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Shakti Caterina Maggi ~ Living Awakening ~ The Way of Perception

Shakti is a teacher very well known in Europe, who offers a contemporary and accessible vision of true awakening that is profoundly in tune with Advaita and nondual Tantric traditions. With wisdom, humor, and heartfelt connection, she shares a message of discovering the divinity at the very core of our humanity. Shakti has been sharing this message of non-separation since 2003 with many people around the world, especially in Italy and in Europe, where she holds regular satsangs and retreats.

ÒAwakening to your true nature means to wake up to your true essence that lies behind any conflict of daily living. Thoughts and feelings are not an obstacle to this recognition, but the direct expression of how we know or ignore ourselves. Once we find that silence that rests behind manifestation, the ego will come back, out of habit. If we can recognize its presence, not as a disturbance but as an opportunity to integrate the message, our everyday life becomes our true spiritual journey. The Peace of our Being becomes the world we see and live in.Ó

~ The Way of Perception ~ Day-long intensive on Sunday Oct. 20th _ will include mediation, satsang and special perception exercisesÊ designed to help us see and dissolve our conflictual view of life, and the patterns of holdingÊ and resistance that reinforce the sense of separation. This then enables us to live and embody a message of true peace and non-separation between human beings. Shakti is a teacher very well known in Europe and her native Italy, who offers a contemporary and accessible vision of true awakening that is profoundly in tune with Advaita and nondual Tantric traditions. With wisdom, humor, and heartfelt connection, she shares a message of discovering the divinity at the very core of our humanity. Shakti has been sharing this message of non-separation since 2003 with many people around the world, especially in Italy and in Europe, where she holds regular satsangs and retreats.

“Peace is not a destination, but a starting point. Find that Peace that rests behind anything and anybody and bring it into your world. Every human being looks for Peace in their inner or outer reality. In this call for clarity, what we are looking for is what our true nature actually is“.

ÒWe are used to imagining that the dissolving of inner and outer conflicts comes as the result of some action, whereas it is only when we move from Peace that those actions will bring the end of any conflict. Moving and living from Peace is recognizing what we are, and integrating it in our everyday life.”

Thur. Oct. 17th Evening in Berkeley ~ Living Awakening

Time: 7:00pm – 8:45pm

Place: Chochmat HaLev, 2215 Prince St., Berkeley, CA

Suggested donation: $15 – $25

No one turned away for lack of funds

Sun. Oct. 20th Daylong in Berkeley ~ The Way of Perception

Time: 11:00am – 5:00 pm

Place: Chochmat HaLev, 2215 Prince St., Berkeley, CA

Sliding scale: $60 – $120

No Registration. Pay at door.

No one turned away for lack of funds.

Lunch Break:

Welcome to bring your lunch, and there are also various places near the Berkeley venue, to go out to eat.

Note: Per venue policy, only vegetarian food is allowed on premises at Chochmat HaLev

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