Dancing in Totality
I will be offering an advanced level course titled — Natural Awakening: Dancing in Totality in May and June next year via Dharma College
This course explores natural, nondual awareness that is free of concepts, structure and reference points yet coextensive and unified with empirical and conceptual universes.
We will explore how language and inquiry can be used as refined tools for revealing nonconceptual awareness in real-time. We will use the penetrating tool of unfindability inquiry to enter thought and presence its fundamental nature. We will be discerning, unconstrained and bold in transcending conceptual limits and extremes. We will be suspicious and circumspect about acquiring merely conceptual understanding of the matters at hand.
We will explore a set of polar opposites that represent different ways in which the spiritual path and ultimate goal become reified and concretised by the dualistic mind and limited conceptions of wisdom.You will gain fluency in proactive deconstruction and the effortless ways of natural release. We will explore how these tools can bring nonduality to therapeutic healing, and bring arrival within the intended goal of mindfulness and other meditative practices.We will also explore expansion into the cosmic body that happens through dissolution of self and other, and inside and outside.
The themes and questions we will experientially explore include:
- Seeing through and natural release as basic tools
- Is real practice effortful or effortless?
- Beginning at the end-state—dismantling the distinctions of path and goals
- ls progress gradual or instantaneous?
- Is awareness divisible or divisible, something or nothing?
- The neither real nor illusory
- Radical freedom within embodied existence
- Finding comfort and ease in the liminal zone at the limits of thought
- Inhabiting the cosmic body
Format
Course participants will meet online with Peter for seven weeks, for 90 minutes a week.
Meetings are recorded and you will have access to the recordings for six months.
Meetings will integrate guided induction, dialogical inquiry and resting in great ease.
An online community portal, and additional half-hour sessions each week will provide further opportunities to practice with fellow students.
Contact Dharma College to learn more about this 2025 online course
510-704-1105
