01/25/2010 (Monday), 6:30pm – 8:30pm
This event is free to regular attendees of the “Monday Night Senshi Meditation Class with Keith Martin-Smith”
$10 for Boulder Integral Members/$15 standard

Venue: 2805 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80304 (info@boulderintegral.org)

Over the last 30 years, many forms of Buddhist-inspired psychotherapy have emerged to help men and women process their shadows, triggers, blockages, and repressions, so they can become better functioning adults. And while many of these programs have helped people have healthier egos, they have a much less impressive track record for creating and sustaining spiritual insight in their practitioners. This lecture will explore:

• Therapy not grounded in the truth of impermanence is counterproductive to both the therapeutic process and the spiritual path.
• Your angst is your liberation. Anxiety, dread, depression, anger, resentment, jealousy, and insecurity are the very doors that will lead you away from egoic suffering and into true freedom.
• What you can do to use your own angst as the means of your liberation.

Jun Po Roshi spent many years in the intense practice and study various psychotherapies and doing Men’s Work, unpacking his own shadow material. What he realized was that no matter how skillful, therapy that treats the ego as real strengthens attachment, creates ongoing suffering, and blocks spiritual insight.

The implications of this are profound for our relationship to our own ego, to our spiritual insight, and to our ability to take our seats as Awake, embodied spiritual beings. Come join us for a provocative and deeply engaging lecture into spirituality and therapy in the 21st Century.

Jun Po Roshi is the 83rd Patriarch in Rinzai Zen, and was the first dharma heir to Eido Shimano Roshi. He has extensively studied numerous schools of psychotherapy and is an elder in the ManKind Project (MKP). He has created, according to Ken Wilber, the “first true innovation in Zen in 1,000 years” through the creation of Mondo Zen™. www.MondoZen.org