Facilitating Interfaith Dialogue

"I’m organising meetings bringing together people from different spiritual paths – yoga, Christian mysticism, Buddhism. What advice do you have for facilitating these conversations? Rupert says: ‘Try to communicate to all the people from these different traditions that both the origin and the final destiny of their lineage and the practices that they elaborate is to abide in being as being, and to recognise its inherent peace and its shared nature. That is what Gurdjieff’s people call self-remembering. That’s what the Christian mystics call the practice of the presence of God. That’s what the Buddhists call your Buddha nature. That’s what the Hindus mean when they say tat tvam asi, ‘thou art that’. All these traditions arise from and ultimately lead to this simple recognition: peace and happiness are the nature of your being, and you share your being with everyone and everything. Your job as a facilitator would be to subtly steer the conversation in that direction, to define the common golden thread, the heart of each tradition, which is this simple understanding of the nature of being.’"

From event 05 - 12 October, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 5–12 October 2025

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