Cultivating a Field of Benefaction
This course is a recorded, on-demand course that can be taken at your own time and pace.
With Roshi Paul Genki Kahn
Zen as a way of being means transforming ourselves, our lives, our being in the world into a “field of benefaction.”
Zen as a way of being means transforming ourselves, our lives, our being in the world into a “field of benefaction.” This is not about being nice, compliant, or passive. Zen bares the interactive, interdependent and co-creative networks that constitute life itself. The path of Zen includes awakening to our primal identity with and relationship to all being; and learning to navigate skillfully through these networks promoting awareness, care, cooperation, and harmony.
One of the leading Zen masters of our time, Roshi Paul Genki Kahn augments traditional Zen practices with modern psychology, philosophy, science, and socially engaged service to marginalized communities. He has developed a thorough and profound holistic approach to Zen practice that offers personal and inter-relational development for skillful living in the world. He is Co-founder with his wife, Roshi Monka Genmitsu Kahn, of the International Zen Garland Order. Along with his duties as the Spiritual Director of the Zen Garland Order and the Ancient Oaks Zen Community, Roshi Genki maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Savannah.