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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Bloomfield Hills Program April – June 2017
The Eight Medicine Buddhas
The practice of the Eight Medicine Buddhas is a powerful method for healing oneself and others. It protects from dangers and obstacles and helps to eradicate the inner disturbances of obsession, hatred and ignorance.
Wednesdays, June 14, 21, 28, July 12, 19
7.00 pm – 8.30 pm
$50 /Jewel Heart members free
GOM – Meditation for Clarity and Serenity
Thursdays, 7 – 8:30pm Eastern Time, April 13 – June 1, 2017
Onsite/Online Course
GOM, or concentrated meditation, helps to develop clarity, serenity and a deeper understanding of the world we live in.
Based on Gelek Rimpoche’s transcript, GOM: A Course in Meditation, the sessions will alternate weekly between discussion/practice sessions done individually at-home or as a group onsite at participating Jewel Heart centers AND online via Webinar presentation sessions with Jewel Heart Instructors Amy Hertz from Jewel Heart New York and Supa Corner Jewel Heart Ann Arbor.
The Bloomfield Hills chapter is gathering onsite for online and onsite sessions, except for the May 4 webinar session. The four webinar sessions provide participants with the complete GOM course. Onsite sessions provide for exploration of the GOM transcript with further group discussion and group meditation practice time.
Registrants will have access to a dedicated GOM webpage hosting materials and earlier session recordings of the webinar presentations to be viewed at their leisure.
Sliding Scale: $20 – $40
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Cultivating the Heart of Compassion
Compassion sustains life. We need it to survive and thrive. In this course you will learn first to relax your body and focus on the breath, and then to use the tools of analytical and visualization meditations to cultivate deep and lasting compassion.
Mondays, May 8, 15, 22, 29, June 5, 12, 19, 26
7.00 pm to 8.30 pm
$80, Jewel Heart members free