Wisdom Mind
Self-Paced Practice Course
with Zenki Dillo Roshi
About This Course
This course emphasizes the posture of not-knowing—a radical openness toward our sensory and bodily experience. How do we realize our undivided intimacy with all things and cultivate a mind of "no fixed views?"
'Wisdom Mind' is the third course in a 4-part series covering the basic teachings with which Buddhism answers our inmost request: transformation, liberation from suffering, wisdom, and compassion.
What You Will Learn
- Clarify what wisdom means in your lived experience
- Work with the posture of not-knowing
- Loosen your sense of a fixed reality and appreciate the mystery of existence
- Understand the famous Buddhist teaching of the Two Truths (absolute and relative; emptiness and form)
- Make your mind more flexible and step out of fixed views and opinions with a modern take on an ancient Indian teaching called Tetralemma (the four logical positions of This, That, Both, and Neither)
- Get a handle on the much misunderstood Buddhist notion of Non-Self with the help of the Buddhist teaching of the Five Aggregates (form, feeling, perception, conditioning, consciousness)
- Shift from viewing the world as a constellation of separate and fixed things to experiencing it as a fluid field of undivided activity
- Trust your mind as the medium for expressing wisdom
- Discover and make use of your bodily sensations (felt sense) for expressing wisdom
What You Get
The course consists of 8 modules (see curriculum below), each consisting of a video dharma talk, several practice suggestions, and written materials to deepen your study. Altogether you will receive:
- 10 Dharma talks originally given to a live audience,
- over 30 practice suggestions to integrate the content of the talks into your daily life,
- all Dharma talks and practice suggestions in audio format for easy download, so you can use the recordings while on the go,
- a combined PDF file of all practice suggestions to download,
- lifetime access to the course.
Plus:
- 1 free practice meeting with Zenki Roshi to discuss questions about your practice.
The Path of Aliveness (Book)
Zenki Roshi's book The Path of Aliveness has four parts: (1) Transformation, (2) Liberation, (3) Wisdom, and (4) Compassion. This course Wisdom Mind is aligned with the third part of the book.
This course includes excerpts from Part 3, so that you can go over some of the core teachings in a written form.
The book's table of contents is available here. The whole book is available directly from the publisher, Shambhala Publications, or from major book vendors such as Amazon.
Course Fees:
$90 - Member Price
$120 - Non-member Price
Curriculum
- The Posture of Not Knowing
- Participating in the Great Mystery
- The Two Truths
- No Fixed View
- Navigating Self and Non-Self (Seminar)
- Undivided Activity
- Expressing Big Mind
- Living and Speaking from the Felt Sense
Zenki Roshi’s dharma talks are awesome. He has a wonderful way of bringing Zen teaching to the heart of real life. If you’ve ever wondered how to fully and completely engage with your life, these talks are for you.
Zenki Roshi has a unique aptitude for weaving traditional Zen teachings into contemporary personal and cultural challenges. [He] tactfully uses the exploration of language and anecdotes to eloquently articulate Zen approaches to transformation, realization, wisdom and compassion. What’s more, these teachings are appropriate for the newcomer to Zen practice and the decades-long veteran, alike.
There is nothing aloof or distant about these teachings; they are made personal and relatable by how Zenki Roshi delivers teachings within the context of his own experience as a decades-long practitioner of Zen. I also very much appreciate his precise and concise use of language to point listeners to deeply explore the richness of their own bodily experiences.
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