Ann Arbor Programs Sept – Dec 2024
UPDATE – WE NOW HAVE AN ONLINE REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR ANN ARBOR ONSITE-ONLY DHARMA COURSES BEGINNING JANUARY 2025
For your convenience, scroll below for January – April 2025 Onsite Dharma Programs.
CREATING SPACE: Clarity & Insight through Meditation – Mondays, January 6 – February 3, 2025, 7:00 – 8:30pm. No session January 20, due to holiday. FREE, Registration required
Meditation provides us with a clear stable mind, necessary for a happy life as well as the foundation for deepening our spiritual journey. This is a condensed four week course, offering hands-on experience with all of the basic elements of meditation – attention to breath, posture, plus techniques for coping with distractions and laxity of mind. All levels of experience are welcome. Facilitators – John Madison and Wendy Weiner. Click here to register.
SEM: THE NATURE OF MIND – Wednesdays, January 8 – March 19, 7pm – 8:30pm
*No session February 19. Jewel Heart Members FREE, Non-Members $40 or Pay what you can. Registration required.
This course addresses the relationship between energy and mind, the mind’s capacity for liberation, wisdom, and continuity of consciousness, as well as highlighting the mind as an object of concentrated meditation.
The course format includes: Reading assignments based on Gelek Rimpoche’s SEM transcript, and sessions that include concentrated meditation, facilitator presentations, group discussion, and guided analytical meditation. Visit the Jewel Heart store onsite to purchase the SEM paperback transcript or the Jewel Heart Store online to purchase the SEM downloadable digital pdf. Click here to register.
GOM: DAY OF MEDITATION – Saturdays, January 25 and March 22, 2025, 9:00am – 5:00pm. FREE
Meditation is an essential tool to help develop peace, joy, concentration and wisdom. GOM Days provide an opportunity to participate in silent group meditation sessions. Instructors will provide light guidance and will be available for assistance. Participants are welcome to come and go as suits their personal schedules throughout the day. Click here to register.
MONTHLY LAMA CHOPA AND TSOHS – Meeting onsite on the 10th lunar day monthly at 6:00pm with Lama Chopa Practice and Tsohs. Jadal Tulku will lead the sessions. Schedule coming soon.
CHANTING WORKSHOP WITH JADAL TULKU (Tulku-la) on the Long Life prayer and mandala offering for Tokden Rinpoche – Onsite only, Sunday, October 27, 2024, 2:00pm.
MANDALA OFFERING WORKSHOPS with Jadal Tulku
Jadal Tulku, known to most of us as Tulku-la, will offer a few informal sessions on how to make mandala offerings, from the simple 4 line verse with hand mudra to the more elaborate 37 heaps mandala offering. These will take place on Sundays, from 3 pm – 4 pm in an informal style, onsite only and not recorded, starting Sunday June 30, 2024 at Jewel Heart.
Stay tuned for future offerings.
GOM DAY OF MEDITATION – FREE, All Levels Welcome!
Meditation is an essential tool that helps develop peace, joy, concentration and wisdom. The day includes practice sessions with light guidance. Instructors available for assistance. Silence will be enjoyed throughout.
Saturday, September 28, 2024 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
No registration required. Come when you can.
Detailed Schedule
9:00am-10:30am session, 10:30am-11:00am break/questions
11:00am-12:30pm session, 12:30pm-1:00pm break/questions
1:00am-2:30pm session, 2:30pm-3:00pm break/questions
3:00am-4:30pm session, 4:30pm-5:00pm break/questions
You are welcome to meditate through break if you choose.
ATTAINING LASTING SATISFACTION
This course is based on the newly released transcript from Gelek Rimpoche talks on the qualities of a genuine spiritual path, on how it can bring us closer to our pure nature and help us attain lasting satisfaction in this lifetime. Facilitators Wendy Weiner and Joseph Breault.
Wednesdays, June 5 – July 31 & September 4 – October 16, 2024 No sessions July 3, 24
Onsite only, 7:00 – 8:30pm
Members Free/Non-Members $75 donation. No one turned away, pay what you can.
For questions, write [email protected]
ANCIENT WISDOM. MODERN TIMES. WITH DEMO RINPOCHE
Join Demo Rinpoche for weekly public talks on a variety of topics based on Buddhist wisdom that remains relevant for modern life. Followed by optional facilitated group discussion, onsite and online.
Sundays Weekly 11:00am – 12:00pm, FREE, Onsite and Online – No sessions, October 6 due to Fall Seminar. As well as November 10, 17 and 24. Earlier recordings will be posted on the Ancient Wisdom. Modern Times. webpage on those dates to view at your convenience. Live Sunday talks will resume on December 1.
WHITE TARA GUIDED MEDITATION
Tara, mother goddess of Tibetan Buddhism, is known for her quick and compassionate activity. White Tara is particularly associated with healing and long life. These guided meditations use visualization techniques to overcome physical, mental, and emotional suffering.
Sundays Weekly, 9:30 – 10:30am, Online/Onsite – No session October 6 due to Fall Seminar, as well as November 10, 17 and 24. White Tara guided meditations will resume on December 1.
Ann Arbor Programs May – August 2024
ATTAINING LASTING SATISFACTION
This course is based on the newly released transcript from Gelek Rimpoche talks on the qualities of a genuine spiritual path, on how it can bring us closer to our pure nature and help us attain lasting satisfaction in this lifetime. Facilitators Wendy Weiner and Joseph Breault.
Wednesdays, June 5 – July 31 & September 4 – October 16, No sessions July 3, 24
Onsite only, 7:00 – 8:30pm
Members Free/Non-Members $75 donation. No one turned away, pay what you can.
For questions and to register, write [email protected]
OPEN MEDITATION is on break
Facilitators offer lightly guided concentration meditation. Free. Drop-in sessions for all levels of experience.
Free, Weekly, Onsite only, 6:00 – 6:45pm
Mondays through May – No session May 27, Wednesdays beginning June 5. No sessions over the summer.
LAMA CHOPA & TSOH
Third Friday Monthly, June 21, July 19, August 16, September 20, October 18, December 20 – No sessions May 17 and August 16.
Onsite only, 6:30pm
We met weekly for 7 weeks beginning Sunday, May 19 at 2pm for Lama Chopa & Tsoh dedicated to Rose Jasso.
ANCIENT WISDOM. MODERN TIMES. WITH DEMO RINPOCHE
Join Demo Rinpoche for weekly public talks on a variety of topics based on Buddhist wisdom that remains relevant for modern life. Followed by optional facilitated group discussion, onsite and online.
Sundays Weekly 11:00am – 12:00pm, FREE, Onsite and Online – No live sessions May 26 and July 28. Recordings will be posted on the website to view at your convenience.
WHITE TARA GUIDED MEDITATION
Tara, mother goddess of Tibetan Buddhism, is known for her quick and compassionate activity. White Tara is particularly associated with healing and long life. These guided meditations use visualization techniques to overcome physical, mental, and emotional suffering.
Sundays Weekly, 9:30 – 10:30am, Online/Onsite – No session May 26, July 28.
MANDALA OFFERING WORKSHOPS with Jadal Tulku
Jadal Tulku, known to most of us as Tulku-la, will offer a few informal sessions on how to make mandala offerings, from the simple 4 line verse with hand mudra to the more elaborate 37 heaps mandala offering. These will take place on Sundays, from 3 pm – 4 pm in an informal style, onsite only and not recorded, starting Sunday June 30 at Jewel Heart.
Sundays, June 30, July 14 and 21, 3:00 – 4:00pm