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Discovering Unity: a course over seven weeks

15 April 2016 16:30 to 27 May 2016 16:30
Berwick Parish Centre, Parade Ground, Berwick upon Tweed TD15 1DF

 

Discovering Unity: A course over seven weeks exploring human conciousness and meaning

Peter Young will lead this course over seven weeks, meeting each Friday afternoon from 4.30 (with a cup of tea), until 7pm.

Venue:
Berwick Parish Centre, next to the Parish Church
Parade Ground
Berwick upon Tweed, TD15 1DF

Contact and bookings:
Kathy Tiernan 07800 638 935
or kmtiernan@gmail.com

The course offers you a chance to see things freshly. You will be introduced to a deep and rich way of viewing reality. This perspective is one of unity, that everything, including you, makes up a unified whole.  
The understanding of the unity of existence is found in many traditions and throughout the ages. During study we will read and discuss, for example, the Tao with its wisdoms from the China of 2500 years ago. Written in another place and many centuries later, we’ll look at the poetry of the thirteenth-century Persian mystic, Jellaludin Rumi. From about the same time, the writings of the Arab hailed as ‘the greatest teacher’ within Sufism, Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, offer insights which we can begin to explore.
The course is held over seven weeks, combining personal enquiry through selected readings,audio and video with contemplative daily practice at home.

Syllabus
The meetings will start with a guided mindfulness meditation, followed by 'checking in' and discussing any questions, feelings and insights which may have arisen during the previous week. After a short break, the week's new theme will be introduced, with discussion and notes relating to the theme including texts, artwork, film and audio material, as well as specific questions to contemplate over the week.

Week 1 
Beginning from the Beginning: 
How can we create an ideal space, within ourselves and as a group, for this course to happen? How can we establish 'beginners mind'?

Week 2
The One and the Many, Being and Consciousness: 
An exploration of the principle of unity and its relationship to diversity and multiple points of view. 

Week 3
The Human Reality and Experience:
 What is the place of the human being and how do we experience unity in everyday life?

Week 4
Relationships: What is the nature of relationship, be it to ourselves, to others, to the earth and its other inhabitants or to God and reality?

Week 5
'Closing the Shop that Sells Fishhooks'. 
What kind of work is required to realise our essential reality and to become free of our habitual mindsets?

Week 6
Love & Beauty:
 What do we mean when we speak of love and what is its relationship to knowledge, service and beauty?

Week 7
Conclusions and Beginnings: 
A final meeting to address endings, new beginnings and to tie up as many loose ends as possible.

Facilitator: Peter Young, principal (retired), Beshara school of intensive esoteric education at Chisholme House, Scottish Borders. 

 

Discovering Unity: A course over seven weeks exploring human conciousness and meaning

Peter Young will lead this course over seven weeks, meeting each Friday afternoon from 4.30 (with a cup of tea), until 7pm.

Venue:
Berwick Parish Centre, next to the Parish Church
Parade Ground
Berwick upon Tweed, TD15 1DF

Contact and bookings:
Kathy Tiernan 07800 638 935
or kmtiernan@gmail.com

The course offers you a chance to see things freshly. You will be introduced to a deep and rich way of viewing reality. This perspective is one of unity, that everything, including you, makes up a unified whole.  
The understanding of the unity of existence is found in many traditions and throughout the ages. During study we will read and discuss, for example, the Tao with its wisdoms from the China of 2500 years ago. Written in another place and many centuries later, we’ll look at the poetry of the thirteenth-century Persian mystic, Jellaludin Rumi. From about the same time, the writings of the Arab hailed as ‘the greatest teacher’ within Sufism, Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, offer insights which we can begin to explore.
The course is held over seven weeks, combining personal enquiry through selected readings,audio and video with contemplative daily practice at home.

Syllabus
The meetings will start with a guided mindfulness meditation, followed by 'checking in' and discussing any questions, feelings and insights which may have arisen during the previous week. After a short break, the week's new theme will be introduced, with discussion and notes relating to the theme including texts, artwork, film and audio material, as well as specific questions to contemplate over the week.

Week 1 
Beginning from the Beginning: 
How can we create an ideal space, within ourselves and as a group, for this course to happen? How can we establish 'beginners mind'?

Week 2
The One and the Many, Being and Consciousness: 
An exploration of the principle of unity and its relationship to diversity and multiple points of view. 

Week 3
The Human Reality and Experience:
 What is the place of the human being and how do we experience unity in everyday life?

Week 4
Relationships: What is the nature of relationship, be it to ourselves, to others, to the earth and its other inhabitants or to God and reality?

Week 5
'Closing the Shop that Sells Fishhooks'. 
What kind of work is required to realise our essential reality and to become free of our habitual mindsets?

Week 6
Love & Beauty:
 What do we mean when we speak of love and what is its relationship to knowledge, service and beauty?

Week 7
Conclusions and Beginnings: 
A final meeting to address endings, new beginnings and to tie up as many loose ends as possible.

Facilitator: Peter Young, principal (retired), Beshara school of intensive esoteric education at Chisholme House, Scottish Borders. 

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