Every week, few of us come together for a 90 minute virtual call to have a dialogue around a particular reading. To join, simply RSVP below and you'll be sent all the dial-in information.

This week's Awakin Dialogue is on: The Notion of Doer-ship is Bondage, by Nisargadatta Maharaj.



Seed questions for reflection:

1. Krishnamurti said that 'total perception results in total action'. When the perception is whole, and the duality between the perceiver and the perceived dissolves, what value does evaluating one's own actions hold? What could be some of the tools, if any, that one can use for doing so?

2. What are some of the creative constraints you are experimenting with as you navigate life via the duality between the 'doer' and the 'done'?


Here's the broad flow for the call:

5:00 - 6 AM: Sitting in solitude (Optional but highly recommended)
6:00 - 6:02: Collective Silence
6:02 - 6:10: Quick check-in
6:10 - 6:15: Reading of the article
6:15 - 7:00: Reflections on article
7:00 - 7:28: Exploring Edges
7:28 - 7:30: Collective Silence

As context, here's a quote from David Bohm that describes our approach to this call: 

"Awakening the process of dialogue itself as a free flow of meaning among all the participants. In the beginning, people were expressing fixed positions, which they were tending to defend, but later it became clear that to maintain the feeling of friendship in the group was much more important than to hold any position. Such friendship has an impersonal quality in the sense that its establishment does not depend on a close personal relationship between participants. A new kind of mind thus begins to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue. People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change. In this development the group has no pre-established purpose, though at each moment a purpose that is free to change may reveal itself. The group thus begins to engage in a new dynamic relationship in which no speaker is excluded, and in which no particular content is excluded. Thus far we have only begun to explore the possibilities of dialogue in the sense indicated here, but going further along these lines would open up the possibility of transforming not only the relationship between people, but even more, the very nature of consciousness in which these relationships arise."

To join the call, just RSVP below with your email address.  Please note that the time is 6:00 AM Indian Standard Time on April 24, 2018 and 5:30 PM PST on April 23, 2018. You can convert it to your timezone here.