Workshop in the U.S.

Some interest for our work is stirring on the East coast and a workshop may happen in November. If you are living on the East coast and feel you wish to jump into one of our workshops, please let me know.

amamet1000@yahoo.com

Click below to listen to an audio clip from a workshop in Montpellier, May 2008.
Once you are on the page, click on the WAVE file of 7.4 MB.

http://www.archive.org/details/TheGreatWork

KAIROS

In the Greek language there exists the term KAIROS. This word is immensely important.

Kairos means to be at the right place at the right time. In order for a human being to gain access to the domain of personal happiness, power and success, to be at the right place at the right time --- is of pivotal importance.

Once one knows about this dynamic consciously, one can begin to focus on this dimension and woo it to come into one’s life.

There are people who naturally seem to be in the Kairos Mode and success and power seems to come to them spontaneously and seemingly with ease. This is due to certain favorable, karmic circumstances. Yet upon closer analysis one may discover that DEEP DOWN they actually feel that the price they pay for their success seems too high for them in terms of the soul essence they have to deliver for the success, and the compromises they are forced to endure. Therefore, it can be said that while Kairos is active for them, it is active for them merely on the outside, not on the inside.

Kairos is a dimension that takes place on the outside, the inside and in secret. For example, if an idea arises spontaneously on the inside the pursuit of which would bring success and happiness, this is inner Kairos and the person is well-advised to learn to recognize such subtle events and follow them. This is much more difficult to recognize than the obvious outer Kairos of meeting Bill Gates who gives you a million dollar contract.

It is important that Kairos unfolds on the outer, the inner and the secret domain of one’s life. Once Kairos is aligned in this way, there will be an arising of peace. Absence of peace while the outer Kairos is active, is an indication that the soul is not yet included. The soul and Kairos are still separate.

Kairos is a spiritual phenomenon and should be called for and invoked consciously on all planes of one’s life, for the benefit of one's body, heart and soul, and perhaps even for the benefit of many other beings also.

Back in Paris

We are back in Paris, still a bit jetlagged. Returning to Paris revealed a great happiness at coming back, it feels so much like coming home. This is about the 7th time of flying into Paris within 3 years, and the feeling seems to grow stronger each time.

As said, much of what happened in Indonesia I found no time to post, because I did not have access to computers, so I will post a few things retroactively.

It can be said that the contrasts we found in Indonesia were huge. The gap between rich and poor was tremendous and painful to observe. We found that a family of six can live on 30 euros per month. This is less than the taxi ride from the Paris airport.

Within that context, to find a Carrefour in Yogyakarta was equally shocking. For the US reader, Carrefour is a company that sells food and anything you can imagine. Their stores are of a size, you can put 4 Walmarts in there and still have room for other things. Europe is no more what the American person might think... it has grown and in many ways and is in the process of outpacing the US, especially now.

Anyway, to find luxury foods in the middle of Indonesia was truly shocking. So, wealth and poverty live side by side there in ways that can only give cause to question, again, the collective self-absorbed state of mind that does not mind and does not rise to go and make a change. To make a change... would at times require so very little, just a thought of compassion, just a tiny bit of what is in one's pocket or bank account .... to create smiles and alleviation of suffering.

I will not use pictures to show some of what I saw, but do think about using a small a part of your money to create some smiles somewhere. Reflect a little.

In Jakarta

Currently in Jakarta, waiting for the flight to Kuala Lumpur, then back to Paris.

Yes, Solange, I know it is weird to have this Blog named this way and then have all those extra adventures half way around the planet. The entire blog is this way, what can I say.

I really did not have had much time to post and so much has happened here. I will spend time in Paris to catch up with some of the events here.

Lake Batur

The sense of time continues to be very changed here. One day feels like ten and we feel as if we have been here forever. Indeed, we are maintaining the Sacred Experience as our guiding light and the choices of what we do and where we go... are influenced by this.

The other day we went to Kintamani, above Lake Batur. An amazing view and time was spent in a temple close by for a short meditation.

At night we are back in our house in Ubud, mostly spent with practice and meditation also. There is learning, there is growing.

From Java to Bali

On the last day in Yogyakarta on Java, Raylene and Catherine went out and bought 10 Euros worth of food (which goes a very long way here) and left it behind as an offering next to the bus station a few minutes from our house. I was not there, but I understand it created a party and many smiling faces.

Then we took a car to the airport and flew to Denpasar on Bali, which took about an hour. The energy here on Bali is very different. Much .... softer in a way. We are in Ubud now, which is 90 minutes from Denpasar and higher up in the hills, much cooler than Denpasar.

We are receving various emails, particularly in response to our way of experiencing Borobudur. Thank you for your appreciation. We hope to be able to share in ever deepening ways the continuing expansion that is happening to us and our friends and those close to us.

Protocol for Borobudur

Using correct protocol for Borobudur, time spent there can become a most powerful portal into deep meditation. Borobudur's architectural design represents a Yantra, the geometrical respresentation of the evolution of consciousness from the realms of deepest delusion upto full awakening.

As we entered, I chose to focus on a sentence that represented a question from me to the Divine. I repeated this all the way to the edge of the Temple.

Then we walked up to the top of the Temple, direct, which took only about 3 minutes. Then we settled down and Raylene and Catherine started singing the Heart Sutra, quietly, and I joined. After a while we paused.

Sitting quietly, after maybe 5 minutes a very deep Silence arose. The Silence was inexpressibly profound and was felt in sharp contrast to the surrounding tourists and their talk. (Surprisingly there were not many people there.)

Then we began our invocations to the Buddhas. We had a rather long list of people and going through it took about 1 hour to complete between the three of us.

It was clear that after that time everyone of our small group felt and experienced the deep Grace of Silence

Utilzing a meditative protocol, I recommend coming here. There are hundreds of Buddha Statues here, most of which you cannot directly see, since they are inside stupas, the bell-like structures which you see on the pictures. And there are innumerable carvings of Buddhas etched into the walls of the temple.

Grace.

At the Temple of Borobudur

We are now at the Temple of Borobudur on Java. Tomorrow we will go on top of the Temple to invoke the Buddhas to bring Blessings. We have a large list of people who wished to be remembered and who sent us specific words that represent what they want to see in the lives.

May the Buddhas bring Joy, Happiness, Abundance and Deep Peace to all those who read these words.

Meeting Infinity

If you would meet Infinity for only 3 seconds, your life would be forever changed.