Inner Peace Conference

Living from Heart-Mind versus Doing-Mind
Many of us have become accustomed to live life under the influence of our doing-mind. The doing-mind can be helpful regarding the practical matters of life, but it doesn’t have any clue about peace, joy or true connection.
When doing-mind runs on automatic our lives feel stressful, incomplete and nothing or no-one is ever good enough. Come and discover how to reconnect with Heart-Mind and engage life from the natural intelligence, warmth and openness of our true Being.

A Ritual for Transcending Limitations: Invoking Ganesha
The lovable, elephant-headed Ganesha is the personification of strength while facing obstacles and challenges. In this participatory ritual we will be invoking the presence of Ganesh who dwells within us as the capacity to be firm in the face of challenge, and to help us embody receptivity and care. It is taught in Hinduism that all of the deities exist within us as our inner nature of light and love, and outwardly are the external expressions of our heart. When we chant mantras and perform rituals we are not praying outside of ourselves to a deity, but are invoking the inner deity to awaken within us, and for that light to bless us and pervade our intellect, mind, thoughts, emotions, sense organs and actions.

This is a wisdom talk by Eddie - so no yoga

Freeing the Heart - The Practice of Vipassanā Meditation

The Buddhist path is a soteriological, or liberation seeking tradition of ancient India, designed and intended to liberate us, through our own efforts, from the burden of suffering.

And vipassanā, or insight meditation is the direct-way towards that goal, the cessation of suffering, as laid down by Gotama Buddha over 2600 years ago. The Buddha expounded that we suffer because we don’t see clearly the true nature of our embodied existence. In his own words, “we have dust in our eyes.” And accordingly, this conditioned inability to see clearly is what keeps humankind entrenched in the seemingly unrelenting cycle of unsatisfactoriness and concomitant suffering.

In our time together we will discuss, according to the perspective of both the Buddha’s and the speaker’s own experiential insights, why we suffer, what vipassanā meditation actually is, and how with patient endurance each of us can tap into our innate ability to see clearly the true nature of ultimate reality, freeing our hearts from the shackles of suffering.

Details:

• All Levels Welcome
• Dhamma Talk + Meditation

Waking Up through Discomfort and Pain

Our human body and brain are neuro-biologically wired to move away from discomfort and pain in order to survive. Yet, spiritual awakening is never complete until we learn to bring our light and presence to what appears unpleasant or dark. Join us to explore how we can use even challenging experiences as a gateway to genuine depth and boundless compassion.

Embodying Peace : a Meditation in Motion

This session will be an offering to yourself, to our relations - including all environment and the Universe - with our body, speech and mind for Peace and well-being.
We enter the field of movement within pure presence, we align with the wholeness and allow the effortless effort of who we are to guide us.
"I am not the doer, it’s all being done"

The space and light, the fabric of consciousness, is not an imagination, it’s real, it is the field of awareness and we are the embodiment of that and is all what is.

Tijn Touber will close the Inner Peace Conference with a meditation in the style of Cities of Light, the worldwide meditation network he created with over 1000 living rooms in 26 countries participating regularly to uplift the atmosphere of cities and villages. When people meditate together they create a coherent field that has a beneficial effect on themselves and their surroundings. Join in on this Inner Peace / Outer Peace meditation and help humanity raise its consciousness to the next level of evolution.