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Lama Marut returns to Cape Ann from April 20 – 22, 2010
to teach the following:
- April 20, 7:00-9:00 PM, “Running a Car Bomb Into Your Self-Cherishing: The Radical Techniques of Lojong” at the Vajramudra Center
- April 21 & 22, 7:30-9:30 PM, “The Meaning of Life” at Woodman’s, Essex
- April 22, 3:00-5:00 PM, “The Two Realities: Teachings from the Ninth Chapter of Master Shantideva’s Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life” at the Vajramudra Center
In addition, Cindy Lee will give the following teaching during this visit: April 21, 3:00-5:00 PM, “Divine Madness: Sitting at the Feet of the Master”, at the Vajramudra Center.
These teachings will be streamed in live video at www.ustream.tv/channel/great-awakening.
The Bodhisattva Vows - Dharma Essentials 7
taught by Mary Kay Dyer
Sunday, March 7, 14, 21 & 28, 3:00 - 5:00pm
BECOME A SPIRITUAL WARRIOR
Dharma Essentials 7 is a four-session presentation of how the Bodhisattva Vows can help you change your world and the world of others. It covers the motivation for taking the vows, the goals of the vows, how to keep them and how to repair them if they are broken. Bodhisattva Vows are one of three types of vows that Buddhist practitioners take to free and protect themselves from the mental afflictions that keep them from becoming the highest form of themselves.
You are welcome to come to any or all of the sessions:
March 7 - Preparation for and Qualities of the Bodhisattva Vows
March 14 - The Eighteen Root Vows
March 21 - The Secondary Vows and their Relationship to the Six Perfections
March 28 - How the Vows Can Be Kept or Broken and Antidotes
These sessions are informational. There is no requirement to take the Bodhisattva Vows if you participate. There is no prerequisite for participating in the course. However, the sessions will cover the prerequisites for taking the vows themselves. An opportunity for doing this will be available at the Vajramudra Center in late April. Questions can be addressed to Mary Kay Dyer at mkdyer47@juno.com.
Open to all. In order to have all the course materials printed for you for this class, please contact register@aci-capeann.org or call (978) 865-4342 to register by February 26. If you register after that date, a PDF file of the course can be emailed for you to print out at your convenience. If you prefer not to have a printed copy of the materials at all, let us know.
Mary Kay Dyer is currently studying advanced courses with Venerable Sumati Marut, as well as working toward completion of the ACI Formal Study Course curriculum. She has also received teachings from Geshe Michael Roach at Diamond Mountain University and from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
The Yoga of Devotion
taught by David White
Saturday, March 20, 1:00 - 5:00pm
The spiritual path can seem to involve much effort - strenuous activity of practice, or deep immersion in the understanding of wisdom teachings.
Yet, there’s another way: the confident opening and giving of the heart, in full devotional surrender to the divine - the path of bhakti.
Desiring to bridge the apparent gap between inner-identity and outer-divine, the whole of life becomes a serving and a celebration of the chosen
form of the divinity - whether cosmic deity, awakened teacher, or beloved companion - given, in utter devotion. We will use a beautiful Sanskrit text,
the Narada Bhakti Sutra, which offers a guide to the bhakti spiritual path and practice, and points to the means of self-realization that it offers.
Open to all. In order to have the course materials printed for you for this class, please contact register@aci-capeann.org or call (978) 865-4342 to register by March 12.
If you register after that date, a PDF file can be emailed for you to print out at your convenience. If you prefer not to have a printed copy of the materials at all, let us know.
David White teaches the spiritual texts and truths of the Buddhist, Shaivite and yoga traditions and Sanskrit at Diamond Mountain University and nationally. He is a qualified teacher of Tibetan Buddhist Dharma teachings of the Asian Classics Institute.
Yoga: A Brief History of the Beginning of the End
taught by David White
Saturday, April 3, 1:00 - 5:00pm
Yoga is the beginning of the end - of ignorance and suffering. Yoga is the direct experience of union with the divine, of knowing self-as-divine.
In two classes, we’ll fly through history (and herstory) and texts, beginning with the early Vedas and their offspring the Upanishads. We’ll look at different ways that humankind has understood its world-reality, and constellated it with deities. From this arise the ways that we have related to the divine, and the various practices known as yoga.
We’ll trace the unfolding of spiritual traditions later known as Hindu and Buddhist, along with dramatic developments such as Kashmir Shaivism, the Nathas and Hatha Yoga, and the Tantric path. In the second class we’ll also look at the more ‘modern’ texts of yoga, the Yoga Sutras and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika.
Open to all. In order to have the course materials printed for you for this class, please contact register@aci-capeann.org or call (978) 865-4342 to register by March 26.
If you register after that date, a PDF file can be emailed for you to print out at your convenience. If you prefer not to have a printed copy of the materials at all, let us know.
David White teaches the spiritual texts and truths of the Buddhist, Shaivite and yoga traditions and Sanskrit at Diamond Mountain University and nationally. He is a qualified teacher of Tibetan Buddhist Dharma teachings of the Asian Classics Institute.
Tibetan Heart Yoga on Thursday evenings, 7:15 - 9pm
Tibetan Heart Yoga is a set of ten distinct Series. The Thursday evening THY classes will continue with Series 3 - The Yoga of Inner Fire led by Bob Arnold. This joyful series focuses on the crucial energy center at the core of your being. This practice incorporates mantra and visualization of the "four infinite thoughts" from Master Patanjali's Yoga Sutra. These are infinite love, infinite joy, infinite compassion, and equanimity.
Please bring a yoga mat if you have one - the Center has a few mats available. All levels of yoga practitioners are welcome. Admission is by donation. Suggested Donation: $10 per class.
Bob Arnold has been studying meditation and sacred movement, including Tibetan Heart Yoga and Tai Chi, for more than 10 years. He is a graduate of the Yoga Studies Institute 300-hour teacher training and is a YSI Essentials Staff teacher of Tibetan Heart Yoga and the Classics of Yoga.
The Wisdom of Perfection - taught by David White.
(A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Part III - Asian Classics Formal Course 12)
Wednesday nights, 7:00 - 9:00pm, February 10 - April 14.
The spiritual path is the development of qualities, particularly compassion, and of the understanding of the true nature of our life-experience. Spiritual practice takes these beyond the realm of conceptualization into that of direct experience, beyond the delusions of thought, which brings us into the realm of perfection.
This course examines our entire experience, our mind, feelings, body, our external world, and their true or ultimate nature, how they actually exist beyond our fantasies; how and why it is essential to know this directly; the relationship between the wrong ideas, the fantasies that we have about the way that things seem to appear to us, and the mental afflictions that result, which then drive our perceptions; the ways that we create the pains of our world; the wisdom necessary to go beyond this; the steps that bring freedom from affliction, happiness, and freedom from ignorance, omniscience, and bring us to perfection.
This ten-class course - focusing on the ninth chapter of the text - is the third in a three-part series based upon A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life by Master Shantideva, and the commentary Entry Point for Children of the Victorious Buddhas by Gyaltsab Je.
It is recommended that you attend the brief introductory classes on Saturday, February 6, The Guide to Perfection, which will introduce the earlier chapters.
Open to all. Estimated printed course readings fee: $25.00.
Suggested donation: $10.00 per class. Registration for this course ends January 30th.
Students are expected to attend all classes. Any missed classes must be made up before the following class. No drop-ins permitted for this course.
David White teaches the spiritual texts and truths of the Buddhist, Shaivite and yoga traditions and Sanskrit at Diamond Mountain University and nationally. He is a qualified teacher of Tibetan Buddhist Dharma teachings of the Asian Classics Institute.
Please contact register@aci-capeann.org or call (978) 865-4342 to register. In order to have all the course materials printed for you for this class, registration ends on January 30th. If you register after that date, a PDF file of the course can be emailed for you to print out at your convenience. If you prefer not to have a printed copy of the materials at all, let us know.
Sanskrit Level I and II - taught by David White
Sanskrit Level 1
Monday & Friday nights 7:00 - 9:00pm, February 1 - 26 (eight classes, plus homework; students are expected to attend all classes)
In this fun, experiential (and intense !) course we will explore body, breath, and sound, and with precision create the sounds of the Sanskrit alphabet.
We will then attach symbols to sounds, weave them together, and come to recognize and read the full devanagari script. We will chant - a lot - and you will have an appreciation of the power of vibration, sound, and consciousness. By the end of this course, you will be reading mantras, asana names, and original Sanskrit texts - come open, ready to learn and to dive into a huge new adventure!
For students who completed the Sanskrit classes this past summer, this is a great opportunity to review before continuing on with Sanskrit Level 2.
For new students, it's the perfect time to begin studying Sanskrit.
To register, please contact register@aci-capeann.org or call (978) 865-4342. In order to have all the course materials printed, registration ends on Tuesday, January 26th. If you register after that date, a PDF file of the course can be emailed for you to print out at your convenience. If you prefer not to pay for a printed copy of the materials, please let us know that you prefer a PDF copy.
Sanskrit Level 2
Monday & Friday nights 7:00 - 9:00pm, March 15 - April 9 (eight classes, plus homework; students must have completed Sanskrit 1 successfully and are expected to attend all classes)
Now we begin the dive into the rich, complex beauty of Sanskrit grammar - meeting the ways in which the language insists on euphony, the harmonious flow of sound - and learning the ways in which the core verbal roots unfold into nouns and adjectival-forms, and into verbs and verbal-forms - and anchoring these new learnings through breath and body, through chanting. We will take these understandings into Sanskrit texts, unlocking the ways that different writers use the language to create meaning - we will explore, and begin to translate, from a variety of sacred texts, including the Heart Sutra, the Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Narada Bhakti Sutra.
To register, please contact register@aci-capeann.org or call (978) 865-4342. In order to have all the course materials printed, registration ends on Tuesday, Friday, March 5th. If you register after that date, a PDF file of the course can be emailed for you to print out at your convenience. If you prefer not to pay for a printed copy of the materials, please let us know that you prefer a PDF copy.
David White teaches the spiritual texts and truths of the Buddhist, Shaivite and yoga traditions and Sanskrit at Diamond Mountain University and nationally. He is a qualified teacher of Tibetan Buddhist Dharma teachings of the Asian Classics Institute.
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
•Sundays, 8:30-10:00 AM - led by Pattie O'Brien, PhD
•Thursdays, 7:15-9:00 PM - led by Bob Arnold
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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