When the Buddha Needs Therapy - Fall Practice Period 2025
The Dignity and Disaster of My Ego
Dharma Talk by Emyo Darlene Tataryn
Saturday, October 25th
9:00 am - 11:00 am ET (New York)
Online
“Junpo used to say that our egos are a process not a self.”
- Kogen Keith Martin-Smith
Traditional Zen posits three poisons, or three ways we perpetuate suffering - attachment, ignorance and aversion. For Jun Po Roshi’s Mondo Zen, his teachings emphasized the challenge of attachment. Part of the insight is that this ego is wholly conditioned, meaning that who and what we think we are is something that has grown up and developed throughout the life we live. With this realization, we can begin to let go of this attachment, not to get rid of the ego, rather to look through the ego as a another source of information. Thus we decondition and recondition our ego to be able to witness everything with the recognition and realization of pure awareness.
Emyo Darlene Tataryn will offer a teaching on the dignity and disaster of the ego for this second dharma reflection with Kogen’s When the Buddha Needs Therapy. The teaching will be followed by a discussion. After a short break you are invited to our weekly morning service and zazen practice.
The Fall Practice Period is open to anyone.
There is no fee for this event. A donation requested.
About Emyo Darlene Tataryn
A pioneer, Darlene has been doing the work since the early 70's. Her depth insight comes from working deeply with somatic healing, dance therapy, developmental and expressive movement, meditation, and other "mystic" practices. She is the creator of the Asaya Process and Maitreya's Chair; two practices which open this breathing body into receptivity, release tension, realign the spine, and bring the body into natural, blissfully calming, self-healing cycles.
As a long time Meditation instructor and Counselor with an Expressive Therapy Bias, Darlene understands and is able to navigate between the disciplines of therapy and meditation. She is steeped in the understanding of the interconnection and interdependence of all of nature. As a Zen Priest and Mondo Zen facilitator, she is able to guide and orient healthy ego function to the service of clarity and depth of heart and mind.
Darlene's history included the Rinzai Zen Hollow Bones Lineage, The Karma Kagyu Lineage, and Sahaja Marg.
Schedule
All times in Eastern Time (ET)
8:55 am Zoomdo opens
9:00 am Welcome and introduction
9:05 am Dharma talk - The Dignity and Disaster of my Ego - Emyo Darlene Tataryn
9:35 am Question and response
9:55 am Break
10:00 am Morning Service
10:25 am Zazen
10:55 am Closing check-in
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