Author Archives: Peter

About Peter

Peter Fenner, PH.D. is spiritual teacher and a leader in the adaption and transmission of Asian nondual wisdom worldwide. He offers training programs and individual coaching and meditation entrainment sessions over the phone. Pioneer in the development of nondual therapy and creator of the Radiant Mind Course® http://www.radiantmind.net and Natural Awakening: Advanced Nondual Training: https://www.nondualtraining.com, he was a celibate monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for 9 years and has a Ph.D. in the philosophical psychology of Mahayana Buddhism. Over a period of 40 years Peter Fenner has distilled the essence of traditions like Zen, Dzogchen and the Buddhist Middle Way, and adapted them to suit our post-modern culture.

Is there a “best practice”?

by Peter Fenner How much time do you spend wondering what is the best thing for you to be doing in the present moment, or at some time in the future, or what you should have differently in the past? […]

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Complete Fulfillment (Dzogchen)

There is no need to reject or appropriate anything, or to refute or establish any position, because reality is unbiased. This is Complete Fulfillment – the optimum peak of all spiritual perspectives. Longchenpa In different ways we all seek an […]

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Creating Conditions for the Unconditioned

How is it that Unconditioned experience, is a conditioned experience? I hope you enjoy this video taken from our last Radiant Mind Course in Portland. While it is true that the Unconditioned depends on absolutely no conditions, simultaneously, it is […]

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This Is Not a Project

In the last Radiant Mind course that we had in Portland, a participant asked me a really great question. In his long time practice of meditation, he was encountering difficulties in ‘just sitting’ in the easeful way that we do […]

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The Wizard talks with Peter Fenner

WIZARD: Peter is a living Arunachala. […] So Peter, of all those we've met thus far, I feel you're unequalled in your capacity to demystify the mysterious changes that take place in a person who's called upon to extricate him/herself […]

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Natural Awakening: Advanced Nondual Training

10-month Nondual Training is not offered at present The Natural Awakening: Advanced Nondual Training is designed for people who wish to expand and refine their capacity to offer nondual awareness as a component of their teaching, coaching or psychotherapy with […]

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Natural Silence and Profound Unthinkability

In Java, Indonesia, there are mystical communities who spend time silently together after an evening meal. They do not meditate, nor do they ‘relax’ or snooze. Rather, they sit attentively together in shared silence, just being with each other in […]

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“If I had the time, I’d be like the Buddha!”

One of the common things I hear from people when I’m running a workshop is that, “This space is great, but my life is so busy. I just don’t have the time to rest and be present to “what is.” […]

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Selflessness and the Mandala of Pure Perception

By Peter Fenner, Ph.D. The buddhas teach that there is a self, that there is no self, and that there is neither a self nor the absence of a self. Nagarjuna The flower’s perfume has no form, but it pervades […]

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How will this change me—will I be happier?

A question that frequently, and naturally, arises in any type of transformational work is, “How will this change me?” “Will I be more effective?” “Will I suffer less?” People would like to hear that their lives will be richer, more […]

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