Zen Archery

Meditatives Bogenschiessen mit Harry Mark.

Ich begrüße Sie auf meiner Homepage und freue mich, wenn ich Ihnen ein Wegweiser sein kann für eine entspannte und glückliche Reise zu Ihrer inneren Mitte.

Wie kaum ein anderer Sport vermag das Meditative Bogenschiessen im Sinne von ZEN bei Jung und Alt gleichermaßen Körper, Geist und Seele in Einklang zu bringen.

Das Meditative Bogenschiessen ist der Weg, den Geist des ZEN-Bogenschiessens als Europäer zu erfahren.

Loslassen, heißt das Zauberwort. Nur wenn Sie den Pfeil Loslassen wird er sein Ziel erreichen. Das Meditative Bogenschiessen im Sinne von ZEN beruht darauf, mittels Konzentration seine innere Mitte zu finden und von Alltagssorgen loszulassen.

Wer in meinen Kursen nur lernen möchte, wie man mit einem Pfeil die Mitte einer Scheibe trifft, der geht den leichten, anspruchslosen Weg.

Das letzendliche Ziel aller Wege ist es, seine eigene innere Mitte zu finden und den Einklang mit allem zu erleben. Erleben auch Sie diese wunderbare Harmonie.

Kurse finden in 45127 Essen, Steeler Str. 36, (neben der Alten Synagoge) im Kolpinghaus - Eingang: Bildungsakademie ESPO, statt.

Zielgerichtete Seminare für privat Gruppen, sowie für Unternehmen finden auch an Wochenenden im Kloster statt. Nächster Termin: 28. März bis 30. März 2008.

Zielgerichtete Kurse werden für folgende Bereiche angeboten:

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KONZENTRATION NEU ERLERNEN für Jugendliche ab dem 9. Lebensjahr. Sehr empfehlenswert für Jugendliche mit ADS oder ADHS.
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MEDITATIVES BOGENSCHIESSEN für Erwachsene.
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STRESSABBAU UND ZIELE SPIELERISCH ERREICHEN für Führungskräfte.
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MEDITATIVES BOGENSCHIESSEN IM KLOSTER ST. CLEMENS mitten im Rhein.
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GONG- und BOGENMEDITATION für Alle, zum lösen von Verspannungen im Körper sowie im Geist.
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ZEN - PAUSE, Lunch-Time-Meditation. Mitten in Essen.

Die Seite "Kursangebot" enthält Einzelheiten über die oben genannten Punkte.

Die Seite "Spezielle Angebote" enthält Infos über Kurse für Jugendliche, auch in den Schulferien. Weekend-Workshops für Erwachsene, Meditatives Bogenschiessen im Kloster, und Kurse für UHUS und EULEN.

Lebensphilosophie: Achtsames und Vollbewusstes im Augenblick sein. Lass dich, auch wenn du nach vorne blickst, nicht aus dem lebendigen Moment der Gegenwart vertreiben.

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Meditative ZEN archery with Harry mark.

Firstly I'd like to welcome you to my Squidoo lens and hope I find you in a happy mood and a relaxed centered spirit.

Hardly any other sport is comparable to meditative archery in the sense that ZEN is able to bring both young and old to a state of peaceful harmony.

Meditative Zen archery as we know it today has it's modern roots in Europe.

Release, is the name of the magic word. Only if you release the arrow will it be reach it's goal. Meditative archery in respect of the ZEN method rests on of finding ones internal middle by means of concentration and aims to release the everyday worries of life.

Those who participate in my courses learn the art of making the arrow meet it's target in the most unpretentious way.

After all, the ultimate goal of ZEN is to find ones own internal middle and the reach harmony with all we experience. I long for you to experience this wonderful harmony.

Courses can be found in 45127 Essen (Germany), Steeler st. 36, (next to the old synagogue) in the Kolpinghaus - entrance: Development academy ESPO, in the square.

Team-Building seminars for privately groups, as well as for businesses take place also at weekends in the cloister St.Clemens.

Next appointment: 28 March until 30 March 2008.

These courses are offered for following areas:

* CONCENTRATION NEW LEARNING for youth from the 9 years of age. Very recommended for youth with ADS or ADHS.

* MEDITATIVE ARCHERY for adults. * Stress dismantling AND GOAL REACHING (setting targets)
for managements.

* MEDITATIVE ARCHERY IN THE CLOISTER ST.CLEMENS in the middle in the Rhine.

* GONG meditation and archery meditation for everyone, to that release tension in the body as well as in the pirit.

* ZEN - RECESS, Lunch-Time-meditation.
At Lunch Time.

Feel free to contact me about course details.

We also do Summer Camp courses for kids.

Weekend-workshops for adult, meditative archery in the cloister, and courses for UHUS and OWLS (scouts).

Life philosophy: Be attentive and fully conscious of the moment in which you NOW exist. Even if you glimpse the future focus on the eternal NOW.

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During the practice the flood of the thoughts comes to the quiet, that induces the Experiencing of would be allay and void, Shunyata.

Above all in Rinzai-zen, the mystical experience of the enlightenment becomes(Satori, an often suddenly entering the experience of universal Unity, i.e. the lifting of the subject-object-contrast, to that
central subject. In this context it is often referred to as "awakening" and "Enlightenment" (pali/sanskrit: Bodhi), of the "Buddha-becoming", or the realization of the own "Buddha nature".

This experience of that Not-Duality is vaguely attainable through linguistic communication and
can in no way be compared to a meditation.

As a rule, speech during meditation takes place only with the master teacher.

In that, the enlightenment experience precedes any vocal intercommunication.

The central concept of zen-practice, Shikantaza is, "simply sit ", i.e. the unintentional, not selecting attention of the Spirit in Zazen without following a thought or displacing one. In essence, just being.

Zazen is not therefore the means of attaining Enlightenment but is rather the prime goal and final point.

That large Koan the the Zazen-bearer itself.

Realization of this unintentional sitting Hishiryo, is central to non-thinking, i.e. the going out over the usual categorizing thinking.

The following passage is additionally written in the Genjokoan in addition:

Should be memorized and repeated...

"The name of the way is meditation,

To meditate is to forget,

To forget is to become one with all existences. "

In the course of time zen-masters developed different techniques that offered help to the zen-students and to eliminate faulty styles, to improve the training of the attention and the unintentional introspection of the occasion, this becoming the primary objective. Disturbing discursive thinking is extinguished as a final outcome. In the actual sense, zen cannot be taught. Only the prerequisites for spontaneous, intuitive insights can be improved.

Zazen (seat-meditation) belong to the current methods of the zen-practice, Kinhin (Gehmeditation), Rezitation (text-readings), Samu (concentrated active-being) and working with Koans. These methods become especially intensive during several days' practice-periods or exams, Sesshin as well as practise in retreats. The zen-student must integrate the Zazen at least into his everyday life, because zen is always only practice according to its nature.

It is often said that zen would offer "nothing" : no apprenticeship, no secret, no answers. In a Koan, the zen-master Ikkyû Sôjun speaks to a doubter:

"I would gladly offer anything to help you but in Zen we have nothing."

It means to live life - in its entire abundance. The direct access to this simplest of everything is blocked to the over logical person however - it seems as if the never silent voice of the thoughts would block it through stubborn ideas and judging presentations. The permanent employment with ones self, the protecting of I-amness only brings repeated suffering. Zen can solve this confusion - finally it is able to provide nourishment if one is hungry, sleep if one is tired. Zen is nothing special. It has no goal.

The characterization, zen offers "nothing", is expressed gladly of zen-master vis-à-vis its students in order to take them the illusion, zen offers acquisition of self knowledge or could be something "useful". On another plain on the other hand also the opposite is maintained: Zen offers that "entire universe" because it would include the lifting of the separation of inner world and outside world, therefore "all".

Also if intellectual and scientist often feel destressed through Zen, it is because it withdraws itself from "reason". Zen is often perceived as irrational because it opposes basically every conceptual determination. The apparent mysteriousness of Zen creates is the paradoxical inability to describe Zen through spoken language.

Zen always focuses on the experience and the actions in the present moment comprising of feeling, thinking, perceiving etc.

Zen however also possesses philosophically religious aspects and historically grown apprenticeships, like those in the Soto- and/or Rinzai-direction. Additionally if one is referring to the subjective experience of Zen it is a useless pursuit to define the practice in words.