Nebraska Programs April – July 2011
Gelek Rimpoche Teaches on Songs of Experience – Live video broadcast
Date: Saturday May 21
Time: 9am – 11am, 1 – 4 pm
Gelek Rimpoche continues his teachings on Je Tsongkhapa’s shortest Lamrim, the Songs of Experience. Open to all. Donations welcome.
Webcasts are at A&E Inc. Bldg at 1244 High St, Lincoln, NE 68502
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The Art of Living
Dates: April 28, May 5, 12, 19, 26, June 2, 9, 16
Time: 5:30 – 6:45 PM
Based on Gelek Rimpoche’s book, Good Life, Good Death, this 8 week course will explore pragmatic methods to bring depth, meaning, and joy to our lives. Each class session will include discussion as well as brief opening and closing meditations. The book is available for sale or may be checked out of the JH Nebraska library.
Location: 3100 South 72nd Street, Lincoln, NE
Class Leader: Mark Weihe
Cost: $80, Free to Jewel Heart members.
Lam Rim I: The Initial Scope, Section 4
Dates: April 28, May 5, 12,19,26, June 2, 9, 16
Time: 7:00 – 8:30PM
This in-depth course traverses the entire path to enlightenment in detail, illuminating the initial, medium, and great scopes of spiritual practice according to the tradition of Je Tsong Khapa. Divided into three sections, the initial scope falls under Building the Spiritual Path.
The initial scope of the Lam Rim illuminates the life we have and offers clear steps to take best advantage of it. Topics include teacher/student relationship, precious life, impermanence, rebirth, refuge, and karma.
Location: 3100 South 72nd Street, Lincoln, NE
Class Leader: Kent Porter
Cost: $80, Free to Jewel Heart members.
Nebraska Programs January – April 2011
Compassion In Action with Gelek Rimpoche
Friday Mar 25, 2011
7:00 – 8:30 PM
UNL Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center
Intersection of North 15th Street and “S” Street, Room 202
Challenging times demand clarity grounded in genuine compassion. Tibetan Buddhist master Gelek Rimpoche will address how to develop genuine and fearless compassion in order to engage our lives more fully and responsibly.
WHITE TARA LONGEVITY EMPOWERMENT with Gelek Rimpoche
Saturday, March 26 1pm
3100 S. 72nd Street
Gelek Rimpoche will offer a White Tara Long Life Empowerment ceremony for anyone interested in gaining a connection to and benefit from the healing and longevity practices of White Tara.
“All forms of Tara are wonderful,” Rimpoche says, “but there is a special quality of White Tara which makes her practices very helpful to everyone.” Rimpoche stresses that one does not have to be Buddhist to benefit from White Tara. “She is so kind and compassionate, like the mother on whom you can always rely. There is no suffering or pain that Tara would ignore.” For those who call on Tara for strength, revitalization, inspiration, support and healing she has always, and will continue for all time, to be a source of love in its purest form.
Tara, which means ‘Star’, has roots in many traditions throughout the world. In ancient Babylonia, Ishtar, “the ‘Lightbringer’ was a goddess of fertility, love and war. In ancient Ireland, the Druids said blessings come from the earth goddess, whose hills and mountains are derived from her name: Tor, Tower, Tora, Tara. An ancient saga of Finland speaks of Tar, the woman of wisdom. The Native American tell of a Star Woman who fell from the heavens to the earth. Out of her body all essential food grew. Ancient indigenous peoples in South American jungles call to their goddess, Tarahumara. The word Terre in Latin, means mother earth. In the Tibetan tradition, there are many forms of Tara, both peaceful and wrathful. White Tara is mythically said to be born from lotuses sprung from the tears of the Buddha of Great Compassion.