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Spirit Workshops in Essential Spirituality
09-827 The Heart of the Universe, the Mind of God:
An Integral Experience of Your True Self
 with
Diane Hamilton
Saturday, April 17, 2010 � 10 am to 5 pm
$90 Public, $80 OSIS Students
OSIS Credit Value: 1
Available via Audiobook Download
Explore the various dimensions of an Integral Zen practice in the context of a contemporary psychological understanding of the shadow, the repressed aspects of our self that hold much of our energy and talent. This workshop will incorporate the groundbreaking integration of Voice Dialog and Zen Buddhist practice in a valuable way for both beginners and experienced practitioners. This Big Mind practice is a revolutionary approach for transmitting the authentic teachings that emerged from the Buddha’s enlightenment experience. By participating in Big Mind, you will gain profound insights in the illuminating experience from which Buddhism and all the world’s great religions originate.
 The religious traditions had no way of knowing about modern psychological notions such as the shadow, aspects of ourselves which we are unable to incorporate in our immediate 1st person experience (“me”) and is thus seen outside in others (or the 3rd person “it”). For example, if we are unable to acknowledge our own hostility, we may project it onto others, seeing them as being hostile to us. Our shadows cause painful symptoms and tend to sabotage spiritual growth, even in the most steadfast of practitioners. This course introduces practices which help us to identify our shadow and bring it to light, releasing stores of energy we never knew we had!
This workshop will present the Integral Framework, an invaluable aid to helping you understand and categorize your experience. The framework we use is crucial for our growth, since it is both the clearing in which experience arises (the broader the framework, the more fully we can experience the many aspects of life) and the lens through which our experience (even our experience of emptiness!) is interpreted.
Another crucial insight of Integral Theory is that all people experience states (such as the great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep) and all people navigate through stages of development. Confusion between these conceptions can be perilous, and an understanding of them can help us to walk our spiritual path in a conscious fashion, and enter more deeply into relationship with both our own life and the ground of being that in the west is frequently experienced as God.
 Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei is a Zen priest and Zen teacher. She is the dharma successor of Genpo Roshi, and is his first successor in the Big Mind lineage.
She began her dharma study at Naropa Institute in 1983 with Choygam Trungpa Rinpoche, and became a Zen student of Roshi's in 1997. In 2003, she received ordination as a Zen monk with her husband, Michael Zimmerman, and dharma transmission from Roshi in the spring of 2006. She is also a lead trainer for the Integral Life Practice seminars at Ken Wilber's Integral Institute.
Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted facilitator, mediator and spiritual teacher living in Utah. She is well known as an innovator in facilitating group dialogues, especially controversial conversations about religion, race and gender relations.
Diane also teaches Integral Spirituality, and has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute in Denver, Colorado, since 2004.
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