Mini-Retreat: Koans, Parables, and other Strange Sayings
Sat, May 18
|Trinity Cathedral Portland
Rich with imagery, koans are puzzling, inviting, often funny, even shocking invitations to a direct experience of Reality as It Truly Is. Come hear the sound of the single hand!
Time & Location
May 18, 2024, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
Trinity Cathedral Portland
About the Event
*Last Mini-Retreat until September!
Register in advance: https://onrealm.org/TrinityEpiscopalpdx/PublicRegistrations/Event?linkString=YzBjYTE4YTEtMGQ4Mi00NjkyLTgxYmUtYjE1YzAwMDA3NDBh
(In person only; Led by Chris Bell) Koans are the recorded incidents of the interactions, conversations, and proclamations of many Zen masters through the centuries, first compiled in China in the 12th Century. The study of koans combined with silent sitting is a well-established path to awakening used to this very day.
Rich with imagery, koans are puzzling, inviting, often funny, even shocking invitations to a direct experience of Reality as It Truly Is. As such, they are similar to the aphorisms and parables of Jesus, which we will also consider. Come hear the sound of the single hand!
About the facilitator: The Rev’d Chris Bell earned his M.Div from Harvard Divinity School in 2005, then led the Unitarian Universalist congregation in Santa Rosa, California for 15 years. Since moving to Portland in 2021, he first served as a hospice chaplain, and…