Transforming Habits
In-person/Online Practice Course
with Zenki Dillo Roshi
October 4 - November 9, 2024
Read more about Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi
This course explores how we can discontinue dysfunctional habits and instead form habits that create a wholesome, nourishing life.
As a first step, Zen practice helps us to dis-identify from our habits of body, speech, and mind. We are not our habits; instead we are the empty field of awareness, in which all these habits arise. Habits are nothing but repeated action. This insight is freedom.
In a next step, we can use our freedom to refrain from repeating unhelpful actions and form new functional habits by repeating actions that align with our deepest intentions.
Since many of our habits are non-conscious, we need to understand the structure of habits and how to harness that structure for our own benefit and the benefit of all beings.
Course Components
(all components are optional—you may choose how to participate)
Live and Online
(attend at BZC or via Zoom)
- Weekly Dharma Talks and Q&A
- Weekly Dharma Dialogue (Wed 7–8:30pm)
- Weekend Seminar (Oct 4-6)
- Practice Buddy Meetings
Web Resources
(available in the web portal)
- Recordings of all Weekly Dharma Talks and Dharma Dialogues (life-time access)
- Daily practice suggestions for all weekly topics (3-5min audio or reading)
Topics
- The Craft of Habit Transformation – Weekend Seminar (Oct 4-6, 2024) (can be attended separately)
- The Challenges of Everyday Life (We're Not Monks)
- Where Your Attention Goes, Your Life Goes (Attentional Habits)
- True Nourishment (Bodily Habits)
- Already Free and At Peace (Energetic Habits)
- Don't Believe What you Think (Mental Habits)