Dear Friends,
All-ways, but especially during this time of emergence and profound transfiguration, I am deeply grateful for our connection, community and communion. It is an indescribable joy. This year we gathered in silent retreat, online retreat, evening gatherings and one-to-one discovery sessions. Meeting together with intention of spiritual inquiry, discovery, unfolding and illumination. This is treasure my friends, a precious gift. Not only for ourselves but for the Whole.
Uncaused Love at the heart of all Being is THE WAY. The willingness to consciously give-way. AS the evolutionary luminous tide that is sweeping through our very cells in this potent time. That is our gift to this world. This year has been profoundly challenging for many beings, including Mother Earth herself. And yet, existence is a miracle. A wondrous world of possibilities that, through the Holy Mother, is birthed and delivered each and every moment from the Unknowable dark ground of potentiality. Together we can devotedly clear the way in our hearts and psyches for this fresh, immediate emergence of original Radiance. We become consciously empty, ever-more unknowing AS divine instruments and naturally the fullness of Love finds expression.
In Gratitude and Love, Jennifer
Who can tell what miracles Love has in store for us. If only we have the courage to become AS it is?
Everything we think we know now is only the beginning. Of another knowing that itself has no end,
And everything we now can accomplish will seem negligible to us. When the powers of our divine nature flower in glory and act through us.
IQBAL, Sufi mystic
The Bodhisatva’s mind is not frightened by the total absence of any recognizable, definable or findable being called a bodhisattva. —Prajnaparamita sutra
Offerings
Evening Gatherings, Select Tuesdays, 6-8pm PST, via ZOOM
dates and information at FULLCIRCLEFAMILY.US
ONE TO ONE DISCOVERY SESSIONS
Evolutionary Love course
Guided meditations, Focused inquires, Teaching talks, and more
you can find this course on the teaching page of the website
Silent Retreats
It is hard to say what the attendance limits will be in the spring. But my guess is there will be limited capacity related to COVID.
NEW OFFERING----Deep Dives
An opportunity to take a deeper look into aspects of the awakening process. The content will hopefully be driven by your inquiries and curiosities.
1-4pm PST, ZOOM, Once a month on select Saturdays
Love's Unimaginable Grace
I thought She would make me perfect,
I thought She would make me wise,
I thought She would end my suffering,
And I would be continuously happy.
But all She did was Fill my weary Heart,
With Fullness, Completion, and Bliss,
And the Ever-Present Radiance,
Of a Love without cause or condition.
She did not make me Perfect,
But the Wonder of Unimaginable Grace,
Is that Her Radiant Perfection Shines,
In the Heart of this imperfect vessel.
She did not make me Wise,
But the Wonder of Unimaginable Grace,
Is that Her Radiant Wisdom Imbues,
A mind bound in ignorance and knowledge.
She did not end my suffering,
But the Wonder of Unimaginable Grace,
Is that an Ecstasy without opposite,
Accompanies even my deepest sorrow.
If I were a Perfect man, full of Wisdom,
My lesser self alchemized into Gold,
Who, then, would Wonder at Her Presence,
In such a virtuous, sanctified temple.
But The Beloved's Presence in this hovel,
Imperfect, Foolish, and home to sorrows,
Is a Wonder beyond all reckoning,
And proof to those having lost all hope…
Of Love's Unimaginable Grace.
from gardenofthebeloved.com
In the following piece of writing I modified the word He to Love. To try and skip over the internal resistance that some of us may have to pronouns. The word Christ may set off associations and historical narrative as well. But I invite you to leap beyond the limits of connotation! Life in all its glory is certainly not limited by our attempts to language the ineffable beyond. Open your heart to Love's unimaginable Grace. (Available to Symeon in the year 940 and available Here and Now in crazy 2020.) And lend yourself to the direct experience of the Light of the World, the Body of Christ, the great I AM. The existence of Love without cause, the fiery fundamental shining at the heart of all Matter.
We awaken in Christ's body
as Christ awakens our bodies,
and my poor hand is Christ, Love enters
my foot, and is infinitely me.
I move my hand, and wonderfully
my hand becomes Christ, becomes all of Love
(for God is indivisibly
whole, seamless in Godhood).
I move my foot, and at once
Love appears like a flash of lightning.
Do my words seem blasphemous? -- Then
open your heart to Love
and let yourself receive the one
who is opening to you so deeply.
For if we genuinely love Love,
we wake up inside Christ's body
where all our body, all over,
every most hidden part of it,
is realized in joy as Love
and Love makes us, utterly, real,
and everything that is hurt, everything
that seemed to us dark, harsh, shameful,
maimed, ugly, irreparably
damaged, is in Love transformed
and recognized as whole, as lovely,
and radiant in Love's light
it awakens as the Beloved
in every last part of our body.
Symeon the new theologian
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 embody their essential nature of uncaused Love. Jennifer's joy is to be of service in the unfoldment of spiritual awakening through: private meetings for spiritual-inquiry, group silent retreats, online discovery courses and evening gatherings.