Ideas for Places to Connect with Turqoise/Nondual/Loving Beings

[kev014]

I'm getting ready to move sometime within the next 3-6 months as my online business/savings are now allowing me to travel. I'm looking to meet, interact and learn from some saintly type people. I have no desire in engaging with priests or any dogmatic religious folk. Any suggestions on how to connect with people who embody love, service and deep spirituality?

[outlandish]

This is probably already obvious to you, but check out meditation groups - vipassana, zen and so on. 

I don't know tons about the Shambhala centres, but I hear second hand that it's a pretty healthy meditation/spiritual world: https://shambhala.org/centres/find-shambhala-centre Maybe someone with personal experience with that community will chime in.

There are certain communities in the world that seem to be magnets for people like you, you might want to look into. Chiang Mai Thailand, Ubud Bali Indonesia, Kona Hawaii USA, Nelson BC Canada, San Miguel de Allende Mexico, come to mind off the top of my head. There are places all over the world though, in India for sure, Europe, England, other parts of Asia, S. America..

 

[Forestluv]

@kev014 @outlandish I was active in a Shambhala group in the U.S. for several years. I would say the community was solid healthy green free of religious dogma that occasionally touched Turquoise. Yet I was green centered at the time and would not have been highly conscious of Turquoise presence.

My impression was that my Shambhala group was old school and that mainstream Shambhala across the country is getting westernized/bastardized into practical and feel good groups to appeal to a broader audience and have greater financial success.

 

[Arhattobe]

Theravada Buddhism groups

[outlandish]

1 hour ago, Serotoninluv said:

@kev014 @outlandish I was active in a Shambhala group in the U.S. for several years. I would say the community was solid healthy green free of religious dogma that occasionally touched Turquoise. Yet I was green centered at the time and would not have been highly conscious of Turquoise presence.

My impression was that my Shambhala group was old school and that mainstream Shambhala across the country is getting westernized/bastardized into practical and feel good groups to appeal to a broader audience and have greater financial success.

 

Interesting thanks. I know next to nothing about Shambhala movement/religion/whatever, just passing mentions from people who've been involved with it in the past. Universally seems to have not-bad things to say about it, which is always a good sign.

[herghly]

@outlandish What is in chiang mai?

[outlandish]

@herghly nothing in particular. It's a small city in Thailand with a cosmopolitan community many meditators, spiritual practitioners, lots of people who are living off their various web-based businesses and so on. Thailand is a homeland to Theravada buddhism so many people go there to learn about it, and some decide to stay.

[herghly]

@outlandish Interesting. I'd love to spend time there when i get my web business up and running

[joeyi99]

@kev014 What's your business?

[kev014]

@joeyi99 Selling physical products