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The Humble Host

This morning it was my great joy to host Satsang.

Now, just so we’re clear… that doesn’t for a second mean that I am pretending to be some enlightened guru that has a ‘teaching’ to share – or that I think I might be any more awake than anyone else…. No. In fact, hosting satsang brought in a huge sense of humility and vulnerability because to do this with integrity, I had to fully let go of the ego’s tendencies and desires to have ‘plans’ and ‘processes’ to use as a foundation and structure…. I had to surrender all foundation and struture and commit to just openly being there. I’m clear that in truth, if we are trying to bring something to the table in Satsang, (in terms of driving concepts, philosophies or understandings) we are not in Satsang – we might be having a beautiful philosophical discussion, but that is something different.  Although, paradoxically, all of those things may (and are welcome to) arise spontaneously within Satsang.

So this morning was a vibrant experience of being together.  Stories, insights and questions were shared, technological glitches were attended to (btw, sorry if you were looking for the event, we had problems with google hangouts on air….).  The resonance of what brought us together was …. ahhhh… can’t even put words to it…. it was deep and thick and light and lovely…..and full of love and support that is still alive right now.

I love watching the beauty and joy that quietly erupts when we tell or hear the truth.  

So today was beautiful and I am very grateful.  Thank you to those of you who joined. It deepened my awareness of my love of the truth – and I do feel called to keep bringing people together to share this kind of support and celebration…. it is such a sweet mystery and delight to witness what moves through us when we come together in this way.

May all who are reading share in this peace xx

 

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Invitation to join us in Satsang

Satsang … association with your Self… with the Truth…. no philosophies, no beliefs to adopt, no new perspective to gain… just sitting in the recognition of the essence of yourself….

My dear friend Raven and I would love you to join us for Satsang this Tuesday (Sept 1) morning at 9:00 am PST (10:00 am MST) on a google hangouts event.  Just click below for more information and to enter the event.

We are so excited to truly meet with whoever joins us!!

Peace and blessings,

Laura

Join in Live Satsang

 

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I am Quiet

There is such a hush over everything – even this writing voice is quiet these days.

I could say it is a result of meeting Gangaji again and that the resonance of our wakeful and joyful moment together is what is inviting this quiet to keep rolling in – but even that isn’t the truth.

The truth is that I am quiet.

And in this quietness, there is resolution (without needing to figure anything out) and peace.  The kind of peace that is only found when the ‘search for peace’ is stopped.  For a long time, there was an ambitious Laura Shaw that didn’t want to stop – I was afraid that by ‘stopping’ I was giving up – and that I would miss something crucial.  Or on the other end of things, I was ‘trying’ to stop…. which was just another one of Laura Shaw’s efforts.

But something has stopped (for now anyway) – the trying, the wanting to get somewhere…. Now I am in what’s left when the searching simply stops.  There is nothing secret or cryptic about it.  If you were willing to give up the search (even for a moment), what is left?  What is here?

That fullness… that emptiness….. it is yours – it is you.

Are you willing to stay here?

I told Gangaji that I see the identity – I see how I am not that, but sometimes I still try it on for fun… and other times my attention can still fall into it (believing it to be real….)but not for long.  She said, yes, and it’s ok to wander…but you know your way home.

I see how playing the part is a choice.  And what a delight it is to play it consciously – but at a certain point, even to play it unconsciously is a choice.  How humbling.  How freeing. <3

Raven and I held Satsang this morning (which you can see Here) – and we are both feeling called to create a space where we can open it up for you to join in.  I will post an invitation as soon as we get a time/date sorted.

A deep bow to your own awareness of the truth of who you are.

xx L