What is the most fundamental practice for you? What single practice informs all other practices that you do? In the below “Darma Bite” I continue in my series of Dharma Discussions with Integral Facilitator & Zen Sensei Diane Musho Hamilton on this very topic. In this excerpt from one of our longer discussions, we explore how we see “Meditation As The Fundamental Practice.”
“Dharma & The Evolution Of Conflict” | 5-Day Retreat w/ Diane Musho Hamilton & Miles Kessler in beautiful southern Utah
| Date: | July 11, 2018—July 15, 2018 |
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| Event: | Dharma & The Evolution Of Conflict | 5-Day Retreat w/ Diane Musho Hamilton & Miles Kessler |
| Topic: | Dharma & The Evolution Of Conflict |
| Sponsor: | Two Arrows Zen |
| Venue: | Boulder Mt. Zendo |
| Location: | Torry, Utah U.S.A. |
| Public: | Public |
| Registration: | Click here to register. |
3rd of 3 FREE Community Calls with Diane Musho Hamilton & Miles Kessler
| Date: | June 5, 2018 |
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| Time: | 21:00-22:00 p.m. |
| Event: | "Dharma & The Evolution Of Conflict" | Community Call w/ Diane Hamilton & Miles Kessler |
| Topic: | "Dharma & The Evolution Of Conflict" |
| Sponsor: | The Integral Dojo |
| Venue: |
Online Via Zoom Video Conference Platform |
| Location: | FREE Online Event |
| Public: | Public |
| Registration: | Click here to register. |
2nd of 3 FREE Community Calls with Diane Musho Hamilton & Miles Kessler
| Date: | May 1, 2018 |
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| Time: | 21:00-22:00 p.m. |
| Event: | "Dharma & The Evolution Of Conflict" | Community Call w/ Diane Hamilton & Miles Kessler |
| Topic: | "Our Evolutionary Potential" |
| Sponsor: | The Integral Dojo |
| Venue: |
Online Via Zoom Video Conference Platform |
| Location: | FREE Online Event |
| Public: | Public |
| Registration: | Click here to register. |
1st of 3 FREE Community Calls with Diane Musho Hamilton & Miles Kessler
| Date: | April 3, 2018 |
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| Time: | 21:00-22:00 p.m. |
| Event: | "Dharma & The Evolution Of Conflict" | Community Call w/ Diane Hamilton & Miles Kessler |
| Topic: | “Dharma As Your Nature” |
| Sponsor: | The Integral Dojo |
| Venue: |
Online Via Zoom Video Conference Platform |
| Location: | FREE Online Event Global |
| Public: | Public |
| Registration: | Click here to register. |
“Mindfulness & Resistance” Day Workshop w/ Miles Kessler | Maastricht, Nederlands
| Date: | October 2, 2018 |
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| Event: | "Mindfulness & Resistance" Day Workshop For See True Mindfulness |
| Topic: | "Mindfulness & Resistance" |
| Sponsor: | See True Mindfulness |
| Venue: | See True Mindfulness - Maastricht, Nederands |
| Location: | Maastricht, Netherlands Netherlands |
| Public: | Public |
Last November I was interviewed by Ted Meissner for an episode of “The Secular Buddhist” podcast. This is the official podcast for the “Secular Buddhist Association”, which describes themselves as “a natural, pragmatic approach to early Buddhist teachings and practice”. Within their secular and pragmatic approach, I saw a lot of parallels with the trans-lineage approach I bring to the Integral Dojo.
5-Day Mindfulness Meditation Retreat w/ Miles Kessler
| Date: | November 18, 2017—November 23, 2017 |
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| Event: | Maastricht, Nederlands - 5-Day Mindfulness Meditation Retreat |
| Topic: | Waking Up, Growing Up, Showing Up |
| Venue: | SeeTrue Mindfulness |
| Public: | Public |
| Registration: | Click here to register. |
The word Dharma is an ancient Sanskrit work meaning “Spiritual Teachings”, “Universal Principles”, or “Ultimate Reality.” And even though it isn’t always held this way, Aikido is an art that rests on the foundation of universal principles. This is the “Dharma Of Aikido”.
By all accounts, Aikido’s founder O Sensei had a profound spiritual awakening into ultimate reality. It was this awakening that transformed his martial arts into Aikido. Ueshiba’s Aikido was a profound expression of the Dharma, which in Aikido has one fundamental taste: Conflict becomes resolved into wholeness.
I have recently been conducting a series of “Dharma Discussions” with several of my friends who are meditation teachers. These discussions are exclusively for our current “Meditation For Aikido” course participants. However, these discussions are so good that I’ve decided to take some “bite-sized” excerpts and share them with my blog readers. I’m calling them “Dharma Bites” and here is the first many more to come. Here is an excerpt from a Dharma discussion I had on “The Wisdom Of Awareness, Tolerance & Allowing.”
