This week we had a treat--the people who usually host Geshe Michael and Lama Christie's teachings in China came to Diamond Mountain to teach us about the three major philosophical systems in China. They were Master Chen Chao, the teacher; Mr Zou Zhengran; and our old friend Mr. Huang Jin, the translator. While they were here, they investigated every aspect of Diamond Mountain, from yoga, to debate, a dance performance, a visit with the board, even to working hard to help build the lamas' retreat cabin on the hill. In addition to enjoying their company, everyone found the teachings very helpful in understanding Chinese culture, and in comparing it to our own beliefs and habits.
Audios:
Day 1, an overview of the three main Chinese philosophical traditions, particularly Taoism
Day 2, more about the teachings of Confucius
Day 3, schools of Chinese Buddhism, part 1
Day 4, schools of Chinese Buddhism, part 2
Student notes on the entire series
Friday, November 14, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Hong Kong Yoga Conference
Most of the tour videos are posted on the Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie McNally website.
I'm trying to get links to the audio. For now, here is a list of the classes taught by Geshe Michael and Lama Christie, along with the readings.
3 July, 5pm - 7pm
Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie McNally
Tibetan Buddhist Yoga Philosophy - Light on the Yoga of the Sun and the Moon: The Hatha Yoga Pradipika Lecture Series : Asanas and Emptiness
July 3rd Reading
4 July, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie McNally
Tibetan Buddhist Yoga Philosophy - Light on the Yoga of the Sun and the Moon: The Hatha Yoga Pradipika Lecture Series : Pranayama
July 4th Reading
5 July, 2:15pm - 4:15pm
Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie McNally
Tibetan Buddhist Yoga Philosophy - Light on the Yoga of the Sun and the Moon: The Hatha Yoga Pradipika Lecture Series : Chakra Doors and Sacred Sounds
July 5th Reading
6 July, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie McNally
Tibetan Buddhist Yoga Philosophy - Light on the Yoga of the Sun and the Moon: The Hatha Yoga Pradipika Lecture Series : The End of Breath & Beyond the Mind
July 6th Reading
I'm trying to get links to the audio. For now, here is a list of the classes taught by Geshe Michael and Lama Christie, along with the readings.
3 July, 5pm - 7pm
Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie McNally
Tibetan Buddhist Yoga Philosophy - Light on the Yoga of the Sun and the Moon: The Hatha Yoga Pradipika Lecture Series : Asanas and Emptiness
July 3rd Reading
4 July, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie McNally
Tibetan Buddhist Yoga Philosophy - Light on the Yoga of the Sun and the Moon: The Hatha Yoga Pradipika Lecture Series : Pranayama
July 4th Reading
5 July, 2:15pm - 4:15pm
Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie McNally
Tibetan Buddhist Yoga Philosophy - Light on the Yoga of the Sun and the Moon: The Hatha Yoga Pradipika Lecture Series : Chakra Doors and Sacred Sounds
July 5th Reading
6 July, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie McNally
Tibetan Buddhist Yoga Philosophy - Light on the Yoga of the Sun and the Moon: The Hatha Yoga Pradipika Lecture Series : The End of Breath & Beyond the Mind
July 6th Reading
Friday, June 27, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Dalian China, June 2008
We arrived in Dalian after a short flight from Tokyo, and were met at the airport by members of Witway, the sponsoring organization. Everything had been planned and organized, and the teachings went off beautifully, with everyone very concerned with the needs of their "foreign friends". Dalian is a fairly new Chinese city, about 100 years old, but big, with 3 million residents and another 3 million in the suburbs. It's located at the end of a peninsula on the northern coast, so the air is fresh and clean.
The first teaching, on June 19th, was an introduction to karma and emptiness, using a pen and a 100-yuan note as props to demonstrate how you create your world. The time was too short to go into much detail about how to change your karma, so the lamas settled on teaching about the two simplest ways. Here are my notes from that teaching:
The two fastest and easiest ways to speed up karma:
1. Coffee meditation. Geshe Michael spoke of the four hour commute that he made every day for 15 years--when he got home, he was tired and wanted to relax. Instead of sitting for formal meditation, he used the principle that any time you see someone do something good and feel happy, you get 10% of the good karma. So you can just relax and rejoice, and in that way you collect positive karma in a very easy way.
2. If you do coffee meditation you can do it anywhere, because it's just being happy when other people do good things, like giving away money. But then you have to have a plan what you are going to do with the money you make. If you use it for yourself, you kill the karma. So you have to "reinvest" it. If you do a good coffee meditation the karma comes back and stops. If you give money and then get more as a result, you have to give some of it, say 25%, to someone else. Look for a poor or hungry or unhappy person. Wealthy people are often the most unhappy, so they take them to dinner and pay for it, and don't ask for anything in return. So any time money comes to you, take some and give to other people. If you're wondering if it really works, the company he helped to start is the fastest growing in the history of NYC because they shared the profit with poor people.
Readings for day one (Yoga, Business, Love): http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Dalian-19-06-08.pdf.
The audio for day one is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Dalian-19-06-08.mp3;
Day two: Spiritual Partners--How to Find Them, Keep Them, Reach Them
This was a public talk, so it was a much bigger group than yesterday, maybe about 500 people, packed into the ballroom of a beautiful new hotel. Today was also the first day that the lamas' new CD was available, and also a book that Huang Jin made of last years' partners teachings, and there was a big unruly line of people who wanted autographs during the break. Every one of the tour team had to stand together to keep it moving and under control.
The talk was about how to create the karma to have a partner, to keep them, to be happy with them, and finally how to get them to take you to heaven. It's a beautiful teaching, also very hands-on and practical.
From my notea: How to reach the partner. We said the pen is empty, by itself it's just a stick, and pen comes from our mind. A partner is the same. He or she doesn't have any nature of its own, so they are available to be anything. Right now we see them as normal, because we planted those seeds by treating them as normal. If we treated them as our holy teacher, they would become that.
At the beginning it's just pretend. But then the seeds start to shift and one day you will be sitting with them and you will hear them say something very profound, like they are reading your mind, and you will see they aren't normal. Then they switch back to a normal person, but now you know that they aren't normal.
You have to bring out the angel in your partner by treating them like an angel. Then they will start to bless your mind and guide you until one day you see a halo of light around their head. It's the same as the pen—they are empty.
How do you know your partner is an angel? There are three qualities of angels—they love us very much, like their only child; they know your mind so they know what you need; and they have power to send any form to you to help you. If they love you very much and can read your mind and can take any form they want, they must be emanating as someone right next to you, who can push you further on the path. So your partner must be a holy angel, just waiting for you to figure it out. If you honor them and ask them to come to you as a real angel, they will reveal themselves to you, and you give them power to take you to heaven and teach you to become like them—indestructible body of light, nothing but love in their heart, reaching out to help you.
Readings for day two (Spiritual Partners): http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Dalian-20-06-08.pdf.
The audio for day two is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Dalian-20-06-08.mp3.
Day three was about business--how to succeed and save the world at the same time. They said that in order to run a company you need three things: harmony among the workers and boss, creativity to come up with new ideas, and most important--profitability. All of these come from the seeds you plant in your mind. The seed for creativity comes from being happy when others get good ideas, and the seed for profit comes from giving money to those who need it. After you plant the seeds though, you need to nurture them to make them grow fast. You do that in the who, the what, the when and the how of the way you perform the actions. In the end, it all boils down to how we care for others.
Readings for day three: http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Dalian-21-06-08.pdf.
The audio for day three is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Dalian-21-06-08.mp3.
The first teaching, on June 19th, was an introduction to karma and emptiness, using a pen and a 100-yuan note as props to demonstrate how you create your world. The time was too short to go into much detail about how to change your karma, so the lamas settled on teaching about the two simplest ways. Here are my notes from that teaching:
The two fastest and easiest ways to speed up karma:
1. Coffee meditation. Geshe Michael spoke of the four hour commute that he made every day for 15 years--when he got home, he was tired and wanted to relax. Instead of sitting for formal meditation, he used the principle that any time you see someone do something good and feel happy, you get 10% of the good karma. So you can just relax and rejoice, and in that way you collect positive karma in a very easy way.
2. If you do coffee meditation you can do it anywhere, because it's just being happy when other people do good things, like giving away money. But then you have to have a plan what you are going to do with the money you make. If you use it for yourself, you kill the karma. So you have to "reinvest" it. If you do a good coffee meditation the karma comes back and stops. If you give money and then get more as a result, you have to give some of it, say 25%, to someone else. Look for a poor or hungry or unhappy person. Wealthy people are often the most unhappy, so they take them to dinner and pay for it, and don't ask for anything in return. So any time money comes to you, take some and give to other people. If you're wondering if it really works, the company he helped to start is the fastest growing in the history of NYC because they shared the profit with poor people.
Readings for day one (Yoga, Business, Love): http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Dalian-19-06-08.pdf.
The audio for day one is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Dalian-19-06-08.mp3;
Day two: Spiritual Partners--How to Find Them, Keep Them, Reach Them
This was a public talk, so it was a much bigger group than yesterday, maybe about 500 people, packed into the ballroom of a beautiful new hotel. Today was also the first day that the lamas' new CD was available, and also a book that Huang Jin made of last years' partners teachings, and there was a big unruly line of people who wanted autographs during the break. Every one of the tour team had to stand together to keep it moving and under control.
The talk was about how to create the karma to have a partner, to keep them, to be happy with them, and finally how to get them to take you to heaven. It's a beautiful teaching, also very hands-on and practical.
From my notea: How to reach the partner. We said the pen is empty, by itself it's just a stick, and pen comes from our mind. A partner is the same. He or she doesn't have any nature of its own, so they are available to be anything. Right now we see them as normal, because we planted those seeds by treating them as normal. If we treated them as our holy teacher, they would become that.
At the beginning it's just pretend. But then the seeds start to shift and one day you will be sitting with them and you will hear them say something very profound, like they are reading your mind, and you will see they aren't normal. Then they switch back to a normal person, but now you know that they aren't normal.
You have to bring out the angel in your partner by treating them like an angel. Then they will start to bless your mind and guide you until one day you see a halo of light around their head. It's the same as the pen—they are empty.
How do you know your partner is an angel? There are three qualities of angels—they love us very much, like their only child; they know your mind so they know what you need; and they have power to send any form to you to help you. If they love you very much and can read your mind and can take any form they want, they must be emanating as someone right next to you, who can push you further on the path. So your partner must be a holy angel, just waiting for you to figure it out. If you honor them and ask them to come to you as a real angel, they will reveal themselves to you, and you give them power to take you to heaven and teach you to become like them—indestructible body of light, nothing but love in their heart, reaching out to help you.
Readings for day two (Spiritual Partners): http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Dalian-20-06-08.pdf.
The audio for day two is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Dalian-20-06-08.mp3.
Day three was about business--how to succeed and save the world at the same time. They said that in order to run a company you need three things: harmony among the workers and boss, creativity to come up with new ideas, and most important--profitability. All of these come from the seeds you plant in your mind. The seed for creativity comes from being happy when others get good ideas, and the seed for profit comes from giving money to those who need it. After you plant the seeds though, you need to nurture them to make them grow fast. You do that in the who, the what, the when and the how of the way you perform the actions. In the end, it all boils down to how we care for others.
Readings for day three: http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Dalian-21-06-08.pdf.
The audio for day three is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Dalian-21-06-08.mp3.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Japan: June, 2008
Geshe Michael and Lama Christie's teachings in Japan were held at YogaJaya center, located in the stylish Ebisu-Nishi area of central Tokyo, which is otherwise known for funky cafe/bar/restaurants, fashion brands, boutiques, atelliers, and music and art culture. The director, Patrick Oancia, is a very thoughtful and dedicated yogi, and he was quite obviously pleased to bring the teachings to his students in Japan.
Their first talk on Saturday, June 14, was about relationships. The lamas felt that the Japanese crowd was ready for something substantial, so instead of the introductory teaching, they delved into the heart of the matter, and taught from the Goddess Code: the tantric rules for a successful relationship. On the second day, they taught about how to have a successful life, using principals from the business teachings.
The audience was more laid back and sophisticated than the group in Mongolia, but also very interested, and seemed to appreciate the level of detail and actual content to the teachings.
Here are the links for the teachings:
Readings for day one (Goddess Code): http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Tokyo-15-06-08.pdf.
The audio for day one is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Tokyo-14-06-08.mp3
Readings for day two (Yoga, Business, and a Love Story): http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Tokyo-15-06-08.pdf
The audio for day two is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Tokyo-15-06-08.mp3
Link to Scott's Tokyo photos
Their first talk on Saturday, June 14, was about relationships. The lamas felt that the Japanese crowd was ready for something substantial, so instead of the introductory teaching, they delved into the heart of the matter, and taught from the Goddess Code: the tantric rules for a successful relationship. On the second day, they taught about how to have a successful life, using principals from the business teachings.
The audience was more laid back and sophisticated than the group in Mongolia, but also very interested, and seemed to appreciate the level of detail and actual content to the teachings.
Here are the links for the teachings:
Readings for day one (Goddess Code): http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Tokyo-15-06-08.pdf.
The audio for day one is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Tokyo-14-06-08.mp3
Readings for day two (Yoga, Business, and a Love Story): http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Tokyo-15-06-08.pdf
The audio for day two is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Tokyo-15-06-08.mp3
Link to Scott's Tokyo photos
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Mongolia! 2008
Mongolia is a beautiful place and the people are lovely. Many of our crew felt an unexpected closeness to the land and the people who came to the talks. The first teaching was held in the big circus pavilion in the middle of Ulaan Baatar. Geshe Michael and Lama Christie gave away 500 copies of the new Mongolian translation of the Diamond Cutter, and the stage was mobbed. The publication of these translations was sponsored by Erdene Zuu Monastery, with sales to benefit the monastery, and it was translated by our old friend Batbold Baast, who also translated the teachings. The whole program, including a preliminary yoga demonstration by Ven Nyingpo and Jessica Kung, was broadcast live on Mongolian television.
Day one reading: http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Mongolia-10-06-08.pdf
The audio for day one is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Mongolia-10-06-08.mp3.
Erdene Zuu Monastery website: click here.
Second day--June 11th, report from Christine Sperber: "Tonight was the most unbelievable teaching from Geshe Michael and Lama Christie. Filmed on national Mongolian TV, we experienced a historic event - as a female Lama was introduced as the Angel, along with the highest teachings of Buddhism--how you can reach the highest in one ifetime. The response of the audience was unbelievable. So many lives were touched in the auditorium - and this was filmed for national TV. It was a teaching on Spiritual Partners again - and it was breathtaking."
Day two reading: http://www.dmes.org/pdfs/Mongolia-11-06-08.pdf
The audio for day two is available at http://www.dmes.org/audiofiles/Mongolia-11-06-08.mp3.
Follow this link to Scott's Mongolia photos.
Link to Worldview writeup of Mongolia events
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Spiritual Partners: Tucson, April, 2008 Geshe Michael and Lama Christie
Spiritual partners (Crazy Wisdom / Lojong) at Tucson: April 17th and 18th, 2008
Lojong Dun Dunma: How to find your spiritual partner and how to act with them, using ancient wisdom.
Audio:
Day one audio
Day two audio
Video:
April 17th, part one
April 17th, part two
April 18th, part one
April 18th, part two
Lojong Dun Dunma: How to find your spiritual partner and how to act with them, using ancient wisdom.
Audio:
Day one audio
Reading
Day two audio
Reading
Video:
April 17th, part one
April 17th, part two
April 18th, part one
April 18th, part two
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Proof of Heaven: Buddhist/Christian Dialogue
Proof of Heaven: Christian and Buddhist Roadmaps to the Same Place: A Christian and Buddhist Dialogue about Heaven, Angels, and God
with Father Brian Baker, Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally
April 12th & 13th, 2008 at Broadway Presbyterian Church, New York, NY,
in conjunction with the release of Geshe Michael and Lama Christie's book, The Eastern Path to Heaven.
Audio links:
Talk One MP3: April 12th, 2008
Talk Two MP3: April 13th, 2008
Father Brian's Blog about the event
Video link:
Ben Worden's video of this event
with Father Brian Baker, Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally
April 12th & 13th, 2008 at Broadway Presbyterian Church, New York, NY,
in conjunction with the release of Geshe Michael and Lama Christie's book, The Eastern Path to Heaven.
Audio links:
Talk One MP3: April 12th, 2008
Reading one
Talk Two MP3: April 13th, 2008
Reading two
Father Brian's Blog about the event
Video link:
Ben Worden's video of this event
Friday, March 28, 2008
Teachings in Prague: March 25-28, 2008
Audio
On March 25, the lamas gave a great talk at Lotus Yoga center. The average age of the audience member was about twenty five, and they were really interested and enthusiastic. Geshe hla met a boy at the talks with a spinal problem and constant headaches and he asked one of our staff to work privately with him on inversions while we were there. Sometimes it's a relief to feel for a few days that you are of use in the world and maybe doing a little bit of good.
As in Israel, the team members also taught, but most weren't recorded (unfortunately). But we managed to cover a vast number of topics: meditation, Tibetan Heart Yoga, Songs of the Panchen Lama, debate, relating to a spiritual teacher, movement meditation to remove obstacles, Heart Sutra, and more yoga.
Audio for March 25: The Meaning of Yoga (Lotus Yoga Center)
For the next talk, about how to make karma work for you, Geshe Michael started out talking about where things come from, for example, the invention of fire. Perhaps an animal was hit by lightning and tasted better, and so the cavemen tried to make it happen again. But how? We are like cavemen because we don't know how to do anything—we don't know if we're going to make or lose money or if your food will make you healthy or sick, etc.
Buddhism isn't a religion, it's just a way of thinking, so you can have any religion and study Buddhism. We're teaching how to make fire—how to succeed at everything. If you understand how reality works, you can have anything—money, a healthy body, a good partner, you can reach heaven/nirvana/enlightenment. You can stop death. The principle is the same.
Audio for March 26: Yoga, Business, and a Love Story (Lotus Yoga Center)
On the 26th, the teachings were held in an old church, and the evening started out with a concert. The teachings came from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, about Raja Yoga--the highest yoga--and they started to teach how not to die, how to change the pictures in your mind that make you see yourself dying. Then, because we have to leave, they told them:
"You need to find someone who can guide you for the rest of the way. You have to have a living teacher guiding you for 15 or 20 years. So you need to find your teacher, take some time and pick them carefully, because you will end up becoming just like them. Then once you have picked your teacher, throw your whole heart into it. Don't have any doubts. Then your path will go very fast."
Audio for March 27: The Yoga of the Sun and the Moon teachings from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika (at Kostel sv Jana Křtitele Na prádle)
Audio for March 27: A special concert before the talk with Mercedes Bahleda singing, with Irena and Vojta Havlovi on strings and Will Duncan on percussion.
The last talk was held at the Esoterika Festival, a happy eclectic gathering of everyone from Hare Krishnas to honey farmers, and everything in between. The lamas talked about spiritual partners, a topic that everyone is interested in.
Lama Christie said: "When you find someone who opens your heart you learn to think about someone besides yourself, and that's the only thing that will make you happy—to open your heart so that you think of their needs as more than your own. But there's another reason that has to do with what's inside of us. We have an inner body—a network of channels in our body—made of light. Inside of them runs prana or chi or lung. This is called inner wind and it runs through the channels in our body. It is a combination of male and female energies. We have both, but out of balance. If you are male you have mostly male, if you are female you have mostly female. So there is a longing to be a whole, and that is the attraction you have to a partner. The people you are attracted to are the one who have what you lack—who can make you whole. When you get enlightened you will have a balance of energies. So partner practice is about balancing the energies in you. In the last moments before enlightenment you will be with your partner. So every movie you have ever seen with a happy ending is leading you to this moment."
Audio for March 28: Spiritual Partners-How to Find Them, Keep Them and Reach Them (Esoterika Festival)
Geshe Michael and Lama Christie's teachings:
On March 25, the lamas gave a great talk at Lotus Yoga center. The average age of the audience member was about twenty five, and they were really interested and enthusiastic. Geshe hla met a boy at the talks with a spinal problem and constant headaches and he asked one of our staff to work privately with him on inversions while we were there. Sometimes it's a relief to feel for a few days that you are of use in the world and maybe doing a little bit of good.
As in Israel, the team members also taught, but most weren't recorded (unfortunately). But we managed to cover a vast number of topics: meditation, Tibetan Heart Yoga, Songs of the Panchen Lama, debate, relating to a spiritual teacher, movement meditation to remove obstacles, Heart Sutra, and more yoga.
Audio for March 25: The Meaning of Yoga (Lotus Yoga Center)
March 25th Reading
For the next talk, about how to make karma work for you, Geshe Michael started out talking about where things come from, for example, the invention of fire. Perhaps an animal was hit by lightning and tasted better, and so the cavemen tried to make it happen again. But how? We are like cavemen because we don't know how to do anything—we don't know if we're going to make or lose money or if your food will make you healthy or sick, etc.
Buddhism isn't a religion, it's just a way of thinking, so you can have any religion and study Buddhism. We're teaching how to make fire—how to succeed at everything. If you understand how reality works, you can have anything—money, a healthy body, a good partner, you can reach heaven/nirvana/enlightenment. You can stop death. The principle is the same.
Audio for March 26: Yoga, Business, and a Love Story (Lotus Yoga Center)
March 26th Reading
On the 26th, the teachings were held in an old church, and the evening started out with a concert. The teachings came from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, about Raja Yoga--the highest yoga--and they started to teach how not to die, how to change the pictures in your mind that make you see yourself dying. Then, because we have to leave, they told them:
"You need to find someone who can guide you for the rest of the way. You have to have a living teacher guiding you for 15 or 20 years. So you need to find your teacher, take some time and pick them carefully, because you will end up becoming just like them. Then once you have picked your teacher, throw your whole heart into it. Don't have any doubts. Then your path will go very fast."
Audio for March 27: The Yoga of the Sun and the Moon teachings from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika (at Kostel sv Jana Křtitele Na prádle)
March 27th Reading
Audio for March 27: A special concert before the talk with Mercedes Bahleda singing, with Irena and Vojta Havlovi on strings and Will Duncan on percussion.
The last talk was held at the Esoterika Festival, a happy eclectic gathering of everyone from Hare Krishnas to honey farmers, and everything in between. The lamas talked about spiritual partners, a topic that everyone is interested in.
Lama Christie said: "When you find someone who opens your heart you learn to think about someone besides yourself, and that's the only thing that will make you happy—to open your heart so that you think of their needs as more than your own. But there's another reason that has to do with what's inside of us. We have an inner body—a network of channels in our body—made of light. Inside of them runs prana or chi or lung. This is called inner wind and it runs through the channels in our body. It is a combination of male and female energies. We have both, but out of balance. If you are male you have mostly male, if you are female you have mostly female. So there is a longing to be a whole, and that is the attraction you have to a partner. The people you are attracted to are the one who have what you lack—who can make you whole. When you get enlightened you will have a balance of energies. So partner practice is about balancing the energies in you. In the last moments before enlightenment you will be with your partner. So every movie you have ever seen with a happy ending is leading you to this moment."
Audio for March 28: Spiritual Partners-How to Find Them, Keep Them and Reach Them (Esoterika Festival)
March 28th Reading
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Photos of Prague teachings
View from the stage at Esoterika
It was cold in the church where the lamas were teaching.
Irena and Vojta Havlovi, who helped organize the ACI and YSI lectures in Prague.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Israel teachings: March 17-20, 2008
Israel teachings: March, 2008
March 17: Geshe Michael and Lama Christie's first teaching was held at the Wohl Center in Bahr-Ilan University in Tel Aviv. The topic was Yoga, Business, Love (from Diamond Cutter). Many of our party also taught, mostly at Myoga, a nice new place in Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv, where all morning teachings were held. Ven. Chunzom taught meditation: transforming problems; Tibetan Heart Yoga (Mercedes); Ven. Jigme: Relationship with a spiritual teacher, (using Pabongka Rinpoche's Liberation in Your Hands). Ven. Chukyi (at Wohl Center): meditations on the lama.
March 18: Geshe Michael and Lama Christie: Gesher Theater in Yafo, near the old part of town. Their teachings were about Karmic Management. Ven. Chuky taught Meditations on the Lama. Geshe Michael, Lama Christie and Lama Dvora all participated in a seminar on Management by the Principles of Karma.
March 19: Day off. Some of us went on a guided tour of Jerusalem with Ilan Yadin. It was beautiful and moving. That night there was kirtan led by Mercedes at Belt HaTsan'han Ramat Gan.
March 20: Morning teachings at Gesher Theater (same venue as the lamas used later)-Ven. Chukyi: Meditations on the Lamas; Ven. Nyingpo: Debate Class; Ven. Jigme: relationship with a spiritual teacher. Evening teachings-Geshe Michael and Lama Christie: Spiritual Partnership.
Online video
Business Talk in Tel Aviv on March 17th 2008 part 1
Business Talk in Tel Aviv on March 18th 2008 part 2
March 17: Geshe Michael and Lama Christie's first teaching was held at the Wohl Center in Bahr-Ilan University in Tel Aviv. The topic was Yoga, Business, Love (from Diamond Cutter). Many of our party also taught, mostly at Myoga, a nice new place in Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv, where all morning teachings were held. Ven. Chunzom taught meditation: transforming problems; Tibetan Heart Yoga (Mercedes); Ven. Jigme: Relationship with a spiritual teacher, (using Pabongka Rinpoche's Liberation in Your Hands). Ven. Chukyi (at Wohl Center): meditations on the lama.
March 18: Geshe Michael and Lama Christie: Gesher Theater in Yafo, near the old part of town. Their teachings were about Karmic Management. Ven. Chuky taught Meditations on the Lama. Geshe Michael, Lama Christie and Lama Dvora all participated in a seminar on Management by the Principles of Karma.
March 19: Day off. Some of us went on a guided tour of Jerusalem with Ilan Yadin. It was beautiful and moving. That night there was kirtan led by Mercedes at Belt HaTsan'han Ramat Gan.
March 20: Morning teachings at Gesher Theater (same venue as the lamas used later)-Ven. Chukyi: Meditations on the Lamas; Ven. Nyingpo: Debate Class; Ven. Jigme: relationship with a spiritual teacher. Evening teachings-Geshe Michael and Lama Christie: Spiritual Partnership.
Online video
Business Talk in Tel Aviv on March 17th 2008 part 1
Business Talk in Tel Aviv on March 18th 2008 part 2
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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