Beshara South East Asia (Beshara SEA)

Location

Indonesia: Jakarta

Contacts:

Emails: Eva Muchtar
Yanti Pramudya

Introduction
Since its inception in 2000, Beshara SEA has had the pleasure of facilitating various activities pertaining to education in Self-knowledge, including through the foundation courses, monthly gatherings, and Fusus Al-Hikam reading sessions.

Courses that are designed to help individuals explore their essential nature by working together in a small group with the help of key texts, open discussions and meditations in a contemplative environment. Students are invited to begin with a 'Discovering Unity', or 'Weekend Foundation' course to familiarise themselves with some of the key principles of the unity of existence and perfectibility of man. Those who wish to delve deeper are welcome to attend the nine-day courses, which offer an environment that allows a more intense journey into oneself to take place. 

Although most people attending the courses in Java have come from Indonesia, others have come from Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Spain, the US and Mexico.

Articles and Testimonials 

Students share their experiences...
Article: Seeing' Myself in Scotland – what is it like doing a six-month course, by Eva Muchtar 

Programme for 2015

Gatherings:
A gathering is proposed for all Beshara students as well as those who are drawn to explore a particular theme chosen from the perspective of the unity of being. It is set in a relaxed conversational environment while still maintaining the depth of and proper respect to the conversation that is being held. 
For more information, please contact Eva Muchtar or Yanti Pramudya

Schedule: 
(1) Sunday, June 7, 09.30am-1pm
(2) Sunday, August 16, 09.30am-1pm
(3) Sunday, October 18, 09.30am-1pm
(4) Sunday, November 15, 10am-1pm

Fusus Study Weekend
These courses focus on in-depth exploration of a theme or a particular text from Ibn 'Arabi's Fusus al Hikam, or other texts written from the perspective of the Unity of Being. The focus is on understanding the central themes of the text both in metaphysical terms and also, where possible, in relation to the participants' own experiences. Details of the texts to be studied will appear within the particular course information. The courses is intended for students of Beshara who have taken part in previous Fusus studies.
For more information, please contact Eva Muchtar or Yanti Pramudya

Schedule: 
May 23-24, at Cinere (residential)

'Discovering Unity' Course
This is a seven week course, consisting of a 2-hour meeting each week, with students doing their own reading, practice and contemplation during the week. 

The premise of the course is the ultimate unity of all existence. The course develops to reflect this unity, as it reveals itself by degrees in our everyday experience, as light and love, knowledge and beauty. The course is a journey of self-enquiry and discovery of the unified whole that is our human nature. It combines theory and practice, group investigation and private contemplation, to uncover some of the profound meanings entailed in being human. 
For more information, please contact Eva Muchtar or Yanti Pramudya

Schedule:
Sundays, 9am-12noon in August-September 2015 (exact dates to be confirmed)

'Weekend Foundation' Course (non residential)
A first taste of the principles essential to a genuine search for self-knowledge, undertaken in the light of the unity of being. The course will follow a programme of study, work, meditation and conversation. Study materials vary but are likely to include poems and extracts from Rumi and Ibn' Arabi, and papers written specially for the School.
For more information, please contact Eva Muchtar or Yanti Pramudya

Schedule:
October 11-12 (Venue to be advised)

Discovering Unity: Two Year Modular Programme (in Indonesia)
We are happy to share the good news with you that the Beshara School will hold Discovering Unity: Two Year Modular Programme in Indonesia later this year/early next year. This is a unique immersion in exploring the meanings and implications of unity, and its integration into your own life. The two years activities combine three residential retreats with home study, practice and online tuition. The programme explores through study and practice the connection between self-knowledge and congruent, effective action in the world. Details of which are being finalised. For more information on this course, please visit: http://www.beshara.org/courses/courses-all/discovering-unity-2-yr.html.
For more information, please contact Eva Muchtar or Yanti Pramudya

The activities are proposed with the intention to provide the proper space for the education of self-knowledge to take place within each of us, individually and collectively. May this intention be joined up with the core intention embodied in Beshara, that He loves to be known as the singular reality of all mankind, that we are from Him and we will return to Him, all together, consciously waking up to the reality of who it is really appearing today in the form of six billion human beings. 

May He make it easy for us. Thank you.

Be like a river
Flowing, fluid
Willingly accepting the course it's revealed
At times smooth at times not
No judgment only bliss
Knowing the course is a return to the One Mother River
                                 Yanti Pramudya, Beshara student