Such deep gratitude arises for the Full Circle Family sangha. Thank you thank you thank you. In this heart, there is a rich fullness that stems from the many expressions of us being in sacred togetherness.
New content is being added to the website all the time. Morning meditations. Talks and guided meditations. New retreat recordings from previous years will be added soon. All of this is thanks to my sweet husband, Tim.
There are still a few spots available for Fall retreat in Cove. And February retreat in Costa Rica. Maybe we will see you there?!?
An invitation came forward while contemplating the current offerings.
THE INVITATION
We are emptied of all that we believe ourselves to have and to be. So that we may shine AS what we all-ways, already are.
What is beyond the mind’s play of opposites and apparent separation? Beyond peace/war, love/fear, hope/hopelessness, meaning/meaninglessness, birth/death, existence/non-existence, good/bad, right/wrong, worthy/unworthy? What lies beyond personal will? Beyond competition, compensation and defense? What lies in plain view beyond the conditioned conventions of description, judgement and interpretation? What if we became empty of conceptual knowing for even just one instant? What shines forth? What Fullness is birthed into consciousness, when the moment is left as is, naked of the mind’s narration?
Peacefullness IS. Joyfullness IS. LOVE IS. Beyond understanding, beyond positionality, beyond cause and condition. We and the Sacred, Divine Source are One. All that the Father-Mother-of-All, IS, we are. The wave is animated from and lived AS the ocean. We don’t emerge into this world from some other place. Existence, in every instant, emerges and flows, to and from, our Origin, our Primordial Home. The breath of God. Within us is the infinite, eternal Ground of Being. When we become quiet and we recognize the Great Stillness, surrendering the personal “I” unto this Silent Mystery, a ripe, roaring emptiness becomes the fertile ground for the spark of Divine Potential. Beyond the mind’s ideas of should/shouldn’t and being a “good” person, a spiritual person etc., Creation Itself finds a vehicle for conscious expression of uncaused Love, Harmony and Wholeness existing here and now beyond the personal sense of self.
Grace IS all-ways and already. Give the mind to the flaming Heart of the Heart. Redemption. Give the mind to the dazzling dark Ground. Dissolution. Give, give, give it away, gently and kindly give way. Meet the moments that arise. Meet them in the Heart, in the Ground. Meet them there in spontaneously present, compassionate understanding. Recognize and rest In Presence, In Love, In Compassion AS liberation naturally unfolds.
Meet every moment as your angel, your guide, your sacred ground, your chance to be AS Love.
As Love, Jennifer
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Offerings
All offerings are an invitation to devote ourselves to remembering and serving AS the uncaused LOVE at the heart of matter. Uniquely and authentically expressing Self realization in/through/AS our sacred lives. Mark your calendars!
DEEP DIVE/ONLINE RETREAT
The Way of Love, Inhabiting Fundamental Presence.
When reason no longer has the capacity to protect you through explanations, escapes, logical conclusions, then there is complete vulnerability and utter nakedness of your whole being, there is the flame of love. --- J. Krishnamurti
November 19, December 3, December 10
1-4pm PT, ZOOM
I am really excited for this Deep Dive Online Retreat. I hope you will join me in the contemplation. The invitation on page 1 of this newsletter is the foundation for this course. All sessions will be recorded and available on the website. The course will include guided meditations and inquires in conjunction with the live ZOOM sessions. There is also the opportunity for inquiry/response through email.
ZOOM Morning Meditation
Select Mondays and Fridays from 6:30-7:15 AM, PT. ZOOM session for those who would enjoy community meditation practice. The dates and link can be found on the website home page. This offering is dedicated to the awakening of the deep peace, silent ground within/AS the body/mind.
Evening Gatherings
Select Tuesdays, 6-8pm PT, via ZOOM
December 6th; January 3; February 7; March 7
ONE TO ONE DISCOVERY SESSIONS
I am excited to be offering in-person as well as Zoom sessions. Giving voice to one's journey is a vital aspect of the realization process. Over the years I have noticed that almost every session begins with "I don't know what to say and I don't know why I'm here." And almost every session ends with "I'm so glad I came."
Holy Days Celebration at HeartBeat Wellness Center
December 18th
More information and times will be coming shortly. Mark your calendar so that we can come together in celebration of sacred Life and Holy Love.
Retreat offerings
November 11-14, 2022
Cove Ascension Camp and Conference Center, Cove Oregon
In beautiful Cove, Oregon, Ascension camp is a quiet, peaceful facility devoted to "time apart". It provides an inviting, simple and supportive container for inquiry and contemplation.
COSTA RICA 2023
February 19-24, 2023
A co-teaching event with Sharon Landrith. In the magical Chirripo area of Costa Rica. INFORMATION
UPCOMING 2023 RETREATS
June 1-7, 2023||October 12-17,2023
All the Hemispheres
Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out
Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadow and shores and hills.
Open up to the Roof.
Make a new watermark on your excitement
And love.
Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.
Change rooms in your mind for a day.
All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.
Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.
All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting
While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.
---Hafiz
LOVE is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation
----Rabindranath Tagore
In the human scene, the mind is creative. It can create good and it can create evil--and does. In the spiritual scene, however, the mind is not a creative faculty, but an avenue of awareness. For example, if we had a blank canvas in front of us and if instead of racking our brains as to what to put on it, we learned how to be still and available, taking the attitude, "Here is a canvas. Father, You paint the picture," we would find ideas flowing freely, and into our consciousness would come the direction which our mind and hands would execute. In such a state of receptivity, inventions, discoveries, plans on the trestle board or whatever idea is necessary would unfold, and the ability would be given us to carry these ideas into execution. That is because the real seat of intelligence is Soul or spirit, and divine Intelligence functions through Its instrument, the body/mind. The whole secret lies in making the transition from a thinking, plotting, planning, scheming mind to a mind at rest in a state of awareness, through which divine ideas may flow.
---The Thunder of Silence, Joel S. Goldsmith
EMPTINESS DANCING
When I rest in my origin, I am the unmoving cause of all movement. With no will nor intention of my own all things move forth from my own being and express my unspeakable and unknowable self.
Although I never move away from my unmovable nature, all movement is my own. Although I am the unmanifest and inexpressible, all manifestation in all the worlds are expressions of my infinite creative potential.
I am always at rest and wildly dreaming the moment into and out of existence.
---Adayshanti
Right here, right now we are whole, indivisible and essentially free. The fundamental Love that we are, is not far, distant, separate or unavailable. It is infinitely, eternally abundant and the essence of all expression. Willingly give into this peace, this inner silence. In the discovery of uncaused Love there is a wisdom and intelligence that is beyond the stories, causalities and descriptions of the thinking mind.--- fullcirclefamily.us
Jennifer's beloved teacher, Sharon Landrith (a teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti), has confirmed her as a teacher in the lineage. And encouraged her to be a guide for those genuinely moved to remember and inhabit the essential nature of uncaused Love. Jennifer's joy is to be of service to the fundamental, uncaused Love. Lending Presence and whole-heartedness to one's unfolding evolutionary/involutionary journey through: private meetings for spiritual-inquiry, group silent retreats, online discovery courses and evening gatherings.