Zen View / Zen Practice – Methods, Pitfalls, Awakening

Class facilitated by Ken Small

The foundation of Zen practice opens us into the process of discovering our ‘Unborn’ mind, our

essential heart/mind, which was never born, never dies.

Zen meditation offers a way of seeing and directly experiencing the seamless relationship of ‘self’ and ‘other’ in present time awareness, which opens us to a deeper and less obstructed avenues of life experience and moments of Awakening.

Each class will have a session for Zen meditation and Q and A on ways to integrate Zen in your

daily life. If you have any questions about your meditation practice or are new and would like

guidance on how to practice Zen meditation, please come 15 minutes early.

Zen class themes and topics include;

Awakening and satori; Paramita practice; Cultivating tanden breathing; working with fear

and anger; impermanence and Buddha Nature; what are Zen koans and their purpose; retreat

preparations.

Wednesdays 7-8pm - The Dharma Bum Temple - 4155 Campus Ave. – San Diego, Ca. 92103

Dharma Bum Temple (thedharmabums.org)

Ken Small is a lay Zen Buddhist meditation teacher who has practiced in the Rinzai Zen

tradition since the 1970’s and subsequently in Tibetan Vajrayana and Dzogchen tradition. Ken

teaches in a direct, engaging and at times humorous style to bring the teachings alive in your

daily life. He has taught Zen, meditation and the Wisdom Traditions in the United States, Mexico

and Europe.

“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be

actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds

of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.”

― Dogen Zenji (1200-53)

The Dharma Bum Temple