Explorations in Awareness
Awareness is what notices all sensations, perceptions, thoughts, and feelings. In other words, everything. Enlightenment is the recognition of this spacious awareness as our essential beingness. It is not something we attain; it is something we recognize. It is not far away; it couldn’t be closer. We miss it because we tend to look for the obscure when it is hidden in the obvious.
This series will explore the nature of our conceptualizing minds and point toward that essence that we truly are. The focus will be experiential and non-denominational; it will not be philosophical or dogmatic. Each session will include a brief guided meditation to settle the thinking mind, an extemporaneous discourse, and time for exploring questions.
“Awareness will be revealed as being already present, complete and whole – only patiently awaiting our full recognition and appreciation of it.”
Workshop Leader: Don Oakley
Don Oakley is the Founder and Managing Director of Well Being Retreat Center in Tazewell, TN where he leads monthly in-person retreats and offers online discourses twice a month. and serves on the Board of Directors of Adyashanti’s Open Gate Sanga. Samples of his discourses may be found on his YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/@donoakley).
Don is the author of “It’s Time to Wake Up Now: The Top Ten Myths that Can Hijack Spiritual Awakening” and “Empty Wisdom: The Subtle Art of Becoming What You Already Are.”
Note: The sessions do not require previous attendance or any particular practice.
Interested? Please consider joining Explorations in Awareness
Dates: 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month beginning January 9, 2024 through May 2024
Times: 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: In person at The Meaningful Life Center, 116 Carr St., Knoxville, TN 31919
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