Dear friends of our retreat program, the next personal appointment for a group retreat
with free places is probably the April 09-11, 2021 near Bern. >>>



texts on the important questions

  • When we finally get the idea of unconditional love ...

    could give up as it exists in all possible schools of thought and belief ... as a completely unattainable ideal ... Maybe then we would finally see what we really are and maybe that would enable us to relate to one another in a way that we do not today can imagine.

  • When we speak of freedom ...

    then we only mean freedom of choice. But this kind of freedom is not at all. Actually, freedom of choice is only compulsion. Namely, the compulsion to make a selection within a previously defined spectrum of possibilities.

  • Understand life better and make better decisions.

    What else is important other than understanding your own life and finding your own answers to the challenges of this life? But how is that supposed to work when the investigation of life and the answers that one finds always come from a certain, pre-defined thinking?

  • The well-known models of thought have nothing to do with your own thinking.

    »The well-known models, which mostly come from philosophy, religions, spiritual schools, psychology, art and culture, hardly offer the opportunity to better grasp our life in a holistic way and certainly do not have the power to really change our lives. They are at best 'interesting', deal with partial aspects, and one can discuss their pros and cons for a long time - but mostly not more. You can stay in such illusory models for a few years and even feel comfortable with them. For example, by thinking that you have the ultimate knowledge or by closing yourself off against other models. The question arises, however, whether we need such models at all, and whether a fulfilled life in such models is really possible.

  • In the long run you become what is in your own mind, in your own thinking.

    So it is very important to be aware of this.

  • A good life...

    Living such a life is really an art. In order to learn an art, one can basically divide the learning process into two parts: one has to master the theory on the one hand and practice on the other. If I want to learn the art of piano playing, I first have to know the facts about the music, the different keys, the harmonies. I have to know a lot about rhythm and notation. And even when I have acquired this theoretical knowledge, I am by no means competent in the art of piano playing.

The main topic of this retreat is herself.

It's what you are what you think what you feel and why. So it's not about teaching outside of you, schools of thought, preconceptions and beliefs - any book knowledge. It's about the knowledge in you.

In this retreat you will get to know yourself in a completely new way. Why is that? You develop here Your own wisdom, Her knowledge above Your life. It cannot be about applying any theory, any particular ideology, or an ideal, any particular practice. It's about facts. It's what is.

This can have very concrete and practical implications for your life. Because you will answerto find the really important questions in your life: love, suffering, death, relationships, fear, stress, parenting, joy ...(The individual questions and topics of the retreat you'll find here...). And youreceive tools and instructions to continue your work.
What actually is a retreat?

A retreat is a planned time of withdrawal from everyday life with its compulsions, supposed or real necessities and its gears.

WISDOM |here and now serves for inner contemplation and reflection on oneself and on what is really important in life.
The essential elements of this program are therefore reflection, structured dialogue, writing, small exercises and silence.

The expiry of this time-out follows a fixed structure. This means, for example, that every day always follows the same division of hours.
In some of our retreats, participants also do work in the house and garden as part of their retreat practice.

texts on the important questions

wisdom

1 | “The striving for wisdom is our inner and outer work to orchestrate mind and virtue toward excellence.”

2 | "In all cultures of the world, wisdom is not a theoretical term, nothing that is only theoretically accessible and exhausted in theory. Rather, wisdom is a way of leading one's life, of orienting oneself in life, which is entirely evident in the concrete and practical . The knowledge, the cognition, the conceptualization, as well as the practical action are connected in a unit. "

3 | "Openness to experience, that means to fully live what is happening to you, be it the loss of a beloved one, be it friendship or the silence you find in nature, is one of the prerequisits to find wisdom."  

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