Non-Dual Meditation - Daylong
Saturday June 7th, 2025
This Daylong can be taken as a stand-alone experience or as the prerequisite for:
2-Year Non-Dual Meditation Teacher Training 2026-2027
What makes this daylong different?
Many meditation day-longs are lineage specific. This daylong is trans-lineage - following the perennial thread that runs through multiple non-dual traditions.
Some daylongs put an emphasis on the progressive path teachings. Instead, we shall place the accent on the direct path and pathless path teachings of nondual wisdom.
Some teachings present enlightenment as the goal. In this daylong, embodied awakening is the goal, as Arvis Justi (Adyashanti’s teacher) used to say “Enlightenment is just getting your foot in the door”.
This daylong - a cross between a retreat and a group exploration - will feature:
Guided & Silent meditations
A presentation on Non-Duality
Spiritual talks
Group exploration & discussion
A Daylong gathering with Jonathan Gustin
When: Saturday, June 7th
Time: 10:30 am - 5 pm PT. (1:30pm - 8pm ET)
Where: Zoom
Cost: $100
Recording: If you cannot attend the full retreat or wish to view it at your own pace, you can sign up and receive the recording.
Registration: HERE
What traditions influence this daylong?
What Heritage Teachers influence this Daylong?
Ramana Maharshi Nisargadatta Maharaj Atmanada Krishna Menon
Baal Shem Tov. Ibn Arabi. Lao Tzu
Questions: Please contact Marlene, Associate Director at PGI, at jonathan@purposeguides.org
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A Letter From Jonathan Gustin
When I first encountered nonduality at sixteen—through a Ramana Maharshi book—I wasn’t struck by a philosophy. I was pierced by a presence. A joy. A stillness that felt more intimate than anything I’d ever known.
I was tempted to name both the daylong program and the 2-yr meditation training, The Joy of Being. “Non-duality” can sound metallic, even abstract. But what moves me—and what moves this approach—is the luminous joy of resting in true nature. In the end, I stayed with the term non-duality, because it speaks plainly and precisely. It points to that which cuts through all illusions—not as an idea, but as a direct invitation. Non-duality invites us to remember what has never been separate, to return to the intimacy that includes everything…even that which is most troubling to us.
For example, having experienced Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for nearly 40 years, I’ve come to regard it as one of my foremost teachers. The illness invites me to trust life — to harmonize with what is. Would I prefer to be well? Of course I would. But, for me, ill-health is vivid and real, here and now. My only two viable choices are to live with this illness either with resistance, or without it.
True meditation is not a technique, but an orientation to life, in sickness and in health—a marriage with reality. In this daylong, we won’t treat meditation as a mere method to improve ourselves. Instead, we’ll explore it as a direct recognition—a felt intimacy with life that transcends the meditator altogether. Jean Klein, one of my early teachers, once said, “When the meditator disappears, true meditation arises.”
I invite you to approach meditation not merely as a technique, but as an embodied way of meeting life. The view of non-duality is the view of love itself. Love is the dissolving of boundaries—that leaves nothing out. Not old age, not illness, not death, and not the more-than-human world. This is the spirit we’ll cultivate together: not striving, but letting go into love - married to life!
We are living in a time where the story of separation has reached its limits. What we need now is a different kind of soil—one rich with love, humility, and deep presence. Through meditative self-inquiry and the non-dual spiritual arts, I believe we can cultivate that ground together. And from it, something beautiful may grow.
With warmth,
Jonathan