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Mindfulness Course Q and A

Mon Jan 13, 10:00 - Mon Jan 13, 12:00

Regus Eikestad Mall Stellenbosch

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We will answer all the questions about Mindfulness.


You have a to choose between two worlds. One wold limited, minute and scary. The other beautiful, wonderful that stretches out in-front of you. This is where you prosperous and your true-self is a reality.


“Man’s lack of self-awareness is the cause of all sins and crimes.” – Martin Versfeld.


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Most of us find ourselves in the first. The unconscious mindless life.


Years ago there was a beer commercial where everyone looked alike, wore the same fancy clothing and all were having the same kind of beer, whilst listening to the white noise which sounded like the bleating of sheep. Suddenly a man entered the bar, wearing white pants and a floral shirt. He was completely different to the rest, and ordered a different type of beer. Everyone stared at him. He was completely out of place.


Most of us, however, live like we were raised to live. We are computerized to be like the Jones’. Just to fit in. We have to become adults, finish school, and if we are lucky, we get a tertiary education, and then start a career. We work to make our lives as comfortable as possible simply to live and to be comfortable. We get married, have children. We work and get a house with white picket fences, a garden and a dog. We raise our children and do our work daily faithfully. We work to retire, receive a golden watch, relax on the porch. Make sure our will is in order, and eventually die. What a miserable life to live!


After all. This is how most of us live our lives. We chase after achievements, we live in pursuit of wealth. We boast on Facebook about our successes and those of our children.


This is an empty and mindless life. Our daily routine exists out of what is expected of us. We follow our mundane routine – going to work (and hating it), fetch the kids, and have supper in front of the TV barely aware of what and how much we are devouring. Spending countless hours with meaningless activities, just as a distraction. To forget about our lives for a second. Just to be repeated the next day, tomorrow. Grateful for weekends that bring a welcome, but short lived change to this boring life. Then we succumb to many more of our addictions. Whether eating, drinking, buying, gambling, drugs, sex, smoking, or whatever it is to forget. Constantly trying to fill the empty barrel.


But it’s also a terrifying life. In this life, you become what society expects of you. You lose the faith you had in yourself and allow society to judge you. Comparing your achievements to the people around you, resulting in constant self-doubt. You lose all self-respect, and you start to feel scared and anxious. You do not feel as if you are good enough.


At this juncture you just start grabbing at anything and everything just to help you cope.


This world has no purpose and no meaning. It is an empty and meaningless world. You are confused and just trying to survive. The negativity of this world overwhelms you to such an extent that the beauty of it all surpasses you.


And then there is the other world.


In this world, there is life. It is being. There’s existence. There is pure thought. There is the Great Mind (God). Here, you are a product of God’s mind. In this world you are infinitely unique. In this world, your earthly existence is only a small part of your eternal existence where you are from God and part of God. In this world, you know only that you have a task to complete, not always knowing what this entails. In this world, you are important to God, and responsible to God. In this world you do not feel inferior. You do not feel you have to escape reality.


In this world, you are no longer afraid, but filled with awe. Filled with the awe of the greatness we experience every day. Consumed by the beauty of our universe and the obscurity and greatness of it, unaware of time and space. Our universe has no limitations or boundaries. In this expanse you are so small that you actually are nothing, and yet you are so great… In this world you just need to take care of yourself, and know that you always have choices. In this world, there is a never-ending joy and happiness – the adventure of life itself!


If you choose the first world, you choose your problem. Or you can choose the second world, and enjoy the free world mindfully.