May – August 2012 Special Events
USED BOOK AND BOOK-ON-CD SALE TO BENEFIT JEWEL HEART
To launch the self-service Jewel Heart Book Sale, please donate books and books-on-CD over the next few weeks. Place them on the dark brown bookshelf in the lunchroom for processing.
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DAKINI POETICS:
EXPERIMENTS OF ATTENTION
A Poetry Workshop with Anne Waldman
Saturday, April 14, 2 – 4pm
Jewel Heart 1129 Oak Valley Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
How is poetry like hidden terma or treasure rescued
by the playfulness and imagination of the dakini principle?
Shapeshifting-trickster-feminine-energy
dynamics will be invoked.
And the question of how are we in creative symbiosis
with our environment will be explored.
This workshop will suggest a practice of how to work with dream, ritual, memory, montage, performance and collaboration, in the construction of a hybrid poetics.
Sliding scale – $20 – $40
Register early or pay at the door – [email protected] or 734 994 3387 x 223
Recommended – Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets)
and Vow to Poetry (Coffee House Press)
Recently deemed a “counter-cultural giant” by Publisher’s Weekly, Anne Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, editor, and cultural activist.
She is the author of more than 40 books and has concentrated on the long poem as a cultural intervention with such projects as Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of The World Compared to a Bubble, Manatee/Humanity (all three books published by Penguin Poets) and the anti-war feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, recently published by Coffee House Press this past Fall. Her CD The Milk of Universal Kindness with music by Ambrose Bye was also released in 2011. She has presented her work at conferences and festivals around the world, most recently in Wuhan, Beijing, Berlin, Nicaragua, Prague, Kerala, Mumbai, Calcutta, Marrakech, and Madrid. Her work has been translated into numerous languages. Waldman is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, and has recently been appointed a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. She is the Co-Founder with Allen Ginsberg (who deemed Waldman his “spiritual wife”) of the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University the first Buddhist inspired University on the North American continent. She is the artistic director of Naropa’s Summer Writing program.
Websites: Fast Speaking Music
http://www.wix.com/fastspeakingmusic/fsm
and Naropa University.
May – August 2012 Programs
TIBETAN BUDDHISM
WITH GELEK RIMPOCHE
SUNDAY MORNING PROGRAMS
AT JEWEL HEART
We invite to you enjoy WEEKLY Sunday morning talks by Gelek Rimpoche. Speaking from Ann Arbor and New York and other locations, these talks will also be a live video webcast.
10 – 11am – TIBETAN BUDDHISM with Gelek Rimpoche
Program includes:
11am – 11:30am – Tea, Cookies and Conversation
We invite you to also join us for either or both of the following meditation sessions:
8:45 – 9:45am – Concentrated Meditation in Tara’s Paradise Room. Note: There will be no meditation sessions on July 8 and July 15.
11:30am – 12:30pm – White Tara Guided Meditation in the Joyful Paradise Room. Note: There will be no meditation sessions on July 8 and July 15.
Rimpoche’s Sunday Morning Talks are also available on live video webcast.
To subscribe, please visit www.jewelheart.org/webcast-subscription.
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TRANSITION TO LOCAL FOOD
Transition to Local Food is a series of workshops that helps you understand the values you make real with each food choice. These workshops give you tools to put your values into action. They will empower you to to be a discerning and effective consumer. The first workshop is June 9th from 1-3pm.
Click here to see flyer with dates.
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A JEWEL HEART BRUNCH
with a Musical Offering of Schubert’s C Major Quintet
Featuring John Madison and Friends
Sunday April 29th, 2012
11:00 Brunch ~ 12:00 Music
Tickets at the door $10.00
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ALTER OFFERING WORKSHOP
Interested in arranging the water offerings on our beautiful altar?
Come to this special workshop to learn how to set up the water offerings, with the most beneficial mind of generosity!
Saturday, May 12 from 1 to 2 pm
Donation only
Click here for flyer
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SYNOPSIS OF GUIDE TO THE BODHISATTVA’S WAY OF LIFE – Wednesdays, 7–8:30pm
March 21, 28, April 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, June 6, 13.
This course, a synopsis of the activities of a bodhisattva and based upon the writings of the Indian saint and scholar Shantideva, is offered in preparation for the 2012 Summer Retreat held from July 5 – 15. This course is open to all.
$130/ Jewel Heart Members – Free
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DEEPENING AWARENESS: THE PRACTICE OF MINDFULNESS MEDITATION – Thursdays, 7–8:30pm
April 5, 12, 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24.
Becoming more aware of our thoughts, feelings and sensations through meditation opens the door to understanding the nature of our mind and how it influences our experience. While open to all, it is recommended to follow Creating Space: Clarity and Insight through Meditation.
$80/ Jewel Heart Members – Free
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LAMA CHOPA – Mondays, 7–8:30pm
April 23, May 7, May 21, June 4, 18, July 2. Note: Resumes in September.
Lama Chopa is a complete guru yoga practice integrating aspects of sutra and tantra into a common framework, based on Gelek Rimpoche’s commentary Guru Devotion: Integrating the Primordial Mind. Also available as an online offering. Open to all.
$60/ Jewel Heart Members – Free
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THE HEALING PRACTICE OF WHITE TARA
Thursdays, 7– 8:30pm
May 31, June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 19, 26. Note: No meetings July 5 and July 12
$70/ Jewel Heart Members – Free
Tara, mother goddess of Tibetan Buddhism, is known for her quick and compassionate activity and is particularly associated with healing and long life. This course uses visualization techniques relying on the feminine energy of White Tara to overcome physical, mental, and emotional suffering.
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GOM WEEKEND –
August 3-5: Friday, 7pm – 9pm, Saturday, 9am – 8:30pm & Sunday, 8:45am to 6:00pm
GOM, or concentrated meditation, is an essential tool that helps develop peace and joy as well as the power to deeply understand wisdom. This intensive weekend includes practice session with light guidance. Silence is maintained. Sessions include sitting and walking meditations. Instructors are available for assistance. Please bring brown bag meals and snacks. Tea/Coffee provided.
Donation only
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CELEBRATED TSOH DATES and HOLIDAYS
NEW: Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm (unless otherwise noted)
May 1 (10)
May 15 (25)
May 29 (10)
Sakadawa Day Precepts: Monday, June 4, 5:40am sharp
June 12 (25)
June 26 (10)
Dalai Lama’s Birthday: Friday, July 6
July 10 (25)
July 31 (10)
August 14 (25)
August 28 (10)
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FREE FILMS AND DISCUSSION – Fridays – Monthly, 7:00pm
Bring your friends and enjoy a free film and discussion about dharma and the film. Concessions are also available.
April 27 – Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring (2004)
Korean (English subtitles)
The setting is a floating monastery in a pristine mountain lake, where an elderly monk teaches a boy the lessons of life.
May 18 – SAINT MISBEHAVING (2009)
The wavy gravy movie: Calling all earth people, “anyone who doesn’t leave the viewing feeling more empowered, compassionate and ready to face life in all its upheaval ought to see a doctor – or seek a clown for help!” – Host John Moran
June 29 – I AM (2011)
“The shift is about to hit the fan.” Tom Shadyac travels the world to speak with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what’s wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it. – Host John Schramm
July 27 – THE GOLDEN COMPASS (2007) The first movie of Philip Pullman’s award winning trilogy “His Dark Materials”. A fantasy-adventure film about a parallel universe where a person’s soul resides outside their body in an animal-like form called a Daemon. – Host Rose Jasso
August 24 – HAPPY, The Movie (2011)
Happy combines cutting-edge science from the new field of “positive psychology” with real-life stories of people from around the world whose lives illustrate these findings. – Host Sandra Finkel
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JEWEL HEART READERS – Tuesdays, Monthly, 7 – 8:30pm
April 10, May 8, June 12, August 14 Note: No meeting in July
Enjoy lively discussion of dharma related book selections monthly.
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KNITTING SOCIAL – Sundays, Monthly, 1–4pm
May 13
All are invited to this monthly Sangha Council social gathering. Loving Kindness Knitting & Crafts includes all crafts, arts and handiwork. Bring your current project(s) if you have one or join our Squares project. We have lots of yarn to go around.