Karma Triyana Dharmachakra: Discovering the Buddha Within, a Shamatha Retreat with Lama Tsultrim Yeshe
Karma Triyana Dharmachakra: Discovering the Buddha Within, a Shamatha Retreat with Lama Tsultrim Yeshe |
- Karma Triyana Dharmachakra: Discovering the Buddha Within, a Shamatha Retreat with Lama Tsultrim Yeshe
- “Living in the Light of Divine Sanity”: A retreat for people of color at the Garrison Institute
- Seeing Fresh: Contemplative Photo of the Week
- Advice For Teachers
- Watch “Bringing the Buddha’s Words to Life” online this Sunday
- Buddhist ceremony in Cambodia honors those buried at newly unearthed mass grave
- Video: Lori Deschene on success “with a backbone of meaning”
- Review: The Sound of Silence, by Ajahn Sumedho
| Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT
September 14 – 19, 2012 To discover one's own Buddha Nature, we must make friends with our minds and develop techniques for cultivating compassion and awareness. We'll combine daily talks based on Everyday Consciousness and Buddha Awakening by Thrangu Rinpoche, accompanied by meditation,aspiration prayers, and noble silence, including silent meals. Taught in English. $ 120 / $ 96 KTD Members Karma Triyana Dharmachakra is located at 335 Meads Mountain Road, Woodstock, NY 12498, in the Catskills. To register, call 845-679-5906 ext. 3, or e-mail office@kagyu.org, or online at kagyu.org. Read More @ Source 
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| “Living in the Light of Divine Sanity”: A retreat for people of color at the Garrison Institute Posted: 22 Aug 2012 08:00 AM PDT
Sharpe explains her reasons for organizing a retreat just for people of color in this Q&A, and it's worth a look. "Some may be offended by the thought of a retreat exclusively for people of color," Sharpe says. "I've been told that it is "a form of segregation. Some have also alleged that by creating this separate sacred space for meditation, it encourages people of color to hang on to an identity. But in fact, people of color have to live that identity every day. We don't have to be encouraged to deal with it. Our society forces us to confront it." According to the course description: "As people of color, the institutionalized oppression and microagressions we experience can lead to even greater pain. What resources can we access in the midst of our daily lives, to help us remember to live into a larger dimension than the small body of fear and despair which often drives our hearts and minds? How can we live in the light of divine sanity rather than under the spell of habit and cultural beliefs that drive separation rather than connection? This weekend will offer tools for reflection and resources for living sanely." More information and registration are available here. To make the retreat as accessible as possible, it's being offered at the Garrison Institute's lowest rates. Read More @ Source
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| Seeing Fresh: Contemplative Photo of the Week Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:00 AM PDT Contemplative photography is a method for working with the contemplative state of mind, seeing the world in fresh ways, and expressing this experience photographically. Each week we choose an image that's been submitted to seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies this practice.
This week's photo by Sue Stoddard, is a very nice simplicity shot, where the visual space created by the beige wall intensifies the forms of the socks and the clothesline. It's a very good example of fresh seeing. Read More @ Source
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| Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:00 PM PDT The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I (Bertrand Russell) should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
I always enjoy catching up with Brain Pickings. There is always so much of interest and I especially like lists so these ten commandments by BR are rather special. It is amazing how the days have sailed by. There have been hours of driving, a night in a hut in a garden in Wales, and this evening meeting a charming little boy of two. He has been saved the indignity of being talked to in baby talk resulting in a child who doesn't baby talk. Happy and bright and smiling. A joy to be with. I hope his teachers of the future will take note of BR's advice. Read More @ Source
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| Watch “Bringing the Buddha’s Words to Life” online this Sunday Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:00 PM PDT On Sunday, August 26, the day of the Ullambana Celebration, Dharma Master Heng Sure will lead a presentation called "Bringing the Buddha's Words to Life: The Buddhist Text Translation Society — Past, Present and Future," at the City of 10,000 Buddhas in Ukiah, California. The presentation is at 2:30 p.m. PDT, and for those who can't attend, it will be livestreamed online here. Topics for the presentation will include: ongoing projects of the BTTS, training for translators, disseminating dharma worldwide, and more. Read More @ Source
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| Buddhist ceremony in Cambodia honors those buried at newly unearthed mass grave Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT The Associated Press reports this week on a recent Buddhist ceremony at Do Dontrei in Cambodia, where a "killing field" from land around what was formerly a Khmer Rouge prison. About one hundred people attended the event, which included offerings of food and drink (because, as one person told the news service, "we know they died hungry"). You can read the whole story here. Read More @ Source
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| Video: Lori Deschene on success “with a backbone of meaning” Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT
Here's an interview with Deschene, in which she talks about keeping right intention at the forefront of her work as Tiny Buddha's popularity has taken off, and what it means to succeed "with a backbone of meaning." To see what else is in our September magazine, click here. Read More @ Source
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| Review: The Sound of Silence, by Ajahn Sumedho Posted: 21 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT  Ajahn Sumedho's The Sound of Silence is a joy to read, full of the insight and humor that this popular Buddhist monk is famous for. It was a genuine privilege to receive his wisdom as I worked through its pages, savoring the words of its author as he discusses Buddhist meditation and mindfulness. This wisdom has been accrued over a long monastic career of over 30 years, first as a young monk in Thailand, under the meditation master Ajahn Chah, before moving to the West to be the abbot of Cittaviveka and then Amaravati Buddhist monasteries. Since this book was published, the venerable ajahn has retired in Thailand, living out his life as a simple Buddhist monk. He recognized around the globe as a compassionate & wise Buddhist teacher. The twenty-seven chapters cover subjects from body contemplation to 'the sound of silence,' and from the nature of consciousness to awareness of rebirth. They were transcribed from spontaneous talks given by Ajahn Sumedho over a six year period, and retain much of the vigor and liveliness he is renowned for. Throughout, he never strays far from the central theme of this work – mindfulness, or as he often describes it, intuitive awareness. Much of Ajahn Sumedho's words revolve around making this clear consciousness the hub of one's practice, remaining awake to the various thoughts, feeling! s, moods , and sensations that fill the mind's attention. In doing so, the self-view (sakkaya-ditthi) dominates one's perspective less, opening one up to the experience of life as it truly is: impermanent (anicca), unsatisfactory (dukkha), and not self (anatta). There are many personal details from Ajahn Sumedho's monastic career as well that add another dimension to The Sound of Silence, revealing his close relationship to his mentor Ajahn Chah, his analysis of his own personality traits, and his contemplative life as lived in both Thailand and England. In an example of this, we read of the poignant and amusing incident involving a bag of sugar and a fasting Venerable Sumedho – engineered by the ever-insightful Ajahn Chah! A really important aspect of this book is that it's not a scholarly work revolving around complicated Buddhist philosophy and psychology (although Ajahn Sumedho does display admiral knowledge of Buddhist doctrine). Instead, the forest monk focuses on the meditative life as lived by real people with real problems and concerns, as reflected in the title of one of the transcribed talks: When You're an Emotional Wreck. Indeed, dealing with everyday concerns with mindfulness is a central theme of this book, encouraging its readers to apply its teachings to their own lives. The Sound of Silence is a true gem among the plethora of books on Buddhism that are available nowadays. It's a work I will certainl! y return to again and again over the coming years as an aid to my own meditation practice, alongside Ajahn Sumedho's other major books Teachings of a Buddhist Monk, The Mind and the Way, and the wonderfully-titled Don't Take Your Life Personally. For, with this modest monk's words, we posses pointers to the gate to the deathless, and as we all head to our final breaths I can't think of a better companion. I can't recommend this book highly enough. Title & Author : The Sound of Silence: The Selected Teachings of Ajahn Sumedho Publishers : Wisdom Publications Page Count : 375 Price : $ 15.16 ISBN : 0-86171-515-2 Web Links : The Sound of Silence at Wisdom Publications  
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