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OUR MISSION

Awarezen exists to to help co-create all things anew. We do this by inviting awareness and love, joy and wisdom, and most of all, true living faith in Jesus Christ to manifest in human consciousness - for this planet to become a just hospitable home for all oriented to life, love, and light in glorious hope for the new creation. 

To borrow and adapt a description from Fr. Laurence Freeman OSB, meditation groups are to become "centres of Presence to bring into being the new form of missionary endeavour that [global] society now needs: a contemplative mission of Presence." Awarezen is such a centre.

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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 commodify meditation and spirituality for money. We flow in the economy of gifts not profits. This practice is in accord with ancient values of generosity (dana in Buddhist Pali) and love offering (authairetos didomi in Biblical Greek).

Creative Missiology

Awarezen is an expression of  "alternative missiological imaginary" (Duerksen 2022) that demonstrates creative "inreligionisation" (Tan 2022) but with a key difference: it is both a place where Dharma seekers belong to Christ and also a common ground where Buddhists and Christians as well as all religious believers, atheists, humanists, and the non-religious can join together in fraternal co-participation. 

Contemplative Community

Awarezen is also a contemplative community of grace committed to a culture of awakening and a civilization of love. We transcend division and conflict to include diverse ways of belonging in a spirit of fraternity and open encounter.  Profound prayer of the heart in honoring the mystical, sacramental, communal, and missional dimensions of faith is deeply valued.

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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). With historical creeds as foundational vision, we envision God beyond Greek or Asian theories of being to boldly accentuate the biblical God's holy emptiness and ineffable presence that radicalizes the present, conserves the primordial, and renews the future. A biblically cosmotheandric God pervades and transcends creation. 

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Christic Fulfilment

We embrace the dialogical space of mutuality between Dharma and Christ, where Dharma and Christ both share in the one taste of lucid emptiness - ultimately so for Dharma but relatively so for Christ. While each informs and learns from the other with mutual respect, Dharma is ultimately fulfilled in the ineffable Triune reality of Christ, whose "holy emptiness" transcends all notions of emptiness in Dharma.

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Ehipassiko "Come and See"

Christ Jesus is "the One in whom all truth and knowledge finds its source and unity" (Fr. Dave Pivonka). Even so, it is possible that Christ can be realized differently or partially in different contexts: as Brahman, Dharma, or Dao. But this must happen without veering into extremes of religious indifferentism or fundamentalism, We openly share our Christic vision without any proselytism. The process of inquiry, virtue, and love is what matters most. All can come and see the Christ reality in Jesus freely for themselves.