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Touching the Earth, Awakening the Warrior
Help our world counter climate change and other challenges, explore how to act from a deeper truth and awaken inherent wisdom so we can redesign our lives and our society to become environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling.
Date :
26 Mar 2010 - 18h00
28 Mar 2010 - 17h00
Center: Tatamagouche
Teacher: Timothy Walker
Right Tuition: 195
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. we experiences ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” --- ALBERT EINSTEIN The Touching the Earth - Awakening the Warrior Retreat is an evocative public program offered to help our world in response to global climate change and other serious challenges. Join us in exploring how to awaken inherent wisdom to act from a deeper truth so we can redesign our lives and our entire society to become environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling. Through meditation we can develop a direct experience of our interdependence with nature and awaken a tender heart that leads to intuitive wisdom, compassion and skillful means. By gathering in community with a clear intention, we can work together towards creating and fulfilling a new vision of enlightened society. Enhancing upon on the successful Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium, this weekend retreat includes instruction in and practice of mindfulness awareness meditations and contemplative nature explorations interwoven with interactive discussion and powerful video content. We will fearlessly face the facts about environmental degradation, worldwide social injustice, and the lack of true spiritual focus in our world. From this place of honesty we will then begin to explore our already existing deep connection to the earth and all living beings with the aim of arousing a fresh imaginative approach to solve these problems and then to make a deep personal commitment to skillful, consistent action that makes a difference. Designed from a wisdom perspective of indigenous cultures as well as the Buddhist inspired deep ecology work of Johanna Macy, this program uses powerful and highly produced video segments and slides to educate both the head and the heart. These serve as foundation for group processes to move people through an intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually transforming journey. With four stages of meditation instruction, deep personal reflections and guided contemplations the retreat leads one to experience our natural world as sacred and precious, demanding our immediate attention and engendering our love. Moreover the retreat provides tools to continue to deepen and apply this throughout one's life. For more information, please contact: David Wimberly davidwimberly@eastlink.ca (902) 826-7846 or Timothy Walker (902) 431-4097. This weekend retreat (Friday evening, through Sunday afternoon) is ideally hosted in a contemplative container. For more on the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium: http://awakeningthedreamer.org/ Introductory video on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoXJZ_3-J9w ) All program costs at Dorje Denma Ling are workable. We provide low-income rates as well as payment plans. Please call our Registrations Desk at (902) 657-9085 or email info@dorjedenmaling.com to discuss your options!
CANCELLATION POLICY
Deposits will be refunded up to 30 days prior to the program, less a 10% administration fee. Deposits will be 50% refunded up to 10 days prior to the program.
There is no refund of deposits for cancellations less than 10 days
before the start of a program.
Please register by calling us at (902) 657-9085 or by clicking on the "Registration" button below.
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