Ann Arbor Special Events September – December 2016
SUNDAY PROGRAMS
SUNDAYS WITH GELEK RIMPOCHE
Weekly, 11am EST with Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche
We look forward to seeing you
at Jewel Heart Ann Arbor or via online via Webinar
Open to All, Free of Charge
SUNDAYS with GELEK RIMPOCHE – 2016
To Register for the webinar, use the following link
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4284962112392867330
OR visit GoToWebinar and enter the ID: 125-176-963
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing important information to join the webinar.
Please log in early and set up before Rimpoche begins. The above link and ID are valid for this new series of Rimpoche’s Sunday teachings regardless of attending one or all.
For webinar trouble or questions, comments and feedback
Write: [email protected]
Or Text: 734 489 4919.
Sunday Mornings
8:30 – 9:30am ~ Concentrated Meditation
9:45 – 10:45am ~ White Tara Guided Meditation
11am – SUNDAYS WITH GELEK RIMPOCHE
Tea, Snacks and Conversation following the morning teachings!
Sunday Afternoons
4 – 5:30pm ~ Weekly Wu Style Tai Chi
See details for Morning and Afternoon Programs below.
Concentration Meditation – Help yourself through meditation. Facilitators provide basic guidance with multiple concentration meditation sessions using the breath as the point of focus. Open to all levels of experience.
White Tara Guided Healing Meditation – Tara is the mother goddess of Tibetan Buddhism, known for her quick and compassionate activity. She is particularly associated with healing and long life. Join us for a guided meditation using visualization techniques to overcome physical, mental and emotional
Tai Chi – Learn the ancient art of meditation in motion with this ‘soft style’ martial art emphasizing relaxation and balance. Suggested donation $5
WORKSHOPS
FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS WORKSHOP
CANCELLED
Saturday, October 22 and 29, 10am – 1pm
This two part introductory workshop will give an initial insight into the main message of the Buddha: that there is suffering and that it can be completely eliminated through one’s own efforts.
Sliding scale $20 – $40
GOM (MEDITATION) PRACTICE WEEKENDS (CANCELLED)September 16, 17 & 18
GOM, or concentrated meditation, is an essential tool to help develop peace and joy as well as the power to deeply understand wisdom. This meditation weekend intensive, offered according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition includes practice sessions with light guidance. Silence will be maintained between sessions. Practice sessions include sitting and walking meditations. Instructors will be available for your assistance. Recommended reading – Gelek Rimpoche’s transcript, GOM. Further details provided upon registration.
Free/Donations welcome
to announce a Special Weekend Teaching
UNDERSTAND LIFE:
Journey to Enlightenment
with GESHE YESHE THABKHE
Friday – Sunday, September 9–11, 2016
Jewel Heart International
1129 Oak Valley Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Also available via Webinar.
We are honored to announce
a special weekend teaching
with guest Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe.
In this teaching on Aryadeva’s poetic 400 Stanzas, Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe will illuminate the spiritual journey to enlightenment, helping us to learn how to rely on positive actions, reduce disturbing emotions, and understand the true nature of reality.
We invite you to enjoy earlier audio sessions offered by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe on this topic. Click the links below:
Aryadevas 400 Stanzas on the Middle Way: Chapter 1
Aryadevas 400 Stanzas on the Middle Way: Chapter 2
Aryadevas 400 Stanzas on the Middle Way: Chapter 3
Geshe Rinpoche’s gifts were recognized early in life. A genuine contemplative master and member of the last generation extensively trained in old Tibet, he is a Professor of Mool Shastra (Nalanda Tradition of Buddhist Philosophy) at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, the only Tibetan university in India.
He is regarded as one of the most eminent scholars of both the Madhyamaka tradition and Indian Buddhist studies. As one of the greatest learned scholars of Drepung Loseling Monastery, he facilitated completion of numerous research works, including a complete translation of Lama Tsongkhapa’s Lam Rim Chen Mo, or Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
SCHEDULE
Friday, September 9, 7:30 – 9 pm
Saturday, September 10, 10am – 12; 2 – 5pm
Sunday, September 11, 2 – 4pm
$50 – 75 sliding scale
Click here to Register
Jewel Heart Programs are open to all , regardless of ability to pay. If you are unable to afford a fee, please contact [email protected] to discuss the possibility of a partial or full scholarship.
A Book Reading & Talk with Author Guy Newland
Onsite Jewel Heart Ann Arbor & Online via Webinar
Saturday, October 15, 4:30pm
Jewel Heart, 1129 Oak Valley Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
How do we go on when we lose someone whom we love more than life itself?
What did the Buddha teach about working with grief?
How can we help our selves, or help others, in the face of terrible loss?
Join us for what will be a powerful reading & talk with Guy Newland, Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Central Michigan University, who wrote this book after losing his wife to cancer.
To register and attend via webinar, please use the link below.
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/912644506391120899
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. We recommend you register well in advance.
Ann Arbor Programs September – December 2016
ANN ARBOR PROGRAM COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
Homework assignments where applicable are provided upon registration.Purchase digital transcripts for the courses at www.jewelheart.org/transcripts/,
or order paper copies from the Jewel Heart Store at [email protected].To become a Jewel Heart member – visit www.jewelheart.org/donate-support/.
Jewel Heart courses and workshops are open to all, regardless of ability to pay. If you are unable to afford a fee, please speak with registration about the possibility of a partial or full scholarship.
All programs held at:
1129 Oak Valley Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
734 994 3387 • [email protected]
JE TSONG KHAPA DAY CELEBRATION!
In honor of Je Tsong Khapa, The Ann Arbor Jewel Heart center will be open from Tuesday, December 20th through Friday, December 23rd for the recitation of the Ganden Lha Gyema and a Migtsema mantra collection, culminating in the Lama Chopa and tsoh on Friday, December 23rd.
All are welcome to participate in all or part of the gathering.
Click here to see the flyer.
SEM: THE NATURE OF MIND
Thursdays, 7 – 8:30pm
The Limitless Potential of Human Consciousness
Based on teachings delivered by Gelek Rimpoche on the nature of mind, this course addresses the relationship between energy and mind, the mind’s capacity for liberation and wisdom, and continuity of consciousness. One needn’t be Buddhist to benefit from this course.
Special guest speakers will alternate weekly with Jewel Heart instructors covering six topics over twelve sessions.
Course registrants are welcome to gather at the Jewel Heart Ann Arbor Center to participate together in the broadcast of the course, in addition to their option to participate via Webinar individually.
Upon registration you will receive instructions for ordering digital or paperback versions of the course transcript, SEM: The Nature of Mind by Gelek Rimpoche. For course details and guest speakers, click the registration link below.
Fee: $50 – $75 Sliding Scale
Registration is done online only at http://www.jewelheart.org/events/sem-the-nature-of-mind/
October 13, 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17, December 8, January 12, 19, 26, February 2
Day of Silent Meditation
Saturday, October 29, 9:00am to 8:30pm
Join us for a day of silent meditation on Saturday, October 29th. Concentrated silent meditation is an essential tool that helps develop peace and joy as well as the power to deeply understand wisdom. This meditation day long opportunity, offered according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and Gelek Rimpoche’s GOM teachings, will include practice sessions with light guidance.
Click here for details.
Cost: Donation only – Attend even if you can’t donate
INTRODUCTION TO TIBETAN BUDDHISM
Mondays, 7 – 8:30pm
Meditation is an important tool on the spiritual path, helping to develop focus, stability, insight and understanding. In addition to more commonly known concentration methods, we will also experience analytical and visualization meditations on various topics.
September 12, 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17, 24, November 7
$80/ Jewel Heart Members – Free
JEWEL HEART MONTHLY PROGRAMS
JEWEL HEART READERS
Tuesdays, Monthly, 7 – 8:30pm
Enjoy lively discussion of dharma related book selections monthly. Open to All.
September 13, October 11, November 15, December 13
KNITTING SOCIAL
Sundays, Monthly, 1 – 4pm
All welcome to join in for conversation and knitting projects dedicated to become donations.
September 18, October 9, November 13 and December 11
FREE FILM AND DISCUSSION
Fridays, Monthly, 7pm
Bring your friends and enjoy a free film and discussion about the film and dharma. Concessions are also available.
August 26 – SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (2008)
A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
September 30 – DALAI LAMA AWAKENING (2014)
A profound and life-changing journey of innovative Western thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama to solve many of the world’s problems. The result was an inner transformation of the participants, as well as what audiences report is a personal transformational experience for those who watch the film.
October 28 – Z is for ZACHARIAH (2015)
Disaster hits. The world is dying out. There are only a few remaining survivors. They must learn to live with each other, and possibly even blossom love for one another. The drama brims with religious allusion and questions of how faith manifests in a world without hope.
November 18 – FOR THE COYOTES (2015)
Human connection, obligation, illusion, enlightenment, love and fear – it’s all up for grabs in this meditative, probing, tender story of inevitability.
December 30 – SUNRISE/SUNSET (2010)
The daily life of the 14th Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy. “I am a simple Buddhist monk. Through this film you will realize, I am a normal human being, nothing special.”