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Greetings from Milarepa Center!
Hello from Milarepa Center. We have had a
beautiful fall foliage season. The sublime
environment here in Vermont continues to
deeply support practice and study. Come join us
soon!
Ven. Amy will be leading a day of meditation and
meditation inquiry November 8, 9:30-4:30.
Whether
you are new to meditation or
part of the October
"How to Meditate
Course," this is a wonderful
opportunity to learn more about this essential
Buddhist practice and about your own mind.
We will share a pot-luck lunch so please bring a
main dish for four people.
Meditation Daylong with Amy Miller; Sunday,
November 8
9:30am
Introduction
10:00-10:30am
Calm Abiding (Shiné)
10:45-11:15am
Precious Human Rebirth
11:15-11:30am
Break
11:30-12noon
Walking meditation
12:00-12:30pm
Death and Impermanence
12:30-1:30pm
Pot-Luck Lunch
1:30-2:30pm
Discussion and Presentations
2:30-3:00pm
Calm Abiding (Shiné)
3:00-3:30pm
Visualization: Shakyamuni Buddha
3:30-4:00pm
Break
4:00-4:30pm
Tonglen
***
November 26-29 (Thanksgiving weekend) is a
Nyung Né Purification Retreat
at Milarepa
Center.
Nyung Né is a powerful purification practice
with
Chenrezig (the Buddha of Compassion) at
the center.
There are periods of fasting,
prostration, silence
and meditation as one
purifies a great deal of negative
karma and
creates extensive merit. This retreat is an
excellent
training in great compassion, and
is highly recommended
and practiced by our
teachers. Please feel free to
contact the
center for more information about this
or
any of the programs here at Milarepa.
***
We are
greatly looking forward to the December visit of
Geshe Gelek of Kapampa Center in North Carolina.
Geshe-la trained at Sera Jey Monastery and Gyume
Tantric College in India and received their
highest degrees before agreeing to come to the
United States and share his knowledge with
Westerners.
 He
will be leading a weekend on
Awakening Enlightenment and Cultivating the Good
Heart
on December 4-6 and another weekend on
Lojong: Eight Verses of Mind Training
on December 12-13. Geshe-la will lead the final
session of Ven. Amy's Tuesday evening
Exploring the Path to Enlightenment
series. Auspiciously, we will also be able to
spend
Lama Tsongkhapa Day
with Geshe-la (December 11) and perform
offerings of light to celebrate before our
Lama Chopa Tsog.
Joining any or all of the events with Geshe
Gelek is a superb chance to receive instruction
and inspiration from one of the masters of our
tradition.
***
New Year's Eve isn't usually a time to
create virtue, but Milarepa Center is offering a
chance to purify, meditiate and ENJOY at our
annual
Vajrasattva Retreat!
Join us December 29-January 1 and bring in 2010
clean-clear (as the lamas say) and rejoicing.
***
Thank you everyone for your continued support
of Milarepa Center.
We are particularly
grateful to the following individuals for their
HUGE help recently:
:: Shelley and Jim
Hagan for a spanking new snow blower;
::
Deb Zuk for making copies for our How to
Meditate class;
:: Angie Gittleman for
organizing a vast amoung of Discovering
Buddhism teaching materials and prayers and for
writing our
e-letters;
:: Mark Winwood of the
Chenrezig Project for producing our e-letters
and sending them out;
:: Katherine Vose
for help with many details and meetings
regarding
developing our Master Plan;
:: Dick
Herbert, Tim McNeill and many donors to our
recent
fundraising efforts; and
:: All the
wonderful volunteers who cook and clean and make
the
Center shine!
We are sending you our
warmest regards and hope to see you and share in
the Dharma very soon.
With huge love
from the community at Milarepa Center.
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