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Dinner in St. Tropez by Andreas Mamet
Dinner in St. Tropez
A story. At one point in our travels we were invited to a dinner party in a villa in the hills above St. Tropez. I do not know if you have an idea of St. Tropez. It makes Hollywood look like a ghost town.
There are Rolls Royces and Ferraris and 50 mill Dollar yachts with water jet engines…. You get the idea …. So, it was dinner, it was beautiful and elegant and everything.
Conversation started. Moved right along into projecting onto others who we are, how wealthy we are (never direct, but the inuendos were flying in the air). I was ready to go into a coma. Something had to be done. So I said ….
“We are here gathered at this table, most of us do not know each other. Usually in such situations we relate to each other from our minds, projecting to the others how we want to be seen. Let us try something altogether different today. Rather than doing the usual, let us relate to each other from the very core of our heart, the core of our souls.”
I paused for a moment and then I said, “Please tell me. What is your very deepest suffering right now?”
The moment I said this, everything and everybody turned silent. The modalities of trivia were entirely cut. Soul Essence was in the air. The fog had lifted in an explosion of authenticity. There was some more silence. Then, a woman to the right broke down and cried. She said, she could not get over the fact that her mother was killed by the mother’s boyfriend. Everything stopped.
Everything became real under the impact of soul’s truth surfacing. The entire evening changed and became suddenly a platform for souls to unite in support for one another, rather than competing with each other.
When we realize that we all have our respective suffering to deal with, we suddenly see that the truth of suffering connects all of us. And in that recognition, we soften and we cease to compete. We suddenly don’t need to win over the other anymore. The heart opens.
This concludes my St. Tropez story. I hope you like it.
About Andreas Mamet
Andreas Mamet began teaching meditation in Japan, the USA and Europe in 1981, after intense meditation training at the Rajneesh Ashram in Poona, India, where he lived for 5 years. He has been living in the United States since 1982 and met his wife Raylene Abbott in Mount Shasta CA, in 1996. After her book worBetween the Visions (available on amazon.com) was published in French, Italian and Japanese, he began teaching with her in Europe and Japan. In their workshops they teach Mantra, Invocation and other meditation tools designed to contact The Presence. They also use Facebook to teach meditation and are available there. If you are interested in organizing workshops with them in your part of the world, please contact him at amamet1000@yahoo.com
