Heruka Yab Yum Festival Compulsory Tsohs

Mandatory Tsoh Practice Heruka Yab Yum Festival

1/18 and 2/2 at 7 pm

All Vajrayana practitioners who have received Heruka and Vajrayogini initiations are required to participate in the long Sadhana practice and Tsoh  on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, which is the first of the two compulsory tsohs of this year’s Heruka Yab Yum Festival.  The  other is on Thursday, February 2. Tsoh offerings allow us, students and practitioners, a simple yet profound way to repay the kindness, inspiration, and guidance we receive from our teachers. Tsoh offerings can be done individually though it is preferable and recommended to come together as a Sangha. The group practice generates a joyful experience in practitioners and brings the blessings of the dakinis.

Experienced practitioners lead the ceremony and bring their time, experience and insight to enhance and deepen the group experience. It is fortunate  for us to have the opportunity to participate in these group practices and we should take advantage of this opportunity.

Offerings of food and flowers are appreciated. If you are bringing these offerings, please arrive early. Cash offerings may also be made.

Again, please note that celebrating these tsohs is absolutely mandatory for Heruka and Vajrayogini practitioners. Also note that these practices are only open to practitioners with proper initiations.

January – April 2012 Special Events

SPECIAL EVENTS

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.

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A CONVERSATION WITH
PHILIP GLASS

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 7 – 9PM

at JEWEL HEART

1129 Oak Valley Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48108

In Ann Arbor for his world renowned opera, Einstein on the Beach, Philip Glass will give a public talk on Tuesday, January 17, 7 – 9pm at the Jewel Heart Center in Ann Arbor. We invite you to join us for this unique evening with Philip Glass.

To register, please email [email protected] or pay at the door.

Sliding Scale: $15 – $30.

Click here for flyer and more information.
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University Musical Society is hosting the Preview of Einstein on the Beach, January 2012 at the Power Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

A percentage of ticket sales ordered through Jewel Heart will be donated to Jewel Heart. Ticket sales through Jewel Heart begin Saturday, November 5th. To place your order for tickets to Einstein on the Beach, please email [email protected].

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GLENN MULLIN VISITS JEWEL HEART ANN ARBOR

TIBETAN BUDDHISM IN THE WEST:

ENLIGHTENMENT ON MAIN STREET

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 7 – 9pm

This talk looks at the unfolding of the enlightenment tradition as prophesied by Buddha himself, and at how you can be part of the fulfillment of that prophecy.

Suggested donation, $10

CHAKCHEN DE-NGA: THE FIVE SIDES OF MAHAMUDRA TRAINING

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 10am – 12pm, 2 – 5pm

Lama Tsongkhapa studied extensively in the Drikung Kargyu monastery. One of the many lineages he received is that known as Chakchen De-nga, or The Five Sides of Mahamudra. Here “mahamudra” refers to simultaneous the experience of bliss and void; it also refers to “ordinary enlightenment,” the special lineage of cultivating awareness of emptiness and seemingness in everyday activities. The lineage went to his main disciples, and passed through the early Dalai and Panchen Lamas. The Gelukpa lineage of this unique Drikung formula for enlightenment has become less known in recent centuries, but is still alive and well.

Sliding scale, $30 – 60.

Glenn Mullin studied in Dharamsala continuously for 12 years, from 1972 to 1984, and then six months a year for the six years to follow. His main tantra teachers were Kyabje Ling Dorjechang and Kyabje Trijang Dorjechang. After their passing in the early 1980s, his root guru became Kyabje Denma Locho Rinpoche, the lama who raised Gelek Rimpoche. Glenn is the translator of more than a dozen Tibetan Buddhist classics, and the author of numerous books on Tibetan Buddhist art, history and culture. His “The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation” was nominated for the prestigious NAPRA award, and his book “The Female Buddhas” won Foreword Magazine’s “Book of the Year Award.”

He is the director and main meditation teacher of the Stone Lotus Tantra Buddhism center in Korea. He spends four months a year in Mongolia, and the remainder travelling and teaching Buddhism. He also leads pilgrimages to Tibet every spring.

ALSO – Sunday, February 5, 7:30 – 9pm

Public Talk with Glenn Mullin, details to come

LOCATION: Birmingham Unitarian Church, 38651 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

6:30 – 7:30pm Reception preceding the talk