Are you in need of a day of silence, or an evening when finding peace will be explored?  You are in luck!  Dorothy Hunt will be in town to help. Dorothy is the Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaches at the request and in the spiritual lineage of Adyashanti and is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy.  Dorothy has the heart to work with people to recognize the truth for their particular path in this life. One question she asks is: “What is the deepest desire of your heart?” To explore this question and more, join Dorothy in Nevada City on Friday, May 13 for an evening Satsang (talk) or all day Saturday for a silent retreat and satsang.  Silence and introspection are so needed right now.

Thinking that we need to be perfect is such a struggle for many - how can you help them understand the Beauty of Imperfection?

No one is "perfect" in the sense of matching some ego ideal.  But each one of us is an expression of That which is perfectly whole.  When we are more identified with Being, rather than being this or that, we touch the deep silence, truth, freedom, wholeness, and beauty of our true nature, which is undivided and at peace.

Generally, our conditioned mind imagines the reason it needs to be perfect is to be lovable or worthy of love and acceptance. However, when we have realized who/what we truly are, whatever has been unloved, unseen, or rejected as “imperfect” within ourselves begins to be touched by That which is unconditionally loving.  We are loved, not because we have attained some standard of perfection, but because we have discovered we are Love itself, and it is the very nature of Love to love. Such love transforms our perceptions.

How can we find peace in our daily lives?

Peace is our true nature.  It is here regardless of circumstances and regardless of conditioning.  That we do not touch that peace in our daily lives is due to false identification with our conditioned mind--the thought that maintains a "separate I, me, and mine" that believes life should move according to "my" idea of how it should move.  Peace does not require a world at peace.

When we are no longer identified with thought, but rather see the movement of mind as simply the movement of mind and not who I am, we are no longer separating ourselves from either our true nature or the moment as it is.  Without separation, we do not suffer.  This does not mean all experiences are equally pleasant.  Our true nature is neither attached to pleasant experiences nor does it refuse unpleasant ones. It is awake to life as it is. Our peace lies in accepting life as whole. Truth/life/wholeness moves in service to itself, not to a "me."  When we truly investigate the source of the one we call our “self,” this self will be shown not to exist except as an illusion.

For details about the event with Dorothy, please call 530-265-9255 or visit www.insightlecture.com/

Suzie Daggett, constantly curious about the mysteries of life, publishes the Insight Directory and produces Insight Lectures.  530-265-9255, www.insightdirectory.com or www.insightlecture.com