Hello Friends! The purpose of this group is to experience Presence and to meet others who are interested in studying and discussing the essential words of spiritual teachers. Previously we have concentrated on studying teacher Eckhart Tolle's works.

Currently, we are studying "The Work" of internationally recognized spiritual teacher, Byron Katie.  Byron Katie's website, www.thework.com is a source for more information, and you can watch Katie doing The Work in many videos on www.youtube.com and her website. 

"The Work", is a  and method of self-inquiry, which anyone can learn, allowing one to trace unhappiness to its source (our thoughts), and eliminate it there. Katie (as everyone calls her) not only shows us that all the problems in the world originate in our thinking: she gives us the tool to open our minds and set ourselves free.

*Please feel free to contact us, through this meetup group to ask questions about The Work.

 

The Four Questions of the Work are:

Step 1 Is it true?

Step 2 Can you absolutely know that it's true?

Step 3 How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?

Who would you be without the thought?

After you have investigated your statement using the four questions above, you’re ready to turn around the concept you’re questioning.

Each turnaround is an opportunity to experience the opposite of what you originally believed.

A statement can be turned around to the opposite, to the other, and to the self (and sometimes to “my thinking,” when that feels appropriate). Find a minimum of three genuine, specific examples of how each turnaround is true in your life, and then allow yourself the time and presence to feel them deeply.

For example, ”Paul doesn’t understand me” turns around to ”Paul does understand me.” Be still and witness as your mind reveals to you examples of how this turnaround is true. Those examples might look like:

  1. He understands that when I’m angry I always get over it.

  2. He understood me last week when he laughed at the joke I was telling him.

  3. He understood me yesterday when I told him I really needed to get away with friends. He even stayed home with the kids.

Another turnaround is “I don’t understand me.” Again, find at least three genuine, specific examples of times that you have not understood yourself.

A third turnaround is ”I don’t understand Paul.” Relax, close your eyes, and with an open mind witness as the images and feelings within you begin to show you, example by example, of where you have not understood Paul. Be very gentle and thorough.

The turnarounds are your prescription for happiness. Live the medicine you have been prescribing for others. The world is waiting for just one person to live it. You're the one.

*Click here for a Summary of Byron Katie's Resources, which include a free helpline to do The Work and many amusing and enlightening Byron Katie quotes. 

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Why we meet:

"Group work can be helpful for intensifying the light of your presence. A group of people coming together in a state of presence generates a collective energy field of great intensity. It not only raises the degree of presence of each member of the group but also helps to free the collective human consciousness from its current state of mind dominance. This will make the state of presence increasingly more accessible to individuals".

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