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Zen Meditation - Urban Retreat at Open Mind Zen Meditation Center
September 23, 2009 at 7pm to September 27, 2009 at 12pm
Urban Zen Meditation Retreat,
Wednesday, Sept. 23rd to Sunday, Sept. 27th
This event gives you the chance to deepen your connection to Big Mind through Zen meditation and Zen Tantra practices. Led by Sensei Al Rapaport, an authorized Zen Teacher in…
Zen Meditation - Urban Retreat at Open Mind Zen Meditation Center
September 23, 2009 at 7pm to September 27, 2009 at 12pm
Urban Zen Meditation Retreat,
Wednesday, Sept. 23rd to Sunday, Sept. 27th
This event gives you the chance to deepen your connection to Big Mind through Zen meditation and Zen Tantra practices. Led by Sensei Al Rapaport, an authorized Zen Teacher in…
Al Rapaport, Sensei at Open Mind Zen Center
August 15, 2009 from 10am to 12pm
Zen Transformational Breathwork is an extremely powerful way of integrating body, mind and spirit by simply experiencing the power of the breath.
This energetic breath technique raises the vital energy in a very rapid manner, revealing areas we are…
Al Rapaport, Sensei at Open Mind Zen Center
August 15, 2009 from 10am to 12pm
Zen Transformational Breathwork is an extremely powerful way of integrating body, mind and spirit by simply experiencing the power of the breath.
This energetic breath technique raises the vital energy in a very rapid manner, revealing areas we are…
Zenergy Healing at Open Mind Zen
July 25, 2009 from 10am to 1pm
Zenergy Healing with Sensei Al Rapaport
July 25, 2009 10 am to 1 pm
Often those involved in spiritual practice get so involved in the intellectual side of their method that they neglect to connect to the body. Since Zen teaching is that the body a…
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- Are you currently a Conscious Living Partnership Member?
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- Where do you currently live?
- Florida
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- Tell us your Conscious Calling?
- Open Mind Zen is a unique form of Zen practice based on long standing methods such as sitting meditation and koan practice, but also incorporating more modern modalities. We believe that the core of Zen Practice is realization and actualization of awakened mind in everyday life.
We believe Zen to be a true Science of Mind in which the student uses his or her own body and mind as the laboratory to engage the experiment of spirituality. This science includes working with the mind, body and spirit for a complete experience of freedom and awakening.
In Open Mind Zen, the teachers are all lay practitioners with jobs in the world. We have found that a sense of humor about one’s Zen accomplishment is essential to keeping a real and rooted perspective.
The foundation of Open Mind Zen Practice embraces the following techniques:
1) Zazen, or Zen Meditation. This is the main and most important part of Zen, and usually the most difficult for a student to maintain over time.
2) Koan Practice. Koans are stories or interactions between students and teachers most of which come from the era called the Golden Age of Zen in ancient China. They are used as a method of realizing Unborn Mind and then deepening that realization. In OMZ we study the same koan collections used in traditional Zen. We also focus on the commentaries and poetry associated with each koan.
3) Zen Dialogue. This method is based on the Voice Dialogue work of Hal Stone and the Big Mind work of Genpo Roshi. It is unparalleled in bringing both beginners and experienced students to a place of clarity. This facilitated session is an integral part of starting the Open Mind Zen method, and gives the beginner a taste right from the onset of what Zen is truly about.
4) Zen Breathwork. This sustained breathing technique is truly miraculous in its effects. It helps deepen breathing and is a direct, physical way to experience how energy moves through the body & mind and how we block it. Breathwork is a tremendous aid to sitting meditation, which relies largely on relaxation of breath and mind. It is also amazingly useful for athletes, yoga practitioners and martial artists.
5) Zenergy Healing. Zenergy is a hands on system of co-meditation that involves dialogue, breathwork and awareness of the chakra energy system. It is extremely powerful in its effects, and can be experienced as an individual session or in a workshop setting.
6) Teacher Contact. It is very important to understand that Zen is not just meditation per se, but rather a process of uncovering unconscious habit patterns and ways of seeing our life. This is extremely difficult without a teacher, as the teacher helps us to go where we will not normally go on our own.
We invite all who feel a connection with Open Mind Zen to come and join the experiment! If you are within commuting distance, we suggest you begin by coming to a Sunday Dharma Talk, conducted by Sensei Al Fusho Rapaport. The talks begin with a 30 minute silent meditation. These talks are recorded and available on our website in MP3 format.
Then, if you want to proceed further, we will schedule a beginning orientation, which lasts about an hour and will teach you basic meditation practice, history and how you can be involved at Open Mind Zen Center.
If you live out of the East Central Florida area, we also have a Correspondence Course available which parallels our student path of meditation and koan practice.
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- Getting the energy moving!
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- Life is short, let's not waste our time.
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- About Me:
- Al Fusho Rapaport, Sensei
has practiced and taught Zen for 40 years. He studied with Kozan Roshi, Maezumi Roshi, and Genpo Roshi until moving to Florida in 2001. He received Dharma Transmission within the Soto Zen Lineage from Shuzen Sensei in 2008.
As President of Open Mind Productions, Al produced the landmark Buddhism in America Conferences in Boston, San Diego, Denver and New York City.
He is author of Open Mind Zen: A Guide to Meditation, and editor of Buddhism in America. Al currently serves as Director of Open Mind Zen Meditation Center in Melbourne, Florida. He is a member of the White Plum Asangha and the American Zen Teachers Association.
- Website:
- http://www.OpenMindZen.com
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Jukai Ceremony for Open Mind Zen Students
Congratulations to Open Mind Zen students who recieved the precepts from Soto Zen Priest Shuzen Sensei on Friday, June 26th, 2009. Thank you Jinshin Waters and Onchin Powley for your contributions. Thank you Fusho Sensei for creating space and opportunity for those of us who stepped into Juakai. We are all ever so grateful for family, freinds, members and other students for your ever loving support.
Jukai was a milestone marker for some of us here at OMZ who worked hard at diligently creating a… Continue
Jukai was a milestone marker for some of us here at OMZ who worked hard at diligently creating a… Continue
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I have driven through Melbourne a few years ago. Had I known about your center I would have stopped by. Do you ever hold any events in Palm beach County?