Spirit Rock

Loving What Is: A Day with Byron Katie

Byron Katie

Sat, Sep 11, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Community Meditation Hall

Cost $150-$90 sliding scale. Code BK1B10.

This event is full and there is not a waiting list.

The day of the event, we will open a Wait List at 8:30am. If you are willing to come out, sign up and wait, with no guarantee of getting in, you are welcome. The day begins at 10am, but the Event Managers and Wait List registrars will wait until at least 10:30am before they can decide whether or not there is room in the Hall for anyone on the wait list to get in.

Byron Katie is offering this workshop as a benefit for the Spirit Rock Scholarship Fund.

I need to be different. I should lose weight. My children shouldn’t talk back. My partner should listen to me. Thoughts like these may run through your mind hundreds of times a day, fostering fear, anger, stress and depression. The Work of Byron Katie is a way to deeply investigate these thoughts. Its four simple questions can radically transform your life.

The Work has been called the most powerful self-realization practice ever developed. Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, says, "The Work is like a razor-sharp sword that cuts through illusion and enables you to know for yourself the timeless essence of your being."

In this workshop, Katie, with her humor and lovingly incisive clarity, will introduce you to The Work. Anyone with an open mind can do it. She will show you how to identify and question the stressful thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world, and how self-inquiry can deepen your practice and bring you a happy life.

Carpooling is strongly recommended and there is a $10 fee for cars with less than two passengers.

"Byron Katie may never have trained in Buddhism, but what she teaches is pure dharma. Her Work is Manjusri's delusion-cutting sword, and she uses it fearlessly, relentlessly and with utmost generosity. I have rarely seen anyone, including teachers from different spiritual traditions, realize the essential nature of not-knowing as powerfully as Katie in her passionate embrace of each and every moment." - Roshi Bernie Glassman

"Katie's Work is a wonderful, transformative practice for anyone interested in spiritual growth." - Lama Surya Das

"The Work of Byron Katie is a completely accessible user-friendly form of the ancient way of spiritual inquiry, a simple method that anyone can use to untangle difficulties in work, love, and family, and at the same time it opens the deepest spiritual directions." - John Tarrant Roshi

Parking: Carpooling required. $10 fee if less than 2 in car Please use our Online Bulletin Board for Ride Sharing.

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As this is a benefit event a limited number of partial work exchange scholarships are available, please call (415) 488-0164 x 224. Full scholarships and reduced rate admissions are not offered.