Marc Gafni Reports

22

Jan

Valentine’s Day Special for Couples from iEvolve and Marc Gafni

Valentine’s Day Special for Couples

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iEvolve’s Sexuality, Spirituality, & Shadow weekend event makes for the perfect Valentine’s day getaway. We are offering a Valentine’s day special for couples, and what better way to spend Valentine’s day than to experience, engage, and explore your Sexuality, Spirituality, and Shadow with your favorite Valentine.

Dinner, cards, and candy are nice, but they don’t last long. Spend Valentine’s day weekend with Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei, Rabbi Marc Gafni, and Natya Priya Sofia Diaz and give yourself, your lover and your relationship the gift of heart, depth, growth, and transformation.

Join us and get your HEART on!
Valentine’s Day Special for Couples

February 13th-15th

Salt Lake City, Utah

Couples Investment: $450 (regularly $900 for 2, offer expires Feb. 1st)

To receive our Valentine’s day special for couples, email Kelly Sosan Bearer at kellysosanbearer@gmail.com

Flying solo this Valentine’s day? No problem. Come and meet like-minded practioners dedicated to personal, spiritual, relational, and sexual growth and evolution!

Sexuality, Spirituality, & Shadow:

The Three S’s of Personal and Dynamic Evolution

A Three-part Event Series

With iEvolve co-founders and faculty Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei , Rabbi Marc Gafni, and Natya Priya Sofia Diaz

Part 1: February 13-15, 2009

Salt Lake City, Utah

Investment: Early-bird price $385 (regularly $450, offer expires Feb. 1st)

Scholarships are available!

REGISTER today at www.ievolveglobalpracticecommunity.com

Join us for the kick-off on an integrally-informed community practice series, exploring the interconnection of sexuality, spirituality, and shadow. By interweaving wisdom from the three traditions of Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei, Dr. Rabbi Marc Gafni and Natya Priya Sofia Diaz, we will explore why it is critical to integrate sex, spirit, and shadow on the spiritual path.

Through yogic practice, meditative inquiry, and interpersonal intimacy, we will deeply discover and refine how we engage these domains in our personal and professional lives.

Working in groups, with partners, and individually, you will:

* Explore the profound, provocative, and radically surprising relationship between sexuality, spirituality, and shadow

* Learn why it is vital to include these three domains in your spiritual journey

* Learn how to integrate all three of these vital domains into your practice life

* Untie knots that you may have carried with you since childhood, in order to experience greater freedom, clarity, and compassion in your personal and professional life

* Finally break down obstacles and melt away barriers that prevent you from living your Unique Life mission

* Uncover shadow material that has prevented you from living with an open heart

* Expand your mind and consciousness through perspective practices

* Learn how to conduct body, breath, and energy to gain greater intimacy

* Offer your deepest presence as love even when you are contracted

Rarely are contemplation, ecstatic movement, holy consideration and community evolution brought together, delighted in, and made manifest as an effective teaching vehicle. If you crave great company, the profound pleasure of growth and laughter, and being challenged to the greatest depth of your gorgeous and evolving being, you will not want to miss this great adventure.

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20

Jan

Inauguaration Day with Marc Gafni

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19

Jan

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19

Jan

Marc Gafni Writes: The Evolution of Divinity

The Evolution of Divinity

A New Spiritual Vision for Our Time

by Rabbi Marc Gafni

The world today is filled with suffering of the most infinite and painful kind. Anyone who has fought in or been exposed to war or who has witnessed a bus full of children explode—a tragically familiar scene in my part of the world—finds it difficult to embrace a theological perspective, whether it’s from the Eastern or Western traditions, Meister Eckhart or the Kabbalah or J. Krishnamurti. Because in the face of that kind of suffering, what do you do? How do you meditate and embrace a ground of being that is divine in a world of radical suffering? How do you live in a world where supposedly, God is king, and yet real kingship or stewardship seems to be lacking in the most profound way possible? In a world of evil and suffering, how do you begin to talk about love and healing and transformation? That is the question.

Classical theology arose in order to answer that question. And the core motivating force in the formation of the great religions was love for one’s neighbor—a love and magnanimity that were transmitted at the greatest possible depth to the largest number of people. This required the development of religious systems whereby the great revelations of spirit were translated into practice and conveyed to wider and wider audiences. These systems included law, ceremony, and ritual, and there were many versions of them. The development of spiritual practices also grew out of the desire to transmit these experiences and the religious values borne from them to future generations, to guarantee an ongoing religiosity in society at large.

But if that wholly positive intention was the entire story, the old religions in their original forms might never have fallen into their well-deserved contemporary disrepute. Over time, religion transgressed its bounds and made two major mistakes. First, it generated the popular understanding that nonbelievers were damned to eternal perdition. St. Augustine spoke to this in all religions in his classic formulation, “There is no Redemption outside of the church.” Thus religion often degenerated into chauvinism and triumphalism, in which murder and untold cruelty were perpetrated in the name of God. It is not insignificant that enlightenment philosopher Voltaire’s battle cry against religion was “remember the cruelties.”

Second, amid the untold suffering experienced by those of medieval Europe, classical religion could no longer provide true meaning and succor to a plague-stricken population. And yet, in spite of that, religion continued to make claims of knowledge, authority, power, and dogma. It insisted on asserting its relatively arbitrary authority over what was good or evil, proper or improper in all fields of human endeavor, including government, science, the healing arts, economics, and moral thought, ultimately fettering each of these arenas and impeding human progress.

For these reasons, a powerful and correct critique of the classical forms of religion appeared in Western civilization in modernity and then in postmodernity. As we can see, however, the results of that critique have been both positive and negative in their ramifications. One expression of that critique was the shift of authority to individual autonomy and to the democratic stage. These were classically understood as a move away from the authority structures of religion. Scientific rationalism replaced premodern dogma, freeing human inquiry, innovation, and agency.

But I will focus here on what is, for many of us today, the most significant aspect of the move away from classical religion. The reaction against religious tradition that began with modernity has emerged as a contemporary preference for a loosely defined and more loosely practiced spirituality—one that is to a considerable extent defining the spiritual landscape of our time.

Our postmodern culture is characterized by an unprecedented individualism, narcissism, and materialism—autonomy gone awry. In this cultural climate, spirituality of the “New Age” variety has emerged as being long on vision but short on commitment, depth, and rigor. This kind of spirituality is often primarily focused on spiritual experiences, few of which make demands on the very essence of the human soul or the way life is actually lived in the world. There is no sense of what Hebrew wisdom would call mitzvah. Mitzvah, which literally means commandment and is mistakenly translated as good deed, speaks to the sense that something must be done. But in much of contemporary spirituality, personal preference replaces obligation. Indeed, this preference is but a reflection of the underlying narcissism that lies at the heart of both the modern and postmodern quests for meaning. Instead of autonomy being an internal source of authority, freedom has come to mean free from the core obligation to grow; free to ignore the call of spirit to committed and consistent action.

The essential imperative to clear and decisive action in this moment often goes unheard in the din of postmodernity. It is blocked by the deafening deadness of a society whose true God is comfort and not pleasure. In fact, the definition of modern spiritual decadence is the linguistic assumption that the opposite of pain is pleasure. But the opposite of pain is not pleasure, but comfort, which is to avoid pain at all costs. If my goal is truly pleasure—the pleasure of spirit, which is growth—then I will be willing to engage the pain of committed service.

Hence modern spiritual seekers anesthetized by the comfort of their pallid “spiritual search” remain at their depths comfortably numb. And in a world gone awry and in desperate need of our help, postmodern spirituality has become a sophisticated form of leisure activity and escape, another variety of the many therapies we apply in the worship at the altar of ourselves.

As we can see, neither New Age spirituality nor the old religious orthodoxies have within them the power to heal our souls and our planet. And presently, they can both function to keep us from experiencing ourselves as partners in the healing of the world—a globalized, superconnected world where we can no longer claim emotional ignorance. A world where evil and suffering demarcate our reality.

So I want to put forth a different vision of how to manifest love and healing and transformation in this world—a new spiritual vision that emerges from the depths of Hebrew mysticism. One of the core revelations of the great empirical researchers of human development over the past hundred years has been the validation of perhaps the most important single teaching of classic Renaissance Kabbalah—the understanding that Spirit is not static but rather that it develops; it evolves stage by stage. And each stage adopts the great truths of the prior stage while discarding its dross, as it reaches for the next and higher level of Spirit’s unfolding.

The Zohar* says that we are God’s name—we’re God’s verbs, we’re God’s adjectives, we’re even God’s dangling modifiers. We’re the language of the divine in the world, and in that way, we become the voice of the meshiach—the messiah. Anything less than the realization of that is called, in the inner mystical tradition, heresy. The core liberation teaching of Kabbalah is that to be a heretic is to believe that God does not need me, that I am not required to participate in the evolution of God. But enlightenment means we participate in divinity; we don’t just submit to it by responding to the evil and suffering in the world with a traditional theology or a theodicy. The ultimate response to the suffering of the world is, like that of the Hebrew mystic, to cry in protest and to let that protest translate into action. I call this nondual humanism, which means that I participate in God’s evolving self, now.

As the great nineteenth-century Hasidic master Nachman of Bratzlav implied, the most important thing in the world is to be willing to give up who you are for who you might become. He calls this process the giving up of pnimi, which literally means “what is within.” For Nachman, that means the old, familiar thing that comforts even when it no longer serves—and that can include our spirituality and religion, and even the very core way we understand our relationship to the divine ground of being.

In fact, we are now consciously responsible for the very evolution of divinity so that it becomes relevant for our time. Thus we are called on to reach for makkif—that which is beyond us, that which we can only reach if we are willing to take a leap into the abyss. This is what Abraham was called to do—to give up all his yesterdays and todays for an unknown tomorrow.

What we are talking about is much more than the evolution of man. The great privilege of being human is that we can participate in the evolution and healing of God. We participate in the yearning force of being, experiencing the interconnectivity of the all and the all—the fullness of presence and interiority. And that means to take up one’s role as an evolved agent co-creating with God in the transformation of the planet. The evolution of the human spirit is what catalyzes the evolution of God, of divine consciousness. We are God’s healers. In the words of Nikos Kazantzakis, We are the saviors of God. And when God and man meet in an evolutionary embrace, redemption is achieved.

* Widely considered the most important work of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism.

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13

Jan

iEvolve Telecourses with Dr. Marc Gafni

Integral Practice : A Year Long Intensive With Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei and Dr. Marc Gafni

Integral practice is a comprehensive approach to your personal evolution, growth and transformation. Integral Practice brings together the world’s best evolutionary practices and the most potent insights for you to engage on your personal growth journey. These insights have been lovingly gathered from the all of the great systems of mind and heart that have been flourishing on our planet since the dawn of humanity.

These heart opening and mind-blowing methods of Integral Personal Evolution have been tried and tested in the spiritual lab of human potential and developed by Ken Wilber, together with Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei, Dr. Rabbi Marc Gafni and several other lineage holders from some of the great spiritual traditions, through the Integral Institute. These practices and teachings have been brought together into a systematic program of spiritual cross-training, designed to radically transform your life on all levels and lines of your existence.

Integral practice uses the leading edge systems and models of human growth- East and West - and distills their major components into five simple insights and practices that are the essential elements or keys to unlocking and facilitating human evolution.

If you are committed to:

• Being love, giving love, and receiving love

• Being a significantly happier, deeper, and more evolved being

• Meeting your human obligation to grow and transform

• Committed to giving your most profound gifts to heal the fragmented world we live in

Then you CANNOT AFFORD NOT TO MISS OUR INTEGRAL PRACTICE TELECOURSE.

Life demands that we show-up in the gorgeous wonder of our pure excellence. We can either hear the personal address of the Kosmos calling us in love, to Wake Up and Be the Beauty that you Already Are, or remain asleep. If you are committed to genuine change, to embodying an enlightened evolutionary worldview, to being love, to being freedom in your inner and outer world, and to partnering with the Divine in re-creating the Kosmos – start today with Integral Practice!

In this year-long intensive, Integral Spiritual leaders and teachers Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei and Dr. Rabbi Marc Gafni will offer you personal challenges and deeply loving instruction through a breakthrough program for evolving your body, mind, and spirit through all quadrants, levels and lines of your life. Learn tools to sustain your personal and spiritual growth practice for life.

Develop an Integral Practice that is self-supportive, self-sustaining, and self-actualizing.

Integral Practice: A Year-long Intensive With iEvolve co-founders and Senior Teachers Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei and Rabbi Dr. Marc Gafni Integral Practice:

Starts: Monday, March 2, 2009

Ends: Monday, March 15, 2010

Master Classes run for 2.5 hours and meets on Mondays once a month.

There will be optional small groups- Integral Practice Pods- that will meet in between every Master Class. Each Integral Practice Pod will have it’s own list serve, toll-free conference number, facilitator and call-in times. We are offering this Year-long Intensive at this special, one time reduced rate Registration is Limited to 75 Participants - Sign up Today!

Investment: Early-bird cost of $489 (regularly $569, offer expires Feb. 23rd) P

lease email Kelly at kellysosanbearer@gmail.com after you have registered to receive details to access the calls and the class schedule.

Integral Life Purpose Unique Self: Realizing the Unique Purpose of Your Life as Your Spiritual Path

A Seven-Week Telecourse with Dr. Marc Gafni

At the Integral Spiritual Center gathering in 2006, Dr. Rabbi Marc Gafni, in response to a spiritual invitation issued by Ken Wilber, unpacked and shared the principles of Integral Kabbalah. Dr. Marc shared with us one of the Great Illuminated Teachings of the Western Enlightenment Traditions – the teaching and practice of the Unique Self.

Since that time, this teaching has been adopted as a core module in the Integral Life Practice program, in the Big Mind book and work of Genpo Roshi, and in the work of many other Integral teachers. We are therefore proud to present this new and compelling Integral Path of Transformation- the path and practice of the Unique Self: Realizing the Unique Purpose of Your Life as the Key to your Nondual Realization and Spiritual Path In this special and limited, home study telecourse, spiritual teacher Dr. Rabbi Marc Gafni will share, illuminate, instruct and transmit this core teaching of the Western Enlightenment path.

Based on foundational principles of Integral Kabbalah, Esoteric Christianity, and Esoteric Islam {Sufism}, Dr. Rabbi Marc will share with you the mystical teaching, practice and instruction of the path of Unique Self.

Join Dr. Rabbi Marc Gafni and practice this new, yet ancient dharma, for the transformation of your life!

In this seven-week home study program, you will learn:

* The Four Noble Truths of Unique Self

* The complete set of Unique Self Practices that you can deploy in your life immediately, easily, and effectively

* The five keys to unlock your Unique Self and Unique Purpose

* How to define and manifest your Unique Life Mission and Purpose in every situation

* The four Unique Self principles of loving which, when manifested, will transform your love relationships in a significant and powerful way

* First, second and third person Unique Self practices that will change your relationship to yourself, God, nature and community

Unique Self: Realizing the Unique Purpose of your Life as Spiritual Path

A Seven-Week Telecourse with Dr. Marc Gafni

Starts: Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Ends: April 14, 2009

Classes run for 1.5 hours and meet for seven consecutive weeks on Tuesdays. T

There will be optional small groups- Integral Practice Pods- that will meet in-between each class. Each Integral Practice Pod will have it’s own list-serve, toll-free conference number, facilitator and call-in times.

Course is limited to 100 participants

Investment: Early-bird cost of $149 (regularly $199, offer expires Feb. 24th )

Please email Kelly at kellysosanbearer@gmail.com after you have registered to receive details to access the calls and receive the class schedule.

Integral Zen: A Year Long Intensive with Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei

A student asked Roshi, “What is Integral Zen?” Roshi replied, “My life….”

If you are a student of Zen, or are interested in becoming one, what can you expect when you enter and practice within the Zen Buddhist tradition, and does it change if you are practicing with a Zen lineage holder informed by the Integral Map?

Join Musho Sensei in this year-long Integral Zen intensive and explore the various dimensions of an Integral Zen practice, from your relationship with the teacher, to the particulars of form, including the various structures that hold it all in place from a four-quadrant perspective.

Expand your Horizons with the Integral Framework

This telecourse will present the Integral Framework, an invaluable aid to helping you understand and categorize your experience. The framework we use is crucial for our growth, since it is both the clearing in which experience arises (the broader the framework, the more fully we can experience then many aspects of life) and the lens through which our experience (even our experience of emptiness!) is interpreted.

Experience Big Mind

A unique and revolutionary approach for transmitting the authentic teachings that emerged from Buddha’s enlightenment experience. By participating in Big Mind, you will gain profound insights in the illuminating experience from which Buddhism and all the world’s great religions originate.

Bring your Shadow into the Light

The religious traditions had no way of knowing about modern psychological notions such as the shadow, aspects of ourselves which we are unable to incorporate in 1st person (“me”) and is thus incorporated in 3rd person (“it”). For example, if we are unable to acknowledge our own hostility, we may project in onto others, seeing them as being hostile to us. Our shadows cause painful symptoms and tend to sabotage spiritual growth, even in the most steadfast of practitioners. This telecourse introduces practices which help us to identify our shadow and bring it to light, releasing stores of energy we never knew we had!

Experience Healthy Development through States and Stages

Another crucial insight of Integral Theory is that all people experience states (such as the great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep) and all people navigate through stages of development. Confusion between these conceptions can be perilous, and an understanding of them can help us to walk our spiritual path in a conscious fashion, and enter more deeply into relationship with emptiness and form.

During this year-long intensive, you will explore, engage and learn:

• The basics of zazen practice

• The Big Mind process – a truly Integral practice- developed by Zen Master Genpo Roshi

• How to cultivate awakening and compassion through your Zen practice

• How to apply the Integral approach to your Zen practice

• Everyday Zen for everyday people

Integral Zen: A Year-long Intensive with Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei

Starts: January 23, 2009

Ends: December 19, 2009

Classes run for 1.5 hours and meet once a month on Saturdays from 9-10:30AM (MST)

Investment: Early-bird cost of $249 (regularly $399, offer expires January 19th)

Please email Kelly at kellysosanbearer@gmail.com after you have registered to receive details to access the calls.

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10

Jan

Integral Spiritual Experience with Marc Gafni

Dear Friends,

For years the global Integral community has sought a flagship spiritual event that would unite every major tradition in an integral embrace of exploration, practice, and community.

We are very pleased to announce that the time has come…

INTEGRAL SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE

This is a very special pre-invitation to join us as we embark on a 5-year journey to explore, practice and share humanity’s first world spirituality at the leading edge of evolution.

This groundbreaking gathering will be led by the world’s leading lineage holders from every major spiritual tradition and represents the flagship event for the spiritual community worldwide. It will address the great evolutionary questions that confront us at the leading edge in the grand adventure of Spirit.

What does it mean to be spiritual in the 21st century?
How do we practice Integral spirituality, the first truly world spirituality?
What is the unique purpose of your life and your unique contribution to the universe?
How do states, stages, shadow and self form your unique spiritual constellation?
How can we cultivate more deeply the three faces of spirit?
And many others…

The first year of ISE starts with you. Integral Spiritual Experience I: Unique Self will explore the unique purpose of being alive on the planet at this particular time and place and the unique purpose of your life. It is a foundational element of the 5-year journey.

This 5-year journey has been designed to celebrate the coming of every New Year and will be held on the edge of the beautiful Pacific Ocean at the Asilomar Retreat Center in Monterey, California. Integral Spiritual Experience I will be held December 29, 2009 to January 3, 2010. The Integral Spiritual Experience will be limited to 400 people who are committed to exploring the leading edge of Integral spirituality as a group, so please save the date.

Spirit is evolving every moment, so won’t you join us in humility, love, intelligence, and creative audacity to share a great time together in this adventure? Registration will be open soon and we’ll send you full details in the coming weeks. We hope to see you…
Loving regards,

Robb Smith

Integral Spiritual Experience is a partnership event created by Integral Life and iEvolve

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10

Jan

iEvolve: Global Practice Community Updates

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iEvolve: Global Practice Community is a new global, integrally-informed practice community co-founded by leading Integral Spiritual teachers Sally Kempton, Diane Musho Hamilton, Marc Gafni and Sofia Diaz.

You may have seen the announcement of the Integral Spiritual Experience event sent out by Integral Life and iEvolve: Global Practice Community. And in case you are wondering “Who is iEvolve?” - we are inviting you to come and check us out!

The Integral Spiritual Experience is an iEvolve and Integral Life partnership event, initiated by Dr. Marc Gafni, Sally Kempton, Diane Musho Hamilton, and Sofia Diaz.

Visit iEvolve: Global Practice Community and check out our upcoming events, visit our teacher’s page, join the iEvolve mailing list, listen to our featured dialogue between Spiritual Artist and Rabbi, Dr. Marc Gafni and Integral Rock Star and Comedian Stuart Davis, or sign up for our home study programs.

You can also join us our iEvolve Facebook group!
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iEvolve Events

Sexuality, Spirituality, & Shadow:

The Three S’s of Personal and Dynamic Evolution
A Three-part Event Series

With iEvolve co-founders and faculty
Diane Musho Hamilton, Marc Gafni, and Sofia Diaz

Part 1: February 13-15, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah

Investment: Early-bird price $385 (regularly $450, offer expires Feb. 1st)

Scholarships are available
REGISTER today!

Join us for the kick-off on an integrally-informed community practice series, exploring the interconnection of sexuality, spirituality, and shadow.

By interweaving wisdom from the three traditions of Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei, Rabbi Marc Gafni and Natya Priya Sofia Diaz, we will explore why it is critical to integrate sex, spirit, and shadow on the spiritual path.
Through yogic practice, meditative inquiry, and interpersonal intimacy, we will deeply discover and refine how we engage these domains in our personal and professional lives.

Working in groups, with partners, and individually, you will:

*      Explore the connection between sexuality, spirituality, and shadow
*      Learn why it is important to include these three domains in your spiritual journey
*      Untie knots in order to experience greater freedom, clarity, and compassion in your personal and professional life
*      Break down barriers that prevent you from living your Unique Life mission
*      Uncover shadow material that prevents you from living with an open heart
*      Expand your mind and consciousness through perspective practices
*      Learn how to conduct body, breath, and energy to gain greater intimacy
*      Offer your deepest presence and love even when you are contracted

Rarely are contemplation, ecstatic movement, holy consideration and community evolution brought together, delighted in, and made manifest as an effective teaching vehicle.

If you crave great company, the profound pleasure of growth and laughter, and being challenged to the greatest depth of your gorgeous and evolving being, you will not want to miss this great adventure.

February 13-15, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah

Investment: Early-bird price $385 (regularly $450, offer expires Feb. 1st)

Scholarships are available
REGISTER today!

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iEvolve Home Study Programs

Integral Zen: A Year Long Intensive with Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei

Integral Zen is the application of what is known as the Integral map to Zen, itself. By applying the Integral map to Zen Buddhism, not only is the Zen tradition seen in context for the first time, but new insights start to emerge.

If you are a student of Zen, or are interested in becoming one, what can you expect when you enter and practice within the Zen Buddhist tradition, and does it change if you are practicing with a Zen lineage holder informed by the Integral Map?
In this year-long Integral Zen intensive, Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei will guide you through the various dimensions of an Integral Zen practice, from your relationship with the teacher, to the particulars of form, including the various structures that hold it all in place from a four-quadrant perspective.

Join Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei for an Integral Zen year-long intensive home study program.

During this year-long intensive, you will explore, engage and learn:

•    The basics of zazen practice
•    The Big Mind process – a truly Integral practice- developed by Zen Master Genpo Roshi
•    How to cultivate awakening and compassion on your spiritual journey
•    How to apply the Integral approach to your Zen practice
•    Everyday Zen for everyday people

For more information and to register, please visit our iEvolve Home Study Programs

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10

Jan