The Craft of

Habit Transformation

Weekend Seminar

with Zenki Dillo Roshi

In-person or Online Participation

October 5 & 6, 2024

at the Mountain Zendo

The Craft of Habit Transformation

This seminar kicks off the live practice course, Transforming Habits. The Saturday morning session is free of charge for anyone who is interested in the topic, but isn't sure about participating in the whole weekend or subsequent course. The full seminar is included in the course registration, or can also be attended separately from the course.

A note from Zenki Roshi:

Join me for a very practical seminar on how to study and transform your habits—the mental, physical, and emotional routines that shape your life.

When self-help books talk about habits, it's usually in the spirit of "being your best self." When we talk about habits as Buddhist practitioners, we do not entirely discount self-improvement, but our main interest is freedom.

The craft of transforming habits depends on the realization of two kinds of freedom. (1) There is the freedom of realizing that habits are insubstantial structures that collapse as soon as we don't repeat the underlying action. A Buddhist would say, "Habits are empty." (2) There is the freedom of knowing how to do the actions that most align with our truest intentions and then repeat them so they become reliably automated.

All this is easier said than done. We tend to identify with our habits and forget our freedom. And our desire for less-than-wholesome, short-term rewards easily comes into conflict with our truest intentions.

Let's dive in and gain a deeper understanding of what it takes to realize our freedom and express it through wholesome actions and habits.

Note: This seminar is included in the Transforming Habits Course but can be attended separately.