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Friday Evening Lecture
The Zen Oxherding Pictures
| Date: | March 9, 2012 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. |
| Presenter: | Ruben Habito, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church Inwood at Mockingbird |
$20.00 non-members (wine and cheese reception) |
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In the Zen Buddhist tradition, the stages in the spiritual path are depicted by a set of ten illustrations featuring a cowherd and a mysterious Ox, a symbol of the True Self, or Buddha Nature, taught as inherently present in all beings. This evening’s lecture will offer a summary account of the various stages of a person’s inner journey to the discovery of the True Self.
The Spiritual Exercises and Zen
| Date: | March 10, 2012 9:30 a.m. – noon |
| Presenter: | Ruben Habito, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church |
$40.00 non-members (coffee and rolls provided) |
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This workshop will walk participants through a survey and overview of the stages in the process of human transformation toward wholeness. Dr. Habito will take the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the Ten Oxherding Pictures in the Zen tradition as reference points, seen also in the light of Jungian psychological theory. Meditative and contemplative exercises will be offered together with descriptive accounts of the elements involved in the stages of purification, illumination, and union.
Ruben L.F. Habito is Professor of World Religions and Spirituality at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He also serves as Guiding Teacher at the Maria Kannon Zen Center, a meditation center in East Dallas. He is the author of Healing Breath: Zen for Buddhists and Christians in a Wounded World; The Practice of Altruism: Caring and Religion in Global Perspective, Co-edited with Keishin Inaba; Experiencing Buddhism: Ways of Wisdom and Compassion; and Living Zen, Loving God. He is currently preparing a volume on Zen and the Spiritual Exercises and presented some features of this project at a workshop on “Zen, The Spiritual Exercises, and Jungian Thought” sponsored by the Jung Society of North Texas in October 2009.
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