Beyond the Matrix – Meditation Beyond the Thinking Mind – 4 Week Course

Beyond the Matrix – Meditation Beyond the Thinking Mind – 4 Week Course

A 4-week exploration of meditation, awareness and the nature of experience. Most of us spend much of our lives inside a world created by thought.

Thinking about what has happened.

Anticipating what might happen.

Judging, planning, remembering, analysing — often without even noticing.

It becomes so familiar that we can mistake this stream of thought for reality itself. But what happens when the mind becomes quiet — even for a moment? There is something here before the commentary begins. A simple, natural awareness that doesn’t need to be created, controlled or perfected.

Beyond the Matrix will explore how we can step out of our habitual identification with thought and experience this more directly. Rather than trying to stop thoughts or become a “good meditator”, we’ll use simple natural meditation and awareness practices to discover what is already present underneath all the effort.

Over the four weeks we’ll explore how to:

– settle the mind without fighting with it
– become less caught in repetitive thinking
– recognise the difference between thought and direct experience
– experience meditation as something natural rather than something we have to achieve
– explore the quiet, spacious awareness that remains when we stop following every thought

There will also be time to talk, ask questions and explore how this understanding can carry into ordinary life.

If you’ve attended one of my courses before, “Beyond the Matrix” is an opportunity to go deeper.

And if you’re completely new to meditation — or have tried meditation and thought “my mind is far too busy for this” — you are equally welcome.

A busy mind is no obstacle to meditation!

Beyond the Matrix

4 weekly sessions • 75 minutes each
Starting Thursday Nov 5th
6.30pm
Reverence HQ, Coolbellup
$160

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Cancellation Policy: This ticket is refundable (minus any processing fees if you pay by credit card) up until 1 week prior to the start of the first session. If you miss a session for any reason, you will still receive the recording so you can continue your practice at home.