WAPANI ICIYA WO Throw everything out, start again! - May 19-23 2010 Zenarthouse - Lecce - Italy

As part of the Cante Anpe (light of the heart) cycle in Sudhiro’s tour this year, this camp will emphasize new beginnings- with mother earth, relationships and ourselves. It is an accelerated time on the planet in all ways. Resources are rapidly shrinking, geological changes erupting and economic systems breaking down. A collective suicidal impulse seems to be taking hold. Spiritually, we are challenged not to get caught up in the sweeping changes we all feel, but to remain centered in the storm, access wider vision, and shift our paradigm as human beings. Easy answers and solutions are tempting to grab, but it is a time for honesty, detachment and simplicity. Through ceremony, dance, song, humor and meditation, we will dive deeply into the Lakota understanding- mitakuye oyasin (all are our relations), clean out any spiritual baggage left in the closet, and begin again, like kids.



Sudhiro has been guiding healing camps for over thirty-five years throughout the world. He is a Circle leader, Hambleceyapi (vision quest) sponsor, Osho disciple and father to a twenty-two year old son. A published poet and novelist, he currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
His website is: www.sudhiro.com





Practical Informations

Contribution

The contribution for the camp is 60 euro/day if you have a bed in the house or 55 euro/day if you sleep in your tent. This fee includes the camp, 3 meals a day, and sleeping.
Depending on personal choice, it is possible to do 3 days (from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd), 4 days (starting from Thursday 20th), or the full 5 days camp starting on Wednesday 19th.
We suggest to arrive at least one day before the camp starts, to have time to settle and be welcomed at the best. If you like, you can arrive some days before and stay as long as you like also after the camp, being maybe tempted by the sea of Salento in the best time of the year…

The place
Zenarthouse is n old villa in the countryside of Salento, ten kilometers from Lecce and 20 from the Ionian sea. At the moment we have two dormitories (10 and 6 places) and a double room in the house. We suggest you to bring your tent and share with friends the little pine forest around the house.
Maximum number of partecipants is 50.





We suggest you booking in advance, especially if you want sleep inside the house.

Contact karamico59@yahoo.it
zenarthouse@gmail.com
karam 0039 (0)347 44 23 260
sandro 0039 (0)329 97 74 307



How to reach Zenarthouse

By car
Coming from Brindisi, before entering Lecce, take the exit “tangenziale nord-Gallipoli”. The 3rd exit will be NOVOLI. Then you will be on the Lecce-Novoli road. After 8 kilometers you will be at Villa Convento. Go straight till the light signal. Then go straight towards Novoli. After 500 meters and a long stone wall on your right you’ll find a small road. Take it and after 200 meters you’ll be home!

By train
From the railway station take the bus number 26 to VILLA CONVENTO. When you are at the light signal of Villa Convento, leave the bus and call us. We’ll pick you up in few minutes.

When you arrive to Lecce please contact

Karam 347 44 23 260
Sandro 329 97 74 307

An Autobiography in Five Short Chapters

I.
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in,
I am lost
I am helpless
it isn’t my fault.
I take forever to find a way out.
II.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don’t see it,
I fall in, again
I can’t believe I am in this same place
But it isn’t my fault.
III.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there,
I still fall in
it’s a habit
but, my eyes are open
I know where I am
it is my fault.
I get out immediately.
IV.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk,
I walk around it.
V.
I walk down another street.

Osho's joke

Little Ernie is at the zoo with his teacher, Miss Goodbody, and the entire class. They are touring around when Ernie sees a deer peacefully grazing on some grass."
Ernie, can you tell us the name of that animal?" asks Miss Goodbody, pointing to the deer."Well," says Ernie, "I think it is a... I guess it is a..."
"Let me give you a hint," interrupts Miss Goodbody. "What does your mother call your father every morning?" "Oh, right!" shouts Ernie. "It is an asshole!"

Mooji's sayings

Bondage and liberation are conceptual traps which,
through the illusory power of mahamaya (cosmic mind),
deludes the already free beingness,
thus converting it into the illusory 'seeker' entity.
We are conscious presence only,
eternally free, formless, happy and whole.
The good news of satsang is this: YOU ARE THAT ! effortlessly witnessing the consciousness expressing. Yet we remain untouched as timeless existence, awareness-joy absolute.

laughing at the word two

Only

That Illumined
One

Who keeps
Seducing the formless into form

Had the charm to win my
Heart.

Only a Perfect One

Who is always
Laughing at the word
Two

Can make you know

Of

Love.


'The Gift - Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master'
translations by Daniel Ladinsky

Welcome to Zenarthouse

Hello, everybody!


this wonderful blog will be our window on the web , for all you friends around our beautiful planet.

So, keep in contact and bookmark this site, to know about us and the life going on in Torre Vecchia/ZenArt House.

We have good things boiling and getting ready to happen, as soon as they are cooked we'll let you know.

Also all of you old and new friends are welcome to show up and connect in all possible ways, you are all welcome here...


Lots of love and see you soon here and Home...


karam

Holyday Retreat with Adima

Holyday Retreat with Adima

10 - 14 Sep. 2008 - Wednesday-Sunday at Zenarthouse – Salento (Italy)



Satsang Meeting with Adima

Welcome
Namasté

Everyone is welcome
Satsang is an invitation to meet your self beyond words, beyond imagination.
Within the silence which resonates in you as the presence of pure consciousness, it is possible to recognize, that your perception of reality is only an interpretation of truth, influenced by the limited ideas, states and desires produced in your mind.
In truth you are much bigger, you are free, you are silence - you are THAT which touches your heart in Satsang.
Adima ist like a bridge, which connects the humaneness of your appearance with your true divine presence HERE. This eternal stillness is your natural being - untouched by the constant flow of mind and its errors.

The word "Satsang" from Sanskrit means: association (Sangha) with truth (Sat). This refers to the inner association as well as to a gathering of people who are in love with the truth. The gatherings are usually around a teachers - yet the comittment is only to truth, not to any person or idea.
Satsang has no "rules" and needs no prerequisites. You can not be right or wrong here.
In Satsang with Adima we sit together, being who we are, independent of what the mind is doing or not doing in this moment.
Everything reveals directly from silence: words, which want to be spoken and heard, feelings, which want to be felt, and surprises, which can not be predicted.
Words are being used as vehicles for understanding, but the real message comes from silence, which IS before during and after words. THAT which it is all about is being transmitted from heart to heart, from being to being.
Everything may happen and is welcome: laughter, tears, speaking, listening, singing, sitting silently ………………………………

We will have one satsang with Adima in the morning at 10.00 a.m. and a second satsang in the evening at 7.00 p.m. The evening satsang will be open to friends coming from outside the retreat.
Every afternoon silent sitting and/or kundalini meditation will be held as free offer to participants.


Details:

ACCOMODATION:

Living in the house: 55 Euro a day all included: accomodation, food ,

2 satsangs

Living in a tent WHICH YOU BRING : 50 Euro a day all included: accomodation in tent, food,

2 satsangs.

Satsang only:

It is possible to come to the evening Satsangs, only contribution is 10 € per Satsang

Staying on or coming earlier, extra days:

Camping: 15 € a day, including food

Room in the house: 20 € a day including food

TRAVEL:

Flight to BARI: with Ryan Air, very cheap. Then you go on by bus to the train station, then 2 h train ride to Lecce. Trains are also cheap in Italy. All can be booked on the internet.In Lecce train station someone will pick you up!Communicate your arrival to Karam !
Flight to Brindisi:various Airlines, maybe a bit more costly than Ryan Air.
From Brindisi Airport you will be picked up directly.Communicate your arrivel to Karam !
The beach is about 30 minutes by car
car rental/car sharing will be possible
for registration contact karam : 0039 – 347 – 4423260 - zenarthouse@gmail.com

(he speaks and writes fluent English)
more questions? contact Satyamitra. Net
for Travel check:
Ryan Air to Bari
TRAINS from Bari Airport to Lecce
Billigflüge im Vergleich
TUI flights to Brindisi

I (Karam) am so happy and gratefull to publish the following

Report from Adima

"To come to Salento (that is the area) is really mind blowing.

Holiday is a happening here,
not a question of concept.

Nature celebrates you in such a tempting way that you simply fall in love with being here.

Earth and landscape are warm, strong and yet gentle, mother ocean takes care to blow your mind away.

(Please note: on the beach pictures (http://www.adima.net/) it looks a bit like an „organised beach“ with umbrellas and stuff… I (Adima) was just too lazy to walk further when shooting the pictures at 43 degree in july last summer …so the picture shows the SMALL organised part of beach…)

„Zen Art House“ is blessed with spirit. It is Osho's spirit tangible in the air and the loving hearts of the people living there and taking care. There is art (see the clown on the picture with Adima – Who is the clown?), there is aliveness and lovingness, happy 2 legged creatures and happy 4 legged ones (cats and dogs and gekos…) and there is the BEST food I know.

Place and food are one thing: SIMPLE – it is a real divine simplicity which you experience here.

If you look for the fancyness of „German“ seminarhouses, this one would not match outwardly. – but it offers freely what is often longed for with great effort: it offers a silent, meditative and healing atmosphere in a very natural way.

Get your tent ready, bring skin cream and moskito repellent (just in case) and enjoy.

Satsang is beautiful here – nature does at least half my job :) "

Thank you Adima for your love and friendship.

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