 Live Video Broadcasts
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Live video broadcasts include:
• Weekly Tuesday teachings by Gelek Rimpoche and others
• Monthly Sunday talks by Gelek Rimpoche and others
• Selected workshops or weekend teachings by Gelek Rimpoche
Subscription for individual use is only
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 Please note: we have upgraded the subscription service and now it DOES SUPPORT Macintosh computers!)
Gelek Rimpoche to teach in Cleveland on Sound Spiritual Dedication
Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche, founder and spiritual director of Jewel Heart, will teach at Jewel Heart Cleveland March 14 and 15.
Basing his teachings on a short dedication by Buddhist master Nagarjuna, Rimpoche will explain how we can ensure that our positive actions help to bring universal compassion and wisdom, and the ultimate result of enlightened body and mind.
This teaching is open to all.
Dates and times:
Saturday, March 14,
10:00 am - 12:30 pm and
2:30 - 5:00 pm
Sunday, March 15,
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Suggested donation: These teachings are open to all, regardless of ability to pay.If you can afford it, we suggest a donation of $50 for the three-session teaching. If you can afford to give more, please be generous.
We need your Recipes! A fundraiser for Jewel Heart
Jewel Heart is known for the quality of its potlucks. Here is a chance to share your great recipes with others while helping to raise thousands of dollars for Jewel Heart as well. We are looking for recipes in all categories, vegetarian or non-vegetarian, and will include a section of Tibetan specialties. You are invited to submit up to 10 recipes, as we are planning to include about 300 recipes in the cookbook Recipes from the Heart: Potluck from a Buddhist Center.
It's easy to submit your recipes online. Go to fundcraft.com and click on Cookbook Web Features (or you can go directly to fundcraft.com/fc/webfeatures.asp). Enter the ID number 239-09YU - this will take you to the Jewel Heart recipe collection page. Type in your recipes following the directions in the box below the space for typing.
If you have difficulties or questions, please contact Anne at aewarren@sbcglobal.net or 440-478-4646
The deadline for recipes is March 30, to allow us to have copies printed by summer retreat, the Tremont Arts and Cultural Festival and all fall Jewel Heart events. Don't delay, type them in today! At the low price of $15, this cookbook will make a perfect gift for family and friends!
Sunday Talks -- Now Twice Monthly
10 - 11 am on the following Sundays
Sunday March 1 - "A Meaningful Life", Interestingly enough, a meaningful life is best served by reflecting on impermanence and the inevitability of death. A live video broadcast with Gelek Rimpoche.
Saturday & Sunday March 14/15 Gelek Rimpoche will teach at Jewel Heart Cleveland - see times elsewhere in this newsletter
Sunday April 5 - " Three Spiritual Techniques", Buddha recommended three techniques for the spiritual traveler - accumulation of all that is good, purification of what is harmful, and advice to watch our mind. A live video broadcast with Gelek Rimpoche.
Sunday April 19- "Watching the Mind: Working with the Dharma in everyday life", with Dawn Wegenek.
Tsoh Schedule
We will be alternating Lama Chopa and Vajrayogini tsohs this year. The Lama Chopa tsohs are open to everyone, while you must have had a Vajrayogini initiation to attend Vajrayogini tsohs. Bring a food or monetary offering and the appropriate prayer book.
Thurs. March 5, 5 pm set-up. 5:30-6:30 pm
Lama Chopa tsoh
Sat. March 21, 5:30 set-up, 6 pm-7:30 pm
Vajrayogini tsoh
Thurs. Apr. 2, 5 pm set-up, 5:30
Lama Chopa tsoh
Sun. Apr. 19, noon-1:30pm
Vajrayogini tsoh
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Jewel Heart Study Program
All courses are held at Jewel Heart Cleveland, 2670 W. 14th St.
Jewel Heart Cleveland offers its courses to all, regardless of ability to pay. If you are unable to afford any course fee, please speak to your instructor about the possibility of a partial or full scholarship.
New classes
The Art of Living
8 Wednesdays, beginning Apr. 1 7-8:30 pm
We long for meaning, for an effective way to bring insight and heart to the ordinary circumstances and inevitable challenges of our daily lives. On the basis of Gelek Rimpoche's book, Good Life, Good Death, this course will explore pragmatic methods to bring depth, meaning, and joy to our lives.
Led by Bill Kirchner, this course is suitable for everyone.
Cost: $80 or free for supporting members.
The Perfection of Wisdom
10 Thursdays, beginning March 26
This class explores the Five Paths to enlightenment based on Gelek Rimpoche's teachings on the profound meaning of the perfection of wisdom mantra, the essence of the Heart Sutra.
This is an advancing level class.
Instructor: Anne Warren
Cost $100; free to supporting members.
Continuing classes
Four Noble Truths
Wednesdays 7:00-8:30pm. Led by Susan Kirchner
Odyssey to Freedom
For questions email Sarah Ralston at sarah@kpphoto.com or call (days) 216-426-9090.
Mondays, 7-8:30PM.
Nyur Lam: The Swift Path
Live video broadcast of Gelek Rimpoche teaching from Ann Arbor on the 2nd Panchen Lama's guide to the path to enlightenment.
Tuesdays, 7:30-9pm Dates: Mar. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, Apr. 7, 14, 21, 28
Per Evening Session - Sponsor Members & Above/No charge, Supporter Members, Seniors & Students/$5, Non-Members/$10
Yamantaka Long Sadhana
For those with the initiation of Yamantaka Solitary Hero. The text used will be Gelek Rimpoche's Long Yamantaka transcript.
Saturdays, 10:30-noon. Mar. 7, 21, Apr. 11, 25.
Other Jewel Heart Cleveland Events
Creating a Pure Universe: A workshop on the Mandala offering
This hands-on workshop will introduce the mandala offering, visualizing and offering a pure universe. We will talk about the purposes for making this offering, and how to do simpler and more elaborate forms of the practice. Great practitioners like Atisha and Tsongkhapa are famed for having performed huge numbers of mandala offerings. All are welcome to attend. The workshop will be led by Anne Warren.
Suggested donation: $30 (includes handouts) but come anyway even if you can't afford this.
Saturday, April 25: 1-4 pm.
Food drive to continue throughout the year
The economic crisis has stretched thin resources of many people in Cleveland. Lend a hand by bringing in a can of food every so often when you visit the center, so that Jewel Heart can contribute to alleviating hunger in our community.
Art Show to be up during Rimpoche's visit
Nationally known artist and long-term Jewel Heart member Marsha Sweet will show some of her woodcut portraits at Jewel Heart Cleveland during March and April.
Jewel Heart Cleveland News
Despite heavy snows and several cancellations, JH Cleveland maintained a full schedule in January and February, with four new classes starting and Rimpoche's broadcast Nyur Lam teachings continuing. Other live video broadcasts included a Nyur Lam preliminaries workshop with Hartmut Sagolla, and the first ever broadcast weekend teaching with Rimpoche. A group of us also enjoyed watching a pre-recorded Lama Chopa ritual practice workshop. With Sunday talks increased to twice a month, the center is now in use most days of the week.\
Vajrayana activities included Heruka and Vajrayogini initiations and Vajrayogini teachings at the Winter retreat in Ann Arbor. For the first time in many years, Rimpoche allowed us to offer him a Tenzuk, a special offering done within a Lama Chopa tsoh for the Lama's long life. Practitioners in all centers met to celebrate the two special yearly tsohs required for all mother tantra practitioners.
Finally , members of the Sangha Council Executive Committee met to conduct usual business, and especially to begin the planning for Rimpoche's visit in March and a general Sangha meeting later in the spring.
Ann Arbor Coming Events
HOLD THE DATES: FOR AN UPCOMING YOGA WEEKEND at Jewel Heart Ann Arbor WITH CYNDI LEE OF OM YOGA IN ANN ARBOR
Fri, March 6, 7:30pm - Yoga for Meditators
Sat, March 7, 9:30 - 12:30 - Making Friends with Yourself
Sat, March 7, 2:30 - 5:30 - Awakening Heart
Sun, March 8, 9:30 - 12:30 - Unlocking the Lower Body
Sun, March 8, 2 - 5 - Rise Up and Purify
Cleveland
2670 W 14th Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
PHONE: 216-687-1617
For information about any of the events in this newsletter, contact Bill or Susie Kirchner at (330) 722-7770 evenings before 8PM or email
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May all beings have happiness.
May they be free from suffering.
May they find the joy that has never known suffering
May they be free from attachment and hatred.
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