Karen DeCotis will be in Bozeman in early March! She will be giving a public talk on Friday, March 6 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm and a Daylong retreat on Saturday, March 7 from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Our Inmost Request: Consciousness and Ethics in Buddhist Practice
Suzuki Roshi encourages us to be fully who we are, not to try to figure out who we are or have an idea of how to be.
What is an authentic life? How does Mind help or hinder our authentic self? What does this mean for our approach to how to be in the world?
To be fully who we are, we look to realize our inmost nature, our inmost request of ourselves. As we identify this, we must find how to maintain this, to have a continuous practice and have this deep request inform our effort in all of our arenas of practice – meditation, relationships, parenting, activism, art, service.
This weekend we will explore the quest of our inmost aspiration and how it relates to being upright in a wonderful and troubled world. It will include meditation, instruction, Dharma talks, writing and reflection and group conversation.
