Jeff Foster

No teachers, no students. No awakened beings, no unawakened beings. No path nor absence of a path. No gurus, no disciples. Simply life making love to itself, dancing as all of this, appearing as something we call "world", as all that you see and all that you cannot see, arising and falling back into the barest emptiness, timelessly and forever...

And the emptiness is not a cold, dark, empty emptiness - but a rich, full, alive emptiness, pregnant with infinite possibility, saturated with this incomprehensible intimacy that should, by all accounts, be impossible - and yet, undeniably, is.

Nothing is not nothing, not the absence of all things, but also the presence of them, so that nothing is really everything…. and so it all ends not in nihilism, but in wonder, in fascination, in the kind of gratitude that breaks your heart...

Jeff Foster graduated in Astrophysics from Cambridge University in 2001. Some time after graduation, following a period of severe depression and illness, he became addicted to the idea of "spiritual enlightenment" and embarked on an intensive spiritual search which lasted for several years. The spiritual search came to an absolute end with the clear seeing that there is only ever Oneness. In the clarity of this seeing, life became what it always was: spontaneous, clear, joyful and fully alive, and Jeff began to write and talk about "nonduality" (which he often calls "the utterly, utterly obvious").

His meetings clearly and directly point to the frustrations surrounding the spiritual search, to the nature of mind, and to the clarity at the heart of everything. His uncompromising approach, full of humour and compassion, shatters the mind's hopes for a future awakening, revealing the awakening that is always already present, right in the midst of life.

Feedback about Jeff's meetings

"Dear Jeff, thank you for your beautiful simplicity in expressing non duality. Your words have pierced straight through the 'fuzz' and made me sigh with relief at the ordinariness (beauty) of it all.", Anon.

"I enjoyed the meeting in Midhurst very much … It was the first time in my spiritual search that I've experienced such a 'satsang' … so simple, informal, without an exotic background, just like friends sitting together in the remembrance of what we really are..."

"Just wanted to say that I really enjoyed the meeting. I have come from a background of satsang, and have picked up a few spiritual concepts along the way. It was great to be in a meeting where it felt like, as you say, friends hanging out."

To find out more about Jeff and his work visit his website Life Without a Centre.