Meditative Geisteswissenschaften

Institut für Meditative Geisteswissenschaften

„Weil alle Wesen krank sind, bin ich krank; wären alle Wesen von Krankheit befreit, so ginge auch meine zu Ende.“ — Vimalakīrti-Sūtra, Kapitel über Mañjuśrīs Krankenbesuch.

Guiding principles and path

I Vow

The vow to leave bondage together with all beings

Seeing suffering, one vows; self and other walk together.

II Doors

Gate of dependent arising · Gate of emptiness

Inquire into emptiness within dependent arising; contemplate dependent arising within emptiness.

III Gates

Turn back · enter emptiness · return to the world

Meeting suffering, turn back; enter emptiness and loosen grasping; return to the world and take it on.

IV Path | CARE

Concentration · awareness · response · engagement

In ongoing practice, cultivate the capacity to understand and to act.

IV Domains | HEED

Health · existential · environmental · digital

From questions close at hand, enter research, teaching, and public practice.

The three gates keep returning; the four paths and four domains interweave.

Institutskern: Zen Circle und tägliches Chan

Zen Circle als Kern-Praxisraum des Instituts, tägliches Chan als Grundlage der alltäglichen Kultivierung.