Shinju, Taichun, Shenzhen…

'Opening to self-awareness'… 'Love in Awareness intensive'… each time an opportunity for our Chinese friends, whether from Taiwan or mainland China to discover 'who' they really are, to experience 'what' they really are, to experience aspects of their true nature and most certainly to drop ideas and beliefs about themselves.
These 'Awareness Intensives' are really moments of truth, sometimes relative truth and sometimes absolute truth. They are also moments of joy, of celebration when the mind gives way and no-mind simply is, when the truth of oneself is revealed and the face radiates like a shining full moon.
The willingness to open to oneself as well as to another certainly does contribute for a great part to these experiences and it certainly helps me to experience gratefulness. I feel grateful towards existence for allowing me to see 'existence' at work. I feel grateful towards these participants for allowing me to witness their enthusiasm, their courage to encounter themselves, to dis-identify from beliefs, from pre-conceived ideas, thus entering the space of witnessing.
Thank you all for offering me this gift of your 'authenticity'.

During the Intensives I like to quote 'the guesthouse' a poem from Rumi. It carries a quality of acceptance, of openness that is certainly in tune with the Awareness Intensive process.

Namaste to you All

Yves-rakendra