Fall Practice Period 2025
Mondo Koan Intensive
Ego Deconstruction - Reconstruction Koans
with Ekai Joel Kreisberg
Sunday October 19th, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET (New York)
There is a huge amount of unnecessary suffering in the world - unnecessary because it does not arise directly from our life circumstances but from the conditioned way in which we react to our own memories, stories, and beliefs.
- Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi
Jun Po Roshi’s Mondo Koan practice is a facilitating dialogue engaging the unconditional compassion that arises when we awaken to Clear, Deep Heart-Mind. The Mondo dialogue invites a mutual commitment to honesty, vulnerability and openness. You are invited into a broadly inclusive, liberating experience. Led by trained facilitators, the Mondo Koan Intensive takes participants through all ten of the Ego Deconstruction-Reconstruction koans. Participants will practice together in the full group and will be led in small-group triads as well in order to better close the gap between facilitator and participant.
This Retreat will:
Introduce the basic philosophical reorientation of the Mondo process.
Teach the basic dharana practice utilized throughout the full Mondo process.
Lead participants through the first five ego deconstructing koans through interactive meditative inquiry.
Introduce and practice the Pure Awareness group practice.
Guide participants through the ego reconstruction process. (Koans six - ten)
Prepare participants for working with emotional awareness koans
This day-long retreat offers a series of hands-on teachings designed to introduce the first ten koans of Jun Po Roshi’s Mondo Facilitation process. For intermediate students, the retreat offers an opportunity to deepen understanding through dedicated practice in a supportive community.
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your life.
~ Mumon Ekai
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About Ekai Joel Kreisberg
Ekai continues to evolve his practice to incorporate a variety of Buddhist wisdom in his teachings. His commitment to compassionate action keeps offering endless opportunity for learning and growth.
“Mondo Koan Intensive is a retreat for anyone that wants to uncover their ‘true self’ without dedicating twenty plus years of sitting on the cushion. It is a lasered approach to discovering how we react as opposed to respond. The program offers tangible methods to refer to when not on the cushion that are useful in everyday ‘reality.’”