Fall Retreat: There is No Enemy

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. (African proverb)

What creates an enemy outside is an internal experience, a feeling or a fact in our lives that we just don't want to face. Enemies always represent or reveal aspects of our lives we are trying to avoid.

Ordinarily, we look at thing in terms of good and bad, right and wrong. These notions are rooted in a childish way of viewing the world through the lens of reward and punishment. The idea that we can pick the "good" and reject "bad" in our experience is an illusion. Any enemy, internal or external, threatens the illusion. When the illusion is shattered, we wake from the dream, and the enemy is gone, and along with it, any notion of good or bad.

In this retreat, we focus on how to meet experience on a new basis, that of balance and relationship, in which experience is experience, and there is no enemy.

Space in this retreat is limited to 30 participants. To apply, please send a deposit of $100 to Unfettered Mind. You can do so by sending a check drawn on a U.S. bank to the address shown at left our use your credit card by clicking here.

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Comment by Laura Trippi on September 14, 2009 at 11:17pm

David, I've started a thread in the discussion forum for ride sharing:

http://unmind.ning.com/forum/topics/fall-retreat-ride-sharing

Could you post a note there? Thanks!

Comment by Laura Trippi on September 14, 2009 at 11:03pm

Hi, David, thanks for pointing out the missing payment button, both here and (as it happens) on the retreat page at the UM web site.

To make a deposit, if you're just applying to the retreat now, or to complete your payment, please follow this link:

https://secure.cyberverse.com/u/unfetteredmind/payment.php

Thanks!

Comment by David E. Anderson on August 5, 2009 at 5:23pm

I will be looking for a ride from/to LAX again...

Comment by David E. Anderson on August 5, 2009 at 5:22pm

The payment comments above refer to the page at unfetterredmind.org

Comment by David E. Anderson on July 28, 2009 at 7:39pm

There is no active link to pay by credit card..