Clear Sky Sangha is an ongoing group committed to awakening and embodying our True Nature. We have been meeting for three years under the guidance of Spirit Rock teacher Anna Douglas and psychotherapist and teacher Sanjay Manchanda. New people are welcome to join at the beginning sessions of each Fall and Winter series, after which the group is closed.

This group is for those who have learned the basics of meditation and wish to deepen their contact with being. We emphasize four essential supports to self-realization and its embodiment: teachers, teachings, community and practice. Our practices include silent meditation (sitting and walking), as well as different forms of contemplative inquiry. Inquiry in dyads and small groups brings awareness to speaking and relating to others thereby deepening safety and intimacy in the group field.

 For the Autumn 2011 session, we will focus on the topic of Paradox in Spiritual Practice.  Spiritual practice and teachings abound with paradoxes:  gradual vs. sudden awakening, embodiment vs. transcendence, doing vs. being, personal vs. impersonal, fullness vs. emptiness, relative vs. absolute. How do we engage these dilemmas?  How do we experience paradox?  How does it take us deeper in our understanding? As we open to our direct experience, which is the lifeblood of spiritual practice and awakening, we discover that these contradictions disappear—the paradoxes are seen to mutually interdependent aspects of the one Reality.  Sure to be a lively and exhilarating exploration for those ready to take a leap!