New York Fall 2013 Weekly Programming Archive
Essence of Tibetan Buddhism
with Gelek Rimpoche
SUNDAY MORNING VIDEO WEBCASTS
10:00 to 11:00 AM
We are pleased to announce that Gelek Rimpoche will once again give weekly Sunday morning talks from 10:00 to 11:00 AM. Speaking from Ann Arbor and New York and other locations, these talks will also be a live video webcast.
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Healing Meditation Practices
Thursdays, 7-8:30pm
September 12, 19, 26; October 3, 10, 24, 31; November 7, 14, 21; December 12
Free to All
On Thursdays when Jewel Heart retreats in the US are not being held, Jewel Heart New York will feature group practice sessions, led by senior students.
The October 10 and 24 sessions as well as November 7 will be a Medicine Buddha practice. Medicine Buddha is an extremely powerful form of enlightened energy directed at helping us to accomplish our spiritual goals as well as healing. This practice benefits those who are ill and even those who have died.
October 3 and 31, November 14 and 21, and December 12 will feature a White Tara practice. White Tara, healing protector and mother goddess of Tibetan Buddhism, is called upon around the world by those in need of healing guidance and safe-keeping. Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche, like many Gelugpa lamas, has a particularly close connection with White Tara and has taught numerous facets of the White Tara practice over the past 3 decades in the West.
Odyssey to Freedom – Section 1
Live Webcast from Ann Arbor
Mondays, 7 – 8:30pm
September 9, 23; October 7, 21; November 4, 11; December 2; January 13, 27
Gelek Rimpoche created Odyssey to Freedom as an accessible and concise Lam Rim, encompassing the stages on the spiritual path from our current situation, as it is, through to full enlightenment. This course follows Gelek Rimpoche’s transcript, Odyssey to Freedom. It is available for purchase as a paperback through the Jewel Heart Store at 734 994 3385 or [email protected], or in digital format through the Jewel Heart website.
This course is also a Live Streamed Webcast. To become a subscriber to access this class and hundreds of hours of other archived teachings, please visit the webcast subscription web site.
Please read the following important details for attending the course.
Please write to [email protected] for each session you join and notify you are there online.
2. COURSE MATERIALS:
The course is based on Gelek Rimpoche’s transcript Odyssey to Freedom:
· For a digital download of transcript ( $9.99) please go to http://www.jewelheart.org/
· For a paperback version ($17.99), please contact the Jewel Heart store at [email protected]
3. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS ATTACHED:
To prepare in advance for each session with reading and practice assignments, including September 9th, please rely on the attached homework assignment.
4. QUESTIONS?
Contact programs@jewelheart.
New York Fall 2013 Programming Archive
Gelek Rimpoche Teaches at Jewel Heart New York
Saturday, December 14, 2013
2:00 to 5:00PM
Open to All
We are excited to have Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche teach at Jewel Heart New York in December!
Rimpoche is particularly distinguished for his thorough familiarity with modern culture and special effectiveness as a teacher of Western practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism. Please join us.
No prior experience with Tibetan Buddhism and no registration is required.
Je Tsong Khapa Day Lama Chopa Practice With Tsoh
Friday, December 27, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Open to All
On an individual practitioner level, the essence of Rimpoche’s advice is that it would be very beneficial for interested individuals to do a Ganden Lha Gyema retreat with accumulation of Migtsemas before and/or after a Je Tsong Khapa Day Lama Chopa practice with tsoh offering.
Retreat and Mantra Recitation
For each session, one should begin by reciting the Ganden Lha Gyema (without the Foundation of Perfections), paying particular attention to setting motivation at the beginning and doing appropriate visualizations throughout. At the point of the mantra in the practice, recite (and keep count of) Migtsemas over the course of an hour or hour and a half, being sure to dissolve the Field of Merit appropriately at the end. Numbers of sessions and mantra repetitions can and will vary based on time and the interest of the practitioner. If you need more advice or instruction, please feel free to contact [email protected].
Je Tsong Khapa Day Lama Chopa with Tsoh
For Je Tsong Khapa Day itself, we plan a group Lama Chopa practice with tsoh, which will include our friends at Shantideva and other groups, as we have done in the past! Please plan to join us for this festive celebration.
The celebration will begin at 7:00 PM at JHNY. If you plan to bring offerings of food or flowers, or if you wish to help with set-up, please plan to arrive 30 to 45 minutes early.
We hope to see you on the 27th!
The Lama Chopa is a guru yoga of Je Tsong Khapa. Based in secret oral teachings, the Lama Chopa was first written down in Tibetan verse by Panchen Lozang Chogyen around 1600. In Tibet, many people, even children, knew this practice by heart, and it continues to be a daily practice in the Gelugpa monasteries throughout the world.
This comprehensive practice strengthens our relationship with our spiritual teachers through offerings, especially offerings of our practice. It guides us through a meditation that includes all the necessary prerequisites: after beginning with Mahayana refuge and bodhimind, we generate our visualization of the merit field and invite the actual enlightened beings, to whom we then offer the Seven Limb practice in elaborate and beautiful verses. Also included is a detailed meditation on all the stages of the path to enlightenment.
The Tibetan word Tsoh means gathering, collection, or assembly. The Tsoh offering is a great feast offered to all enlightened beings and to all non-enlightened beings as well, including ourselves. It is one of the most important practices of generosity, and is also extremely effective for accumulation of merit.
The food offered is always of the best possible quality and quantity. After the Tsoh is completed, the food offerings are shared among the participants and may either be eaten at that time or taken home to share with family.
2013 Jewel Heart Fall Retreat
with Gelek Rimpoche
Friday, October 11 – Monday, October 14, 2013
Tibetan Buddhist master Gelek Rimpoche uniquely shares his deep understanding of the profound and vast tradition of Tibetan Buddhism to spiritual seekers world-wide. Beloved within the Tibetan community, Gelek Rimpoche has dedicated his life to making Buddha’s ancient methods for peace, compassion and wisdom accessible to anyone interested in making a positive change to their lives.
We warmly invite you to join Gelek Rimpoche for his annual fall gathering at the Garrison Institute. This weekend is open to all, with no previous background necessary; those who are new are especially welcome.
Final registration/check-in on Friday, October 11 is from 3 – 6:30pm, dinner is 6 – 7pm, and the retreat commences after dinner. The retreat closes following lunch on Monday, October 14. For more information about the retreat, please write [email protected].
Click here for registration, offered only through the Garrison Institute website.
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe
Aryadeva’s 400 Stanzas on the Middle Way
Friday – Sunday, September 27 – 29
at Jewel Heart Ann Arbor
The weekend teachings will also webcast live via the Jewel Heart Webcast Subscription.
Aryadeva, in these poetic verses, focuses on the development of merit, how to overcome disturbing emotions, and on understanding the nature of ultimate reality.
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe is currently a professor of Mool Shastra (Indian Tradition of Buddhist Philosophy) at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, the only Tibetan university in India, and 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 the 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 27, 7:30 – 9 pm
Saturday, September 28, 10 am – 12; 2 – 5pm
Sunday, September 29, 2 – 4pm
REGISTER IN ADVANCE by calling 734 994 3387 extension 223 or email [email protected].
$50 – 75 sliding scale
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Jewel Heart Pilgrimage to Ladakh 2013
with Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche
October 27th to November 7th 2013
Jewel Heart is pleased to announce a “Pilgrimage to Ladakh”. The pilgrimage will begin in Leh, Ladakh, India. Leh, capital of Ladakh, at one time was a major stop on the Asian “Silk Route” and will visit a number of monasteries as well as the Stock Palace Museum.
November 4th and 5th, Rimpoche and the Jewel Heart group will attend the 10 year anniversary of Kyabje Bhakula Rinpoche’s death. He was a descendant of Ladakh’s royal family and he was given to monkhood at an early age. He was recognized by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of Bakula Arhat, one of the Sixteen Arhats (direct disciples of Gautama Buddha).
Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche will give teachings throughout the trip at various significant stops. We may also receive teachings from other great Masters or Rinpoches in Ladakh.
For more information and a registration form, please follow this link.
GOM Meditation and Practice Weekend
with Hartmut Sagolla
Saturday, November 9, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sunday, November 10, 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Suggested Donation*: $100 for the weekend
GOM, a method to develop concentrated meditation, is an essential tool that helps develop peace and joy as well as the power to deeply understand wisdom. Training in concentration gives the mind a stability and suppleness that enables it to function well in daily life, regardless of the conditions. Moreover, a mind that is thus trained is the prerequisite to focus deeply on the true nature of reality.
In this workshop Hartmut Sagolla will lead through guided meditations as well as give pithy instructions on this step by step method to achieve a calm and joyful mind.
Please bring your lunch. Tea and coffee will be available at the center.
NOTE: Registration is required! Please register via e-mail at [email protected].
* Please note that no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Hartmut Sagolla has been a student of Gelek Rimpoche, the founder of Jewel Heart, since 1984. After living in a Dharma Center in Australia for 15 years he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2002 to work with Rimpoche as a Program Director of Jewel Heart, organizing and teaching classes, courses and workshops, guiding meditation retreats and transcribing and editing Gelek Rimpoche’s teachings. In 2011 he opened a Jewel Heart Study Group in the Birmingham Unitarian Church, offering regular meditation – and Buddhist classes throughout the year. In addition to facilitating courses and meditation workshops throughout Jewel Heart, Hartmut has also led meditation programs at Google, worked with various Michigan prisons on meditation, and participated at Veterans Affairs in Ann Arbor as part of a research program on mindfulness through the University of Michigan.
IN THE SPIRIT:
Music from the World’s Great Traditions
Philip Glass, Artistic Director
A Benefit Concert for Garrison Institute’s 10th Anniversary
Thursday, October 24, 7:30pm
The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, New York City
Jewel Heart is pleased to be a non-profit organization sponsor of In the Spirit. Under the artistic direction of Philip Glass, In the Spirit celebrates great spiritual and cultural traditions stretching from Tibet and China to Africa, the Middle East, and the West. Featured are the NYC premiere of Glass’s Songs of Milarepa with Gregory Purnhagen and Nelson Padgett, and performances by Pomerium, Riyaaz Qawwali, Foday Musa Suso, Omar Faruk Tekbilek , Wu Man and the Scorchio Quartet. Also featuring a special performance by Philip Glass with Foday Musa Suso.
Tickets: 800-982-2787, or visit ticketmaster.com
For further info, visit http://garrisoninstitute.org/inthespirit/
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2013-14 Group Practice with Tsoh Dates
Please follow this link for a complete calendar of Water Snake Year Tsoh dates. Tsoh dates at Jewel Heart New York are adjusted to fall on Sundays, unless otherwise noted in the calendar. Tsoh times are noon, unless otherwise noted in the calendar. Tsohs to celebrate special occasions, such as Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche’s birthday, will be shared in the newsletter well in advance.
PLEASE NOTE: Waning Moon Day practices are restricted to those with Highest Yoga Tantra, Mother Tantra initiation unless otherwise noted.