Realizational Practice Studies
Presents
Dharma & Psychoanalysis
Dogen’s Zen, Bion’s Psychoanalysis
An Online Retreat Day
with
Seiso Paul Cooper, Sensei,
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Retreat is Full. Registration is Closed. Wait List Only
The British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979) and the Soto Zen master, Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), were both highly creative and brilliant writers and thinkers whose works share many areas of overlap. They both exerted a radical impact on their respective disciplines. However, despite the highly regarded philosophical and theoretical complexity of their teachings, they both shared the agenda of strengthening and deepening experiential realizational practice with an insistent emphasis on the present moment. The direct experience of practice animates their teachings and brings them to fruition for both Buddhist practitioners and psychotherapists in the Twenty-first Century. Both are directly applicable to religious realization and effective clinical work.
It is in the spirit of these great thinkers that we offer this retreat, which is specially tailored for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychologists, mental health practitioners, and seekers of the Dharma within the context of a Soto Zen Buddhist retreat structure and includes presentations and discussions on the interrelation between Buddhism and psychoanalysis with an emphasis on both Bion and Dogen.
Experience with Zen meditation practice is not necessary. People from all meditative backgrounds – experienced or with little or no experience.
Seiso Paul Cooper, Sensei will present on Bion and Dogen to frame and facilitate the interrelation and integration of Buddhism and psychoanalysis. We invite you to participate in an exploration of these great thinkers deeply centered and nurtured in the shared intimacy of a practice-oriented silent retreat environment grounded in extensive meditation practice, which, in the spirit of Dogen and Bion, will function as the nodal point of the retreat.
An afternoon session will provide space for questions and discussion among participants. This is also an opportunity to share how the ideas and practices under discussion are lived out our in clinical work.
Retreat Fee:
Registration: $65. Closes September 23rd
Early Registration Discount By September 1st.: $50
This retreat is limited to twenty participants
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