An evening with Robert Augustus Masters & Diane Bardwell-Masters

Wed. May 27, 2009
Doors open at 6:30pm for mixin ‘n’ minglin/Event from 7pm – 9pm
$15 ($10 for Boulder Integral Donor Members)  (please pay by check or cash only)

This evening will give you an opportunity to meet Robert and Diane, engage in deep dialogue about matters of the body, mind, heart and spirit, book-signing, and divine music from Diane.  The evening will be everything about what Robert has so wonderfully made available to us through the book.  Hope to see you soon!

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Check other events/workshops with Robert & Diane here.

Pain and suffering are not synonymous. Pain is inevitable, suffering optional.

Where pain is consciously felt hurt, suffering is the dramatization of that hurt, casting us the role of the hurt one, stranding us from the raw reality of our pain.

Turning toward and entering our pain — our contractedness, our fear, our distress, our numbness, our unhappiness — helps put us on the road to authentic happiness.

Turning toward our pain reduces our suffering. Entering our pain further reduces our suffering. Moving through our pain ends or at least radically reduces our suffering, even if our pain remains.

The more intimate we are with our pain, the less we suffer.

To emerge from our pain, we have to enter it.

“MEETING THE DRAGON is a courageous and poetic invitation to wholeness, brilliantly conveying the inextricable link between entering our pain and embodying our ultimate expansion. Robert guides us into the dragon’s lair, artfully showing us the way through murky caverns, bringing us face to face with our own dragons. Once there, we receive the most valuable teaching of all — that the dragon’s fire is ultimately indistinguishable from the treasure it protects, that the gatekeeper is actually the gateway. Right there in the heart of our pain are the very lessons that we most need to grow. What a beautiful thing to remember! I highly recommend this wondrous book.”
— Jeff Brown, author of SOULSHAPING

“The language is passionate, evocative, and richly poetic. The message is wise and profound: pain is an inevitable part of human life, but suffering is optional. By entering your pain, really experiencing it, getting to know it — ceasing to resist it, avoid it, or compensate for it, Masters suggests you can discover in it the seeds of a profound shift of consciousness.”
— Terry Patten, co-author of INTEGRAL LIFE PRACTICE
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MEETING THE DRAGON: ENDING OUR SUFFERING BY ENTERING OUR PAIN, is now available in hardcover. You can obtain it now from the Store page at my website (www.robertmasters.com) or from Amazon and bookstores in 5 or 6 weeks.

Questions: Nomali@boulderintegral.org