Pre-arranged meeting with Doshin

Meetings with Doshin are all pre-arranged and by invitation only. If you have been invited to make an appointment...

Introductory Meeting [1 hour]

If you are new to Integral Zen and this is your first time scheduling an appointment, choose this option. This is your opportunity to ask any questions you may have about your meditation, Integral Zen, or Integral Awakening: Waking Up, Growing Up, Fucking Up, Cleaning Up and Showing Up as an awake, compassionate, whole and healthy human being.

One on One [1 hour]

This is a private meeting between a Zen student and an Integral Zen lay teacher or teacher in training. The intention is to advise students and answer questions about their practice. If you are a returning student wanting to check in about your practice you should choose this option. Questions should be limited to your Integral meditation practice, which includes: Waking up, Growing up, Fucking up, Cleaning up and Showing up as a fully awake, compassionate, healthy and whole human being.

Awareness Intervention [1-2 hour] (by Invitation Only)

This is a meeting between a Zen student and an Integral Zen lay teacher or teacher in training. The intention is to guide students with language into an experience of “wu.” What is wu? Wu is a Chinese word, Japanese is “mu”. It is difficult to translate into English. The best translation for our purposes of Integral Awakening is “nothingness.” It is ironic that a direct experience of nothingness, the emptiness that isn’t empty but awake, can change your life.

Touching the True Face Session [1 hour]

Continuing in the footsteps of his teacher JunPo Roshi, Doshin has begun teaching a small group of apprentices what he calls the practice of “Touching the True Face.” JunPo used to say: “Your angst is your liberation.” Doshin extended this teaching and says: “Your conflicts can liberate you.” Your very conflicts can themselves be a Dharma gate that opens to a direct experience of awakening to the realization of no-self and the embodiment of pure selfless awakened mind. If you are interested in experiencing “Touching the True Face” for yourself please contact us at [email protected].

Transmuting Poisonous Emotions into Healing Medicines [1 hour]

The Sanskrit word kleshas, often translated into English as: poisons, negative emotions, vexations, afflictions, defilements, disturbing emotions, mind poisons, neurosis, and unwholesome roots.The very roots of samsaric existence, these poisons are conscious and unconscious biases for and against specific things representing the conflicts of dualistic little mind, that can be discerned and witnessed by nondual big mind. It is possible to cultivate skillful means to transmute these poisons into medicine.