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Becoming a Warrior Saint - Part 2, the Essentials with Larry Wolf
Sundays, 1 - 3pm, February 19, 26; March 18, 25
This course is the second in a three-part series based upon A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, a classic text by Master Shantideva. Learn how to live like a warrior saint, someone on fire to reach perfect happiness and save the world. The classes will include a review of the six perfections (the main activities of the warrior saint), an explanation of the perfections of patience, joyful effort, and meditative concentration; how to make a habit of not getting angry; how joyous effort supports the other five perfections; reasons to treat others as well as yourself; the source of all the world's pain; and living a life of service to others.
Dharma Essentials - everything you need to know to begin, renew, or enhance your spiritual life!
The Dharma Essentials Courses provide condensed versions of the fifteen Asian Classics Institute (ACI) Formal Study Courses, and do not require a prior background in Buddhism. Meditation and reading assignments are optional.
Larry Wolf completed the 18 Formal Study Courses of the Asian Classics Institute in 2010. He continues to study under the guidance of his spiritual teachers, Venerable Sumati Marut and Lama Lindsay Crouse. Larry teaches in Cape Ann and Boston.
Please come for any or all classes. Everyone is invited. Classes are free, supported by donation. Please contact us to let us know you are coming. Email register@aci-capeann.org or call (978) 381-9224. Printed course readings are available by request if you register by February 11, or you can receive a digital PDF version for free. Drop-ins welcome.
For class cancellation information, please call: (978) 381-9224.
The course will also be broadcast via live webcast using Ustream at: [link coming soon.]
Dharma Flick
The Wizard of Oz
Saturday, February 4th, 6:30pm
"… if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard."
- Dorothy
Join us at the Vajramudra Center for a screening of the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz."
A short Dharma teaching/discussion led by Margaret Redington follows the screening of the film.
This program is free.
Popcorn and light refreshments will be served. Please feel free to bring snacks to share.
Please note: This film is rated G. All ages are welcome.
In the event of winter storms or for other reasons, please call: (978) 381-9224 for class cancellation information.
Teachings on the Five Wisdoms: Awakening to Your Potential, with Mary Kay Dyer
Saturdays, February 11, 25; March 10, 17, 24, 2:00 – 5:30pm (break included)
The series offers ways to change things that disturb your peace of mind into tools for awakening to your potential for true happiness. This program is based on the retreat given by Lamas Marut and Cindy Lee at the Satyananda Ashram in Australia, January 2012.
Each session will address how to fight a particular mental affliction and how to develop the related wisdom. A guided meditation will accompany each.
2/11 – Transforming Ignorance into the Wisdom of Spaciousness
2/25 – Killing Anger with Compassion and Clarity About Relationships
3/10 – Changing Pride and Stinginess to Abundance through Equanimity
3/17 – Using Discriminating Wisdom to Reach What You Really Desire
3/24 – Recognizing that Everything is Already Accomplished So No Need of Envy.
Mary Kay Dyer has completed the eighteen formal ACI courses and participated in the eighteen advanced courses with her teacher, Venerable Sumati Marut. She has also received teachings from Geshe Michael Roach at Diamond Mountain. She continues to offer courses at the Vajramudra Center and teachings on meditation and the practice at other locations.
Please register to let us know you are coming and to obtain the file of readings via email. Email register@aci-capeann.org or call (978) 381–9224. Please specifically request the readings in print form by February 3, if needed.
Class is free. Supported by donation. Please feel free to come to any of the sessions, even if you aren’t registered. No prior experience is necessary.
Please note: The teaching sessions will not be webcasted and the audio recordings will not be posted on our website.
ACI-Cape Ann invites you to witness a very special Maroke Ceremony
Sunday, February 12th, 7 - 9pm
Please join us at the Vajramudra Center for a Maroke Ceremony to celebrate the completion of the
18 ACI Formal Courses by Elizabeth McLindon, under the guidance of her spiritual teacher, Mary Kay Dyer.
The evening will include Elizabeth’s public Maroke exam with Lama Mary Kay and a short teaching by Elizabeth, followed by a celebration with refreshments.
The traditional course of Tibetan Buddhist monastic studies in the Gelukpa tradition has been over many years condensed, clarified, and formalized into the Asian Classics Institute series of courses. These formal courses were put together by Geshe Michael Roach under the guidance of his spiritual teacher, Khen Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin (1921-2004). There are 18 courses which include ten classes each, with readings, homework, quizzes and final exams. Those who complete this rigorous training receive the title of "Maroke," which means guide.
Everyone is invited. Event is free.
For cancellation information, please call: (978) 381-9224.
Mahamudra 2 – A Meditation Course, with Jesse Fallon
Six Classes - Wednesday nights, 7:30 – 9:30pm, February 1 – March 21 (no class on Feb. 29 or March 7)
A continuation of the series on the Mahamudra using the root text by the First Panchen Lama, the teachings by Lama Christie McNally from her Bok Jinpa 13 course at Diamond Mountain, and additional information from the commentaries by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and Alexander Berzin.
This technique begins with a method of reaching meditative stillness, or shamata, and ultimately allows one to see both the gross and subtle natures of one's own mind. Understanding the subtle nature of one's own mind allows one to reach true freedom - the freedom from suffering.
Course requirements:
Prerequisite: You must have attended Mahamudra 1 live with Jesse and completed your meditation journal from that course to be allowed in. If you did not attend Mahamudra 1 with Jesse, then there is a "make-up" option.
Make-up option for those not in attendance at Mahamudra 1:
Listen to the recordings for all 9 classes from Mahamudra 1. Do the meditation assignments from classes 2, 3 and 7 for 3 times each for 30 minutes minimum, for a total of 9 meditations. Please journal these meditations with date, time, and something about the content, and turn them in to the teacher by the Feb. 1 class at the latest as your admission ticket.
If you have questions for the teacher, please send an email to jessefallon@aci-capeann.org
Attendance is required for all classes, drop-ins will not be allowed. (one absence will be allowed with a make-up prior to the next class) Meditation journal assignments will be required, participants should be keeping a six-times book.
Registration is mandatory. Email register@aci-capeann.org or call (978) 381-9224 by Jan 30. Reading assignments will be given out at class. There is no cost for printed readings, they will be supplied by the teacher. Classes are free. Supported by donation.
Additional recommended reading of "The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Alexander Berzin will be up to students to purchase if they wish, or it is available online for free by clicking here.
In the event of severe weather or for other reasons, please call: (978) 381-9224 for class cancellation information.
Art, Music, and Spiritual Practice - with Darin McFadyen & Claire Thompson
Wednesday, January 18, 7 - 8:30pm
A comparison of the creative process and the spiritual path. Come discuss how, like great artists, great musicians, and great yogis, we can find that perfect balance of inspiration and technique, practice and improvisation, to make beauty in our art and life.
Darin is an internationally touring DJ and Music Producer under the name FreQ Nasty, and Claire is a kirtan singer & yoga/meditation teacher. They have completed the 36 courses in Buddhist studies offered by the Asian Classics Institute and taken the Yoga Studies Institute 200 Hour Yoga Philosophy course, under the guidance of their teachers Lama Sumati Marut and Lama Lauren Benjamin.
Darin's music can be heard on www.FreQNasty.com.
Everyone is invited. Class is free, supported by donation.
For cancellation information, please call: (978) 381-9224.
The course will also be broadcast via live webcast using Ustream at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/art-music-and-spiritual-practice
The Diamond-Cutter Sutra: Asian Classics Formal Course 6,
with Margaret Redington
Mondays, 7:30 - 9:30pm, January 16 - April 2
(no class on Feb. 20 & March 5)
And since it is so, o Subhuti, listen now to what I speak, and be sure that it stays firmly in your heart, for I shall reveal to you how it is that those who have entered well into the way of the bodhisattva should live, and how they should practice, and how they should keep their thoughts.
- Shakyamuni Buddha
This Course is based upon the Diamond-Cutter Sutra by Shakyamuni Buddha, along with the only known native Tibetan commentary, by Choney Lama Drakpa Shedrup (1675-1748).
Topics include: renunciation, bodhicitta and correct view of reality, the six perfections, purification of karma, the relationship between karma and emptiness, levels of interdependence, conventional and ultimate reality, quality and characteristic (chi jedrak), meditation, the direct perception of emptiness, realization of the four arya truths, emptiness of the three spheres of a situation, how understanding emptiness leads to the destruction of mental afflictions and full enlightenment, how empty things function, the middle way between two extremes, the perfection of wisdom, and the enlightened body, speech and mind of a Buddha.
Margaret is a student of Lama Sumati Marut and has completed the 18 Formal Study Courses of the Asian Classics Institute.
Please register to let us know you are coming. Email register@aci-capeann.org or call (978) 381–9224. Printed course readings are available from us for approximately $20 if you register by January 6, or you can download a digital PDF version for free at: http://www.acidharma.org/aci/online/onlineformal.html . The course is available for credit or audit/drop-in.
Class is free. Supported by donation. Anyone is welcome to attend any or all classes and just listen with no homework or other requirements at all. Please feel free to come to any class, even if you aren't registered.
For class cancellation information, please call: (978) 381–9224.
Becoming a Warrior Saint - Part 1, the Essentials with Larry Wolf
Sundays, 1 - 3pm, January 8, 15, 22, 29
This Course is the first in a three-part series based upon A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, a classic text by Master Shantideva. Learn how to live like a warrior saint, someone on fire to reach perfect happiness and save the world. Learn why this path is so cool, how to begin the quest, and how to practice and think like a warrior saint. The classes will include an overview of the six perfections (the main activities of the warrior saint), the proper way to treat disturbing thoughts, and an explanation of the perfections of giving and kindness.
Dharma Essentials – everything you need to know to begin, renew, or enhance your spiritual life!
The Dharma Essentials Courses provide condensed versions of the fifteen Asian Classics Institute (ACI) Formal Study Courses, and do not require a prior background in Buddhism. Meditation and reading assignments are optional.
Larry Wolf completed the 18 Formal Study Courses of the Asian Classics Institute in 2010. He continues his studies under the guidance of Venerable Sumati Marut and Lindsay Crouse. Larry teaches meditation and Buddhism in Cape Ann and Boston. During the day he works as a computer analyst. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Business Administration, with a concentration in Finance.
Please come for any or all classes. Everyone is invited. Classes are free, supported by donation. Please contact us to let us know you are coming.
Email register@aci-capeann.org or call (978) 381-9224. Printed course readings are available by request if you register by January 1, or you can receive a digital PDF version for free. Drop-ins welcome.
For class cancellation information, please call: (978) 381-9224.
The course will also be broadcast via live webcast using Ustream at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dharma-essssials-10---becoming-a-warrior-saint
ACI-Cape Ann is pleased to announce a small but growing scholarship fund.
The mission of the ACI-Cape Ann Inc. Scholarship Fund is to support individuals who are:
1) seeking short (up to three weeks) meditative retreats; 2) pursuing studies; or 3) pursuing teacher training, all for the purpose of ending suffering, promoting happiness, and reaching total enlightenment through practice in the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism.
To make an offering, please click here.
For application information, please click here.
Yoga Classes
Gentle Beginners Yoga led by Pattie O'Brien, PhD
•Thursdays, 5:45 - 6:55 PM
•Saturdays, 8:45-9:55 AM
Tibetan Heart Yoga
•Mondays, 9:30-11:00 AM - led by Julie Upton
•Wednesdays, 8:00-9:30 AM - Lady Niguma's Yoga led by Julie Upton
•Thursdays, 7:15-9:00 PM - led by Bob Arnold
Open Level Vinyasa Class
•Mondays 5:30-6:30 PM, taught by Jill Demeri
In a system preserved by the Tibetans for centuries, the outer methods of asana (poses) and pranayama (breathing) are combined with the inner methods of a virtuous mental focus, meditation, and wisdom. The result is a practice the ancients called Royal Yoga. A real Yoga practice doesn't end when you leave the mat. Learn how to incorporate all the elements of Yoga into your daily life.
"Tibetan Heart Yoga works on your heart in two ways: It makes your physical heart and body healthy and strong, and it opens your heart to love others. And of course the first always comes from the second."
-- Geshe Michael Roach, The Tibetan Book of Yoga
Open to all levels, no registration required. Suggested donation is $10 per class.
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