Chatswood – is open all through the break, Monday nights at 7:30pm.

Mosman – is open all through the break, Wednesday nights at 7:45pm.

Manly: Last group, Sunday 20th December.  Reopens Sunday 17th January.

Terrigal (Central Coast):  Last group, Monday 22 December.  Reopens Monday 11 January 2010.
Wamberal (Central Coast): begins again Thursday Feb 11, at 11am.

Bondi - closed, reopens Sunday 31 January 2010.

Balmain – closed, reopens Tuesday 2nd February.

We wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

(Stay tuned to this blog for news about new courses to become a Blessing Giver in 2010!)

Blessings

Gaynor

New group starting in Balmain from Tuesday December 8:

Tuesdays at 7pm. Venue: Beyond the Ordinary – Tea House & Healing Centre, 314 Darling St Balmain.

Contact Dinah on 0419 491 323

Sri Bhagavan

Some of you will already know, and for some it will come as a surprise to learn that the Oneness Movement in India has split.

The dasas (teachers) who have moved to the west to run courses, will now be running their own brand of training, under a new name and banner.  They do so with the blessings of Sri Amma and Sri Bhagavan.

Meanwhile, back at the Oneness University campus in India, Bhagavan has said that he wants to create more Blessing Givers.  So he will begin training selected Blessing Givers to conduct short courses in their own countries, which will give them the capability to initiate Blessing Givers!

This is already happening in the U.S. and will happen in Australia from next year, as the first of the trainers return from India.

This means that you can become a Blessing Giver during a short course in Sydney!  No more 21 or 7 days of expensive training!  No travel overseas, no vaccinations, no visas!

In Bhagavan’s words:  “We want the blessing givers to increase rapidly. We want to let loose the phenomenon. Money and number of courses are like chains holding back the phenomenon. We have to cut those two chains to unleash. So you can become blessing givers in your own country.”

So we’re very much looking forward to being part of this new growth, and we’re looking forward to working directly with Bhagavan, either in person, or via Skype conferences, as he deepens the state of Blessing Givers around the world.

I am happy that we will have more contact with Bhagavan himself, and that the courses will be more accessible to everyone.  However, the fallout from the split means that the Sydney Living in Oneness Course with Sri Anandagiriji has now been cancelled.  I know that the organisers, Lisa and Pasquo Cassetta, agonised over this decision, and it was not one that they made lightly.  (If you have already registered, Lisa will be writing to you shortly, to explain how you can get a refund.)

All other courses have been cancelled, but I look forward to letting you know about the first of the Blessing Giver courses next year!

Sai Ram and Blessings to all

Gaynor

An amazing opportunity to experience the teachings of Oneness University!

Join us in a life-changing event, an inward journey of transformation, towards a state of Oneness, a state where there is no resistance, no conflict, no suffering – a state of joy and peace.

Sri Anandagiri will be offering tools for transformation to help you awaken to a sense of connectedness and oneness with all that is.

The results will be growth towards:

• More vibrant health and energy
• Improved prosperity
• Improved relationships
• An increased feeling of wellbeing, giving a new meaning to life.

To register for the January Living In Oneness program go to

www.onenessaustralia.com.au

Click on the ‘Register Now’ icon which will take you through the automatic online registration process. Eearly-bird registration of $395 is available only until 7^th December, after which it will be $450.

Please print out the attached PDF, which gives you half-price entry to the November (Sydney) Mind Body Spirit Festival.  Don’t forget to come and see us at Stand D38!

Blessings

Sai Ram

Gaynor   half price ticket

The Chatswood group is open on Monday night for Blessings.  The new address is View Lane, Chatswood – ring 0411 21 4688 for the house number.  See you there!

Blessings
Gaynor

The Lane Cove group is moving to Chatswood (it’s now in View Lane, behind Pacific Highway – please ring Gaynor on 0411 21 4688 for the house number) and the Glebe group has now closed.  Glebe may open again next year, maybe on a different night…it all depends!

You can still get Blessings in Mosman, Bondi, Rouse Hill and Manly – see the events page on this site.

Blessings

Gaynor

Anything Fully Experienced Turns to Joy or Bliss.
An introduction by Krishnarajji, dasa at Oneness University, India.

Becoming awakened doesn’t mean you don’t face challenges and difficult emotions like fear, pain, etc. All these are experiences that are very much a part of the mind. This is how the mind begins.

The objective of all spiritual processes put us into a state of consciousness where you do not resist. How well can you experience, how quickly can you pay attention to your feelings, and turn the experience of hurt and pain into joy?

When you move to gratitude, you feel stillness inside, and there’s not much need to resist or fight with anything. Things look more still, perfect and calm – this is bliss. This is your aim: to help people reach a state where there is a constant stillness and calmness, while experiencing life’s situations and emotions. Stillness is NOT the absence of thought.

Move into a position where you can watch the experience, and observe the mental activities.  When there is resistance to what is happening inside, the process of trying to move away consumes a lot of energy. It makes you feel low, and that is when you cannot experience reality as it is. This is when you go on accumulating more charges, end relationships and create many problems in your life.

Your most important focus in life is to ask the question: How can I pay attention to these experiences?

Freedom is about experiencing what is inside, not about finding a way where all life situations are perfect without adversity.

Nine steps for Handling your Experiences,  by Sri Anandagiriji

1.  Become conscious that you are suffering. You need to admit it . When a charge surfaces, when you are not feeling all right, the force of habit and social conditioning is to tell yourself that you’re feeling fine.  When you are in pain and suffering, you need to acknowledge and accept it. When you are in fear, there is no point in saying, I’m feeling fine. Admit you are feeling low.

2. Become aware of the habitual questions of the mind that take you away from the discomfort. The mind throws up these questions: Who caused this suffering? Why did they do it to me? Why should life be so cruel to me? This makes us interested in finding the cause and then blaming somebody or something, and takes us away from experiencing what is going on inside.  If you get stuck in these questions, you cannot concentrate. What habitual questions are you asking? Once you’re suffering, the important part is how you deal with it.  Who caused the suffering is irrelevant.

3. Ask the right question. Right questions are driven by a vision to experience your emotions. So the question must be: how do I deal with the pain?  How do I experience it? How do I become free? This takes you right into the experience instead of being distracted by the wrong questions. Liberation comes from the attention to the feeling in your body and your hearts. As you pay attention, this is where the process moves deeper. Who and why are irrelevant. You can feel immense focus building up as you ask the right question of: how do I become free of it through the experience?

4. Become aware of the habitual response of blaming, fighting with the situation, or losing all motivation in life. Moving into depression and self-hate. All these are old habits, how you have trained yourselves to deal with it. You fight with yourselves or others, feel guilty, blame others, condemn yourselves or others. Attention is then moving outwards. The mind constantly prompts you to believe that liberation is elsewhere, through someone else or by situations changing.  Doing this is a habit and brings you entanglement.

5.  Once you know this is a habit and there is no sense or logic in it, break the habit. This requires a firm resolve. You need to become clear in yourselves and re-program your responses. Make the decision: I am not moving away from this experience come what may. I’ll do anything and everything required to pay attention to the experience. This will break the old habit pattern. This is not a one-day affair. Every time you get in touch with charges and you keep repeating your resolve, you will be more able to engage. It takes practice.

Eventually you will have a breakthrough and the process will get easier. Even if you fail 100 times, keep your resolve. That is your ultimate goal. No moving away, no other alternative. Body posture will also help you to reprogram this new habit, by physically anchoring yourself, by sitting erect as you make the decision. Close your eyes and breathe deeply and close your left palm with the right palm on the right thigh. As you inhale, then hold your breath, make the decision: I am experiencing this feeling completely. Then exhale. Do this 7 times.

6. Invoke the divine presence, because this is also a matter of divine benediction. You need the intense focus and extra bit of energy. It’s important that the spiritual energy or kundalini is activated by divine grace. The brain must be pushed into concentrating all its attention.  This is like focusing a magnifying glass lens onto cotton in the sunlight. That is what is happening in consciousness. Your emotions can undergo a transformation. You can ask for a blessing from AmmaBhagavan by touching their picture or ask for a Blessing from another facilitator.

7. Allow yourself to go through the whole experience. Just see what you are feeling physically and go with it. There is nothing to make sense of, it is just an experience to go through.

8. After you complete the experience and feel a sense of silence, joy or gratitude, make the affirmation: “Suffering is not in the fact, but in my perception.” Repeat this 7 times.  With the first hand experience through the first 7 steps, this teaching will be deeply lodged and the next time the teaching will be inside you and you will effortlessly begin to focus inward.

9. Conclude with expressing gratitude to the divine and/or to AmmaBhagavan.

Spirituality is not so much about experiencing higher states and mystical happenings, but about re-programming your responses. Your responses determine your destiny. If you respond out of old habits, you break up your relationships and cause disease. If you respond through acceptance, experience the feelings, and see the transformation, you are creating a new golden age.

Teach yourself this new response and keep doing it. It will become faster and faster. It’s like kick-starting an engine that has not been started for a long time. If you follow these 9 steps, you are retracing your mind back. If you become a master in this and it becomes a new habit, and your suffering is transformed into bliss, imagine how much confidence you will feel.

join us for a brand new, 2-day Oneness Blessing Intensive with Lisa & Pasquo Cassetta  on Saturday & Sunday 12 & 13 September at our usual venue in North Sydney.  (Mary MacKillop Place, Isabel Menton Theatre, 7-11 Mount St, North Sydney.)

This course offers an unprecedented opportunity to spend an entire weekend becoming acquainted with extraordinarily accurate teachings for your personal & spiritual growth, as well as sitting in the energy of the Oneness Blessing for the entire weekend.

In this amazing new course you will

• Learn to implement the formula for personal success and happiness
• Experience samskara shuddhi, an ancient technique to deepen your experience of Divine Grace by releasing deep-seated emotional charges
• Heal relationships with your parents, your children, your partner
• Remove negative patterns caused by childhood experiences
• Learn teachings and experience the Oneness Blessing to help you establish an intimate, personal relationship with the Divine and improve your relationships with all those around you

The Oneness Experience Intensive is ideal for everyone who is interested in gaining a deeper understanding and experience of the process of growth towards Oneness, from beginners to experienced Oneness Blessing Givers. As of June 2009 this course will be a prerequisite for those attending the Level 1 Process in Fiji.

This course, facilitated by Lisa & Pasquo Cassetta, consists of DVDs of Acharya Samadarshini, one of the three most senior Guides of the Oneness University, as well as discussions, exercises and special Oneness Blessings.

Hope to see you on the 12th!

Come and visit us at Stand C56 at the Mind Body Spirit Festival, Hall 1, Sydney Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, from April 30 – May 3 inclusive.