Bloomfield Hills Programs Sept – Dec 2017
Free Introductory Meditation Course
Meditation provides a clear stable mind, necessary for a happy life and foundation for deepening our spiritual journey. This course offers hands-on experience with the basic elements of meditation, using breath, posture and techniques for coping with distractions and laxity of the mind as well as cultivating compassion for oneself and others.
8 weeks: Mondays, October 9, 16, 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20, 27
7 – 8:30 pm
Wonders of Compassion
Chapter 1 of Bodhisattva’s Way of Life
In the First Chapter of Bodhisattva’s Way of Life Shantideva discusses the qualities and benefits of the bodhimind that aspires to Enlightenment for the sake of others. Gelek Rinpoche’s detailed commentary forms the basis of this course.
10 weeks: Wednesdays, October 11, 18, 25, November 1, 15, 22, 29, December 6, January 10, 17, 7 – 8:30 pm
$100, Jewel Heart members free
Bloomfield Hills Special Event
Living with Loss: Grief, Consolation and Communion
with Guy Newland
We will work with issues such as: 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 ourselves, or help others, in the face of terrible loss?
Guy Newland will open the weekend with a public talk on Friday, May 19th at the Birmingham Unitarian Church in Bloomfield Hills and continue in depth on Saturday and Sunday, May 20 and 21 at the Jewel Heart Ann Arbor Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center in Ann Arbor. Join us onsite and/or online!
Guy Newland is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Central Michigan University, where he has taught since 1988. He has authored, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism, including the three-volume translation of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment and Introduction to Emptiness. Since the loss of his wife Valerie Stephens in 2013, he has expanded his teachings, given to universities and Dharma centers, which include topics on death, dying, and grief. He lives in Mount Pleasant, MI.
Friday, May 19, 2017, 7 – 8:30pm
Birmingham Unitarian Church
38651 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
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LEARNING TO TAKE INNER WEAKNESSES AS INNER POWERS: TRANSFORMING THE PASSIONS, TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFE with Glenn Mullin
Glenn Mullin is a Tibetologist, Buddhist writer, translator of classical Tibetan literature, and teacher of Tantric Buddhist meditation. He lived in the Indian Himalayas between 1972 and 1984, and studied philosophy, literature, meditation, yoga, and the enlightenment culture under thirty-five of the greatest living masters of the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Glenn is the author of over 20 books on Tibetan Buddhism, founded and directed the Mystical Arts of Tibet, and has curated a number of important Tibetan art exhibitions.
Learning to Take Inner Weaknesses as Inner Powers:
Transforming the Passions, Transforming Your Life
with Glenn Mullin
Monday, March 13, 7 – 9pm
Online via Webinar and
Onsite at Jewel Heart Bloomfield Hills
at the Birmingham Unitarian Church
38651 Woodward Avenue
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
The Indo-Tibetan tradition of Lojong, or “mind transformation,” is a basic foundation in all schools of Central Asian Buddhism, from Bhutan and Ladakh in the Southern Himalayas, through the high mountains of Tibet, and to the steppes of Mongolia and the forests of Eastern Russia. This evening lecture looks at practical tips from the Lojong tradition for bringing about about inner joy, wisdom and personal fulfillment.
Fee: $10
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