Faculty - Ajna Samadhi

Is the life we are living now deliberately chosen by us? Or is it accidentally created by the impact of our surroundings? This workshop is designed for us to align the choices we have made with who we choose to be and the reality we want to experience. One of the key reasons to undertake this work is to play a role in not becoming a victim or being subjected to intentions and motives that one hasn't agreed to. In the world, we are made to agree or participate in many things which we probably did not consciously decide to participate in. For example, as we pursue a better life by becoming richer, we might accidentally support poverty or, in the name of our freedom, we may participate in oppression. The motive behind this effort is to play a role consciously, deliberately, to look around and to ask: is this the world we want, is this the world we are choosing to participate in making, both for ourselves and for all. Through a series of videos, contemplations, group discussions, and meditations, this workshop awakens our ability in us to participate deliberately in forming what our lives can be and how life at large can be. One of the key reasons to undertake this work is to play a role in not becoming a victim or being subjected to intentions and motives that one hasn't agreed to. In the world, we are made to agree or participate in many things which we probably did not consciously decide to participate in. For example, as we pursue a better life by becoming richer, we might accidentally support poverty or, in the name of our freedom, we may participate in oppression. The motive behind this effort is to play a role consciously, deliberately, to look around and to ask: is this the world we want, is this the world we are choosing to participate in making, both for ourselves and for all?

Have you said yes to living, to thriving? Most often we are initiated into saying yes to things that we may not have consciously agreed to for ourselves. This unconscious acceptance can set many things in motion which we rarely challenge or examine. By this we can live our whole lives managing or coping with the consequences of what we have agreed to. This workshop will help us become more aware of what we actively choose to say yes to, by that we regain the ability to reset the direction we choose to move in. As Dhyan Vimal says, ?The basic power of all is the power to choose a direction to flow towards, remembering this power is the greatest gift one can give oneself and another.?

During this workshop we will learn the first 6 of 18 Rites created by Dhyan Vimal. The 6 Rites are designed to help us to actively participate in our own evolution and wake up to the best we can be. They are a road map for personal awakening and to meet the inner and outer challenges that one faces. By exposing ourselves to the contemplations and open-ended questions for each Rite, we will have a structure to determine our own course forward in meeting the demands of living.The awareness and self-knowledge that this workshop cultivates empowers our authenticity and evolution, allowing for profound shifts in all aspects of our lives.

What we know keeps us limited as we are. We assume that we can learn, but it seems to be one of the hardest things to come to. As Dhyan Vimal says, most people simply learn to defend the state of self, how one already is, despite the fact that life always provokes learning. The right state of learning is to be in a space one is open to the fact that there can be something more than what is there, and this is the very centre of evolution for humanity.When the ego is in function one is moving to prove, to teach, and to project oneself onto the world. When this is rested one is in a state to learn, and when one can learn one can evolve to the next height of oneself. The ego is a compensation for when one is not present. The more present one is able to be, the less room there is for the ego to be in action and the more available one is for learning.In this workshop we will ask the questions, are we learning to keep us exactly the same, and to reinforce the idea we have of ourselves? Or are we able to learn, to evolve, to grow? Which means to confess that we have not yet arrived, there is more here. We are a process and not a fixed entity. We will study a lecture on transformation and see how we can break it down using the 4 study parameters put down by Dhyan Vimal as a structure to go beyond our predispositions.