Dr. Rabbi Marc Gafni ~ Diane Musho Hamilton, Sensei
& Daniel Doen Silberberg, Sensei

November 11, 2010

7:00 - 10:00 PM

Rudramandir
830 Bancroft Way, #101
Berkeley, CA 94710

Suggested Donation: $25 ($15 for students)

This event is designed to be a rich exploration of the role of creativity and uniqueness in spiritual unfolding.  A fruition of enlightened living is to recognize and express the universality - and particularity of your life - not at the level of ego, but from the very sensory details of your unique gift, your unique obligation, and your unique expression.

Please join us for this Integral teaching. Dr. Marc Gafni will take us for a deep dive into Evolutionary Creativity from the perspective of kabbalah; Diane Musho Hamilton will give us a first-hand, facilitated experience of our innate creativity, and Daniel Doan Silberberg will tell the story of his own creative expression throughout the discipline of Zen practice. You will come away from this evening will more than full permission to be your Unique Self.

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Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconoclastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints andThe Mystery of Love.

Dr. Gafni's teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. His path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls "Sacred Autobiography", woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts, have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and sacred audacity that Dr. Gafni teaches.

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Diane Musho Hamilton, Sensei is a gifted facilitator, mediator and spiritual teacher living in Utah. She is well known as an innovator in facilitating group dialogues, especially controversial conversations about culture, religion, race and gender relations. Diane is a fully ordained Zen priest and teacher. She has studied Buddhism since 1984, and was given dharma transmission by her Zen master, Genpo Roshi, in 2006. She works with the Big Mind process; a facilitation technique synthesized by Roshi to convey Eastern teachings to Western audiences.

Diane is a founder and core faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community. iEvolve is a global, integrally informed practice community co-founded by Sally Kempton, Diane Musho Hamilton, Marc Gafni, and Sofia Diaz. She is also a co-director of Integral Life Spiritual Center. Diane also teaches Integral Spirituality, and has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute in Denver, Colorado, since 2004.

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Daniel Doen Silberberg, Sensei is a Zen teacher, performance coach, and author based in San Francisco.  He is known for his warm, personal teaching style with an emphasis on developing excellence in contemporary daily life. Daniel is the founder of Lost Coin Zen, an international organization that trains students to empower themselves, and to embrace modern, everyday life as an opportunity for spiritual practice.

Daniel received transmission of the Zen lineage from Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi, founder of Big Mind and Abbot of Kanzeon International.  He trained earlier under John Daido Loori Roshi, then Abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery, and under Taizan Maezumi Roshi  the founder of The White Plum Lineage of Zen.Doen Sensei's first book, Wonderland: The Zen of Alice, was published by Parallax Press in 2009 and picked up by Random House for publication in Germany. There is also a Korean edition in the works.  A chapter is featured in Shambala Publishing's 2010 edition of Best Buddhist Writing.