JunPo Roshi's visit to BCIL
Posted on Jul 10th, 2007
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Boulder Center for Integral Living
Boulder Center for Integral Living
July 8th @ BCIL
Five Training Elements of Integral Zen Practice with Zen Master JunPo Denis Kelly Roshi, Abbot of the Hollow Bones Order Hello Friends,
We had an incredible day of 3-body workout today at BCIL with JunPo Denis Kelly Roshi, a powerful and provocative Zen Teacher with an Integral perspective. Junpo Roshi is a true innovator, integrating traditional Zen practice with the gifts of western psychology and science. His Five Training Elements represent a full mind/body/emotion/spirit practice developed for the Western mind and life. (Scroll down to read Roshi's bio.)
We started at 9am with a room full of about 50+ people, sitting in deep listening and looking within to Roshi's ringing of the gong. The morning progressed into a 4 hour session that included teachings, more meditations, qigong, more qigong, and an inter-subjective koan-inquiry session in which he worked with three volunteers from the audiance. He invited everyone to sit around him and the volunteers in a cozy huddle and skillfully guided everyone through a powerful process of digging deep inside to experience how our philosophical, rational and egoic minds have to give up their dramas in order to land in our true "home."
Thank you, Roshi, for your deep insights, compassion and wild sense of humor that kept us all "awake." Your gift will stay with us for a long time to come and we await another session with you soon!
Thanks also to all of you joined us today at BCIL. It is our greatest joy to see this community becoming a true "We."
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hollow bones zen order
July 2008