TEACHERS: James and  Sundari Swartz
DATE: 24TH TO 26TH APRIL
VENUE: Berawa, Canggu, Bali
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sundari: sundari.shiningworld@gmail.com
INFO ON VENUE, ACCOMMODATION, MEALS
Contact Sundari. Canggu is one of the busiest and most tourist dense parts of Bali, but this is where we are staying for the next three months. The informal talks will be held at our villa in Berawa, and there are many accommodation options nearby. Meals can be ordered in, or there are many good restaurants nearby.
TEXT – VIVEKACHUDAMANI
 ~Vivekachudamani
The Crest Jewel of Discrimination
At its most basic level life is a transaction between a conscious being and the objects that it experiences. A human’s most difficult problem is attachment to the objects in the field of its awareness. An object is anything other than the subject, the self. Objects not only include physical things but subjective events: sensations, perceptions, emotions, thoughts and myriad states of mind. In short, experience itself. While this attachment feels extremely natural it is the cause of much suffering. Since suffering is not natural we are highly motivated to remove it.
Shankaracharaya’s famous work, VIVEKACHUDAMANI, does not deal with the topic of karma in detail…how to get what we want from the world of objects. Instead, it focuses on qualifications required to commit to the method of discriminating the self from the objects that present themselves to it…after carefully examining the psychology of a committed inquirer who understands that freedom from dependence on objects is not obtained by action.                Â
James and Sundari Swartz will unfold this most important text over the course of the 3 day seminar. We recommend that people read the book ‘The Crown Jewel of Discrimination’ with the commentaries before attending the seminar. It is available for $10 on the Shiningworld website.
