Course Description
People often start meditating out of a need to
connect the world in their head with the reality around them. One way to
do that is through use of your senses. This course focuses on a way in
which you can use a deeply visceral sense of your breath and the
sensation of gravity throughout your body to do the work of meditation.
Feel Your Meditation Come Alive as Your Use of Breath and Gravity Comes Alive
Many traditions teach that your meditation deepens as the length of your exhalations deepen.
Lengthening exhalations comes out of exploration of the connection
between your breathing and the ways in which every part of your body
experiences gravity.
One way to explore that connection is through practice with a sword.
Another way is to split firewood with a splitting maul.
When done properly both of those practices strongly reinforce the use of breath and gravity when doing Zen meditation.
The work of Zen meditation is to resolve duality – the simplest duality to begin working on is the mind and body duality.
Zen Meditation is Manual Labor
This course began when I met a young Swedish tech entrepreneur last
November. He is self-taught in almost all things that interest him. This
openness is what led him to Spring Green Dojo, a curiosity to see what
he might learn about using his whole body to engage the world instead of
just his thoughts.
He spent three days training with us in Zen, with the focus of that
training being the physical ways in which we deepen our use of breath.
Given the short amount of time to work together, I wanted him to
viscerally grasp the two core principles that guide Zen training: the
work is to resolve duality, and your body and your senses are your tools
to do that. So we trained with a sword and then did Zen meditation. We
trained with a splitting maul and then did Zen meditation. With a sword
and a maul, the movements are big and obvious. When sitting on a
meditation cushion, the movements are far more subtle.
Overview of the Course
This course takes you through the same steps that this young Swede
experienced. First, understand that the work of Zen training is
physical. Then, find how using a sword and a splitting maul can teach
how use of breath and gravity lie at the heart of that work. And
finally, take that learning to the meditation cushion. You'll find
sixteen lectures, taking up a total of just under 70 minutes.
Course Details
An assault on habits
Another form of splitting
Breath and gravity in Zen training
Breath and gravity with a splitting maul
Breath and gravity with a sword
Closing review and credits
Goal of this course
Introduction to Spring Green Dojo
Section 1: Introduction to the Course
Section 2: Introduction to Zen Training
Section 3: The Work of Swinging a Sword
Section 4: The Work of Splitting Logs
Section 5: The Work of Zen Meditation
Section 6: Conclusion
The basic movement of a sword
The breath and gravity of meditation
The dynamics of meditation
The dynamics of splitting wood
The dynamics of swinging a sword
The manual labor of Zen meditation
The three elements of Zen training
Why train in Zen ?
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