Five Element Training
1. Sacred Stewardship
We accept our intimate interdependency, our one-ness, with the environment, the universe and all sentient and non-sentient beings. We embody this realization and we lovingly choose not to create any more suffering in the world. We recognize our responsibility and extend it to everything within our arms reach. Read More>
2. Philosophical & Cognitive Re-Orientation
Through study and dialog, we develop a broader and more inclusive philosophy. We become more insightful and our thinking is more flexible, comprehensive, and clear. We open our minds and hearts. Read More>
3. Emotional Maturity and Integrity
Through awareness and psychological practices we transform our negative painful emotional reactions and misunderstood feelings. Our, “angst becomes our liberation”. Mature emotional responses emerge in the same relationships where immature emotional reactions were once the rule. Fear, anger, and jealousy become rich opportunities for transformation. Read More>
4. Conscious Embodiment
Through Qi Gong, Yoga and other spiritual physical body trainings, our ordinary physical state shifts into a more sensitive, healthy and awakened state. We embody conscious awareness. Read More>
5. Genuine Insight
Through formal meditation and other awareness practices insights begin to manifest. The training elements stand like mirrors allowing us to see reflected how our core practice of meditative compassionate awareness on the cushion is transforming our lives off the cushion. We achieve a personal freedom only possible with deep spiritual realization and disciplined embodiment. Read More>
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