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发信人: windysnow (逸飞), 信区: Wisdom
标 题: 1/30 Meditation Workshop in LA
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 20 16:04:45 2016, 美东)
All-Day Meditation Workshop
(Foundations of Mindfulness + Yoga)
Teacher: Bhante Yogavacara Rahula
Time: Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016; 9 am – 5 pm
University Address: 1409 N. Walnut Grove Ave. Rosemead, CA 91770
Location: University of the West, Ken Locke Hall (ED 2nd floor)
Free of charge
(No registration. Just show up in comfortable attires! No lunch will be
provided; Bring a bagged lunch for yourself)
Please direct inquiries to Mandy Lee: [email protected]
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Chu:
[email protected]
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This workshop will emphasize mindful attention to the body and breathing as
the
foundation for cultivating awareness and insight into the deeper nature of
our body
and mental processes. Slow deep breathing coordinated with mindful
bending and
stretching exercises are done to help this process. Periods of sitting,
standing and
walking will aid in cultivating a continuity of awareness of the present
moment. The
goal of mindfulness/insight practice is to become aware of our intentions
which
precede activity of body, speech, and thought in order to transform harmful
habits
which bring suffering into wholesome ones which conduce to peace, happiness,
and
wisdom. The Buddha’s teachings of the Four Noble Truths inform the
practice. How
to carry this practice into daily live is given importance.
This retreat is suitable for beginners as well as experienced meditators.&#
160;There will be
Dharma talks, chance for Q & A, instructions, and guided meditations.
About the Teacher:
Ven. Yogavacara Rahula was born Scott Joseph DuPrez in Southern California
in
1948. He grew up during the hippie revolution and entered the U.S. Army for
three
years in 1967, spending ten months in Vietnam. In 1972 he began a long
odyssey
starting in Scandinavia which took him half way around the world to India
and Nepal.
In Nepal he encountered his first spiritual teachers, Tibetan Lamas, at a
month long
meditation course, by the end of which he was converted more or less to
being a
Buddhist. His search brought him south to Sri Lanka where he eventually got
ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1975. Prior to ordination he had studied Yoga
with
Swami Gitananda in Pondicherry, South India. He remained in Sri Lanka off
and on
until 1986 when he returned to the U.S.A. to visit his parents and to help
spread the
Dharma. In 1987 he joined Bhante H. Gunaratana to help build up the Bhavana
Society Forest Monastery in West Virginia, USA. He travels out from time to
time to
conduct meditation retreats in various parts of the world and in the U.S.
Bhante Rahula has written four books: an autobiography entitled, One Night’
s
Shelter; The Way to Peace & Happiness, a comprehensive study of the Buddha’
s
Teaching; Breaking Through the Self-Delusion, a small booklet on vipassana
meditation and Traversing the Great Himalaya, a photo documentary of a
spiritual
pilgrimage in the Himalaya. |
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