What: Group meeting 2x monthly

When: Every 2^nd and 4^th Thursday,

Time: 6:30-9:00 pm

Where: Denver Zendo

How Much: Dana / donation-based

We come into balance in our lives when we learn to marry wisdom with compassion.  Too much wisdom without emotional maturity, and shadow, projection, and rigidity can result.  Too much compassion without wisdom, results in “grandmother Zen”, and “idiot compassion”, where we don’t know how to stand firm, with clear boundaries, in the face of another’s suffering.

We must first marry wisdom and compassion within ourselves.  Only then can we bring it out into the world and to our other relationships.  Mondo Zen takes our negative, conditioned reactions and teaches us how to transform them into emotional freedom and spiritual insight.  By working primarily with shame, anger and dissociation (traffic, spouses, parents, children, career, finances, intimacy, sexuality, or any of the dozens of places our emotions ‘get the better of us’), you will learn how to take a deeper cut into your true self.

It’s not enough to wake up.  We must grow up too.

Most therapy and shadow work is done from the perspective of a dualistic understanding of our ego and our world.  As such, it can never deliver the very thing it promises: freedom from the bondage of ourselves. You will forever be chasing something, because the root cause of your suffering is duality itself, no matter how it may be dressed up for our therapist.

From Pure Awareness, you will see with your own eyes how your emotional body looks, from the a vast, silent, empty, non-dual perspective that is the ground of your being.  You gain the insights of shadow work and emotional maturity, but as a means to liberate yourself from dualistic suffering and its never-ending self-criticism, judgment, and suffering.

Group Leadership

Rev. Kaijin Emily Klein will be leading the group.