We are glad to announce that Doshin Nelson Roshi from the Mondo Zen (Dialoguing Zen) tradition and founder of Integral Zen accepted our invitation. He is going to lead an experiential Integral Zen Process during the IEC Vienna Regathering for the whole community in the morning Big Circle, April 18-19, 2017.
Integral Zen combines the pure spiritual lineage of Zen with the therapeutic shadow work. With that it represents the basic tenet of integral teachings: meditation and shadow work has to go together and no meditation in itself will uproot all of your your shadow. We need an integral approach where East and West becomes globally integrated. Integral Zen is an excellent practice of that. During this process at the Regathering expect the shocking beauty of truth, an ego-wracking honesty and a safe, loving container with great humor!
“Doshin is one of the most accomplished spiritual teachers.” – Ken Wilber
The international constellation work continues at IEC3 in 2018 and now in 2017 we offer the Integral Zen process as the main communal deepening experiential practice.
Watch Ken Wilber’s 7 minute video with Doshin below!
Quote from integralzen.org:
What is Integral Zen?
At Integral Zen, we use the zazen, kinhin, and koans from traditional Rinzai Zen. We also use the Five Training Elements and the transformative practice of Mondo Zen™ to re-orient, mature and enlighten our ego and our emotional bodies. In addition to these, we add the conceptual framework of Integral Theory and more rigorous forms of individual and collective psychological shadow work.
With Integral language and a deep meditative practice, we are able to discuss complex topics with greater understanding, clarity, and compassion. By using Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, including his AQAL map – all levels, lines, types, states, and quadrants – the territory of our lives comes alive.
This map allows greater compassion for ourselves and others, since it empowers us to stop imposing our unconscious assumptions about the world onto nearly every place we touch it. And yet, the map is not the territory, and Integral Zen is ruthless in its distinction between intellectual understanding, experiential understanding, and spiritual insight.
Meditative practitioners with deep spiritual insight often suffer from a too-partial view of the cosmos. Integralists with sophisticated maps of the world often suffer from a lack of experiential insight about the true nature of their minds.
The complexity of an evolutionary, 21st Century spirituality cannot be understood without a common language. An Integral View, combined with a stable spiritual insight, greatly enhances the level of clarity, predictability, and understanding within our community. We are able to more profoundly connect with ourselves and each other. We understand our own Zen practice through an empowering yet humbling lens that allows us to understand better what we have realized, and what we have yet to discover.
Integral Zen and Personal and Collective Psychological Shadow
Integral Zen recognizes that each one of us has aspects of his or herself that are undeveloped, no matter the depth of spiritual insight. Within the unique paths that have led us to where we are, there are steps that are often missed. Therefore we examine what steps were missed in our own development. We then choose to consciously make room for and encourage each other to develop in these specific areas.
Integral Zen includes many forms of psychological shadow work to illuminate our disowned and false selves. When we disown part of ourselves we automatically create a lie, a story about who we are that is not true. This is what Jung called the persona, Voice Dialogue calls the primary self, and Wilber calls the false self. When this shadow, the disowned self, is reintegrated into the personality, there is no need to continue to lie to ourselves. The false self is seen through, discarded and replaced with a more authentic sense of self that includes the disowned parts.
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With love,
The IEC team
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