Bringing together the best from the many diverse forms of Zen, Theravada, Mahamudra, Developmental Psychology and Integral Theory, Cosmopolitan Zen offers a broad inclusive vision of 21st Century Zen Buddhism. Hosted By Ekai Joel Kreisberg.
You Are Not Your Body, Feelings, and Thoughts - Preparing to Untangle - Ekai Joel Keisberg Roshi
You Are Not Your Body, Feelings, and Thoughts - Preparing to Untangle - Ekai Joel Keisberg Roshi - September 19th, 2026 - WSP26/FPP26
The teaching introduces the Eightfold Path through a modern interpretation of the Four Noble Truths as a Fourfold Task: recognizing reactivity, understanding our attachment to that reactivity, experiencing its cessation, and practicing the path that embodies this understanding. Reactivity naturally arises through body, speech, and mind as attraction, aversion, or neutrality, but we often become attached to these reactions, turning emotions into fixed “feeling beliefs” and strengthening our sense of self. Through meditation and awareness, we can notice and loosen this “grab,” allowing the mind to settle into the spacious awareness that is already present. The Eightfold Path then becomes the practical means of bringing this insight into everyday life and continuing the journey of awakening in service of all beings.
Our mission is to foster a diverse, inclusive community, dedicated to awakening through Buddhist teachings promoting personal and interpersonal healing with ethical compassionate action.
https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/
19 Oct 2026
The Listening - Music, Pure Awareness, and the Symphony of Being - Ming Po Larry Matthews
The Listening - Music, Pure Awareness, and the Symphony of Being - Ming Po Larry Matthews - September 5th, 2026 - WSP26
The talk explores pure awareness through the metaphor of music. Our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like notes and movements in a symphony, while awareness is the quiet listening that allows everything to arise and pass without resistance.
Rather than trying to control or eliminate difficult emotions, Zen invites us to listen to them with compassion. Awakening isn't about becoming a better “conductor” of life, but relaxing into the realization that life is already unfolding.
The central insight is impermanence: thoughts, feelings, relationships, and even moments arise and disappear, while awareness remains present. The deepest question becomes not “What am I hearing?” but “What is listening?”
In short:The notes come and go. The silence remains. Life is the symphony; awareness is the listening.
Our mission is to foster a diverse, inclusive community, dedicated to awakening through Buddhist teachings promoting personal and interpersonal healing with ethical compassionate action.
https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/
5 Oct 2026
Metacognition, Finders and the Three Turnings - Ekai Joel Kreisberg
Metacognition, Finders and the Three Turnings - Ekai Joel Kreisberg - August 8th, 2026
Ekai Joel Kreisberg explains metacognition as “thinking about awareness” and connects it to Zen, Mondo Zen, and Buddhist practice. The practice develops through four stages: receptive, active, reciprocal, and interpenetrative - moving from recognizing awareness within oneself to embodying it in relationship with others and eventually seeing awareness as pervasive.
Mondo Zen and emotional koans help take awakening off the meditation cushion and into everyday life, especially when we are triggered or interacting with others. The Sangha becomes essential because relationships reveal our shadows and give us opportunities to practice compassion, insight, and awakening.
The central message is, awakening isn't just an experience we have during meditation; it's a way of showing up in every moment. Metacognitive awareness helps us notice when we forget, remember our practice, and consciously choose how we respond.
Our mission is to foster a diverse, inclusive community, dedicated to awakening through Buddhist teachings promoting personal and interpersonal healing with ethical compassionate action.
https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/
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