Chicago Programs September – December 2013

CHICAGO PROGRAMS

Tibetan Buddhism with Gelek Rimpoche

The spiritual director of Jewel Heart, Gelek Rimpoche, will give weekly Sunday morning talks on Tibetan Buddhism from 9–10 am CT. Speaking from Ann Arbor and New York and other locations, these talks will also be live video webcasts. All talks can be viewed at the Chicago center.

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Compassion in Action

A new transcript on The Six Perfections will provide a framework for our introductory overview of compassion. This course combines discussions on compassion with practical applications of compassion through helping people and groups around the Chicago area. The first session will be devoted to an overview of the course and a discussion of projects we might pursue in the coming months.

$80 for non-members; free for members

Sundays, 10:30 a.m. to noon; projects may require availability at other times as needed.

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Learn-Think-Meditate: Concentrated Meditation

Concentrated meditation is an essential tool that helps develop peace and joy as well as the power to deeply understand wisdom. Emphasis is on concentrated meditation practice with light guidance. Beginners welcome!

Free, donations welcome.

7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Ongoing: Every Wednesday evening.

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The Healing Practice of White Tara

Tara is the mother goddess of Tibetan Buddhism, known for her quick and compassionate activity. She 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.

$40 for non-members; free for members

Sundays, 10:30 a.m. to noon, Nov. 17, 24, Dec. 8, 15.

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Lojong with Brenda Rosen

NEW CLASS. We all experience difficulties and problems in life. Lojong (“mind training”) is a revolutionary Mahayana technique that teaches us to use these difficulties to awaken unlimited, unconditional compassion for ourselves and others. This class, based on Gelek Rimpoche’s brilliant commentary to Geshe Chekawa’s 12th century Lojong text, Training the Mind in Seven Points, includes reading and discussion, individual and guided meditation, and new experiential exercises designed to help us use the 59 pithy slogans of the Lojong as a practical roadmap to engaged and compassionate living. All are welcome, beginners and experienced meditators alike. Facilitated by Brenda Rosen and Rochelle Winter.

$120 for non-members; free for members

Sundays, 10:30 a.m. to noon, beginning Jan. 5, 2014.

Chicago Programs Sept. – Dec. 2012

Chicago Programs

Tibetan Buddhism with Gelek Rimpoche

The spiritual director of Jewel Heart, Gelek Rimpoche, will give weekly Sunday morning talks on Tibetan Buddhism from 9–10 am CT. Speaking from Ann Arbor and New York and other locations, these talks will also be live video webcasts. All talks can be viewed at the Chicago center.

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Lama Chopa

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 – Open Teachings: Integrating the Primordial Mind. Fall classes will cover preliminaries including refuge, bodhimind, and the four immeasurables; generating the supreme field of merit; and the seven-limb practice. (This course is also being offered as a streamed online course from Ann Arbor on Mondays.) Our course leads up to the Jewel Heart Winter Retreat which is also on the Lama Chopa. Open to all.

$120/ Jewel Heart Members – Free

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Sundays: September 23, 30; October 7, 14, 21, 28; November 4, 11, December 2, 9, 16

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