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Buddhism as a perennial quest for the awakening of consciousness and for the realization of meaning has preserved certain lineaments, which from its inception have formed the very life force of Buddhism and which still vitally concern us as spiritually evolving human beings.
These lineaments are: (1) the emphasis on immediate experience; (2) the dynamic process orientation and process oriented thinking in contrast to the structural orientation and structurally oriented thinking of Western or Brahmanic thought; and (3) the uncompromising existential concern for what is essential in our approach to the problems of life.
However, when Buddhism was transported to modern and postmodern Western culture, where the emphasis is not on immediate experience but predominantly on conceptual representation, and where structural orientation and structurally orientated thinking prevail, it has lost its original depth and power as an authentic spiritual and evolutionary force.
In this highly informative and powerfully transformative series of seminars, Yasuhiko Genku Kimura, an ordained Zen Buddhist priest-scholar from Japan and a respected integral thinker and spiritual activist in the West, sets forth a new integral vision of Buddhism for authentic spiritual seekers and seers of the 21st century.
Integral Vision of Buddhism addresses many of the essential spiritual, existential, and moral issues we must deal with individually and collectively in this postmodern age from the vast Buddhist philosophical perspectives. You will learn many of the fundamental original concepts of Buddhist philosophy and their real-life applications in your own life?as you experience your own spiritual awakening and evolution.
Integral Vision of Buddhism Series 1 consists of three seminars involving highly original and informative lectures and powerfully transformative interactions and practices. The assigned texts for this series are The Heart Sutra and Shobogenzo Genjokoan, both of which are from Mr. Kimura?s original translations (the cost for the texts is included in the tuition).
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Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest-scholar from Japan and a respected integral thinker-writer and spiritual activist in the West. He studied under the Zen masters Gien Inoue, Sekkei Harada, Settan Kawakami, and Koshu Itahashi (the Chief Abbot of the Soto Sect of Zen) in Japan, and later studied Hindu and other Eastern Philosophies in India. In the West, Mr. Kimura has studied Tibetan Buddhism under Dr. Herbert Guenther, the foremost modern Tibetan Buddhism and language scholar and translator.
Mr. Kimura also is Founder and Chairman of Vision In Action, and Executive Director of the Vision In Action Leadership Institute. Mr. Kimura has been called “a philosopher of change” and is recognized for his ability to integrate advanced Western scientific thought with the intuitive wisdom of Eastern spiritual traditions to bring about radical change in the way people think.
Unlike system-building theorists who focus on building structural models as a frame of reference for their students, Mr. Kimura focuses on awakening the capacity for genuine creativity and original thinking within individuals so they can attain ongoing self-realization through self-transcendence based on self-responsibility and self-integrity.
Mr. Kimura has spent nearly thirty years studying both advanced Western scientific thought and inner-directed Eastern philosophies with his formal education centering on Buddhist philosophy. In this series of seminars on Buddhism he will share his vast knowledge in Buddhism and other fields but, as always, remain in the context of spiritual transformation beyond mere philosophical information.
A prolific writer, Mr. Kimura has authored since 1998 over 50 articles, essays and translations in the fields of spiritual philosophy, integral science, evolutionary theory, transformational ethics and visionary business. He is the author of four published books, including Think Kosmically Act Globally and The Book of Balance (with more to come) and is the editor-in-chief of VIA Journal, On the Frontier of Authentic Thinking.
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