Dear Friends,
A single liberating truth—amazingly simple
and accessible—lies at the heart of all the
world’s religions and spiritual traditions:
We are all One, and that One is bound-
less, eternal, peaceful and loving.
IN THIS COURSE we will study and prac-
tice the life-changing, radically effortless
"non-dual" meditations of Oneness, the
spiritual core of all religions.
WE'LL LEARN from masters of Oneness
from three great religions—Buddhism, Chris-
tianity and Hinduism—including:
THICH NHAT HANH:
"The heart of the matter is always our
oneness with divine spirit, our union
with all of life. We are here to awaken
from the illusion of separateness."
FATHER THOMAS KEATING:
"The first part of the Christian journey is
to realize there is an other. The second part
is to become the other. The third and greatest
part is to realize that there is no other."
NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ:
"The consciousness in you, and the con-
sciousness in me, apparently-two but
really one, seek unity, and that is love."
WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THE COURSE?
ANYONE who wants to learn the
key practices and concepts of “non-duality,”
the heart-essence of all religions.
ANYONE who wants to experience the
peace of their being, and to know they share
their being with everyone and everything.
ANYONE who wants to experience the
heart of spirituality lying beneath all language,
tradition, ritual, and esoteric verbiage.
COURSE PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE:
• A live 30-minute guided meditation, 45-minute talk and
15-minute Q&A each Tuesday evening on Zoom.
• Audio recordings of all the Tuesday evening sessions.
• A daily email expanding on the week's topic, plus
inspirational quotes, tips and techniques.
• An additional guided-meditation recording each
week, sent to you by email.
• Suggestions for further readings, references and online non-dual resources.
The course is offered in plain English, with a focus
on simple, direct, and liberating practice.
The course meets each Tuesday evening
on Zoom for 90-minutes:
April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 & May 6
7 to 8:30 PM ET
6 to 7:30 PM CT
4 to 5:30 PM PT
THE COURSE SYLLABUS
WEEK ONE: AWARENESS IS ONENESS
• The Mystery of Awareness
• Buddhist, Christian and Hindu Non-Duality
• Happiness and Reality
• The End of Conflict
• Oneness is Love
WEEK TWO: BUDDHIST NON-DUALITY
• Was the Buddha Non-Dual?
• The Golden Thread of Oneness
• Thich Nhat Hanh's Oneness: Interbeing
• The Dalai Lama's Oneness: Compassion
• Ajahn Chah's Oneness: Awareness
WEEK THREE: HINDU NON-DUALITY
• The "Not-Two" of Advaita Vedanta
• Why Does Hinduism Say "Self"
and Buddhism Say "Not Self"?
• The Bhagavad Gita's Oneness
• Adi Shankara's Oneness
• Ashtavakra's Oneness
WEEK FOUR: CONTEMPORARY NON-DUALITY
• The Progressive vs Direct Paths
• Effort is Unnecessary
• The Oneness of Ramana Maharshi
• The Oneness of Nisargadatta Maharaj
• The Oneness of Rupert Spira
WEEK FIVE: CHRISTIAN NON-DUALITY
• The Oneness of Jesus: "I Am"
• The Cloud of Unknowing
• Meister Eckhart's Oneness: God is Soul
• Cynthia Bourgeault's Oneness:
Centering Prayer
WEEK SIX: REALITY IS LOVE
• The Buddha's Poem of Love
• Awareness is Love
• Reality is Love
• Friendship is Love
• God is Love
THE COST OF THE SIX-WEEK
COURSE is $299.
To pay and enroll by credit
card, click here.
You can also pay and enroll by PayPal,
Venmo @dougmcgill, or a check made out
and sent to Doug McGill, P.O. Box
6513, Rocheser, MN 55903.
Any payment enrolls you in the course.
If the cost is prohibitive, or a one-time full
payment isn't comfortable, drop me an email
and we'll work something out.
If you have any questions about the
course, send me an email.
ABOUT DOUG MCGILL
I’m a journalist turned meditator, dharma sharer, editor and writer. In 2004, I founded the Rochester Meditation Center in Rochester, MN, serving as its guiding teacher until 2020. In 2019, I edited “Relax and Be Aware: Mindfulness Meditations for Clarity, Confidence and Wisdom.” Since 2013, I have published "The Daily Tejaniya," a daily email practice reminder. Since 2022, I’ve led a weekly online meditation meeting, Monday Friends, and offered regular online retreats. I first learned how to meditate as a New York Times reporter in the 1980s, when I needed to cope with the stress of daily journalism. On a visit to Sri Lanka in 1995, I started practicing insight (vipassana) meditation; and in 2013, I met my non-dual teacher and friend, Rupert Spira, who taught me Oneness. The non-dual approach deepened my insight practice, and over time these "apparent-two" practices became one practice, which I share today.
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"All paths ultimately are One."
—Zhang Boduan