Kynan Tan: Exiting The Matrix

Description

Kynan had an interesting experience, when, at the age of 11, he was taken to see the blockbuster movie The Matrix and found himself pondering if all the people he knew might very well be computer simulations. While initially troubling, this experience did eventually open to insight about what we can know through sensory experience and the way that our experience is created by the way we look at the world.

Kynan will recount this story and talk about the insightful ways of looking at practices as described by Rob Burbea. There will be a guided meditation on mindfully observing and discerning the limits of sensory experience. There will also be a discussion of the Buddha’s teaching on emptiness (suññatā) and how this has progressed through the history of Buddhist practice.

Please join Kynan & the community, on Thursday 18 May 2023 7.30 – 9.00pm (AEST) for a guided meditation & Dhamma discussion.

Speaker

Kynan Tan is a meditation teacher who takes a collaborative approach to helping students achieve their meditation goals. He came to meditation after struggles with stress, anxiety, and depression and found the practice to be transformative. He believes that meditation has enormous potential for creating positive change and opening up new ways of relating to our experience.

Kynan draws upon a number of different modern and traditional techniques of contemplative and introspective practice. He is a longtime practitioner of the stages of śamatha-vipassanā (as presented in the book The Mind Illuminated), Rob Burbea’s insight meditation techniques, nondual awareness, and brahmavihārā practices (mettā, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity).

Kynan studies meditation with Dr. Tucker Peck. He teaches the Pragmatic Dharma Club at the San Francisco Dharma Collective, leads retreats, and teaches one-on-one instruction and online meditation courses. Kynan has sat a number of retreats, including a month-long solo retreat in 2021.

Info

View live on Zoom from 7.25pm on the night. Talks include meditation and generally conclude at 9pm. Download iCal calendar for the Zoom event.

• Meeting ID: 985 1050 0274
• Passcode: 645945