OPEN MEETING IN NONDUALITY (ADVAITA)
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!

"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..."


"Just wanted to say that I really enjoyed the meeting. I have come from a background of satsang, and have picked up a few spiritual concepts along the way. It was great to be in a meeting where it felt like, as you say, friends hanging out."

"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."

"I want to thank you again for your wonderful answer to my question... Since [the meeting] last weekend, my life has been so ordinary, yet extraordinary in that there has been no feeling of missing anything or anyone, and there is nothing missing... just a vague feeling somewhere at the back of my mind/head, out of reach, perhaps beyond reach,  that I used to be unhappy, but somehow now I’m normal...can’t describe it really..."

"I wanted to let you know that during my trip back from the retreat, something fell away, or shifted, I don't know, but suddenly everything was crystal clear. No-one was here, doing the seeing. Nothing was happening (and yet everything was happening). Everything was still, empty, and at the same time everything was bursting with life. What happenend was that all the pointers and words of (the retreat) the week before were bouncing around in my head (or somewhere) and suddenly, well, you were right, haha! It is simple... it's just This... I just wanted to thank you again for speaking and writing about this in such a way that something over here was touched, or resonated with the truth..."

You can also view photos of some meetings on the Gallery page.

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SCIENCE AND NONDUALITY CONFERENCE
San Rafael, California
October 20th-24th

Jeff will be speaking at this year's Science and Nonduality Conference. 

JEFF FOSTER - PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Weds 20th October (9-1, Santa Rosa Room).

Using simple language and drawing on both personal experience and age-old wisdom, Jeff shares the possibility of waking up from the dream of separation. The possibility of absolute freedom, right in the midst of this ordinary life. Go to the Science and Nonduality Conference website  for more info and to register. The workshop prices are:

    * If registered for the conference - $45, or $55 at the door
    * If registered for a workshop only - $65, or $85 at the door


JEFF FOSTER + SCOTT KILOBY - POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
"Nonduality: The Possibility of Relationship"
Monday 25th October (9-5, Santa Rosa Room).

Jeff will be running a day workshop with Scott Kiloby entitled "Nonduality: The Possibility of Relationship". Go to the Science and Nonduality Conference website for more info and to register.

Info about Jeff and Scott's workshop:
"In nondual realization, the focus is mainly on awareness or nothingness or even non-separation as a final seeing. "Enlightenment" often refers to the absence of a separate self.  But what about the possibility of relationship? Doesn't there need to be a 'self' and an 'other' for relationship to be possible? Or does the inseparability of life mean that in fact everything is relationship? What happens in relationship when there is no more seeking? What happens when you are no longer using somebody else to complete yourself? What does it mean to really hear another's perspective, free from the filter of thought? In a lively and intimate dialogue, Jeff Foster and Scott Kiloby will explore these issues and more..."

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA MEETINGS

Event with Jon Bernie

Wednesday 27th October
Evening meeting
Details TBA

East Bay Open Circle

Thursday 28th October
7pm

www.eastbayopencircle.org

Open Secret Bookstore
Friday 29th October - Evening Meeting
Saturday 30th October - All-day Meeting
www.opensecretbookstore.com
Address: 23 C Street, between 3rd and 4th Street, San Rafael, Marin County, SF Bay Area, California  94901, Tel. 415- 457- 4191



MEETING IN NEW YORK

Sunday 7th November
11am-5pm
Location:
One Spirit Learning Alliance
Note, this is a NEW address - as of Sept 2010, OneSpirit is located at:
247 West 36th Street (betw. 7 & 8 Aves.), 6th Floor, New York City, NY
Cost:
$65. PRE-REGISTRATION IS RECOMMENDED!

You may book your place via the StillnessSpeaks.com shopping cart HERE.

More details: http://www.meetup.com/NonDuality-Advaita/calendar/14417215/

The Wonder of Being:

Awakening to an Intimacy Beyond Words

Saturday 20th - Monday 22nd November 2010

At the Findhorn Foundation, in Findhorn, Forres, Scotland.

Income-related residential price: £195, £295, or £395. Price includes 3 nights accommodation and all meals.

Non-residential price: £145. NFA price: £125. FF price: £55

For more information and to book please visit Jeff's page on the Findhorn Foundation website:

www.findhorn.org/foster

TBA

Cost: £30 per day or £50 for the whole weekend.

Please contact Mandi Solk at mandi@non-duality-north.com if you would like to join us for a meal at 6pm on the Saturday evening - and tell her if you are a vegetarian or a meat-eater.

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.

For more information, please email Mandi : mandi@non-duality-north.com or ring: 01422 844801

Also you can visit www.non-duality-north.com

NONDUALITY MEETINGS IN BIRMINGHAM, UK

Next meetings:

TBA

Cost: £35 for full day Saturday, £15 for Sunday. £45 for entire weekend.
Please only attend Sunday if you have attended Saturday.

Lunchtime on Saturday will be 1.30-2.30pm. Drinks will be provided. You will need to bring your own lunches, as no meals are provided. 

There will be time after 1.30 pm on Sunday for One-to-Ones with Jeff which you can book in advance or on the day. 

Location: Sutton Coldfield. Address provided upon booking.

BOOKING REQUIRED: 
To book, for more information on the meeting, or to find out about local accommodation in the Sutton Coldfield area if you need it, please contact Pamela Holt on pamelaholt@hotmail.co.uk or phone 01213 233589.

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NONDUALITY MEETINGS IN BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX, UK

Next Brighton meetings:

TBA

- 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: Lecture Room, 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.

"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..."