Krishna (Chris) Gauci, of Portland, Oregon will visit Fayetteville from June 8 - 10, 2007.   Krishna is an experienced teacher with a strong background in Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, and is a Waking Down senior teacher.  He’s a delightful and gifted presenter, and a down to earth guy.  His workshop — Invocation and Natural Surrender — is open to anyone, whether or not you are interested specifically in the Waking Down work.  To learn more about him and read his writings, visit www.KrishnaSatsang.com and www.wakingdown.org/KrishnaGauci.

“You are Infinite Consciousness and you are already free. You are also a bodily human personality that experiences limits in a world of limits. The paradox of being simultaneously both defies logic and can feel like quite a burn, but it is the key to a life of continuous transformation. If you are ready, the time of using one part of yourself to avoid the other can be over. Trusting both the Ocean and the wave. This is authenticity, humaneness and compassion. This is embodying the realization of The Eternal in time.”    - Krishna Gauci
 
There  will be a Satsang (a gathering to receive and share spiritual inspiration) on Friday evening June 8,  then a two day workshop on the weekend of June 9-10.  You’re welcome to attend the evening, one day, or both days in any combination.  Over the weekend we will explore together:

• Natural Surrender: Surrendering into Life as Life surrenders into and as Us.
• The paradox of what it means to invoke and pray for the changes we want while still trusting Life or Onlyness itself. 
• The relationship between doing and allowing
• Invocations using archetypes, images, and names of Divine Being
• Surrender as the recognition of what is always already happening
• Invocations directed to “The Great Whatever”, or no one in particular
• Invocation as Divinely human empowerment
• The relationship between having what we want and wanting what we have. 
• Stretching the limits of the finite through daring/invocation and the part natural surrender plays when ”Being shortens the leash” 
• Some reasons when and why Invocations happen quickly when they do, and why they don’t when they don’t
• How Invocation, Daring and Natural Surrender are a circuit of continuous transformation of the inside and the outside

During the weekend we will uncover our own feelings around the  paradoxical relationship between our experience of ourselves as already being enough and our natural yearning for more. As always, we will be doing this through guided meditation, sharing, dialogue, gazing and deeply relaxing in the silent transmission of Presence.   Also, Krishna will be responsive to our needs and interests as a group.

If you are interested, want more information, or are ready to register now to reserve your place, please contact Leslie Oelsner at 521-2395.

Cost of the workshop is undetermined at this time, but there will be sliding scale available as we don’t want anyone turned away because of lack of funds. 
 
Below is a paragraph from Krishna’s website:
 
“In both our profound freedom and profound limitation we are the Totality of Being and no part of us can be left behind. We are the ever-changing dance of life in motion and we are the deepest Stillness that is revealed in this dance. Every part of us is welcome. You may not be comfortable, but you are no mistake, you are here for a purpose. What a Paradox: In a thousand ways our hearts are forever longing to merge with the Source of all pleasure and satisfaction and we are always already that Source. We can neither stop our longing nor stop being the Source. You are the Unity of duality and non-duality. You belong here and all of you is yearning to find its full expression. Embracing this incarnation, you live your own Gospel, sing your own Gita and discover your own Dharma. Make yourself at home here and dare to move into and fully inhabit the heroic drama of your own divinely inspired story. This is my wish for you and our meeting together.”