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Satori Retreat

Locality: Cessnock, New South Wales

Phone: +61 410 783 220

Address: 626 Sandy Creek Road, Quorrobolong 2325 Cessnock, NSW, Australia

Website: http://satori-retreat.net

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25.01.2022 As I said a couple of days ago I am offering three long sessions of three hours each with specific themes (see May 17 below) The first session; THE TREASURE I...N THE DARKNESS approaches a fundamental split which occurs in every personality. The split is represented by what we avoid, hide, and project, and it creates our reactivity. In this session the participant is guided to engage with this split by recognizing and learning to own their shadow material. It is about understanding it and integrating it rather than it managing and moving us in ways that are mostly unconscious and compulsive. One of the most damaging beliefs in relation to our growth mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual has to do with the denial of our WHOLENESS and COMPLETENESS as human beings. We tend to idealize what we call the good and reject darkness and what we label as evil. This separation between light and darkness forces us to live a reduced and impotent life where much of what we truly feel is denied in the name of survival. Elements that contribute to this impotence include education and learned values, the need for recognition, fear of being bad and not proper, and so on. Let’s use Greed as an example (and I could easily use jealousy, anger, envy, resentment, laziness). In general everybody condemns it (at least with words) and yet we all experience it in one form or another. What we are greedy for is irrelevant: money, power, sex, success, shopping, enlightenment, god, understanding. The truth is greed is in each of us and it has contextual and specific objects and identifications depending on who we are and our personal history. When we keep hiding it from ourselves and others it stays in our unconscious eating us from the inside like a worm, and it generates frustration, a lack of fulfilment, dependency, stress and confusion. However we have missed an opportunity - to inquire into and ask ourselves ‘How is it that EVERYBODY experiences some sort of greed? Do we really need to keep being unwilling and unaware actors, inflicted by the impact of our shadow material? Is it possible that behind our greed for things (material and not), behind our desire to have and to posses there is something extremely potent we are not realizing? The joy is that THERE IS, and it is hidden in the shadow of our unconscious and ancient memories. If you want to understand then inquire; engage and explore, question everything and learn to listen and recognize the signs that your body, your emotions and your soul keep giving you. If you want to know more or book one contact me on +61410783220 or by mail [email protected] IN A COUPLE OF DAYS THE SECOND ONE: CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION. #avikal #integralbeing

21.01.2022 What a profound experience Satori was for me. I found the retreat to be gentle yet penetrating - seven days of experiencing a deepening of the relationship with myself with amazing support and insights. A week later I am still feeling the fullness of my being. Sarita Nicole Ford Yearning to be more real, true and complete? Book now at [email protected] or visit our website at satori-retreat.net... #satoriretreat #meditationretreat #satoriretreataustralia #bodhi #kensho #prajna #buddhahood #enlightment #satoriretreatnsw #satoriretreathuntervalleynsw #satoriretreatsydneynsw #satoriretreatau #attainingsatori #satoriretreatavikal #avikalcostantino #meditation #retreat

21.01.2022 Osho left his dream to me, to all his disciples and humanity at large before leaving the body nearly thirty years ago. His dream is clear: LOVE AND AWARENESS H...ERE/NOW. The word dream might deceive us and make us believe that this is a project, a vision for the future, and it is not that. Rather it is the moment to moment practice: BEING love and awareness right now. Not feeling, making, giving, receiving love. Not seeking, recognizing, having awareness. BEING LOVE AND AWARENESS. The attention is not on the other or an object, neither on acting, it is exclusively on the subject, on me and you. The question is simple, direct, comprehensible: am I love and awareness in this moment? It is like a pebble thrown on a lake of uncertainty. A lake made of many I don’t know, few yes and few no. This I don’t know, this uncertainty, are blessed as they open us up to the reality of the here/now that is alive, unknown and unpredictable. And mysterious. And beautiful. In this opening, in this vulnerability, in this presence without choice we can find that is is our nature TO BE LOVE AND AWARENESS. #avikal #integralbeing

17.01.2022 I am back in Bondi and available for session from 10/12 to 31/01/2020

16.01.2022 Beyond the Search. Waking up NOW! There is nothing more egoistic and narcissistic than stubbornly denying our true nature supporting the delusion that we are th...is shadow of who we truly are: completeness, uniqueness, awareness and love. The attachment to the search is a sickness and a dangerous one! It is a sickness that keeps millions of human beings stuck, who potentially are ready to take full responsibility for being free and thus consciously participate in a planetary rebellion that is the only possibility left. Using the teaching solely for surviving is an egoic sham. Justifying our actions through spiritual understanding and purity is a sham. To find solace in assumed spiritual superiority is a sham, and thinking that we know is the most fundamental trap for our soul. Every time we look outside. Every time we are satisfied with finding a name, a definition, a reason is to put ourselves in a box, and is a never-ending repetitivenessevery time we look for someone to blame or someone or something that might save us we dissipate the precious richness of our humanness. Waking up NOW! There is a nearly constant tendency in the human mind, in the human psyche, to insist that this moment cannot be adequate, cannot be complete. To continue resisting and hold on for a future moment To continue thinking that one day, when everything will be aligned in the right way, when I will have done enough, I will be healed enough, I will have grown enough, or when life will be organized in a certain way THEN AND ONLY THEN IT WILL BE ENOUGH. THEN IT WILL BE COMPLETE, THEN LIFE WILL BE SO FULL THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO LET GO IN IT AND LET IT HAPPEN AS IT WILL BE SO FULL AND PERFECT AND I WILL NOT NEED TO GET ATTACHED, TO CONTROL, TO DRIVE, TO MANIPULATE THEN, ONLY THEN, MY DISCONTENT WILL FINALLY DISAPPEAR. Today we change direction. Today we meditate on our True Nature. Today we meditate not for waking up but FROM being already awaken. Today we meditate on the reality of awakened consciousness that it is already here. That does not need maps, techniques, instruments, perfecting or seeking. Today we meditate on a fundamental truth of awakening, that IN THIS MOMENT NOTHING IS MISSING. That there is nothing missing in this moment, from this moment. You are here, right now, you who are reading these words. You are whole and complete and missing nothing. That every moment, exactly in its arising, is full of wholeness, fullness and perfect essence. It is perfect in its essence. And to see this, to allow this and make space for this truth, all that we need to do is stopping insisting that there is something wrong, that something is missing, that there is a deficiency and that there is something to correct. #avikal #beyondsearch #withoutdefinition

15.01.2022 FREE ZOOM MEETINGS with avikal (in English) on 9/8 and 23/8 at 4pm AEST, 11.30 am India, 8am EU If you are interested or some friends are, contact [email protected] and let us know. Topic: FINDING OURSELVES IN THE WORLD WE CREATE. You will receive a Zoom link to participate, valid for both the meetings love avikal

14.01.2022 "Satori has been a great blessing to me. It came as a surprise, soaked me into immense love, gave me complete freedom, provided integration and helped me settled into myself. It has brought a lot of joy, let me experience fearlessness and compassion. I love how Avikal and his team provides the container for a let-go, nourishing the body-soul. Highly recommended for the people on the path." - Yogesh Ketan Parmar Yearning to be more real, true and complete? Book now at [email protected] or visit our website at satori-retreat.net #satoriretreat #meditationretreat #satoriretreataustralia #bodhi #kensho #prajna #buddhahood #enlightment #satoriretreatnsw #satoriretreathuntervalleynsw #satoriretreatsydneynsw #satoriretreatau #attainingsatori #satoriretreatavikal #avikalcostantino #meditation #retreat

13.01.2022 I have been offering these three long sessions in Europe for the last few months. Now I am also available in Australia and I can tell you that it is a great jou...rney! You can take them individually or as a package as you like. If you want to know more give me a call +61410783220 or write to [email protected]. In the next few days I will write something about each specific session. #avikal #integralbeing

10.01.2022 Here’s a video invitation in which Avikal Costantino outlines the process of the Satori Retreat. If you’re at this stage in your life where you’re wanting to re-experience freshness, aliveness and freedom, we very much look forward to seeing you at the next upcoming Satori retreat at the Hunter Valley Retreat, NSW, on June 22-28, 2019. Please share this post with your friends and anyone that might be interested in directly experiencing their subjectivity.

09.01.2022 unless we are love on this planet every single day we, as a species, might not make itunless we are love on this planet every single day we, as a species, might not make it

08.01.2022 Beyond the Search 1 Intrinsic to the nature of searching is a movement of attention towards something. We may know or not know what we are looking for, but this... is not relevant in itself and it does not change the intrinsic nature of searching. Searching inevitably involves a movement of our attention away from the pure and indefinable presence that is subjectivity (I) towards an external object for example if I am looking for something other than myself, or towards the subject that has become the object (me) if it is myself I am looking for ( or my emotions, my thoughts etc.) In the Search techniques, maps, resources, paths there are essential tools that support the inner movement of searching. However, they often become obstacles when we forget or even deny- that the Search and every tool we use to possess or understand it inevitably implies, and is based upon the separation between subject and object: I and a thing, I and me. Any search carries within itself some fundamental expectations: fulfilment, completeness, liberation and certainty. The seekers transfer these expectations on the tools they use to seek, techniques, maps, resources and paths. The capacity of Self-reflection: The Subject (I) becomes the object (me) of the new subject (I) is without any doubt the resource that more than any other characterizes human nature. It is a basic source for knowledge and evolution. At the same time self-reflection can become a central aspect of the human prison when compulsive habits of self-definition are applied. We do this with everything as we give names to all that exists, thus continuously objectifying so that we can keep deluding ourselves that we know what is, that we are present because we grasp, because we believe we know and comprehend. #avikal #beyondsearch #withoutdefinition

08.01.2022 In this lecture Osho mentions the Soviet Union, so it is definitely given before 1989. Amazing! ---------------------- In the last few weeks you have been talki...ng a lot about the world running fast towards a dead end, without showing any more hope that things will ever change. On the other hand, up to one month ago, you talked on the possibility that the presence of two hundred enlightened people, or even one, could save the world. Why this shift of emphasis? Did you give up on the other possibility? Dis something happen within the last few weeks that made your vision change? Chidananda, it is true that I have been talking a lot about the world running fast towards a dead end. The reason is, factually it is running towards an end. But it was running towards its end before, too. Now I want it to be absolutely emphasized on your consciousness, so that you stop postponing your own transformation. Man's mind is so stupid that if there is a little possibility to postpone, then he will postpone for tomorrow unless he comes to a dead-end street where there is no way to go forward and he has to take an absolute about-turn. But things in the world are not visible to you. You may go on sleeping and the world may die. It is urgent that you take it seriously that the world may not be there tomorrow. You don't have time to waste for anything else other than your own awakening. I still know if there are two hundred enlightened people in the world, the world can be saved; but I have never told you that just one enlightened man can save the world. It is a heavy load. One single enlightened man cannot carry it; two hundred is the minimum. But from where to bring those two hundred people? They have to be born amongst you YOU have to become those two hundred people. And your growth is so slow, there is every fear that before you become enlightened the world will be gone. You are not putting your total energy into meditation, into awareness. It is one of the things that you are doing, amongst many; and it is not even the first priority of your life. I want it to become your first priority. The only way is that I should emphasize, deeply into your consciousness, that the world is going to end soon. And if you are not awakened before its end, you will be lost in a long journey, because evolution will start from the very beginning on some other planet. On this planet it took four billion years for man to arrive. His life began in the ocean as a fish. On another planet, if this planet is destroyed, life will continue, but it will have to begin from the very beginning and after four billion years you may be again a human being. It is a great risk to take. Nothing has changed in the world; everything is going exactly in the direction of death a little faster of course and the moment of total annihilation is coming very close. It all depends on what your priorities are. If being awakened has become your priority, and you are ready to sacrifice everything for it, then there is hope.[] I have been telling you that two hundred enlightened people can save the world. Existence is very generous; it cannot destroy two hundred awakened people, who have reached to the highest peak of consciousness which has taken four billion years of evolution. But you have to become those two hundred people! To wake you up, I have been insisting that the end is very close. And this time it is not a parable. Jesus used it as a device, that the end of the world is very close and the last judgment day is very close. His disciples asked him at the time of his departure before the enemies got hold of him and when it was certain that he would be crucified the next day, their last question was, "When will we be seeing you again?" He said, "In this very life, because the end of the world is very close but do what I have told you." And even Christians don't know what he has told them. The last night before he was caught they were in the mountains and he told his disciples, "This may be the last night we are together, and I am going to do my prayer. While I am praying behind the bush you should remain awake. It is absolutely essential, to support my prayer, that you are awake. Don't fall asleep." In the middle of his prayer he came back and almost all were fast asleep. He woke them up and said, "Have you not heard me? I had told you, you have to remain awake. Can't you remain awake just one night? because I will not be here with you again. Even my death tomorrow cannot help you to remain awake?" They were very sorry. They said they would try, and he went again. This went on four, five times he would come back and they would all be fast asleep. According to me this was his last teaching: to remain awake. But Christianity has completely forgotten about it. And I have not seen a single commentary by Christians on the implications of why Jesus was so insistently saying, "Be awake!" He was trying his hardest because once he was gone, there was every possibility they would all fall asleep, just as the whole of humanity is asleep, and they would start doing in their dreams things that are not t be done. But things that are not to be done can be prevented only when you are aware, alert. His last teaching was awareness, but the disciples failed him not only those twelve intimate disciples failed him, for two thousand years all his disciples have failed him. The very word "awareness" has disappeared from the Christian idea of transforming human beings. Jesus was continually saying, "The end is very close." That was a device because if you feel that there is enough time, why not sleep a little more? What is the hurry? But if there is no time left at all, perhaps the shock of it may wake you up. What was only a device to Jesus, to me is not a device. It is a reality. The world is going to end. I have been giving you hope, because I have to do two things: on the one hand I have to make it clear to you that the world is coming to its final suicide; and on the other hand, I have to give you the hope that still there is a possibility at least for you to become awakened. Your awakening is of tremendous importance; it has never been so important before neither with Jesus nor with Gautam Buddha because there was enough time. Time has run out. We are at the far end of time. To make you aware of the reality so that you can make some effort to remain awake, to make some effort to be more conscious and not to get lost in trivia is absolutely necessary. That's why my insistence will go on growing, because every day the end is approaching closer. Man is so asleep he is almost in a coma, and all his actions are arising out of this state of coma, otherwise, there is no necessity for the world to end. But we are carrying nuclear weapons within our souls. The end is going to come because of our own ignorance, our own deep sleep. [] Such is the situation of humanity. At least YOU have to come out of it and you need a constant hitting on your head to remind you that the times are no longer ordinary. And there have never been, in the whole history of man, such dangerous moments as those through which we are passing. It is no time for quarreling, arguing about theological matters; it is not intelligent to console yourself that some miracle will happen and the world war will be postponed. It is not only the world war the attack is multidimensional. The ecology of the earth is breaking down. There are thousands of submarines moving around the earth in the ocean and each submarine is carrying nuclear weapons so powerful that even the whole energy that was used in the Second World War is nothing compared to the energy of one submarine carrying nuclear missiles. The Soviet Union has its own submarines; America has its own submarines. Just by accident two submarines can collide, and the whole life on the planet will evaporate into smoke. And the politicians of the world are continually piling up more and more nuclear weapons. The population of the world is growing so fast that just the growth of population will be enough to kill half of humanity out of hunger and thirst.[] These are the multi-dimensional ways that death is approaching the earth. Because we have cut so many forests, a thick layer of carbon dioxide has gathered on top of our atmosphere, miles away from the earth, where the air ends. The layer is so thick that it has already increased the temperature more than it has ever been on the earth; and that rise of temperature is melting the ice of the north and south poles. If that ice goes on melting and there is no way to prevent it all the oceans of the world will rise four feet higher. And all your big cities are ports; they will be flooded with water, will become unlivable. If this carbon dioxide becomes a little thicker, then the Himalayas and the Alps, which have eternal snow which has never melted, will start melting. The Himalayas alone have so much ice that if it melts completely, it will raise all the oceans of the world forty feet higher. All your cities will be drowned, and this is not a flood that is going to recede. One of the most dangerous things happening is that carbon dioxide is going to accumulate more and more. The trees go on inhaling carbon dioxide. If you cut the trees you are cutting two things: the supply of oxygen for your life, and the place for carbon dioxide to be absorbed. It is a double-edged sword and absolutely unnecessary. Man has been trying to reach to the moon and to Mars, and before that, we were never aware that where the air ends, miles above earth... all around the earth there is a thick layer of a certain gas, ozone, O3, which is a very protective layer. Because of that ozone, life has been possible on earth. That ozone has only one function: it does not allow any sunrays which are destructive to life; it returns them. It allows only those rays which are life-giving. Because of our rockets moving towards the moon and towards Mars, we have made holes, for the first time, in the layer of ozone. Now those holes are allowing in all the rays of the sun towards the earth and death-rays are also included. So when I say the end is not very far away, it is not like when Jesus says it just a device. By the end of this century, you will see all these dimensions bringing death to you. It has to be emphasized: unless you become absolutely clear about death, you are not going to concentrate your whole energy on transforming your being. People change with difficulty; they find it easier to remain as they are just like stones, like rocks. Change means a determined effort, a commitment to transform your energies, to take your being in an absolutely serious manner it has not to be wasted in stupid things.[] Being alert means you have to stop being robots. Change your routines, move more consciously; let every act become an object of awareness. Then even these few years that are left are enough more than enough. If you put your total energy into transformation, the destruction of the earth will not be your destruction. If you can die consciously, you have found the key to a higher life, to an eternal life, to a divine life. -Osho From The Hidden Splendor, Discourse #14

06.01.2022 Satori has been life changing for me. I had so many ideas of who I thought I was and finding myself beyond all of that stuff has marked a clear way forward for me. I look at life in a completely different way now. Through the retreat, I found the core of what it means to be human, alive. The ultimate Jedi retreat to have a direct experience of the ways of the Force!! - Ameeta Francesca Piazzi Yearning to be more real, true and complete? Book now at [email protected]... or visit our website at satori-retreat.net #satoriretreat #meditationretreat #satoriretreataustralia #bodhi #kensho #prajna #buddhahood #enlightment #satoriretreatnsw #satoriretreathuntervalleynsw #satoriretreatsydneynsw #satoriretreatau #attainingsatori #satoriretreatavikal #avikalcostantino #meditation #retreat

04.01.2022 During the Satori Retreat, I was able to experience happiness directly & bypass all the concepts & ideas that I’ve had in my mind about happiness. When I’m hap...py I don’t need any meditation. - Atol Dupuche Yearning to be more real, true and complete? Book now at [email protected] or visit our website at satori-retreat.net #satoriretreat #meditationretreat #satoriretreataustralia #bodhi #kensho #prajna #buddhahood #enlightment #satoriretreatnsw #satoriretreathuntervalleynsw #satoriretreatsydneynsw #satoriretreatau #attainingsatori #satoriretreatavikal #avikalcostantino #meditation #retreat

03.01.2022 Profound, deep, and exquisite experience of myself. Recommend for anyone on 2 legs and breathing. For me a lifesaver to have lasting tools to not get lost in the grief and anguish of the world, but to change my fundamental understanding of it. - Nirala Jacobi Yearning to be more real, true and complete? Book now at [email protected] or visit our website at satori-retreat.net #satoriretreat #meditationretreat #satoriretreataustralia #bodhi #kensho #prajna #buddhahood #enlightment #satoriretreatnsw #satoriretreathuntervalleynsw #satoriretreatsydneynsw #satoriretreatau #attainingsatori #satoriretreatavikal #avikalcostantino #meditation #retreat

03.01.2022 Few evenings ago I watched a movie of the Avengers series: Ultron. In the second half of it it appears a completely new being named Vision who carries on his fo...rehead the Mind Stone. When at his appearance he is asked if he is good or evil, after a moment of puzzlement, he answers I AM. I AM is the only possible answer to the question Who are you? I AM is the Mystery embodying itself in this unpredictable original uniqueness in the here/now. All the attributes we add to I AM are only a transient temporary expression in the becoming of this unique manifestation. They are the petals around the center, the always present I AM. I AM is without choice, beyond any choice and any definition. Infinite possibilities in infinite combinations. #avikal #integralbeing