08:30 am - 04:00 pm
Australia
Integrating the inner foundation of confidence, persistence and ease
How would it be to live your life with an honest-to-goodness confidence in yourself? To be able to persist through the ups and downs of life and remain steadfast in the face of difficulty?
This is possible when essential will is available.
Essential will – the natural will of our deepest nature – is quite different from what we usually experience or think of as will. It is not ‘willpower’ or ‘iron will’ - ideas which implying hardening, effort and control.
Discovering and developing true will can give us the confidence to relate and respond to reality in a more direct, grounded and realistic way. True will gives us more determination but with ease rather than hardness. It is an unshakeable inner support for being who we really are ….
As AH Almaas writes “…true will is like the grounding, the implicit grounding that serves as a confidence that things will flow. It’s hard to describe exactly, because I’m talking about it as if it is something you think in your mind. It isn’t; that’s why I use the word “implicit.” It means you function from an innate feeling and understanding that things flow. True will is right in this moment; it’s a complete openness to what’s happening right now.” (Diamond Heart Book Two: The Freedom to Be)
In this three day retreat, we will look at the obstacles to true will, how we became disconnected from it, and how our current patterns continue to disconnect us.
By exploring these patterns with openness, curiosity and compassion, we can understand and release them, making way for the presence of will, our essential will, to arise within us.
EVENT DETAILS
Teachers: Ian Cox and Laurie Wattell
Dates: 15 - 17 August 2025
Venue: Online
Retreat Fee: $AU385 (incl GST)
Open to: General public and Current DA students
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By participating in this retreat, you have the opportunity to gain:
- an understanding of how you block your true will
- a clearer sense of what essential will is
- a greater capacity for persistence and determination
- more confidence, resilience and inner solidity
- a greater capacity to stay the course in life and on the spiritual journey
