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Zen Coaching Advanced Training: A Deeper Trust – Surrendering to the Mystery

Start Time

6:00 pm

May 6, 2023

Finish Time

3:30 pm

May 13, 2023

Address

Sweden, Mundekulla Retreat Center

THE MODULES

Advanced Zen Coaching Training

MODULE 1:
LIVING THE TRUE LIFE: THE PEARL BEYOND PRICE
Sweden, 8-15 May 2021

MODULE 2:
THE OBSTACLE IS THE PATH: COURAGEOUSLY FACING LIFE’S CHALLENGES
Sweden, 7-14 May 2022

MODULE 3:
A DEEPER TRUST: SURRENDERING TO THE MYSTERY
Mundekulla Sweden, May 6-14, 2023

ZEN COACHING ADVANCED TRAINING, MODULE 3: A DEEPER TRUST - SURRENDERING TO THE MYSTERY

Module 3: A Deeper Trust - Surrendering to the Mystery

Mundekulla, Sweden, May 6-13, 2023
(Starting with check-in at 17:00, ending at 3.30pm)

Osho said: Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

And Hafiz, the Persian 14th century poet, said:

O wondrous creatures,
By what strange miracle
Do you so often
Not smile?

How can we explain, rationally, what the reason for our existence is, or how it is possible that we exist at all?
That galaxies, atoms, the sun, the earth, flowers and rocks and sky and animals and humans exist? That Essence, Being, Love, Joy and Freedom exists? Or, for that matter, that anything at all exists?

The truth is: We cannot.
Life, Existence, Being, Essence, the universe and everything else is fundamentally a mystery. Existence has ‘Mystery’ as one of its fundamental properties.

And this can, when we are open enough, be experienced as a profound, beautiful, amazing mystery, full of adventure, joy, wonder, love, meaning, freedom, peace, and much, much more -- endlessly so.

And yet life and existence is, for most of us, also often a big challenge. It can be experienced as very painful, full of suffering, anguish, fear, loss, sadness, anger, separation, meaninglessness, confusion, conflict, drama, and more. And even when we don’t experience life as a big challenge, there is still often a chronic sense of background or underlying lack and wanting, a sense that something fundamental is missing, acknowledged or not. This is what the Buddha named as the first noble truth, the truth of dukkha: a basic, restless dissatisfaction, the underlying pain and suffering of normal, conventional existence.

But the Buddha also taught the fourth noble truth: that there is a path out of dukkha, out of suffering. This is the path of non-attachment, of letting go of the idea of existing as a separate entity, and of being in an open, mindful, conscious and compassionate YES to this moment, exactly as it is.

This letting go of a separate self, and of being in a YES to the moment, is a form of surrender – the surrender to life-as-it-is-right-here-and-now, the surrender to BEING THIS MOMENT, in its mysteriousness and impermanence.

From one perspective, all of life can be seen as a big School of Surrender.
Surrendering is about letting go of trying to be in control, of seeking external security, letting go of saying NO to challenging emotions. And of saying YES to life as it is, of devotion, of celebration, of trust, of acceptance, of adventure, of openness.

And this shift from NO to YES can happen in an instant. In fact, it always happens in an instant: the instance of NOW. It is always NOW that we have this great opportunity for surrender.

But how, HOW, does this surrender take place? That, too, is a mystery, a mystery to be contemplated, to be explored, to be surrender to.

In this retreat we will explore the nature of surrender, of mystery, of saying YES to life, of acceptance, and of the Adventure of Now.

And we will explore, through inquiry, coaching, meditation and many different exercises, the many obstacles and obscurations that keep us from fully surrendering to the present moment as it is.

Modules

MODULE 1: LIVING THE TRUE LIFE: THE PEARL BEYOND PRICE

Sweden,  8-15 May 2021

MODULE 2: THE OBSTACLE IS THE PATH: COURAGEOUSLY FACING LIFE’S CHALLENGES

Sweden,  May 7-14, 2022

MODULE 3: A DEEPER TRUST: SURRENDERING TO THE MYSTERY

Mundekulla, Sweden, May 6-13, 2023
(Starting with check-in at 17:00, ending at 3.30pm)

Osho said: Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

And Hafiz, the Persian 14th century poet, said:

O wondrous creatures,
By what strange miracle
Do you so often
Not smile?

How can we explain, rationally, what the reason for our existence is, or how it is possible that we exist at all?
That galaxies, atoms, the sun, the earth, flowers and rocks and sky and animals and humans exist? That Essence, Being, Love, Joy and Freedom exists? Or, for that matter, that anything at all exists?

The truth is: We cannot.
Life, Existence, Being, Essence, the universe and everything else is fundamentally a mystery. Existence has ‘Mystery’ as one of its fundamental properties.

And this can, when we are open enough, be experienced as a profound, beautiful, amazing mystery, full of adventure, joy, wonder, love, meaning, freedom, peace, and much, much more -- endlessly so.

And yet life and existence is, for most of us, also often a big challenge. It can be experienced as very painful, full of suffering, anguish, fear, loss, sadness, anger, separation, meaninglessness, confusion, conflict, drama, and more. And even when we don’t experience life as a big challenge, there is still often a chronic sense of background or underlying lack and wanting, a sense that something fundamental is missing, acknowledged or not. This is what the Buddha named as the first noble truth, the truth of dukkha: a basic, restless dissatisfaction, the underlying pain and suffering of normal, conventional existence.

But the Buddha also taught the fourth noble truth: that there is a path out of dukkha, out of suffering. This is the path of non-attachment, of letting go of the idea of existing as a separate entity, and of being in an open, mindful, conscious and compassionate YES to this moment, exactly as it is.

This letting go of a separate self, and of being in a YES to the moment, is a form of surrender – the surrender to life-as-it-is-right-here-and-now, the surrender to BEING THIS MOMENT, in its mysteriousness and impermanence.

From one perspective, all of life can be seen as a big School of Surrender.
Surrendering is about letting go of trying to be in control, of seeking external security, letting go of saying NO to challenging emotions. And of saying YES to life as it is, of devotion, of celebration, of trust, of acceptance, of adventure, of openness.

And this shift from NO to YES can happen in an instant. In fact, it always happens in an instant: the instance of NOW. It is always NOW that we have this great opportunity for surrender.

But how, HOW, does this surrender take place? That, too, is a mystery, a mystery to be contemplated, to be explored, to be surrender to.

In this retreat we will explore the nature of surrender, of mystery, of saying YES to life, of acceptance, and of the Adventure of Now.

And we will explore, through inquiry, coaching, meditation and many different exercises, the many obstacles and obscurations that keep us from fully surrendering to the present moment as it is.

COST & REGISTRATION

Course fee per module: 8 500 NOK, including one private session (50 minutes). We will add 100 NOK if you invoice is over 4.000 NOK. This is the cost we have to the bank for payments from abroad.

Course fee per module for participants from Poland, Romania, Turkey and South Africa: 5 500 NOK, or 5 000 NOK if all 3 modules are paid from the start (total 15 000 NOK). (Fee difference due to significant currency exchange disadvantage.)

Room and board will be paid to Mundekulla upon arrival.

Questions?

Contact Eva Areskog, eva.zencoaching@gmail.com

REGISTRATION

Who comes with us?

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Kåre Landfald

Founder of Zen Coaching

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