Radiant Mind – The Effortless Way of Non-Dual Presence

With Peter Fenner, Marie Barincou, Stephan Wormland

Course language English

September 2013 – August 2014

Place: ZIST, 82377 Penzberg, Germany

The unconditioned mind is pure, unlimited and beyond all ego identification. When we rest in the unconditioned mind we become a boundless source of love, wisdom and joy; our entire existence is suffused with intimacy, peace, energy, bliss, and deep creative insight.

The conditioned mind thinks, gets confused, has preferences and experiences pleasure and pain. In Buddhism, the experience of the unconditioned mind is called the ultimate medicine because it is the only lasting solution to the experience of lack and inadequacy.

Radiant Mind is the result of 30 years of research and practice in integrating the liberating wisdom of Asia’s most refined spiritual traditions with Western forms of therapy and healing.

About the course

The Radiant Mind Course works at the result level of the unconditioned mind: identifying the experience of the unconditioned mind, deepening this experience and studying exactly what moves you in and out of this non-dual experience.

Structure of the course

Workshops: There are three 3-day workshops at ZIST Penzberg. In the opening workshop you will • create a sense of community and develop a common focus. • be introduced to the structure of the course. • be introduced to the experience of the unconditioned mind.
In the mid-course and completing workshops you will • deepen your understanding of non-dual presence. • continue to gain skills in resting in the unconditioned mind. • be given opportunities to facilitate this work.

Readings: Every two or three weeks you will receive an essay which will • introduce you to the distinctions and practices that you’ll work with over the next weeks. • open up new possibilities for living fully in the moment and new ways for accessing the unconditioned mind. • give you reference material through which you can refresh your experience of the unconditioned mind.

Experiential projects: You will also receive a set of 48 experiential exercises designed to • deepen your understanding of your conditioning. • make your mind more pliable and less fixated. • lead you into the unconditioned mind by dissolving your fixations.

Contemplative practice: This dimension of the course will • help you design a contemplative practice that suits your lifestyle. • refine, enhance or re-invigorate your existing practice. • not conflict with other practices. • let you experience shared meditation while connected by phone. • help you to deconstruct each other’s identifications.

Koan practice: You will • work with natural koans: questions like “What is this?”, “Where am I?”, “Am I moving forwards or backwards?”, “Am I moving at all?”, “Who am I?” • explore how natural koans can be used to enter and stabilize the experience of unstructured awareness. • learn to use koans to let your mind dissolve into the infinite expanse of unconditioned awareness.

Individual sessions: Every second week, in a 30-minute telephone session, you will • receive personalized and focused coaching in the issues you’re dealing with, and in the practices of the course. • have the opportunity to work with concerns of a more personal nature. • practice skills in facilitating this work with others.

Conference calls: Every two weeks you will also participate in a conference call with other members of your learning group and the instructor. Here you will • continue the work we opened up in the workshops. • clarify questions and queries that arise in the experiential exercises. • create a shared and nourishing contemplative environment. • experience the unconditioned mind in a globally dispersed setting. • give you opportunities to explore non-dual deconstruction.

Dates: Workshops begin at 18.30 h of first day and end at 14.00 h of last day.

Thursday – Sunday, September 19 – 22, 2013 – Peter Fenner

Thursday – Sunday, March 27 – 30, 2014 – Marie Barincou and Stephen Wormland

Thursday – Sunday, July 31 – August 3, 2014 – Peter Fenner

More detailed information through: www.radiantmind.net

Peter Fenner, Ph.D., a leader in the Western adaptation of Buddhist wisdom, was a celibate monk in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions for nine years. He has a Ph.D. in Mahayana Buddhism and has taught at Universities in Australia and USA. He is the founder and director of the Center for Timeless Wisdom. Peters way of teaching non-dual therapy is known for its deconstruction of all fixed frames of reference that block entry to unconditioned mind, and for the purity and depth of natural, uncontrived silence that emerges in his work. Book: Reines Gewahrsein: Radiant Mind – Ein praktischer Weg zum Erwachen.

Marie Barincou is a bilingual (French and English) coach and coach trainer in Timeless Wisdom. She has been a Radiant Mind coach since 2005 and supervises the training of Radiant Mind coaches in North America. She is a facilitator in the 10 month Nondual Teacher and Therapist Training. She has received extensive training in Systemic analysis, Buddhist psychology, Nondual therapy, Transactional Analysis, NLP and Death and dying support. She is a certified member of the International Coach Federation.

Stephan Wormland, born 1965 in Germany, MA in clinical psychology and trained in Gestalt therapy. He has studied and practiced meditation in different Buddhist traditions for 30 years. Stephan was a monk in the Tibetan tradition for 11 years and teaches meditation in Buddhist Centers in Europe. Since 2009 he studies Radiant Mind with Peter Fenner, attended the nondual teacher training and now leads a nondual meditation group in Copenhagen. Together with his partner Jetthe Fabioola he conducts workshops in Mindfulness and Dreaming.

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Description:

Exploring Effortless Being

17 February - 26 May

This course invites you to let go of all effort to be or become anything other than who you are right now. You come to see directly that there is nothing to attain and that there is nothing to do in meditation. Only by letting everything be as it is will we find genuine fulfillment. We will explore the possibility to be in a place of contentment in the present moment. The shared exercises and the conference calls are an invitation to discover and connect with your innate capability to be at ease with yourself and your life, just as it is.  Paradoxically from this way of resting with who you are new energies will emerge and transformation happens.

Together we will explore how to rest in the very nature of your being, in what is sometimes called the natural state, original mind, pure awareness, no mind, or simply emptiness.

This three month course consists of conference calls every second Sunday evening from 19.00 – 20.00 and practices for daily life in written form and recordings of guided meditations. You will be invited to a closed Facebook group where we can discuss and exchange our work with the daily practices.

The calls support abiding in unconditioned awareness in the midst of our everyday life. We cultivate nondual presence in a natural way by connecting with each other without pressure. We will use silence, exercises and dialogues to rest in the space of fulfillment. During these calls we rest confidently in the radiance of pure being by doing nothing!

First call is Sunday 17 February 19.00 – 20.00 CET, 10am – 11am PST,  1pm- 2pm EST

Course Fee: 90 Euro (670 kr), former participants: 45 Euro

Max 25 participants

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