Life Application Sessions

These three series of classes will build upon the Primer and Gateway Series by applying Zen principles in daily life. These classes are organized in to three tracks that provide key tools for participants to apply in their daily life. Prerequisite: Primer Series and Gateway Series.

Track 1: Freeing the Mind

This series of three classes will help you get unstuck and move beyond your past mental conditioning that has limited you from being personally effective.

LA 1A: Connecting to Your Deepest Aspiration

This class will privide guidance and tools to empower you to move beyond your habitual conditioning with grounding in an awareness practice that is intentional. It will consist of guided facilitation to help you clarify and deepen your own intention and aspiration. A guided Loving-Kindness meditation will be introduced. Concepts of "Focusing", "felt sense", "intention", "aspiration" and "Loving-Kindness meditation" will be presented.

LA 1B: Discovering Your Inner Richness

This class will facilitate a process for discovering the source of joy and happiness through further letting go. The class will teach how to do Loving-Kindness meditation and a practice for generating compassion called "Taking and Sending".  Concepts presented in this class will include "hero's/heroine's journey", "bodhichitta", "bodhisattva/spiritual warrior" and "taking and sending".  

LA1C: Authentic Presence

This class will instruct on how to maintain sanity, calmness, and stability within yourself and among others, when the world around you is ever-changing and often chaotic. A Big Mind process will be used to facilitate an exploration of self and non-self and their relationship to each other in living a more effective, Zen-inspired life. Concepts of "self", "no-self", and "Zen-inspired life" will be presented. 

If you have completed the Primer and Gateway Series, you may sign up for Track 1, by clicking here.