House of the beloved

17/06/2025

Dear beloved,

In a world on fire with yet another war starting, it’s more urgent than ever to become absolutely free and express ourselves, so our very existence becomes an act of rebellion. House of the beloved can support you in this.

(all last sessions between Summer break, would be great if you can come)

- *dare to stay true to yourself and fully express yourself in connection with others:* tue 17/6 7pm: authentic presence https://shorturl.at/L96kr

- *reconnect with your body and become clear about what you want and need:* wed 18/6 7pm: follow beauty* https://shorturl.at/huUp2

- *gain a deep self insight that helps you cut through projections and fear:* sat 21/6 9:30am: taster day immersion (in Utrecht) https://shorturl.at/1glis

- *support your children between 3 and 12 to become fully themselves:* sun 22/6 9:30am: children’s day https://shorturl.at/O2fAY

- *join a community that supports you in this transformation:* fri 17/10 8pm: start level 1 immersion https://shorturl.at/k9cAK

- *join our Summer gathering:* 12-20/7, collective embodied awakening, https://shorturl.at/O5551

May you be well.

12/06/2025

> Meditation comes in many colours and shapes. How can you differentiate between “true” meditation that leads to awakening, and any other practice called meditation that perpetuates our ordinary habitual patterns and has us marinate in our misery, but now intensified on a meditation cushion?

Dear beloved,

Meditation is the practice of being with what is, without trying to make anything happen or prevent anything from happening. Being completely available to be devoured by the present moment. It requires a mind that "stays", giving access to a penetrative insight in the essence of who you are.

Do you want to know more?

*Start meditating today with our online recordings:*
https://shorturl.at/cE8Fw

*Join us for a day of practice:*
21/6 taster day in NL (Maarssen):
Meditation and authentic presence
https://shorturl.at/TLwSb

*Join our signature training:*
17/10 start immersion level I
Crazy wisdom meditation training
https://shorturl.at/uAtiw

May you be well.

07/06/2025

Our next singing circle will take place on Friday, 13th at 7PM! To start our weekend with music... we don't know any better way! Who is joining us for an unforgettable evening full of music, dance and poetry?

22/05/2025

Radical kindness

Innocent yet not naive
Vulnerable yet not fragile
Naked yet not self-conscious
Generous yet not sacrificial
Gentle yet not dull
Accepting yet not allowing
Serving yet not submitting

Embracing all my mind’s delusions
And killing them with kindness

https://www.houseofthebeloved.eu/post/radical-kindness

20/05/2025

Dear beloved,

What about some wild nature this weekend? In the beautiful forests of the Ardennes, we will practice authentic presence - freely expressing and revealing yourself while being with others. You learn to let go of habitual patterns and conditioned responses, allowing you to form deeper, more genuine connections rooted in who you truly are.

Info & registration: https://shorturl.at/L6feR

*This week at House of the beloved:*

Tue: _authentic presence evening_
https://shorturl.at/4t3Ta

Fri-Sun: _authentic presence weekend_
https://shorturl.at/L6feR

May you be well.

In this weekend we practice authentic presence: freely expressing and revealing yourself while being with others. Through this practice, you learn to let go of habitual patterns and conditioned responses, allowing you to form deeper, more genuine connections rooted in who you truly are

15/05/2025

Image: a leaping yogini by Robert Powell, based on a mural in the former Himalayan Kingdom of Mustang, exemplifies yoga as the art of freedom (From Ian Baker's "Tibetan Yoga: Principles and practices")

"Enlightenment arises from within the body it does not arise at all. Unless the body is realised as the perfect crucible for liberation, freedom from conditioned existence remains only an imaginary dream." - Yeshe Tsogyal, 8th century

Join us this Saturday, 17/5, 9:30-17:00
The art of freedom
(meditation and authentic presence)
https://shorturl.at/PxUYx

14/05/2025

Dear beloved community,

Just a quick poll: Are there enough people interested in starting a new level I meditation immersion in the Fall (instead of in the Spring)?

All info about the immersion: https://shorturl.at/Klue0

You can also listen to the podcast: https://shorturl.at/CsJcI

Together we’ll choose the dates that work for all of us.

Finally going nowhere.
May you be well.

___

_Testimony meditation participant: Wow, what a transformative experience this was. The meditation techniques from this training come from a special lineage and are truly completely different and much more intense than the other ‘meditations’ I know, which basically amount to ‘Do nothing.’ I experienced what it's like to observe sensations, thoughts, and emotions without being distracted or grabbed by them. And what it's like to see myself and the world from a different, more realistic perspective. In my daily life, I’m constantly applying these meditation techniques, and I notice that I feel sharper, calmer, and freer, with a new appreciation and contentment for life as it is, without the urge to change things. Only now do I realize how much I was actually being driven by all kinds of unconscious impulses._

In-depth meditation program at House of the beloved.

01/05/2025

Listen.

We must all stop dying in the little ways,
in the craters of hate,
in the potholes of indifference-
a murder in the temple.

The place I live in
is a kind of maze
and I keep seeking
the exit or the home.

Yet if I could listen
to the bulldog courage of those children
and turn inward into the plague of my soul
with more eyes than the stars

I could melt the darkness-�as suddenly as that time�when an awful headache goes away�or someone puts out the fire-�
and stop the darkness and its amputations�and find the real McCoy�in the private holiness�of my hands.

From “the children” by Anne Sexton

Read blog post:

There is a kinship between su***de and mysticism: both seek the end of the “self” as a release from suffering. Both are willing to fall into Death’s embrace in search of new life. Both have access to altered states of consciousness—consider, for example, the well-documented sense of “calm....

29/04/2025

"The quest for understanding, purification, healing, or fulfilment erodes the vitality and freshness of being completely available to what is. It’s not the solution, it’s the problem."

It is a petition to be without identity, to be nothing and nobody (or everything and everybody, if you prefer). It is a suspension of societ

27/03/2025

"Modern Western Buddhism functions remarkably like an avoidant attachment strategy dressed in spiritual robes. This isn't immediately obvious - the language is all about awareness, presence, and acceptance. But watch closely how these teachings typically get enacted: sitting alone on your cushion, maintaining emotional distance through "equanimity," pursuing individual enlightenment while treating intimate relationships as distractions. We've created a spiritual technology perfectly appealing to individuals with avoidant attachment." - Daniel Thorson
https://zurl.co/oHvQd

Stop using meditation to reinforce your patterns of avoidance. Join us this weekend, March 28-30: https://zurl.co/4URNn

25/03/2025

To love myself means to accept and welcome pain and the intense emotions of life, without enforcing ideas about how I ought to be or feel. Just being with what is there, intimately feeling what is true, without trying to make anything happen, or prevent anything from happening.

Full audio: https://zurl.co/8TthV

Come practice self-love with us this weekend: https://zurl.co/Z1hGV

*This week at House of the beloved:*

Tue: authentic presence
Wed: singing circle/kirtan
Fri-Sun: inner sky: meditation training
Tue-Fri: morning practice
Mon-Thu: evening practice

All details you can find at the bottom of our homepage:
www.houseofthebeloved.eu

12/02/2025

Suffering is how life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. -Adyashanti

Join us for meditation:

online: thu 6/3, 3/4, 1/5, 5/6
a session: tue-fri, 7am
a day: sat 22/2, 22/3, 26/4, 17/5, 21/6
a weekend: 28/3-30/3 (registration: https://zurl.co/Nm6tw )

All info on our website: https://zurl.co/vXhwT