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| May 1st, 2008 (Thu)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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Formal Study Review Course. ACI XVI The Great Ideas of Buddhism
This ten-class course offers a wonderful overview of the path of Tibetan Buddhism. It covers the first third of the course of study that would be followed by a Tibetan monk-scholar, or geshe, at one of the great monasteries of Tibet. Because of its conciseness, it is extremeley powerful. All Are welcome.
Teacher: Lindsay Crouse
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Free and open to the public; donation only
Contact: lindsay.crouse@aci-la.org
>> See the flier for more details!
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| May 3rd, 2008 (Sat) -- May 4th, 2008 (Sun)
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Meditation Weekend Intensive - Exchanging Self for Others, with Cliff Spencer
Learn and practice meditations that develop Bodhicitta, the wish for enlightenment for the sake of all beings. Based on the 8th chapter of Master Shantideva's classic, "The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life," this retreat will teach the meditative methods to transform problems into opportunity, hardships into joy. Using your own lives and relationships as the raw material, we'll walk the path of the buddhas and Bodhisattvas, right here in Los Angeles, the city of angels.
Teacher: Cliff Spencer
Date: Saturday May 3 and Sunday May 4
Time: 9:00am to 3:00pm both days
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Supported by Donation; open to the public by registration
Contact: cliff.spencer@aci-la.org
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| May 5th, 2008 (Mon)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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ACI I: The Three Principal Paths
For anyone who has been wanting to undertake the study and practice of Buddhism through the ACI courses, but wanted to start at the beginning, here's your chance. This course presents an overview of the ENTIRE Buddhist path and sets the stage for everything to come.
Teacher: Cliff Spencer
Date: Monday nights
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Supported by donation; open to the public
Contact: cliff.spencer@aci-la.org
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| May 6th, 2008 (Tue)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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Guided meditation class with Rick Blue
For beginning and experienced meditators, join us as we continue to move through the main meditations of the beautiful and powerful practice called Lojong, or developing a "good heart" - to achieve happiness.
Teacher: Rick Blue
Date: Tuesday nights
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Supported by donation; open to the public
Contact: rick.blue@aci-la.org or call 310-454-6168
>> See the flier for more details!
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| May 7th, 2008 (Wed)
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"Why Yoga?" with Kimberley Veenhof
Three hour, all level, philosophy/asana workshop with Senior Staff Teacher Kimberley Veenhoff.
All levels welcome.
Students should bring their own mats.
Kimberley Veenhof is Executive Director and a Senior Staff Teacher for Yoga Studies Institute. Kimberley teaches hatha and raja yoga in the lineage of her Teachers. Over the past five years she has worked with YSI's Founders to develop the programs of YSI, leading teacher trainings, retreats and workshops. She has been in deep study with Geshe Michael Roach, Lama Christie McNally, and many spiritual teachers around the world for close to 20 years. Kimberley and her husband live in the desert of Arizona, teach in the heart of New York City, and lead retreats all over the world.
Kimberley is a Senior Staff teacher of Tibetan Heart Yoga & Classics of Yoga.
Teacher: Kimberley Veenhoff
Date: Wednesday, May 7th
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: $30 suggested donation, pay what you can
Contact: Yoga Studies Institute
>> See the flier for more details!
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| May 8th, 2008 (Thu)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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Formal Study Review Course. ACI XVI The Great Ideas of Buddhism
This ten-class course offers a wonderful overview of the path of Tibetan Budhism. It covers the first third of the course of study that would be followed by a Tibetan monk-scholar, or geshe, at one of the great monasteries of Tibet. Because of its conciseness, it is extremeley powerful. All Are welcome.
Teacher: Lindsay Crouse
Date: Thursday nights
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Free and open to the public; donation only
Contact: lindsay.crouse@aci-la.org
>> See the flier for more details!
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| May 9th, 2008 (Fri)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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Spiritual Partners: The Dharma of Love 3 - The Goddess Code, with Rick Blue and Lindsay Crouse
The Echo Effect
Almost a thousand years ago at Nalendra Monastery in India, a text was written that holds the key to cultivating the highest form of happiness through partnership. The Buddhist sage Naropa and his spiritual wife, Niguma, passed this beautiful teaching on to Lamas in Tibet.
As far as we know, only one copy of the text currently exists.
Within it is a secret code, the code of the Goddess, a collection of eight pledges that you make when you want to find a partner, or keep a partner.
These teachings reveal ways to make an extraordinary relationship.
Join Lindsay Crouse and Rick Blue to learn the Goddess code, and it's foundational teaching, the echo effect.
Perhaps the way we see our partner is simply an echo, a reflection of our own behavior. If the echo effect is true, it means that everything we have ever done to find a partner, or to keep one, might be completely mistaken.
Teacher: Rick Blue and Lindsay Crouse
Date: May 9th
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Supported by donation; open to the public
Contact: lcwork@mac.com
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| May 12th, 2008 (Mon)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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ACI I: The Three Principal Paths
For anyone who has been wanting to undertake the study and practice of Buddhism through the ACI courses, but wanted to start at the beginning, here's your chance. This course presents an overview of the ENTIRE Buddhist path and sets the stage for everything to come.
Teacher: Cliff Spencer
Date: Monday nights
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Supported by donation; open to the public
Contact: cliff.spencer@aci-la.org
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| May 13th, 2008 (Tue)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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Guided meditation class with Rick Blue
For beginning and experienced meditators, join us as we continue to move through the main meditations of the beautiful and powerful practice called Lojong, or developing a "good heart" - to achieve happiness.
Teacher: Rick Blue
Date: Tuesday nights
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Supported by donation; open to the public
Contact: rick.blue@aci-la.org or call 310-454-6168
>> See the flier for more details!
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| May 14th, 2008 (Wed)
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Potluck Dinner and Dharma Flick
A potluck dinner is exactly what you'd expect. Everyone bring something to eat to share with others. (Mahasukha does not, as yet, have any kitchen facilities, so bring things that won't need to be heated or chilled at the last minute.)
Then we'll show a Dharma Flick - which is a movie in which others have identified either blatant or hidden Dharma teachings and messages. It's great fun and the only 'movie theater' in town where you can talk during the film.
Date: May 14th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Bring Potluck
Contact: info@aci-la.org
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| May 15th, 2008 (Thu)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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Formal Study Review Course. ACI XVI The Great Ideas of Buddhism
This ten-class course offers a wonderful overview of the path of Tibetan Budhism. It covers the first third of the course of study that would be followed by a Tibetan monk-scholar, or geshe, at one of the great monasteries of Tibet. Because of its conciseness, it is extremeley powerful. All Are welcome.
Teacher: Lindsay Crouse
Date: Thursday nights
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Free and open to the public; donation only
Contact: lindsay.crouse@aci-la.org
>> See the flier for more details!
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| May 16th, 2008 (Fri) -- May 18th, 2008 (Sun)
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Tibetan Heart Yoga Series II: The Great Seal, with Karl Straub
A thoroughly enjoyable introduction to the THY Series II. Traditional meditations combined with unique asanas that can rock your world for the better. Break out of limiting perceptions. You'll have some philosophy, asana, meditation, group activities, and lots of fun. Come prepared to meet new friends, and take notes.
All levels welcome.
Karl Straub is a certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher, a Thai Yoga Bodyworker, a Yoga Alliance Experienced Registered Teacher (E-RYT), and he currently serves as the Regional Executive Director for Europe for the Yoga Studies Institute. He leads workshops and teacher trainings primarily in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Karl is a graduate of Duke University. He is a former dolphin communication researcher, competitive swimmer, school teacher, aide to a member of Congress, and resident manager of a retreat center. Karl is deeply grateful to his many teachers including Khen Rimpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin, Geshe Michael Roach, Lama Christie McNally, Lama Marut, David Life, Sharon Gannon, Swami Bua, Jonas Westring, Keido Fukushima, and especially his parents.
Teacher: Karl Straub
Date: May 16th - May 18th
Time: See flier for weekend details!
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: $150 for all classes or $35 drop-in if space allows.
Contact: kaivalia@gmail.com
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| May 19th, 2008 (Mon)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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ACI I: The Three Principal Paths
For anyone who has been wanting to undertake the study and practice of Buddhism through the ACI courses, but wanted to start at the beginning, here's your chance. This course presents an overview of the ENTIRE Buddhist path and sets the stage for everything to come.
Teacher: Cliff Spencer
Date: Monday nights
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Supported by donation; open to the public
Contact: cliff.spencer@aci-la.org
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| May 20th, 2008 (Tue)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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Guided meditation class with Rick Blue
For beginning and experienced meditators, join us as we continue to move through the main meditations of the beautiful and powerful practice called Lojong, or developing a "good heart" - to achieve happiness.
Teacher: Rick Blue
Date: Tuesday nights
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Supported by donation; open to the public
Contact: rick.blue@aci-la.org or call 310-454-6168
>> See the flier for more details!
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| May 22nd, 2008 (Thu)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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Formal Study Review Course. ACI XVI The Great Ideas of Buddhism
This ten-class course offers a wonderful overview of the path of Tibetan Budhism. It covers the first third of the course of study that would be followed by a Tibetan monk-scholar, or geshe, at one of the great monasteries of Tibet. Because of its conciseness, it is extremeley powerful. All Are welcome.
Teacher: Lindsay Crouse
Date: Thursday nights
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Free and open to the public; donation only
Contact: lindsay.crouse@aci-la.org
>> See the flier for more details!
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| May 23rd, 2008 (Fri)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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The Dharma of Acting, with Lindsay Crouse
This is a workshop not taught anywhere else in the world. Academy award nominated actor, Lindsay Crouse, brings together her 30 years of experience on stage and on film, and her advanced study of buddhism, to create a ball-wrecking course on acting and the dharma. She will challenge long-held assumptions that reality exists in a way that fiction doesn't.
Who is the actor? Who is the audience? Can anyone actually affect another person? Does character exist? Where is it? Are performers in a dream? Or do their actions on stage have real consequences for themselves and others? Do words have innate meaning? If not, where does meaning lie? How does it arise? Who is really telling the story?
Lindsay has brought these teachings to screen-writers and playwrights around the country, directors at USC Graduate Film School, musicians and singers at the New England Conservatory of Music, visual artists at the California College of Arts and Crafts.
While actors work in the context of the script, every human being operates in the context they are born into. They are the same. Everyone, artist or not, is welcome.
Teacher: Lindsay Crouse
Date: May 24th
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Free and open to the public; donation only
Contact: lindsay.crouse@aci-la.org
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| May 25th, 2008 (Sun)
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Yoga with Nirmala
Information to follow
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| May 28th, 2008 (Wed)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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Explorations in Emptiness, Part IV with Venerable Marut
What does emptiness, the Mahayana Buddhist name for ultimate reality, mean and how can understanding it transform our lives? Using a text by one of the greatest philosophers on emptiness - Arya Nagarjuna - Lama Marut returns to present the fourth in his extraordinary series of teachings on the way things do and do not exist, in a manner sure to help us penetrate this complex material and provoke great discussion.
Teacher: Venerable Marut
Date: May 28th, June 4th and June 6th
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Supported by Donation. Open to the public.
To register or for Info Contact: lauren.benjamin@aci-la.org
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| May 29th, 2008 (Thu)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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DE XV: What the Buddha Really Meant, with Venerable Marut
Why did the Buddha teach apparently contradictory things? How can we tell when the Buddha was speaking figuratively or literally? In this 4 session course Lama Marut will guide us through the essential elements to resolve this and other apparent contradictions in the Buddha's teachings so that we can use them to stop all our suffering, ignorance, aging and death.
Teacher: Venerable Sumati Marut
Date: May 29, June 2, 3, 5
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30 pm
Location: Mahasukha Center
Admission: Supported by Donations. Open to the Public
Contact: lauren.benjamin@aci-la.org
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| May 30th, 2008 (Fri) -- May 31st, 2008 (Sat)
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