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SUMMARY:Danish Meditation Society Retreat 2019
DESCRIPTION:The Danish Meditation Society Retreat will be in Copenhagen\, Denmark. \nMark your calendar and please join us in September 2019. \nFor more details information\, contact mail@jytteloehr.dk
URL:https://www.americanmeditationsociety.org/event/danish-meditation-society-retreat-2019/
LOCATION:DK\, Copenhagen\, Denmark
CATEGORIES:Retreat
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SUMMARY:UK Meditation Society Retreat 2019
DESCRIPTION:A threee-day Deepening Session has been arranged for this coming autumn. \nVENUE: Domus Marie centre  \nCOST: £185 ( includes 2 nights breakfast\, lunch\, dinner\, teas\, coffees ) \n£75 deposit to hold your room. \nPlease contact Pranesh by private message \n Note: if you need to stay an extra night on the Sunday this can be arranged for £30 \n\n\nWe will look forward to seeing you in September!
URL:https://www.americanmeditationsociety.org/event/uk-meditation-retreat-2019/
LOCATION:Domus Mariae Centre\, 803 Chigwell Road\, Woodford Bridge\, Essex\, IG8 8AU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Retreat
ORGANIZER;CN="Pranesh":MAILTO:kevin@ukmeditation.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190916T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190916T210000
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SUMMARY:Online Satsang with Jeffrey Carr
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Carr\, Senior AMS Teacher\n\nGururaj Ananda Yogi\n\nSatsang & Reading from\n\n‘The Smile of Krishna’\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, September 16th\, 2019\n\n8 – 9 pm East Coast Time\n7 – 8 pm Midwest Time\n5 – 6 pm West Coast Time\n\n\nZOOM MEETING ID: 152 161 228\n \n\n\n\nExcerpt from ‘The Smile of Krishna’\n\nGururaj Ananda Yogi:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe smile of Krishna is rather more a theme for poetry than the subject for a talk. The smile of Krishna is the smile that smiles through the entire universe\, because his smile is the creation of the universe. Because Krishna or Christ smiles\, this universe\, as we know it\, is created. Now\, to me\, Christ or Krishna or Buddha means the same: I’m more interested in Krishna consciousness or Christ consciousness. And that very consciousness is a smile. For consciousness\, with its cognition of the universe\, cannot but help to smile. It’s a pity we haven’t got Jesus’ picture here. All the pictures you have seen of Jesus are all totally false\, just artist’s impressions. When I was a young lad I had visions of him\, and I used to see him totally clearly. And he never had that sad face with all the tears running down his cheeks. He was a cheerful person; therefore\, he taught: be of good cheer. If he was crying all the time\, like the pictures depict him\, he would not have taught ‘be of good cheer’.   So that is the Christ smile. That is the Krishna smile: to be of good cheer.\n \nAnd everything is cheerful if you know how to recognize the cheer. Cheer\, or the smile\, becomes distorted because of your mind. Your mind is that which distorts cheerfulness into cheerlessness. So\, if you look around you\, everything is smiling all the time. The flowers are smiling\, the plants are smiling\, this thing is smiling: everything just smiles. But that recognition of the smile of Krishna\, or the smile of life\, must come from you. You have to recognize it in order to know it. Have you really seen Krishna’s smile? Of course you have. Every time I smile at you that’s Krishna’s smile\, because I do not find any difference between his consciousness apart from mine. It’s just one consciousness. And I am smiling through his smile\, and he smiles through my smile. And yet\, if you should watch the smile carefully\, you would feel it bubbling over. For I never smile with my lips\, I just pull them. I smile with my eyes- and there lies the beauty of a smile; not the pulling of the lips or whichever way. With every time the lips are formed into a smile\, your eyes must sparkle with the radiance. Then only is it a smile.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlink to entire satsang\n\n\nHOW TO JOIN ONLINE\nWe use the online conference program called Zoom. If you don’t have it\, it’s easy to use and free.  Go to: https://zoom.us/download  and download the option: “Zoom Client for meetings Version 3.5.53922.0620” (or newer version)\n\n\nThen open your Zoom application and enter your passwords and click on “join a meeting” and type the   \nMeeting ID:  152-161-228\n\n\n\nWe will start the Zoom sessions 10 minutes before the start time so you can log on and be ready to go.\n\n\nOther tips:\n\nYou should come in muted as to not disturb the meeting. If not please click on the microphone icon on the bottom left to mute your mic. When muted it will have a red line through it. (Especially important if you join before the Host does.)\nTo speak\, just click on the mic icon again to activate your mic.\nIf you prefer to not be seen\, you can also click the video icon next to the mic icon on the bottom and disable your camera.\nTo ensure optimum sound\, close all other programs and internet on your computer once you’re in Zoom.  Double check that your computer’s volume register is turned all the way up (for most computers)\, and same with the volume on the zoom screen.\nIf your internet connection is weak or variable and you can hook up to the router directly with an Ethernet cable; that would give you the best possible signal.\nHeadphones tend to provide better sound also and we get less feedback so if you have them please use them.\nWe can only have 25 logins at once and after that is reached you will be notified that the meeting is full.
URL:https://www.americanmeditationsociety.org/event/online-satsang-with-jeffrey-carr-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190819T200000
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DTSTAMP:20260417T041600
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SUMMARY:Online Satsang with Jeffrey Carr
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Carr\, Senior AMS Teacher\n\nSatsang & Reading from US 80-17:\n\nGururaj Ananda Yogi\n\nThe Inner and Outer Guru\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, August 19th\, 2019\n\n8 – 9 pm East Coast Time\n7 – 8 pm Midwest Time\n5 – 6 pm West Coast Time\n\n\nZOOM MEETING ID: 705-079-634\n \n\n\n\nExcerpt from the Inner and Outer Guru; the Mark of the True Teacher\n\nGururaj Ananda Yogi:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne must always listen to the inner guru. But how many have found this inner guru? The inner guru can only be found if that total stillness is found within\, through meditation and spiritual practices.  Then only can that voice of silence be heard.  Otherwise it might just be your imagination running amuck. It could be thought processes that are coming through your mind\, which have been previously conditioned.  This is the surest way of being deluded and of being involved in illusions.  So\, only when we have found the inner guru\, perhaps not even through total integration\, do we have the right to say that we listen to the inner guru.\n \nThe ability to listen to the inner guru\, to the spirit within yourself\, is ability given to very few people.  It is something that has to be strived for.  It is something by which the patterned mind\, that sends forth thoughts through the conscious mind\, is listened to.  If anyone here can tell me that every decision they have made has always been a right decision\, a goodly decision\, a godly decision\, in any matter whatsoever\, then he might have had some glimpse of the inner guru.  But that is not (usually) the case.\n \nMany times\, people speak about the voice of conscience.  What (is) conscience?  What do we know about conscience?  We only (have knowledge) of the experiences that are stored in our memory box\, opposing experiences\, and from that\, through an analytical process\, we come to the conclusion that my conscience tells me this (or that).  So\, (conscience) is the product of your own personal mental experience. Now this is not totally wrong\, because you might have had a good experience at some time and a bad experience (another time)\, (which are) the opposites in the world of polarities. Therefore\, your mind is conditioned by the thoughts of the good experience\, and so your conscience will do right. Your conscience will dictate to you what is right and what is wrong\, based upon the experiences that you have had. This is fine\, but how many people have that discriminating ability?  How many people can say that their good deeds\, (committed) over these thousands of lifetimes\, have been mostly good deeds\, and (that their) bad deeds were very few\, so that they therefore are equipped to decide\, answer and solve the problem that is at hand?\n \nSo\, when the inner guru is awakened\, you do not need the outer guru.  It is because we need the outer guru that we get assembled here\, for example.  We need to be told\, we need to be taught\, and we need to be guided\, and the guidance or the teachings we take are dependent upon the awareness we have developed.  In the full realization of the inner guru\, you have the awareness to be able to see not only as far as the wall\, but behind the wall as well.   This (awareness) does not come from an analytical process\, but it comes from an intuitive level\, (and from) a level that is even beyond intuition; (it comes) from the realm of the spirit\, which is the inner guru.  And in that awareness\, you’ll have no more questions\, for all is realized\, and questions cease.  The very act of a question is the act of search\, and when you have found\, you do not need to seek anymore.\n \nWe seek because we are not functioning in totality.  We seek because we (do not have) the total awareness.  We first seek and inquire to gain mental knowledge\, and we then use that to dive deep within ourselves.  The seed has been planted\, and then we go beyond the analytical aspect of ourselves to reach that area\, that dimension\, where our own awareness gives us all the answers.  That is the surface value of awareness.  In the deeper level of awareness\, there are no questions and no answers.  You just know.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlink to entire satsang\n\n\nHOW TO JOIN ONLINE\nWe use the online conference program called Zoom. If you don’t have it\, it’s easy to use and free.  Go to: https://zoom.us/download  and download the option: “Zoom Client for meetings Version 3.5.53922.0620” (or newer version)\n\n\nThen open your Zoom application and enter your passwords and click on “join a meeting” and type the   \nMeeting ID:  705-079-634\n\n\n\nWe will start the Zoom sessions 10 minutes before the start time so you can log on and be ready to go.\n\n\nOther tips:\n\nYou should come in muted as to not disturb the meeting. If not please click on the microphone icon on the bottom left to mute your mic. When muted it will have a red line through it. (Especially important if you join before the Host does.)\nTo speak\, just click on the mic icon again to activate your mic.\nIf you prefer to not be seen\, you can also click the video icon next to the mic icon on the bottom and disable your camera.\nTo ensure optimum sound\, close all other programs and internet on your computer once you’re in Zoom.  Double check that your computer’s volume register is turned all the way up (for most computers)\, and same with the volume on the zoom screen.\nIf your internet connection is weak or variable and you can hook up to the router directly with an Ethernet cable; that would give you the best possible signal.\nHeadphones tend to provide better sound also and we get less feedback so if you have them please use them.\nWe can only have 25 logins at once and after that is reached you will be notified that the meeting is full.
URL:https://www.americanmeditationsociety.org/event/online-satsang-with-jeffrey-carr/
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190819T110000
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SUMMARY:Knoxville Area Fall Retreat 2019
DESCRIPTION:Our highly anticipated retreat this Fall will be held at the Steiner Bell Lodge facility at Wafloy Mountain Village in Gatlinburg. This is a beautiful newly-restored lodge with breathtaking views that we will have all to ourselves! Please click on this link for more information and photos of the Lodge: \nWafloy Mountain Village \nACCOMMODATION: There are large and comfortable double rooms available\, each with private bath and balcony. \nDESCRIPTION: There will be two group chant and meditations as well as two Satsangs (group gatherings) each day. There will be time for walking meditation\, introspection\, relaxation and fun. The grounds are fabulous and the atmosphere is conducive to prayer and meditation. \nMEALS:  Will be provided for us! This is a first for our retreat and we are very excited to be able to offer this option this year. Breakfast and dinner will be fully catered\, and we will be providing our own lunch items. \nSCHEDULE: The Knoxville area Fall retreat is being held from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon\, with an additional night option through Monday for those that can stay for a longer course. This is highly recommended and encouraged! An additional nights stay into Monday will allow for further deepening and immersion during the retreat experience. \nIf you prefer to register by sending a check\, please contact Emma Woods at emmawoods@me.com for more info. \nCancellation Fee $50. \nRegistration Deadline August 2nd.  There will be no refunds after this date. \nSCHOLARSHIPS. If financial circumstances are an obstacle\, there are need-based scholarships available. To inquire: Contact Emma Woods at emmawoods@me.com.
URL:https://www.americanmeditationsociety.org/event/knoxville-area-retreat-2019/
LOCATION:Wafloy Mountain Village Retreat\, 3610 East Parkway\, Gatlinburg\, TN\, 37738\, United States
CATEGORIES:Retreat
ORGANIZER;CN="Emma Woods":MAILTO:emmawoods@me.com
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SUMMARY:AMS National Retreat 2019
DESCRIPTION:       Theme: You are Light and Vibration\nYou are light and vibration\, not the small body identified self you assume yourself to be. On this course we will look at exactly what Gururaj has to say about light and vibration\, about who we really are versus who we take ourselves to be. We will review and be doing numerous practices that Gururaj informally taught throughout his satsangs over his 12 years of teaching – practices that lift our vibration and move us into seeing\, experiencing and knowing our true divine nature – love itself. \nClick on this link for information about the Marianist Retreat Conference Center: \nThe Marianist Retreat Conference Center \nACCOMMODATION: There are comfortable single rooms available\, each with a private bath. \nDESCRIPTION: There will be two group chant and meditations as well as two Satsangs (group gatherings) each day. Yoga Nidra will also be offered. There will be time for walking meditation\, introspection\, relaxation and fun. The grounds are fabulous and the atmosphere is conducive to prayer and meditation. There are over 100 scenic acres for walking. \nMEALS: Meals are prepared three times daily and served in the dining room. If you require vegetarian or gluten free\, please specify when registering. There is a small refrigerator and microwave in the dining room if you have special needs. \nTRANSPORT: (STL) Lambert – St. Louis International Airport. \nTo get to and from airport use Yotaxi. Call at least one day ahead to make reservations – 636-234-6360.  $54 cash or $59 credit card. \nCost may be split between people traveling. \nUber estimated fare is $40 for UberX and $80 for UberBlack (similar to a limo). \nA Facebook page closed group is set up for all those attending the retreat to communicate about arrival times and miscellaneous details. To request to join the group click here: AMS Summer National Course. \nEARLY REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE! Please see “Tickets” section below to register. \nCancellation Fee $100. \nRegistration Deadline June 16th.  There will be no refunds after this date. \nSCHOLARSHIPS. If financial circumstances are an obstacle\, there are need-based scholarships available. To inquire: Contact Abbe Rosenberg or Casey Sams at caseysams1@gmail.com.
URL:https://www.americanmeditationsociety.org/event/ams-national-retreat/
LOCATION:Marianist Retreat & Conference Center\, 4000 Highway 109\, Eureka\, MO\, 63025\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Casey Sams":MAILTO:caseysams1@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190522T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T041600
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SUMMARY:New York Spring Retreat 2019
DESCRIPTION:Embracing Change—The Key to Freedom \nWe are living in a state of flux and we are being tested…our reactions to inner and outer circumstances matter. The way we perceive change–welcome it and dance with it–willmaterialize physically. We know that resisting change is futile; it leaves us battered and broken. But embracing change\, being fluid\, can open our observant\, curious and loving hearts. \n“Common sense would tell us that we should evaluate relative existence\, with all its changes\, and try to see how beneficial change is to us.  We can still live in the changes\, and change the changes; that is the secret of life.  What do we change?  We change that which is forever changing into changelessness\, wherein stability could be found. \nThe fear of facing the future\, or turning away from that with which we are so familiar\, is a sure sign of instability.  It is a sure sign of a lack of faith\, it is a sure sign in the disbelief of Divinity. \nWhat prevents us from wanting to change?  What prevents us from remaining in the suffering and yet inwardly we would like to get away from the suffering?  And yet we are so tied down\, bogged down\, because of what we have been conditioned by.” \n–Gururaj Ananda Yogi (Change\, UK78-8) \nFor the full retreat schedule\, click here \nSCHOLARSHIPS:  If financial circumstances are an obstacle\, students may apply for partial\, need-based scholarships. These retreatants will be asked to participate in one of the many volunteer opportunities available during the weekend \nTo inquire: Contact Marcia Wilgermein – Marcia0701@aol.com \nPayments: \n\nAfter adding your ticket to the shopping cart and going to checkout\, you will be redirected to PayPal to submit payment. You may use your credit card. If you have a PayPal account and wish to use this\, please choose the “Friends and Family” option (by using this option we will not be charged a fee).\nIf you wish to pay by cash or check you must register directly with Marcia via email (see above) or cell 914-629-5215.
URL:https://www.americanmeditationsociety.org/event/new-york-weekend-retreat/
LOCATION:Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate\, 150 Sisters Servants Lane\, Sloatsburg\, NY\, 10974\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Marcia Wilgermein":MAILTO:Marcia0701@aol.com
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