In Zen practice, the Bodhisattva is a person who vows to use their wisdom to help other beings awaken. Traditionally, it is said that the Bodhisattva puts off his or her complete enlightenment until all beings have crossed over to the other shore. When we consider the depth of this image, we see how it actually reflects the truth of our own life and the challenges which relationships present. We might actually believe that we could all rest thoroughly in or as Nirvana if it weren’t for those pesky ones called “others” who keep disturbing our bliss.

The willingness to work with the difficulty in ourselves and others is precisely the Bodhisattva’s commitment. But how to do this? According to the Mahayana tradition, the bodhisattva path shows us how to clarify our aspiration, practice the Six Perfections, and develop the skillful means to actually help others. In this ten-week journey, we will explore aspects of the Bodhisattva path, seeing how true awakening naturally leads to a living with an open and generous heart in the midst of all of our humanness.

What You’ll Learn During Our 10-Week Journey

Week One: Great Joy

It is said that that when one glimpses one’s true nature, one also sees how practicing the Buddha Way benefits all sentient beings. In other words, what is good for you is simultaneously good for others; there is no separation at all. This is cause for Great Joy.

Week Two: Practicing the Precepts

A Bodhisattva understands the importance of receiving the precepts, and frees him or herself from the complications, tedium, and suffering of unethical conduct. Learning moral discipline is the first expression of the Six Perfections, providing a container for practice and an example of being awake.

Week Three: The 3 Vehicles: Relative, Absolute, and Free-Functioning

Relative and absolute realities are like two arrows meeting in mid-air. How, then, do we view the precepts from the relative view as a practice, as the absolute reality, and the freely functioning expression of wisdom and compassion which is the Mahayana or the Great Vehicle?

Week Four: Causality, Karma, and Responsibility: Hakujo’s Fox

This koan depicts an encounter between a Zen Master and an old monk who is suffering his karmic predicament – he has been made to live as a fox. This koan invites us to consider the ways that we are bound by our conditioning and subject to the ripples of cause and effect throughout time. Ultimately, Zen master Hakujo correctly points to the need for taking 100% responsibility for our life.

Week Five: The Six Perfections: Generosity

Bodhisattvas practice all of the six perfections, especially generosity or dana. How is it that giving freely actually sustains and nourishes us? Is it possible to happily swing the bucket of our own life, inviting others to come and get it?

Week Six: Patience

The most important and least understood of the perfections, patience doesn’t arise from being old, worn-out, powerless, or tired. Patience arises from directly from zazen and the recognition of what is, indicating what and when things can happen.

Week Seven: Diligence

Like patience, diligence if often misinterpreted as willfulness. In our exploration of the Six Perfections, we will look at diligence not as willfulness, but as willingness. We will explore what happens to our energy when we trade self-will for staying curious, open, and available.

Week Eight: Meditation and Wisdom

Bodhidharma said that “When the wondrous stillness flourishes, and the body of reality appears, this is dhyana paramita, the perfection of meditation. When the wondrous stillness opens into illumination, changeless, eternally abiding, not attaching to anything, this is prajna paramita, the perfection of wisdom.”

Week Nine: The Four Vows

The Four Vows are recited and embraced each day in our practice, and they express the embodiment or manifestation of the Buddha Way. Bodhisattvas joyfully commit to others, helping them attain maturity and freedom, participating with them in wisdom and compassion.

Week Ten: Appreciate Your Life

Taizan Maezumi Roshi reminded us to “Appreciate Your Life.” In week ten, we will see how the expression of appreciation and gratitude is the pure reflection of the Bodhisattva’s Path, revealing and enhancing the beauty of life as we see, experience, and live it.
You can participate live or listen to the recordings later, at any time, from anywhere in the world.

Can’t Make the Call?

No problem… If for any reason you can’t attend the live call, you can download a recording of the call and listen to it whenever you like. This includes 10 weeks and 90-minute MP3′s. We will post the recording from each class as soon as possible after the event.

How can I Ask Questions?

Throughout this teleseminar series you can submit questions via email. You can even submit questions online during the call as Diane will be answering them live. Questions will also be answered live via the phone.

Weekly Discussions and Private Practice Group:

There will be a Discussion thread open immediately following each class in this series. You will need to have a login to iEvolve’s Online Community to participate in the discussion thread. This discussion thread is part of a larger, Private Group for members of this telecourse. Diane will be participating in this group weekly, giving you even more access to this teaching.

Weekly Assignments:

Each week Diane will present an assignment. This wil be announced weekly in the Private Group and this space will be used to engage with others exploring the same topic. Each week you will engage practices and techniques to assist you in the awakening of the Bodhisattva Path.

A 9-Week Telecourse
with iEvolve Founders Diane Musho Hamilton and Dr. Marc Gafni
Starts Tuesday, October 5th
, 5-6:30pm PT, 6-7:30pm MT, 8-9:30pm ET

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself… – Khalil Gibran

What kind of love do you really long for? What kind of love do you yearn to give? What have you imagined for yourself and for those you care about? When was the last time you challenged yourself to confess what’s true – not as an ideal, but as your lived reality, as your life? Are you ready to challenge yourself to grow in and as love? Are you prepared to admit that your loving is stalled at the status quo, and that it is up to you to change it? Do you want to evolve your love consciously? What would happen if you committed to a conscious, developmental practice of Love – not sentimental, not overly emotional or personally fixated, but one of genuine transformation that changes you, those you love, and the world.

If you are longing for this, if you are ready to join Diane Musho Hamilton and Dr. Marc Gafni for a journey into intimacy, vulnerability, and the vast wilderness of the heart. Abandon limited self-discovery, and enter into a rapturous world where, through conscious engagement, you become an instrument of Love’s Evolution.

What You’ll Learn in our Level One Course:

Week 1: Open to the Three Faces of Love

•    Apply the fullness of the first, second, and third faces of love to your life today
•    Engage the latest research about love’s impact on healing, growth, and transformation
•    Enact these three aspects of love to enrich and enliven your life’s activities and relationships

Week 2: Discover Evolution as Love, Love as Evolution

•    Learn what the ancient wisdom traditons and perennial philosophers teaches us about love
•    Unfold the Mystery of Eros and Holiness
•    Engage Love as a Perception and learn to invite the Transformative Process of Love into Life

Week 3: Become Love: Discover your Innate True Nature

•    Overcome idolatry, infatuation, and false expressions of love
•    Learn to recognize and relax ego’s neediness, clinging, and withdrawal
•    Discover genuine broken-heartedness as a gateway to tenderness

Week 4: Deepen Your Recognition as Love

•    Enter the Four Heavenly Abodes of equanimity, compassion, loving-kindness, self-fulfilling joy
•    Trust the fullness of all aspects of your experience
•    Experience the perfection of how things already are

Week 5: Love as Devotion: Engage the Beloved

•    Enter the peril and promise of devotional relationship to experience the “Miracle of We”
•    Inhabit the paradoxes of sameness and difference, autonomy and communion, and surrender and responsibility
•    Increase vitality and freedom by mixing impersonal and personal love

Week 6: Transform the Wounds of Love

•    Discover how you can work with pain, disappointment and loss through the metabolic function of the human heart
•    Upgrade your understanding of the technologies of forgiveness, apology,  and empathic listening
•    Practice ethical loving

Week 7: Transmute Negative Emotions

•    Discover why feeling everything is essential to healthy development
•    Find the vital energy in your anger, jealousy, and sorrow
•    Learn to stay actively open through life’s challenges, and allow pain to held in a context of joy

Week 8: Express Love through Sacred Conversation

•    Learn to communicate fearlessly
•    Relax and be nourished by simply listening and receiving another
•    Practice expressing difficult truths, and establishing deeply loving boundaries
•    Realize true intimacy through the art of give and take

Week 9: Commit to Love

•    Find your Unique Self quality of loving
•    Learn to include uncertainty, rawness, imperfection and shadow
•    Realize and practice the true meaning of Unconditional Love

*You can participate live or listen to the recordings later, at any time, from anywhere in the world.

Can’t Make the Call?

No problem… If for any reason you can’t attend the live call, you can download a recording of the call and listen to it whenever you like. This includes 10 weeks and 90-minute MP3′s. We will post the recording from each class as soon as possible after the event.

How can I Ask Questions?

You can submit questions online during the call as Dr. Marc and Diane will be answering them live. Questions will also be answered live via the phone.

Weekly Discussions and Private Practice Group:

There will be a Discussion thread open immediately following each class in this series. You will need to have a login to iEvolve’s Online Community to participate in the discussion thread. This discussion thread is part of a larger, Private Group for members of this telecourse. Dr. Marc and Diane will be participating in this group weekly, giving you even more access to this profound new teaching.

Weekly Assignments:

Each week Dr. Marc and Diane will present an assignment. This wil be announced weekly in the Private Group and this space will be used to engage with others exploring the same topic. Each week you will engage practices and techniques to assist you in the awakening of Love in all three faces.

Join us for a rare opportunity to deepen your meditation practice in the strong container provided by silence in the desert!

This 21-day long journey held in Southern Utah will include:

* Sitting & Walking Meditation with Personal Interviews with the Teacher

* Afternoon Big Mind Sessions to Awaken Your Spirit

* Group Walks in the Amazing Capitol Reef National Park

* The Basics of Zazen Practice

* How to Apply the Integral Approach to your Zen Practice

* Everyday Zen for Everyday People

Week 1: Integral Zen, August 8th-15th with Diane Musho Hamilton

Intensive Zen practice with an emphasis on the experience of sitting meditation.This retreat will including extensive zazen, walking meditation, walks in Capitol Reef National Park, and Inteviews with the teacher.

Week 2: Zen & the Art of Relationship, August 15th-21st with Diane Musho Hamilton

Zen emphasizes the importance of manifesting your realization in your way of being. This week will focus on bringing the insights of Zen into integral relationship work with deep listening practices, asserting and receiving, negotiation skills and group work.

Week 3: Zen in the Desert, August 22nd – 28th with Diane Musho Hamilton

An exploration of nature and spirit in the red rocks of Southern Utah.

We will travel deep into the red rock canyons for a full week, meditating, contemplating nature, and exploring the 3 Faces of Sprit. We will conclude our week outdoors with a sweat lodge ceremony.

Please join us for any one or the entire three-week program. Each week will be informed by the insights of Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, will include working with the four pillars of practice – Mind, Spirit, Shadow, and Body.

Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She is a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community and is a co-director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center. She is the lead trainer on Integral Life Practice and has worked with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute since 2004.

Logistical Information:

Those attending should plan to participate in the entire schedule unless special arrangements are made with the leader of the retreat.

Driving Directions:

The Boulder Mountain Zendo is about a 3.5 hour drive from Salt Lake City. Here is the address of the Winter Zendo: 200 North 40 East, Torrey, Utah.

Motel lodging is available nearby:

1. Torrey Trading Post – www.torreytradingpost.com

2. Chuckwagon – www.austinschuckwagonmotel.com

3. Capital Reef Inn – www.capitolreefinn.com

4. Boulder View Inn – www.boulderviewinn.com/Home.html

Come Experience the Natural Beauty of Southern Utah, located near the Capitol Reef National Park, in the heart of Utah’s red rock country.

A Zen meditation retreat set in Torrey, in the midst of the amazing red rock and mountains of Southern Utah. This retreat will provide a strong sitting and walking meditation schedule in a large tented zendo. There will be Dharma talks, including use of the Big Mind process, and opportunities for individual interview with the teacher.

Join us for a rare opportunity to deepen your meditation practice in the strong container provided by silence in the desert!

This week-long journey held in Southern Utah will include:

1.    Sitting & Walking Meditation with  Personal Interviews with the Teacher

2.    Afternoon Big Mind Sessions to Awaken Your Spirit

3.    Group Walks in the Amazing Capitol Reef National Park

4.    A Sweat Lodge Ceremony

5.    Healthy Vegetarian Meal Option

Logistical Information:

Those attending should plan to participate in the entire schedule unless special arrangements are made with the leader of the retreat.

Accommodations are available on the property for camping and motel lodging is available nearby.  Many of our participants choose to stay in tents on the property, although there are several motels within easy walking distance in Torrey.

Lodging:

Camping on the property is included in the registration fees. If you would like to stay off-site, here is a list of options:

1. Torrey Trading Post – www.torreytradingpost.com

2. Chuckwagon – www.austinschuckwagonmotel.com

3. Capital Reef Inn – www.capitolreefinn.com

4. Boulder View Inn – www.boulderviewinn.com/Home.html

Driving Directions:

The Boulder Mountain Zendo is about a 3.5 hour drive from Salt Lake City. The address of the Zendo is 261 West Main Street, Torrey, Utah.

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The Eight Awarenessses of Great People

An Integral Zen 8-week Online Telecourse

with Diane Musho Hamilton

Starts Saturday, April 3rd

8-9:30am PST, 9-10:30am MST, 11-12:30pm EST

Our Integral Zen 8-Week telecourse includes 2 Virtual Temple Retreats!

Integral Zen Retreat

with Diane Musho Hamilton

March 7th – March 14th

The Boulder Mountain Zendo

Torrey, Utah

REGISTER HERE

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

An Integral Zen meditation retreat set in Torrey, in the midst of the amazing red rock and mountains of Southern Utah. This retreat will provide a strong sitting and walking meditation schedule in a large tented zendo. There will be Dharma talks, including use of the Big Mind process, and opportunities for individual interview with the teacher.

Join us for a rare opportunity to deepen your meditation practice in the strong container provided by silence in the desert!

This week-long journey held in Southern Utah will include:

* Sitting & Walking Meditation with Personal Interviews with the Teacher

* Afternoon Big Mind Sessions to Awaken Your Spirit

* Group Walks in the Amazing Capitol Reef National Park

* The Basics of Zazen Practice

* How to Apply the Integral Approach to your Zen Practice

* Everyday Zen for Everyday People

For questions, please email Dori Them dthem@me.com

Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She is a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community and is a co-director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center. She is the lead trainer on Integral Life Practice and has worked with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute since 2004.

Logistical Information:

Those attending should plan to participate in the entire schedule unless special arrangements are made with the leader of the retreat.

Driving Directions:

The Boulder Mountain Zendo is about a 3.5 hour drive from Salt Lake City. Here is the address of the Winter Zendo: 200 North 40 East, Torrey, Utah.

Motel lodging is available nearby:

1. Torrey Trading Post – www.torreytradingpost.com

2. Chuckwagon – www.austinschuckwagonmotel.com

3. Capital Reef Inn – www.capitolreefinn.com

4. Boulder View Inn – www.boulderviewinn.com/Home.html

Registration: $35

How Does it Work?

After you register, you will receive an email from iEvolve with your call-in number and access codes for the morning and noon dharma talks. Follow the practice schedule and start your morning sit at 7:30am MST. Call in for the first dharma talk at 9am MST. Begin your second sit at 10am MST. And call in for the second dharma talk at 11:30am MST.

Practice Schedule

Sitting: 7:30am – 9:00am MST (Two 40 minutes periods, 10 minutes walking meditation and bio break)

Dharma Call: 9:00am – 10:00am MST

Sitting: 10:00am – 11:30am MST (Two 40 minutes periods, 10 minutes walking meditation and bio break)

Dharma Call: 11:30am – 12:00pm MST

For questions email events [at] iEvolve [dot] org

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 8-week online Integral Zen telecourse 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.

Integral Zen 8-week Online Telecourse

with Diane Musho Hamilton

Starts Saturday, January 9th

8-9:30am PST, 9-10:30am MST, 11-12:30pm EST

Investment: $299

Advanced Registration: $199 (Expires December 9th)

REGISTER HERE

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 8-week online telecourse, you will explore, engage and learn:

•  The Basics of Zazen Practice

•    The Big Mind Process – 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

How Does It Work?

Can’t Make the Call?

No problem… If for any reason you can’t attend the live call, you can download a recording of the call and listen to it whenever you like. This includes 8 weeks and 75-minute MP3′s. We will post the recording from each class as soon as possible after the event.

How can I Ask Questions?

Throughout this teleseminar series you can submit questions via email. You can even submit questions online during the call as Diane Musho Hamilton will be answering them live. Questions will also be answered live via the phone.

Weekly Discussions and Online Practice Group:

There will be a Discussion thread open immediately following each class in this series. You will need to have a login to iEvolve’s Online Community to participate in the discussion thread. This discussion thread is part of a larger, Private Group for members of this telecourse. Diane Musho Hamilton will be participating in this group weekly, giving you even more access to the iZen teaching.

Please join us for a highly engaging workshop led by Master facilitator, mediator, and teacher, Diane Musho Hamilton.

In this workshop you will:

• Cultivate a deeper level of self-awareness and attention so you can “get out of your own way”
• Sharpen your skills and add to your toolbox by putting core integral principles into practice
• Learn to deal with conflict, shadow, power politics and everything else that makes being a facilitator so challenging

A brief pre-workshop reflection will help you identify what is currently most challenging for you as a facilitator. For example, what does being an “unbiased neutral” really mean? You may have recurring questions about how to engage different lines of development, metabolize individual or group tension, or address group shadow. Explore these and other integral facilitation topics through practice in this rich and supportive environment.

You will leave more confident, inspired, and energized with an action plan to enhance your mastery of the facilitators’ calling.

Date and Location: TBD. Please email Rochelle at rfairfield@dccnet.com to be notified when Registration opens.

Teacher: Diane Musho Hamilton

Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted facilitator, mediator and spiritual teacher living in Utah. She is well known as an innovator in facilitating group dialogues, especially controversial conversations about culture, religion, race and gender relations.

Diane was a pioneer in Dispute Resolution in the State of Utah. She received the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution Peacekeeper Award in 2001 and the Peter W. Billings Award from the Utah State Bar for outstanding work in Dispute Resolution in 2003.

Diane is a fully ordained Zen priest and teacher. She is also a co-director of Integral Life Spiritual Center and has worked with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute since 2004. Diane is a founder and core faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.

Co-Facilitators: (Bios Below)

Becky Colwell, Rochelle Fairfield, Leslie Hershberger

REGISTRATION OPENING SOON!

To register and pay by credit card via Google Checkout, please click on the “Buy Now” button above. You will receive a “welcome letter and pre-workshop inspiration” one week before the event with more details regarding our time together.

Please note that credit card refunds/cancellations are subject to a 6% processing fee and may not be granted after February 14th, 2010.

Please bring a yoga mat, a meditation cushion, a journal and pen, a water bottle and anything else you may need during our time together. Yoga mats, meditation cushions, and journals/pens will not be provided.

Limited onsite accommodations are available through Rochelle on a first come first served basis, and we will send you a list of local accommodations so you can make travel plans.

For questions, please email Rochelle at rfairfield@dccnet.com.

Leslie Hershberger’s skill in teaching, facilitation and coaching is informed by her background as a schoolteacher, a certified teacher of the Enneagram, and as a certificate student in Integral Theory.  She is the director of the LFH Group and uses an integrally informed approach as she guides individuals and organizations in addressing increasingly complex challenges.  She is founder of Integral Women which provides community for women on the edge of transformation.  In 2008, she co-founded Integral Action whose mission is to connect with women living on the margins of hope in the local and global community.  Currently, she is partnering with Integral Life in the development of an online curriculum.

Rochelle Fairfield, Certified Integral Coach ™

Rochelle brings a salty decade of experience co-managing daily operations and business development in a profitable commercial fishing operation. As past Director and President of a commercial fishery industry association, she increased participants’ collaborative capacity and managed conflict in Multi-stakeholder projects and Sectoral Development. After retiring from fishing several years ago, Rochelle immersed herself in Integral Theory and Application. She will complete her Master’s Degree in Integral Theory this June, and is currently a Certified Integral Coach ™.

Rebecca Colwell, MBA, Strategist, Facilitator and Integral Coach ^SM

Over the last 16 years Becky has facilitated change process and developed strategic competencies in people and their organizations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in North America. She brings a wealth of experience in facilitating multi-stakeholder transformative process. Becky is President of Fourth Wave Strategy Inc., an integrally informed strategic management firm. She founded Open Field, an integral leadership practice group for women in 2008, and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Integral Theory.

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Saturday, November 21st

Registration: $35

When your practice is your life, you can join this virtual retreat and practice in the immediacy of your own home with others from around the world. Sit zazen at the same time at home, and join a conference call for morning and noon dharma talks. A half of day of Zen practicewherever you are -Vancouver, DC, Sweden, or Columbia. Join other Seekers of the Way in a virtual practice temple.

Practice Schedule

Sitting: 7:30am – 9:00am MST (Two 40 minutes periods, 10 minutes walking meditation and bio break)

Dharma Call: 9:00am – 10:00am MST

Sitting: 10:00am – 11:30am MST (Two 40 minutes periods, 10 minutes walking meditation and bio break)

Dharma Call: 11:30am – 12:00pm MST