GRÜNDERIN
Chia-ju Chang
Chia-ju Chang ist Professorin für Globale Sprachen, Literaturen und Kulturen am Brooklyn College (CUNY) und Direktorin des Nebenfachs Chinese and Zen Contemplative Studies. Sie unterrichtet und praktiziert seit langem Linji-Koan-Zen und verbindet kontemplative Praxis mit zeitgenössischer Philosophie, Ökologie, Medienkritik und Geisteswissenschaftlicher Bildung. Ehem. Koordinatorin des UN World Contemplative Day – Arts & Humanities Committee.
- Professorin für Globale Sprachen, Literaturen und Kulturen, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
- Ehem. Koordinatorin, UN World Contemplative Day – Arts & Humanities Committee.
„Weil alle Wesen krank sind, bin auch ich krank; wenn alle Wesen von der Krankheit befreit sind, hört meine Krankheit auf.“
Gründungshintergrund
The Institute for Meditative Humanities Education was not formed as an extension of academic institutions, but as an experimental space generated from within contemporary concerns — practice unfolds within bodily, relational, and social difficulty, not apart from the world.
The 'illness' spoken of here is not simply an individual defect or problem, but the shared condition in which modern people are caught — in dualistic opposition, self-enclosure, and estrangement from the world. Thus, no rigid opposition is assumed here between healer and patient, teacher and student, practitioner and world.
Within the awareness of shared difficulty, teaching, dialogue, online dokusan, and collective practice can all become skillful medicines that open possibilities for awareness and transformation. What the institute seeks is not to cure others, but — through stillness and wisdom, dialogue and practice — to witness one another, and together bear witness to the possibility of awakening.