August 2004
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Wayne will be in the San Francisco Bay area this weekend, August 20-22 giving a series of Talks. For more details, see below.
There are still a few places open for Wayne's 5 day residential retreat in beautiful Oak Creek Canyon above Sedona, Arizona in September. Details are below.
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MESSAGE FROM WAYNE
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Hello my loves,
As I have been traveling around, there has been a lot of interest lately in Ramesh's concept of the working mind and the thinking mind. The working mind is, as the name suggests, the aspect of the organism that does the work of keeping the organism functioning. It is the repository of genetic heritage, memory, knowledge, culture, identity, all of those qualities that are essential for day to day living. The working mind functions in accordance with its programming. This programming is dynamic; it's an ongoing process whereby new information is being added to the mix all the time.
What Ramesh calls the thinking mind is another term for what is commonly referred to as the ego. The thinking mind's sole function - the ONLY thing it does - is to claim the operation of the working mind as its own doing and become involved in that operation to the extent solely of preserving itself. It's a false claimer of primacy or authorship which arises in virtually every human at the age of about two and a half. The ego/thinking mind authors nothing. There is no such thing as ego-created action.
The body/mind organism that is popularly called a sage is one in which the thinking mind has died. Famous historical resurrections not withstanding, dead is dead and there is no possibility of return. That is my working definition for what constitutes an organism called the sage and what the event of enlightenment represents. It is that very precise occurrence. Therefore, far from being a superman, the sage is completely ordinary. In this model the sage has not gained something more but rather is simply a human organism with one thing LESS....it is without the false sense of personal authorship.
With love,
Wayne
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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WITH RAMESH BALSEKAR
Daily Talks in His Home: 9AM Sindhula, N. Gamadia Rd. #10, Bombay, India (Helpful info for people planning to visit Ramesh can be found in the Ramesh Balsekar section of the advaita.org website)
Seminar in Kovalam, South India Dec. 5 - 16, 2004 See: http://advaita.org/aftalks.html#Kovalam
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EVENTS WITH WAYNE LIQUORMAN
Ross, CA (San Francisco Area) Talks... Aug. 20-22 Contact: Joanne Phone: 415-457-6686 Email: jfm1@comcast.net
Sedona Residential Retreat ....Sept. 10-15 Contact Kate: kfree77@peoplepc.com Phone: 928-204-6436
Northern England (Sedbergh, Cumbria) Residential Retreat in the beautiful Lake District... Oct. 1-6 Contact June (44) 15396 20972 jmp55@tutor.open.ac.uk
Amsterdam Talks.....October 15-17 Contact Ronald 31-020-646-2160 Email: ronald.valk@wanadoo.nl
NYC Talks..... Nov. 12-14 Contact: Daniel djhnd@earthlink.net or Jim# 718-543-4189
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A LIVING GEM FROM RAMESH (previously unpublished)
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If you want to know precisely what is meant by 'living in the moment', take a dog out for a walk - what the dog does is precisely that.
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POEM
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Beauty Beauty
My heart uncreated
Sung by you
Sung through you
Without reservation
Silence abides, silence recedes
What remains
You take me there
Danny H.