Thursday, Mar 26, 2009

Guru and the Pandit Part 2 of 4 - The Interdynamics of Culture and Consciousness

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This week Jeff Carreira and Elizabeth Debold will delve into the Guru and Pandit dialogue from the inaugural issue of the magazine under its new name, EnlightenNext (Issue 42). In this dialogue, entitled “The Interdynamics of Culture and Consciousness,” Andrew and Ken take a fresh look at some of the foundational questions underlying their wide-ranging conversations: What does it mean that enlightenment is evolving? How is the evolution of consciousness related to the evolution of culture? What is “integral consciousness,” and why is it so important?

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Thursday, Mar 19, 2009

Guru and the Pandit, Part 1 of 4 - In Search of a New Moral Compass

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This week Elizabeth Debold and Jeff Carreira start an in-depth discussion of some of the most profound Guru/Pandit dialogues between spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen and integral philosopher Ken Wilber from the pages of EnlightenNext magazine. On this webcast they discuss the Guru/Pandit article from Issue #24 of EnlightenNext magazine called, “In Search of a New Moral Compass.” This article addresses some of the most pressing moral issues of our time from an evolutionary and integral perspective.

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Saturday, Mar 14, 2009

Guided Meditation - Jeff Carreira March 2009

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Thursday, Mar 12, 2009

Evolutionary Enlightenment and Key Mahayana Buddhist Teachings: Part 3, Karma and Rebirth

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This week's webcast led by Jeff Carreira and Elizabeth Debold will conclude the three-part series exploring key concepts of Mahayana Buddhism and their updated forms in the teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment. The Mahayana Buddhist sets as the highest spiritual goal the cultivation of one's desire to assist in the liberation of all other sentient beings. Liberation in this context means release from the cycle of birth and death, which persists because of karma, or suffering caused from ignorance. What do karma and rebirth mean in an evolutionary context? In our call, we will explore how Andrew Cohen's Evolutionary Enlightenment teaching provides a new way to understand karma and rebirth, and the ultimate spiritual goal.

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Thursday, Mar 05, 2009

Evolutionary Enlightenment and Key Mahayana Buddhist Teachings: Part 2, Dependent Origination

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Elizabeth Debold and Jeff Carreira continue with the second of their three-part series exploring certain key concepts of Mahayana Buddhism and their updated forms in the teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment. They discuss “dependent origination,” considered the essential realization of the Buddha's awakening. The Buddha realized that nothing in manifestation arises independently—that all that originates in time and space is dependent and interrelated. Andrew Cohen's teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment, focusing as it does on a collective awakening, emphasizes how interdependent we are and how everything we do has an effect on the whole. They explore the parallels and distinctions between the Buddhist concept of dependent origination and Andrew Cohen's teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment.

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