Citation:
Jaoudi, Maria. 2023.“Cultivating Spiritual Experiences: The Chan Buddhist Ox Herding Pictures”. in Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract:
Abstract: This workshop will begin with the foundational background in how mystics from many world traditions cultivate through prayer and meditation mindful awareness through original innocence. Contemplating as a group through a PowerPoint of the Chinese Chan Ox Herding Pictures, participants will engage with the stages of spiritual growth outlined in the poetry and paintings. Finally, we will participate in a visualization meditation culminating in writing our own poems through the discovery of our own ability to be and experience our world through our original nature. [Please bring pen and paper.]Presenter bio: Dr. Maria Jaoudi, Professor of Humanities & Religious Studies at California State University Sacramento, is a painter exhibiting in France and the United States, as well as a poet/author of books on world religions, mysticism and art, including Mindfulness as Sustainability: Lessons from the World Religions (SUNY Press, 2021).
Presenter affiliation: California State University Sacramento