OUR MISSION

Awarezen 圆觉禅 exists to to help co-create all things anew. We do this by inviting awareness and compassion, bliss and exuberance to manifest in human consciousness for this planet to become a hospitable home for all, saturated with life, love, and light in luminous hope for the new creation. On this transformative journey, we seek to dissolve deceptions and evoke new consciousness of what is real within and without. We connect to the deepest dimensions of being alive and awake.

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Meditation Space

Awarezen is an online meditation space, offering distinctive signature programs free of charge. Individual consultation and mentoring customized to each person is available, for free. We are a community service, not a business. We do not believe in commodification of meditation and spirituality for money. We flow in the economy of gifts not profits. This practice is in accord with the ancient hallowed heritage of dana (generosity) found in South Asian wisdom traditions of Buddhism and Yoga.

Creative Missiology

Awarezen is an expression of "alternative missiological imaginary" (Duerksen 2022) and creative "inreligionisation" (Tan 2022) but with a difference: it is not only a place where Dhamma seekers belong to Christ but also a common ground where Buddhists, Hindus, and Christians as well as the non-religious join together in the third space of interspiritual and intercontemplative participation. Everything and everyone belongs in this cosmotheandric reality where God, cosmos, and humanity are a dynamic seamless whole in creative evolution (DeMoor, 2022).

Contemplative Community

Awarezen is also a contemplative community of grace steeped in embodying truth beyond exterior trappings of religion or tradition, enacting awareness and compassion for a culture of awakening and renewal. We transcend divisions and binaries to embody the third space of interspiritual belonging within which multiple ways of belonging are embraced and explored, not feared and excised. We are open to gender and sexual pluralities in our midst even as we embrace an "amipotent" God of non-controlling egoless love.

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Cosmotheandric Vision

We are mindful of our deep participation in the "emerging wholeness of God, world, and humanity through the power of love in our scientific age." (Ilia Delio, Center for Christogenesis). We move beyond mainline dogmatic thinking to celebrate a mimetic, open, and relational paradigm of creation and humanity deeply ensconced in the fabric of the Divine (Rene Girard and Thomas Jay Oord). This is the paradigm of a cosmotheandric Christ (Raimon Panikkar).

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Mutual Subversive Fulfilment

We embrace the dialogical space of nondual mutuality between Dhamma and Christ. Nonduality here means that both Dhamma and Christ share in the one taste of lucid emptiness. Mutuality means that Dhamma and Christ are entwined in an ecstatic dance of mutual self-giving and self-emptying in love (kenosis). Awarezen embodies and enacts the subversive fulfilment of the Dhamma in Christ and Christ in the Dhamma.

This is an arc of dynamic double-movement whereby the totality of wisdom and practice of the Dhamma finds its completion and consummation in the innermost essence of Christ, which is non-abiding emptiness of nirvana; and the fullness of a life of grace and faith in Christ culminates in the unborn, unoriginated, unmade, and undying expanse of non-abiding nirvana. This nirvana is also the known as the quintessential body of truth (svabhavika-dharmakaya) — that is, the innermost and ultimate dimension of a Buddha.

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This mutual subversive fulfilment enacts the deep inner dynamics of Awarezen's Path of Total Awakening known as the Great Christic Consummation. Here, we participate in actualizing the Dhamma in the ambience of abiding in Christ beyond words and concepts. While both Dhamma and Christ are empty of inherency, they each have their nominal distinctiveness thus mutually fulfilling, deepening, and enriching each other in "absolute balance, piercing clarity, and inexhaustible exuberance" (Sadhguru). This is Yoga (union).