Dick Sutphen – The Gateless Gate

The Gateless Gate is a 70-minute meditation verging on ‘virtual reality’. You become the central character on a journey of self-discovery. Produced with beautiful music and incredible three-dimensional sound effects, you journey to a mountain ashram, meet 11 fellow travellers and kindly Brother Joshua, who conducts dharma talks, directs sitting and walking meditations, and Sanzen one-to-one sessions. You’ll get up at 4:30 each morning, attend the sessions, work in the communal vegetable garden, sleep and dream in the afternoon.Again and again, you’ll be directed within to seek awareness about your own life and spiritual quest. Each time you visit The Gateless Gate, you’ll obtain new understanding. According to ancient Zen, the wisdom has ‘no gate barriers.’ All that keeps who you are from becoming who you’d like to be is a gateless gate. Walk through it.By dividing the meditation journey into nine tracks, you can experience it any way you desire. As examples:1. You can skip the body relaxation/altered-state induction (Track 1) and simply listen to the story, participating to any degree you desire when instructed to meditate to attain awareness.2. If you don’t want to meditate for the full 70 minutes, you can set your CD player to play only Tracks 1 through 5. Then count yourself awake at the end of that time. The next time you do the meditation, set you CD player to play Track 1 (body relaxation), plus Tracks 6 through 9 to finish the journey. If you like a particular portion of the journey, you can re-experience it as often as you like.