Fall Practice Period 2024
The Koans of Jun Po Roshi
Two Wings of Zen
With Emyo Darlene Tataryn
Wisdom and compassion are the two wings at the heart of Zen. Jun Po Roshi’s Mondo koans engage both. This retreat will move quickly through the thirteen koans of Jun Po Roshi offering a shared taste of insight. Emyo Darlene Tataryn will lead us through the koans of Jun Po with her distinct pointing out style. Much time will be given to group processing and sharing experience.
About This Retreat
The focus on this retreat is on:
Deepening into Clear Deep Heart/Mind
Embodying the insight of Mondo Zen
Exploring the roots of feelngs and feeling beliefs
Creating a framework for emotional koan work in daily living.
Registration:
Shining Bright Lotus is enrolling students for this retreat.
Proceeds go directly to One Wisdom Zen and Emyo Darlene Tataryn
Full Fee
Fair Fee
Low Cost
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.
About Emyo Darlene Tataryn:
A pioneer, Darlene has been doing the work since the early 70's. Her depth insight comes from working deeply with somatic healing, dance therapy, developmental and expressive movement, meditation, and other "mystic" practices. She is the creator of the Asaya Process and Maitreya's Chair; two practices which open this breathing body into receptivity, release tension, realign the spine, and bring the body into natural, blissfully calming, self-healing cycles.
As a long time Meditation instructor and Counselor with an Expressive Therapy Bias, Darlene understands and is able to navigate between the disciplines of therapy and meditation. She is steeped in the understanding of the interconnection and interdependence of all of nature. As a Zen Priest and Mondo Zen facilitator, she is able to guide and orient healthy ego function to the service of clarity and depth of heart and mind.
Darlene's history included the Rinzai Zen Hollow Bones Lineage, The Karma Kagyu Lineage, and Sahaja Marg.
Program Schedule (All Times in CT - Manitoba)
Friday November 22
5:00 – 5:30 pm Check in & Orientation
5:30 – 5:40 pm Break
5:40 – 6:20 pm Mondo Koans Overview
6:20 – 6:40 pm Meditation Instrutions
6:30 – 7:00 pm Meditation – Closing Service
Saturday November 23
7:00 – 8:00 am CT Morning service – meditation
8:00 – 8:55 am CT Breakfast and personal time
9:00 – 9:20 am CT Meditation - Can you listen without an opinion?
9:20 – 9:40 am CT Discussion
9:40 – 9:50 am CT Kinhin
9:50 – 10:10 am CT Meditation - Where in your body is this listening?
10:10 - 10:30 am CT Discussion
10:30 - 10:50 am CT Embodiment Practice
10:50 - 11:00 am CT Break
11:00 – 11:20 am CT Meditation - Who are you?
11:20 - 11:40 am CT Discussion - I don’t know? Not-knowing
11:40 - 12:00 pm CT Meditation - What are you like?
Break - 12:00 – 1:30 pm CT Return to our seats 1:25 pm
1:30 – 1:50 pm CT Meditation - Express your insight1
1:50 - 2:10 pm CT Discussion
2:1o - 2:30 pm CT Meditation - Recall Clear Deep Heart/Mind
2:30 – 2:50 pm CT Embodiment Practice
2:50 - 3:00 pm CT Break
3:00 – 3:20 pm CT Meditation - Does Clear Deep Heart/Mind come and go?
3:20 – 3:40 pm CT Discussion
3:40 - 4:00 pm CT Meditation - What must you do?
4:00 - 4:20 pm CT Discussion
4:20 - 4:30 pm CT Kinhin
4:30 - 5:00 pm CT Meditation - What feeling arises? - Closing Service
Sunday November 24
7:00 – 8:00 am CT Morning service
8:00 – 8:55 am CT Breakfast and personal time
9:00 – 9:30 am CT Check in & discussion
9:30 – 9:50 am CT Meditation - Koan review
9:50 – 10:00 am CT Kinhin
10:00 – 10:20 am CT Meditation - What are the deeper feeling?
10:20 - 10:40 am CT Discussion
10:40 - 11:00 am CT Embodiment Practice
11:00 - 11:10 am CT Break
11:10 – 11:30 am CT Meditation - Can anyone make you anger?
11:30 - 11:50 am CT Discussion
11:50 - 12:00 pm CT Meditation
12:00 – 1:30 pm CT Break - Return to our seats 1:25 pm
1:30 – 1:55 pm CT Discussion
1:55 -2:00 pm CT Kinhin
2:00- 2:25 pm CT Meditation - Transform a negative habit into a conscious response.
2:25 – 2:40 pm CT Small Group Discussion
2:40 – 3:00 pm CT Discussion
3:00 – 3:05 pm CT Break
3:05- 3:25 pm CT Meditation - Embodied emotional koan completion
3:25- 4:00 pm CT Check in and Closing Service
“Eventually, with Clear Deep Heart-Mind realization, philosophical reorientation and emotional koan practice, violent anger, shame, jealousy, envy, disconnection and other pain-filled or pain-denying emotional reactions to feeling become optional.”