{"id":19491,"global_id":"paricenter.com?id=19491","global_id_lineage":["paricenter.com?id=19491"],"author":"5","status":"publish","date":"2021-04-21 12:19:48","date_utc":"2021-04-21 10:19:48","modified":"2025-04-11 17:28:08","modified_utc":"2025-04-11 15:28:08","url":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/event\/the-inner-science-experiential-investigation-and-analysis-of-consciousness\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/19491","title":"The Inner Science, Experiential Investigation, and Analysis of Consciousness","description":"<div class=\"wp-block-group date-and-venue has-yellow-white-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-13b1d0ed wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:1rem;margin-bottom:1rem;padding-top:1rem;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:1rem;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\"><div  class=\"tribe-events-schedule tribe-clearfix\" >\n\t<p class=\"tribe-events-schedule__datetime\">\n\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__date tribe-events-schedule__date--start\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__separator tribe-events-schedule__separator--date\">\n\t\t\t\t @ \t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__time tribe-events-schedule__time--start\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div  class=\"tribe-block tribe-block__venue tribe-clearfix\" >\n\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f56f613f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/consciousness-2021-864x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19327\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Watch the recording<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Consciously Constructing Consciousness with Richard Baker Roshi\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gA1Gv_2NN70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gA1Gv_2NN70\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gA1Gv_2NN70<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"line-height:1.3\">The Inner Science, Experiential Investigation, and Analysis of Consciousness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with <strong>Richard Baker Roshi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Saturday June 26<\/strong><br>9:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST &nbsp;| &nbsp;18:00 CEST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">2-hour session<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are unable to attend the live session the recording will be available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To practice Zen means to observe the fact and process of knowing. Consciousness is the most visible face of our mutualized knowing, a knowing through others and within the proximal spectrum of phenomenality. To closely and dispassionately observe the activity and functioning of consciousness, it is necessary, additionally, to actualize a transformational \u2018<i class=\"\">awareness-observing-consciousness.<\/i>\u2019 This is a shift in kind: a shift from a self- referencing, comparative consciousness to a non-self- referencing, non-comparative awareness. This \u2018non-self-referencing, non-comparative awareness,\u2019 allows us to attentionally notice and study, to deconstruct and reconstruct, the perceptual and organizational processes of consciousness. This process of deconstructing and reconstructing consciousness is called the Teaching of the Five Skandhas. The five attentional categories for the analysis of consciousness are:<i class=\"\"> <\/i>\u2018Form,\u2019 \u2018Non-Graspable-Feelings,\u2019 \u2018Perception,\u2019 \u2018Associative Consciousness,\u2019 and \u2018Consciousness.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/image001-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/image001-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/image001.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Zentatsu Richard Baker<\/strong> is the Founder and Head Teacher of the Dharma Sangha Centers in the United States and Europe. In the United States he lives at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado; and in Germany, at the Zen Buddhist Center Schwarzwald in the Black Forest. He has been teaching Zen-Buddhism for 45 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baker Roshi is the Dharma Successor of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (author of the book <i>Zen Mind Beginner\u2019s Mind<\/i>).&nbsp; In 1966, with and for Suzuki Roshi, he co-founded the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California.<b><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baker Roshi subsequently founded the Green Gulch Zen Practice Community and Farm in Marin County, California in 1972. During the \u201970s, he pioneered a number of businesses related to Zen practice. 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