Class I - Into the Unknown

This week I had the pleasure and privilege to teach my first class in Evolutionary Enlightenment to 13 interested and engaged participants.  It felt as if everyone was drawn to the course out of some interest to grow and develop .  Indeed, I saw the class as if it were a station on our own journey of  evolution.   We began by looking at  these liberation teachings as fundamentally about the cultivation of depth and a learned perspective.  Since most of us are so caught up in our experiences and feelings we often draw false conclusions about what life is about.  We don't pay much attention to perspective.  We even  looked at the degree to which we are all living life as narcissists!    We went on to contemplate how most of what we think of as development is really about developing  aspects of our self that appear to be outside ourself , but rarely do we contemplate what it would mean if the Self, itself, could develop.   To begin this develpment we got a sense of the Self as it is prior to the arising of any objects or experience.

I learrned a lot from teaching this class.  The more I was able to let go of what I know and my reliance on my notes, and just be with everyone in this profound inquiry, the deeper and more engaged we all seem to become.  It felt as if I was beginning to go "into the unknown"  with everyone.

For those of you who are not familair with Evolutionary Enlightenment, check out this video.  For those of you who are participating in my class, as you can see, this blog is an opportunity for me to reflect on the course and how it is going.  It is also a place for anyone in the course to do the same - a fertlile ground for us to continue going into what gets opened up in class and what happens during the (contemplative) week between each class....