Off the cushion
Compassion in Daily Living
with Ekai Joel Kreisberg & Fugen Tom Pitner Roshi
Six Week Online Program
October 10th - November 14th, 2023
Tuesdays 7:30 pm ET - 9:00 pm ET
While it is often considered essential to attend to our daily meditation practice, most modern practitioners will find that attending to compassion and heart opening rather then dhyana practice (emptiness) often brings lasting changes in how we live others. This six week training program will introduced a series of practices designed to awaken ones heart towards deep compassion for all beings. Through guided meditations, small group exercises, and contemporary Buddhist teachings on unconditional love and compassion, this course will support awakening to the transcendence and power of love.
Course Outline
October 10th - Four Modes of Compassion
October 17th - Exchanging Self with others
October 24th - Receiving Love
October 31st - Chekawa’s Four Preparations
November 7th - The Power of Love
November 14th - Loving Beyond Boundaries
Students will meet for dokusan with Fugen Roshi twice during this training program.
This program will be using the text
Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness by John Makransky
Registration & Course Fees
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Financial Assistance
Financial assistance is available to participants exhibiting financial need. To apply please fill out the scholarship application below, along with the refundable deposit.
Please note that while One Wisdom Zen and Shining Bright Lotus aim to make our offerings financially accessible, we are unable to provide full scholarships for our programs and retreats.
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“I was pleasantly surprised with the course. I did not expect to get as much intellectual information and yet it completely dovetailed with the experiential portion of the course. Ekai and Fugen were masterful at explaining it all in ways that I will remember for a long time!”
About Ekai Joel Kreisberg
About Ekai Joel Kreisberg
Ekai continues to evolve his practice to incorporate a variety of Buddhist wisdom in his teachings. His commitment to compassionate action keeps offering endless opportunties for learning and growth.
About Fugen Tom Pitner
He has inspired thousands of people toward new experiences of personal and organizational empowerment through a unique brand of Mondo Zen life coaching and organizational consulting. Fugen’s is an inside-out integrative approach. He focuses first on the individual, then on the problem or situation to be solved.
“Pure perception, then doesnt just view others in their basic goodness; it reflects their goodness back at them, helping them become newly conscious of it. ”