What the “Quark” Do We Know?
The title of this episode alludes to the well-known documentary about quantum physics, “What the Bleep Do We Know?” Quantum physics questions our perception of reality and the universe, always wanting to “know” the truth. But even at the level of quark, what do we really know? And what is the truth? From a spiritual perspective, we take a different route to the same goal--it’s not about knowing but deepening our practice to reach the state of “don’t know” mind. In this beginning of the 21st century, science is now confirming what spirituality has always said: The universe is one field of consciousness in which we are part of, and even made of. The Indra’s net is the holographic, conscious universe. But what does it mean to our regular life, or what does it add to our practice? With Zen master Soeng Hyang (Bobby Rhodes) and Reiki master Wendy Lipson we are looking at the space of “don’t know” mind where true consciousness and healing spring. Quote: “Created by mind alone” is not a philosophical point about whether everything is inside or outside, or whether outside even exists. The point is that we experience everything in our minds, nowhere else.” (Zen master Wu Kwang)
Barbara Rhodes is Head Zen Master of the Kwan Um School of Zen and a retired Hospice nurse with over 40 years of practice and teaching experience. She received Inka in 1977 and dharma transmission in 1992 from Zen master Seung Sahn. She has been teaching and leading retreats since 1978, and has been the head teacher of the international Kwan Um School of Zen since her teacher’s death in 2004.
She is an outstanding down to earth teacher, well-respected in the Buddhist community, reflected by her inclusion in Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America, Revised and Updated Edition, by Lenore Friedman (2000), which also includes such influential teachers as Pema Chodron, Charlotte Joko Beck, and Sharon Salzberg. She was also included in Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen (Wisdom Publications, 2006). Bobby was invited to contribute to two books. She wrote an essay titled “Bowing to the Great Mirror,“ in Being Bodies: Buddhist Wisdom on the Paradox of Embodiment (Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon, eds, Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1997). Then authored the essay “Mansoeng’s No Cultivation,” in The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women (Florence Caplow and Susan Moon, eds, Wisdom Publications, 2013). www.kwanumzen.org
Wendy Lipson--As an Akashic Records conduit and a Certified Reiki Master, Wendy is the founder of The Ancient Healing Arts Academy of New York based in Park Slope, Brooklyn. She has been practicing with various forms of Energy Healing for 48 years locally and internationally. Certified in several forms of energy healing, Wendy began her energy training with Dr. Janet McCrae of the NYU School of Nursing in 1974 with the study of Therapeutic Touch. Wendy is the director of Reiki Reaching Out, an organization formed to bring Reiki to the underserved members of the community.
Wendy is strongly devoted to Reiki as a spiritual healing modality and has guided many of her students into Reiki Mastership certification. She also provides individual and group support for new and advanced healers with a monthly meeting group now in its 25th year. “The Caregiver Project” is designed to bring healing to those unsung heroes caring for family members with challenging diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Wendy has dedicated her life to assisting in the release of suffering, walking beside others wanting to become self-empowered so that they may live fully in the present.
Website: www.ancienthealingartsacademy.org / reikiprof@msn.com/ akashicprof@gmail.com