Awareness in Christ Retreat: Wakeful Inquiry
Sat, 19 Mar
|Awarezen Room
A quarterly meditation mini-retreat for all who enjoy the process of meditative inquiry into the heart of being—unveiling the knowing within our experience, along the way traversing profound reaches of meditative mind and insight from jhana to dzogchen in the light of Christ.
Time & Location
19 Mar 2022, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm SGT
Awarezen Room
About the event
Awareness in Christ Retreat is a series of meditative explorations into key aspects of deeper meditation in the context of micro-retreat. We will cover salient dimensions of jhana (lucid concentration), aruppa (immaterial absorption), vipassana (deep insight), mozhao-chan 默照禅 (silent illumination), huatou-chan 话头禅 (critical phrase), anuttara-yoga tantra (highest integral blissful wisdom), mahamudra (nature of awareness), and dzogchen (pristine awareness in essence and effulgence)—all luminously held in the presence and power of Christ.
Today's retreat focuses on huatou (话头) or critical phrase. We shift from meditation of the early Buddhist texts into meditation of the Chan/Zen tradition, a lineage traceable according to traditional accounts to Maha Kasyapa, one of the chief disciples of the Buddha. Of the two main meditative approaches in Chan/Zen, critical phrase (similar to a Zen koan but in nuclear form) is a penetrating practice of inquiry invoking a vivid sense of perplexity, wonderment, and investigation that retraces the…