Cleargreen Workshops

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Cleargreen Incorporated

Cleargreen sponsors and organizes seminars and workshops on Carlos Castaneda's Tensegrity, and other disciplines and is a publishing house.

These workshops are announced on BuddhaDust with cautions: First and foremost this group does not operate from the same point of view or towards the same ends as the teaching of the Buddha; they charge money for what they do teach.

What this system and its teachers do offer followers of Gotama is something that is currently missing in the methods of the teachers of Buddhism today: Teachers with real experience in educating students in effective techniques for attaining higher mental states. I recommend the courses offered by this group as a tool to be put to the service of crossing the gap between book-learning and learning to manipulate the mind in the real world. Study their techniques, take what works and put it to use in attaining the Buddhist goal, put the rest away. We need to make use of what is available to us today.

This is the third principle of the art of stalking. A warrior must be willing and ready to make his last stand here and now. But not in a helter-skelter way.
-- Florinda Matus, The Wheel of Time

"What time is it?" Florinda Donner-Grau asked one afternoon, as she was tending some trees in her garden. A student, who had just arrived, out of breath, began fumbling in her bag to find a watch.

The nagual Carlos Castaneda appeared, looked carefully at his wristwatch, and exuberantly announced, "It's now! Let's go! We have an appointment -- an appointment with infinity!"

"Helter-skelter," the nagual said softly, shaking his head. "We human beings have a funny way of looking at time. We are mesmerized by the past, always looking at time as it recedes from us. It's like standing at the back of the train, watching the tracks as we move away from them. Why not go to the front of the train, to face the oncoming time?"

The student looked down at the root, and followed it with her eyes to see how it met the trunk of an enormous tree.

She noticed that Florinda and the nagual were looking upward at the tree. She moved toward them.

"Trees have a different speed," the nagual said. "You can sense it, if you slow down."

"That there is no past or future in the universe -- there's only energy. And energy has only here and now. An endless and ever-present here and now."