FUNDADORA
Chia-ju Chang
Chia-ju Chang es profesora de Lenguas, Literaturas y Culturas Globales en Brooklyn College (CUNY) y directora de la especialización secundaria (minor) en Estudios Contemplativos Chinos y Zen. Desde hace mucho tiempo practica y enseña el zen de koan de la escuela Linji, y vincula la práctica contemplativa con la filosofía contemporánea, la ecología, la crítica de los medios y la educación en humanidades. Excoordinadora del Comité de Artes y Humanidades del Día Mundial Contemplativo de la ONU.
- Profesora del Departamento de Lenguas, Literaturas y Culturas Globales, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
- Excoordinadora del Comité de Artes y Humanidades del Día Mundial Contemplativo de la ONU.
«Porque todos los seres están enfermos, yo también lo estoy; cuando todos los seres se liberen de la enfermedad, mi enfermedad cesará.»
Origen fundacional
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.