Transformative Practice
Self-Paced Practice Course
with Zenki Dillo Roshi
About This Course
This course is about transformation—about how to get so familiar with the ingredients of your experience (attention, sensation, intention, cognition) so that you can remix them in a way that responds to your inmost request for being fully alive.
Zenki Roshi speaks about transformation in a fresh and experiential way that avoids platitudes and spiritual idealism. The course is a thorough introduction into the physical and mental postures of meditation and into the craft of mindfulness practice. A big emphasis is on embodiment and the development of the energetic body—mindfulness as bodyfulness.
What You Will Learn
- Connect with your inmost request—with what you most deeply want from being alive
- Understand the practice of Buddhism as a response to this inmost request
- Discover and become familiar with the basic ingredients of your everyday experience: attention, sensation, intention, and cognitive thought
- Establish and refine the physical posture of mediation and recognize the potential of being more fully embodied
- Get to know the mental postures of transformation as emphasized in Zen meditation: Don't move (stillness), Don't scratch (nonreactivity), Don't invite your thoughts to tea (nonthinking), Don't correct your mind (noninterference)
- Practice mindfulness as bodyfulness—with the immediate benefit of feeling more fully alive
- Become familiar with the different methods of mindfulness practice as taught in the Zen tradition
- Free your understanding of Buddhism from unnecessary religious and metaphysical baggage
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 Transformative Practice is aligned with the first part of the book.
This course includes excerpts from Part 1, 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 Fee:
$90 - Member Price
$120 - Non-member Price
Curriculum
- The Inmost Request
- The Four Tenets of Buddhism
- Ingredients of Transformation: Sensation and Attention
- Ingredients of Transformation: Intention and Cognition
- The Physical and Mental Postures of Meditation
- Mindfulness and Bodyfulness
- The Four Gates of Mindfulness
- Buddhism — a Transformative Phenomenology
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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