Gaylon Ferguson -- "Welcoming Beginner's Mind"

Name: Gaylon Ferguson -- "Welcoming Beginner's Mind"
Start: 2024-11-21T18:30:00-07:00
Location: Boulder Bookstore

Schedule

Thu Nov 21 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Boulder Bookstore | Boulder, CO

Gaylon Ferguson will speak about and sign his new book, Welcoming Beginner's Mind: Zen and Tibetan Buddhist Wisdom on Experiencing Our True Nature, on Thursday, November 21st at 6:30pm, at Boulder Bookstore.
Purchase tickets to attend at FergusonBBS.eventbrite.com
About the Book:
Renowned for centuries, the classic Zen oxherding pictures vividly illustrate the stages of the spiritual journey—from seeking and finding to ultimately forgetting the illusory self and awakening to our true nature. In his commentary on these images, Gaylon Ferguson guides us on an experiential path into these seeming contradictions through welcoming—the simple, challenging, and always new possibility of opening to exactly what’s occurring in our experience.
Distinct from meditation and mindfulness, this contemplative exercise leads us beyond spiritual bypassing (using spiritual practices to repress or avoid parts of ourselves) and spiritual materialism (practicing with a heavy sense of ego). Rich with teachings from the great Zen teacher and author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, as well as extensive commentary from Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and others who have illuminated the oxherding pictures, this book invites you into a process of spiritual maturation that never occurs elsewhere than here or other than now.
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IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION
*Tickets are $5 (plus a small processing fee).
*A coupon good for $5 off a copy of Welcoming Beginner's Mind, or a purchase on the day of the event is included with your ticket. You will receive this coupon at the event.
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