True Intimacy

Material Information Welcome, dear friend, to the online video-course "True Intimacy". The materials for this online course were recorded in 2017 as a part of Pema documenting on video, every aspect of the teaching which had unfolded - up until that point.   Preparations Before engaging in the Course, your preferred plan of engagement should be chosen and preparations made, to fit the chosen plan. Welcome and Enjoy your Journey in Truth... WelcomeOverviewSession 1Session 2Session 3Session 4Session 5Session 6Moving On Welcome You have purchased access to the online course: True Intimacy.   This course consists of a package of materials; 6 talks 6 meditations and 6 sets of contemplations All for your engagement and deeper investigation on your Way in Truth. This online course page is organised in tabs. This one; the Welcome tab. An Overview tab, 6 Session-tabs and an Onwards tab. During your work with the contents, you can always return to the overview, if your contemplations lead you back for a recap, to one of the previous talks or meditations.   Working with the Contents The 6-session setup is prepared for your journey through - in choosing either a very concentrated and intensive 6-day stretch or application over a 6 week stretch, of working even deeper with the contemplations and investigations invited in each of the sessions.   6 day plan You can engage with the course in a 6-day stretch of highly intense daily engagement with the transmissions in talks, meditations and contemplations. Going with the 6-day plan requires a full week of engagement – calling for full focus on your deepening with the contents of transmission in a setup of retreating at home. If you go for the 6-day stretch, you are invited to create the time and space needed to engage with full focus. You can arrange yourself for days of social silence, with engagement applied only to practice in meditations, reception of transmission in talks, to movement every day of walking and perhaps movement to music, along finally with engagement with the contemplations in a notebook. You can furthermore support your journey by allowing a return to simplicity in drinking plenty of water and simplifying your eating to healthy and nutritious food, which will assist your integration of the transmissions.   6 week plan The second plan is that of a weekly engagement - running over 6 weeks. A plan of engagement, which can be integrated alongside your daily life. This plan encourages the integration of and deepening in Truth with the daily Life and requires a balancing between attending responsibilities with Care and engaging with ongoing accuracy and focus to the deepening with the video-material and contemplations. Each week can be planned for an ongoing engagement with and return to the core of your investigations, throughout the course, and your self-discipline is needed to attend continuously with inner engagement on the topic, in the time between your engagement with the video material. Watching and re-watching the weeks videos can be deeply beneficial for a continued deepening with and understanding of the keys of consciousness delivered. In this way the benefit of this form of engagement entirely depends on your level of engagement with the contemplations, the transmission and the practice in meditation.   Engaging with Contemplations With each sessions follows a set of contemplations, which invites you to turn your attention towards the investigations of your own ways, assumptions, strategies and other aspects which all play a part in our way around the topics of this online course. Please watch the following video on engagement with contemplations. Ready to Get Started? Welcome to an engagement with transformation, deepening and unveiling of reality pertaining to the topic of true intimacy and the harmony of man and woman. Before engaging in Session 1, you are invited to get yourself an overview of the contents of this course, always available on the “Overview” tab above.   We wish you a deep and valuable Journey through the online course. With Kindness, Pema & team For you to get a Feel for the ground you stand to cover during the engagement with this online course, an overview is provided below. The Online Course consists of the following material:   Talks Video 1 topics: Introduction On the journey of Intimacy Intensity vs. Intimacy merging divinity and humanity Pain of the Past - Birth of Mystery Meeting in the Now - Beyond hoping and dreaming Hard places - facing the pain of the Feminine True & Total commitment in Loyalty to Truth Forever in the Now Life and death as the root of Intimacy Her arrival The phases of relating   Video 2 topics: Neediness vs. True longing for God Attraction born of wounding The importance of self-responsibility Endless willingness to surrender in Love together Responsibility The nature of the identity born of wounding The sustainability of Natural Harmony   Video 3 topics: Owning the aggression - integrity and responsibility Humility to our opposite essence Communication & the power of the spoken word On Edge: Consciously Holding our own being Anger vs. aggression - boundaries vs. destruction Surrendering the bottomline disagreement with Life Receptivity in vulnerability Admitting to the imperfection - bringing it all back to ourselves Dealing with hatred, the root of aggression & the tricky juncture   Video 4 topics: Devoted to Love - not to the person Room for other people Coexistence of unity & individuality Birth of Beauty through conflict & pain Embracing Loneliness Meeting the Feminine Essence Awakened monogamous relationship vs. open sexuality Vulnerability & Honesty to the Moment   Video 5 topics: Sexuality as the root of well being & enjoyment More on monogamy & polygamy - gifts and limitations Cross-gender discoveries Navigating the emotional field in relating/lovemaking Going deeper together Woman’s deeper feeling Humility - the end of self-protection The silent healing touch Needs & the animal body Unfolding the enjoyment-body   Video 6 topics: Facing the grief of the Earth Forging Gold out of Grief Dissolving the seed of violence Reality beyond All States Woman’s responsibility - the Holy Grail Man’s responsibility - Bowing to the Earth Surrender, Mystery & Innocence Pearl of Intimacy - The Dance of Essences Intimacy with our disappearance to Truth Softening everything in the Heart Sacred connection - responsible communication The realistic view on relationship   Meditations (transmission tools) Meditation 1 title: Embracing Your Breath - Part 1 Meditation 2 title: Embracing Your Breath - Part 2 Meditation 3 title: Breath of Softness Meditation 4 title: Gentle Being Here Meditation 5 title: Sitting Silence Meditation 6 title: Receptivity Welcome to the first of a 6 session online course. This first session introduces the basic themes around Intimate relating and opens the door for us to begin perceiving the nature and necessity of commitment in the embrace of the ground and invitation of true intimacy.   The Contemplations Contemplate the nature of Intimacy and Intensity. Feel the difference between arriving into deeper sensitivity and expanding into greater wideness of being - how do these two come together? To fully unite and fully let go, for a return to own self sets off every part of us willing to grasp or push away - none of which is the nature of true and total relaxation with the Beauty of Love. Which inner responses do you experience in fear of the intimacy? Which are your mental strategies proposing themselves when it is time to let go? Everything about our going deeper together depends on our commitment. The nature of staying put in the face of pain and give in for the arrival of a higher wisdom. What are the areas in which you find yourself more triggered than you can generally stay conscious with and which are the points of resolution needed to turn these areas over to a new level of relating around them? The Meditation The Talk The talk of the day moves through the following topics: Introduction On the journey of Intimacy Intensity vs. Intimacy merging divinity and humanity Pain of the Past - Birth of Mystery Meeting in the Now - Beyond hoping and dreaming Hard places - facing the pain of the Feminine True & Total commitment in Loyalty to Truth Forever in the Now Life and death as the root of Intimacy Her arrival The phases of relating Welcome to the second of this 6 session online course. This session opens the door for a true understanding of the responsibility we hold in relating and unpacks the nature of our wounding, for a deeper understanding of its play  inside as between us.   The Contemplations Responsibility is a major cornerstone in the field of intimate relating. Do you find there are areas within your field of either communication or physical communion, which you avoid stepping to with courage to be fully and honestly meeting and breathing through the uncomfortable? Which areas are these and what would you have to face about yourself or the other, to land yourself in full integrity? Our ideas of perfection can often become a subtle expectation, which doesn't meet the moment and state of limitation with compassion - in either you or your partner. Which feelings lies behind the demand for your partner to live up to your demand for perfection? What would you need to meet in yourself to be able to allow Presence of loving kindness in the moment? What is your inner after-response after having Been loving and kind, if any? Our own judgement towards our wounding is rooted in a deep fear of having confirmed, what we fear to be true about ourselves. This fear is our greatest obstacle to becoming Intimate with the meeting with our dissolution. How deeply are you able to stand still and hold yourself in the face of that which feels threatened when it is time to Bow? The Meditation The Talk The topics moving through the talk of the day are: Neediness vs. True longing for God Attraction born of wounding The importance of self-responsibility Endless willingness to surrender in Love together Responsibility Dissolving the identity born of wounding The sustainability of Natural Harmony Welcome to the third of 6 sessions in this online course. This session is focused around the conflict-zone between us in the Intimate relationship. The challenges and responsibilities we hold in opening the ground of being together through intimate relating.   The Contemplations Aggression is behind our willingness to push existence rather than being patiently present with and letting Life solve the puzzles. How closely have you come to the existence of aggression within your own self? What is the strategies and inner justifications around its arising within you? How does your use of speech, your actions and your thoughts from this place affect the connection and sacredness of the intimate relationship? Recall a moment where you experiences anger. Recall a moment where you felt like hurting, pushing, making wrong of other - what is the difference in your feelings and thoughts between pure anger and aggression? When we surrender, there isn't actually anything left but loving appreciation. When in the field of conflict, how do you respond? Is it in your nature to seek resolving? To withdraw, close and retract as Love? Are you able to retract from a place of love for both parties - responding in need to regain inner Silence? How can you move with higher integrity to the Truth of the situation? The Meditation The Talk The talk of the day moves through the following topics: Owning the aggression - integrity and responsibility Humility to our opposite essence Communication & the power of the spoken word On Edge: Consciously Holding our own being Anger vs. aggression - boundaries vs. destruction Surrendering the bottomline disagreement with Life Receptivity in vulnerability Admitting to the imperfection - bringing it all back to ourselves Dealing with hatred, the root of aggression & the tricky juncture Welcome to the fourth of your 6 session online course. This session is focused around the revelation of...