "meeting in Truth" and is a place where inquiries into our True Nature can be addressed, unfolded, and directly experienced. The essence of satsang is therefore to simply abide and commune in the direct experience and realization of our True Nature. Meetings in Being are a conscious gathering in this Essential Nature, inviting everyone to awaken, abide, and express this Oneness within an understanding and supportive environment.
The intention of the gatherings is to meet everyone where they happen to be in the moment and engage their experience in a way that is meaningful to their particular life and spiritual path. A deeper intention is to also experiment with the form of satsang itself, whereby we can learn how to seamlessly bring the state of Oneness into our everyday lives and relationships.
