Brighton Integral Salon

Just a quick note to thank everyone who attended on Saturday afternoon.

It was so great to see so many unique selves exploring the group space end entering Big Mind together. I learned something valuable from everyone but have to say a special "thank you" to Jonathan for facilitating and helping me move forward and allow a little innate wisdom to arise from within. It was a great space and I got the feeling that we all got something valuable from the experience.

I'd love to explore the Big Mind process again in a few months time.

Let me know if you'd like me to invite John again!

Thanks again, see you in June.

Anyone any good at taking photos?

Here a few amateurish snaps of the event... I promise I'll try harder next time.

Ken Wilber's recent interview with Salon has provoked some debate in integral circles about the use of jargon when talking about all things integral. A great copywriter, someone who makes a good living my clear and careful use of words said the interview "really shows up how jargon-ridden and mostly incomprehensible the current presentation of integral is".

The debate has brought some interesting ideas to the table and some clarity of speech on a few topics.

This May the Salon is pleased to invite you to explore "Big Mind"

This will be a practical, experiential, workshop where we will learn how to enter into the ever-present mind that transcends and includes all our other minds - the ultimate resting place, source, and summit, of pure spirit.

Trained facilitator and student of Genpo Roshi, Jon Bonello, will be guiding us through the Big Mind process and helping us work through our dual voices on a journey into an experience of the non-dual.

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What Is Big Mind?

In Integral Spirituality Ken Wilber describes Big Mind as "an astonishingly original, profound and effective path for waking up, or seeing one’s True Nature. It is such a simple and universal practice it can be used in any spiritual path you wish, or even by itself, as a practice for realizing your True Self."

Big Mind is the name given, by Genpo Merzel, Roshi, to a special new way to discover, experience and appreciate your life. It’s also a good way of working out the kinks, the stuck places, and the unhealthy patterns that keep us down. Life is complex, and the inner self is an exquisite network of the psychological and the spiritual. Understanding it well leads to a better life.

more at Genpo.org

Something Jon recently said about Genpo's work:

"This process has the capacity to help us support ourselves by deeply knowing ourselves and accepting ourselves as we are, from dark to light, wisdom to ignorance.

As I explore further the inner aspects that I learned to meet with the help of this process I can see that I give myself more and more permission to be human and to live up to the potential that I secretly have envisioned throughout my life. I need not fear owning my endless imperfections as well as I need not fear owning my immeasurable beauty. I can consciously choose to be this human being, this miracle of flesh and spirit.

Thank you Genpo, for putting the dharma before dogma."

Also...

Jon will be guiding a BigMind workshop at the Wild Heart Gathering at the beginning of May.

See also: Big Mind intro videos

Details:

• Date: Saturday 17th May
• Time: 4pm - please come in plenty of time
• Place: Usual venue - details here.
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Review

An evening of intensity and intimacy. I was moved by every journey and impressed by Robert and Diane's skill in plumbing the depths so swiftly and yet so skilfully.

Thanks to everyone who made it, it was a great evening and quite a bonding time for many of us I think.