Jon Kabat-Zinn helps you get started with meditation

Jon Kabat-Zinn helps you get started with meditation
Corporate Craving and Buddhist Compassion
Shibata Sensei celebrates 90th birthday
Connecticut Buddhist Film Festival begins soon

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 10:00 AM PST

If you're looking to get started with meditation — or help someone you care about to do the same — you'll want to check this out. Mindfulness meditation pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn has released a new book, Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment — And Your Life, and you can now read an exclusive excerpt called "Meditation: Getting Started" over at Mindful.org.

There you'll find incredibly clear guidance on the very basics: how to sit in a correct meditation posture, what to do with your eyes during the practice, how to work with sleepiness, and how to "protect" your meditation time. Check out "Meditation: Getting Started" here. (And then, to start up with the practice, check out Mindfulness for Beginners as well as Mindful.org's collection of articles, "Mindfulness: The Basics.")

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Corporate Craving and Buddhist Compassion

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:00 AM PST

UBC's Buddhist and Contemporary Society Program presents a lecture by Jan W. Walls.

"Corporate Craving and Buddhist Compassion: Is There a Middle Ground for Buddhist in Business?"

Date: Thursday, 02 February 2012
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Place: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall

Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come first-serve basis.
To download a .pdf poster for printing: Jan W. Walls.

The choice of "Right Livelihood" is so important among primary Buddhist values that it has been enshrined in the Noble Eightfold Path. "Right Livelihood" does not exclude serving or owning a wealth-generating business, but the rightness of a livelihood is determined not by the amount of material wealth it produces, but rather by the well-being it generates. Since the business of businesses today is the pursuit of as much profit as markets and laws allow, isn't "Buddhist business" an oxymoron by its very nature? In recent years, owing to widespread concern over "corporate greed", many "ethical business" initiatives have emerged and continue to grow. Assuming that "ethical business" and "Buddhist business" should have much in common, this presentation looks at the diametrically different starting points of Buddhist thought and free enterprise corporate goals, then considers the recent ethical business movements in search of a future convergence of Buddhist ideals and corporate behavior.

After completing his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Chinese and Japanese languages and literatures, Dr. Walls began his academic career teaching Chinese language and East Asian cultures at the University of British Columbia (1970-78) and the University of Victoria (1978-85). In addition to teaching at UVic, he founded and directed the Center for Pacific and Oriental Studies. From 1981 to 1983 he served as First Secretary for Cultural and Scientific Affairs at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, and from 1985 to 1987 he was Senior Vice President of the newly established Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, where he founded and developed their first Education and Cultural Affairs programs.

In September, 1987, he joined Simon Fraser University, where he founded and directed a center for the interdisciplinary study of international, intercultural and interlingual communication at SFU's Harbour Center campus in downtown Vancouver: the David Law Center for International Communication. He also founded and directed SFU's Asia-Canada Program, an interdisciplinary minor or intensive minor program for undergraduate students.

He has published literary and cultural studies and translations, and lectured widely in the fields of East Asian languages and cultures, East-West intercultural communication, and the theory and practice of cross-cultural translation.

BCS Program lectures are made possible by the generous support of The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation.

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Shibata Sensei celebrates 90th birthday

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 08:21 AM PST

Onyumishi Kanjuro Shibata, a 20th generation imperial bowmaker and kyudo master, celebrated his 90th birthday on December 29 at Boulder Shambhala Center (Karma Dzong). While he turned 90 according to the Western calendar, he is 91 according to his own calculations.

Kyudo is the ancient art of Japanese archery. Shibata Sensei first came to the United States in 1980 under invitation from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the late founder of Shambhala International. He offered kyudo training to students of Shambhala and was awarded the rank of National Living Treasure of Japan. He was also a mentor to the late Zen teacher, Kobun Chino Otogawa.

Click here to view and online photo album of the birthday celebrations.

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Connecticut Buddhist Film Festival begins soon

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 08:00 AM PST

The 3rd annual Connecticut Buddhist Film Festival will get underway this January 18, 2012 through May 16, 2012. Films that are featured this year will be shown at 7:00 pm on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at the Buttonwood Tree Center for the Performing Arts in Middletown, Connecticut. The programs are offered free of charge to the public by the New England Institute for Buddhist Studies.