PRACTICE AND STUDY
I am happy to make available several different ways that you might engage in dharma study to support your personal development.
Retreats:
My first suggestion is that if at all possible, you attend a retreat. This allows us to meet face to face and begin our process of working together.
Retreats are 3- to 7-days of intensive zazen practice. They are offered throughout the United States and Europe. Retreats consist of periods of meditation, traditional chanting, dokusan (individual meetings between the teacher and each student) and teishos (dharma talks). For more information please check the Retreat Schedule page, or contact Zen Master Bomun about scheduling a retreat in your home.
Phone Interviews:
I also offer the possibility of weekly phone conversations: a modern update of a core Zen study and practice tradition. During these one hour sessions we might look together at what is going on in your life, areas where you want to grow or stretch or learn how to actualize your understanding in your day to day experience. In this way practice is encouraged and supported in the intervals between retreats.
Zen Life Coaching:
Through regularly scheduled phone dialogues and emails, Zen Life Coaching offers intensive work for those seeking to live fully through their deepest values. Together we will utilize principles of life coaching, Zen practice, and contemplative therapy to assist you in actualizing your realization in your daily life.
Inquiry and Dialogue Groups:
Occasionally we organize group study programs via conference calls. Together we might take up a traditional teaching and allow it to speak to and inform what is going on in our own lives. The group process offers an enrichment of perspectives and a commonality in our meeting as human beings working towards the realization of our own awakening.
Special Interest Workshops:
Beginner Workshops: Introduction to Zen Practice
Mahayana Sutra Study: Diamond, Heart, Lotus, and Vimalakirti sutras.
With sutra study, we emphasize the application in meditation and everyday life
I am happy to make available several different ways that you might engage in dharma study to support your personal development.
Retreats:
My first suggestion is that if at all possible, you attend a retreat. This allows us to meet face to face and begin our process of working together.
Retreats are 3- to 7-days of intensive zazen practice. They are offered throughout the United States and Europe. Retreats consist of periods of meditation, traditional chanting, dokusan (individual meetings between the teacher and each student) and teishos (dharma talks). For more information please check the Retreat Schedule page, or contact Zen Master Bomun about scheduling a retreat in your home.
Phone Interviews:
I also offer the possibility of weekly phone conversations: a modern update of a core Zen study and practice tradition. During these one hour sessions we might look together at what is going on in your life, areas where you want to grow or stretch or learn how to actualize your understanding in your day to day experience. In this way practice is encouraged and supported in the intervals between retreats.
Zen Life Coaching:
Through regularly scheduled phone dialogues and emails, Zen Life Coaching offers intensive work for those seeking to live fully through their deepest values. Together we will utilize principles of life coaching, Zen practice, and contemplative therapy to assist you in actualizing your realization in your daily life.
Inquiry and Dialogue Groups:
Occasionally we organize group study programs via conference calls. Together we might take up a traditional teaching and allow it to speak to and inform what is going on in our own lives. The group process offers an enrichment of perspectives and a commonality in our meeting as human beings working towards the realization of our own awakening.
Special Interest Workshops:
Beginner Workshops: Introduction to Zen Practice
Mahayana Sutra Study: Diamond, Heart, Lotus, and Vimalakirti sutras.
With sutra study, we emphasize the application in meditation and everyday life
