Excerpts from a dialogue with Peter Fenner at the Omega Institute July 2006 Peter Fenner: My understanding of being, in the way that it’s understood in eastern traditions like Buddhism and Hinduism, is that being doesn’t exclude anything, because it’s unconditioned. If, in order to be, we have to, for example, be still, or be …
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by Peter Fenner “The Great Teaching … is easy to enter for those with sharp faculties and quick wits and broad penetration who don’t use their intellectual brilliance to try to comprehend it.” From the Chinese Zen master Yuanwu. “To reason about uncreated Reality is just to play with words. Yet from this coherent, playful …
Although people desire the non-dualistic and limitless (awareness, they make a) limit out of that which is not limited and thereby constrict the essential mind itself. Even though people desire (the realization of) both (the transcendent and relative) realities they fall into an extreme understanding of these. Although they desire the union of the two …
by Peter Fenner People who have participated in the Intrinsic Freedom program enjoy its unique capacity to create an experience that is free from conflict and confusion. They also appreciate that the work is subtle. At times it is so transparent that people believe there is nothing to do. It feels as though it just …
by Peter Fenner During the Intrinsic Freedom course many people have a clear and thorough experience of presence. Participants enjoy a state of presence that is self-maintaining and which doesn’t need any further cultivation. Presence is experienced as a natural and complete way of being that cannot be enhanced or destroyed. We could say it …
by Peter Fenner Do you oscillate between thinking: I need help – I don’t need help This is a real problem – I’m just making this up I need to try harder – Trying harder just gets in the way This isn’t it – This is it? In general terms these pairs of contrary beliefs …
by Peter Fenner How much time do you spend wondering what is the best thing for you to be doing in the present moment, or at some time in the future, or what you should have differently in the past? How often have you mulled over, or even struggled with the question of finding the …
There is no need to reject or appropriate anything, or to refute or establish any position, because reality is unbiased. This is Complete Fulfillment – the optimum peak of all spiritual perspectives. Longchenpa In different ways we all seek an experience of deep and lasting fulfillment. We yearn for a way of being that will …
by Penny Fenner Emotions have a direct way of communicating to us, and as such their power can be very valuable. They can alert us to what we need to attend to. They can wake us up and remind us that we are alive. They can move energy in and through us in ways that …
The manifold of phenomenal appearances is primordially unoriginated and non-dual, just like an image reflected in a mirror. The nature of openness isn’t separate from phenomenal appearances, just as water and its quality of being moist are combined in a non-dualistic condition. Free of the limits of illusion, like an imaginary city, the instant things …