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SUMMARY:Chaotic World Quiet Mind (ONLINE ANYTIME)
DESCRIPTION:Would you like to go through life in a focused and calm way no matter what happens around you?\nWith a mind trained in meditation\, you will be able to focus on what matters\, to turn off the noise and concentrate on exactly one thing for as long and as intensely as we want. By practicing to keep your mind calm and clear\, you will more calmly and deeply consider all aspects of a problem and find creative\, successful solutions to your problems. \nExperience how you can extinguish negative emotions such as anger\, envy and uncontrollable desires. This will make your mind clear and strong and so you are naturally much more successful than other people who are at the mercy of their emotions. Learning to dive deep into your mind to remain peaceful and calm brings more joy in everything in your life. Imagine being able to live in greater harmony with everyone around you! \nA very good meditator can see what his life will be like making daily challenges much easier. A very regular meditator slowly begins to anticipate the future and all your decisions and actions will be driven by love and compassion. Your “instincts” and “feeling” for action will be sharpened making you much more successful in everything you do! This means making progress on your spiritual path. \nIn order to be able to do these things\, we must learn to meditate properly. Without that the doors are closed to us and we will be unable to read the signs. \nCome with us on a journey and learn to quiet your mind in a chaotic world.\n\nIs this for me?\nIf you are new to meditation or hope to experience the benefits of being a better meditator\, this program is for you. \nDo I need anything special to start?\nA computer and a good internet connection is all you will need\nMake sure you download Zoom before the program starts \nWhat does it cost?\nThe program is free of charge and we encourage you to pay it forward or explore our donation programs. You can also sign up for your newsletter or follow us on Facebook\, Instagram\, and YouTube \nHow much time will it take?\nOne 45 min session\, once a week for 8 weeks. The sessions will be recorded so that you can watch them again\, or share them\, whenever you would like. \nWhen will it take place?\nWhen you have time 😉 \nLanguage: English \nWhat topics will be covered? \n\nWhat is meditation & what it‘s not.\nBenefits of meditation\nMeditation as a practice\nThe Stages of Meditation\nExternal & internal conditions\nCorrect posture\n5 problems and 8 remedies\nMeditation types & objects\nFrequency & duration?\n\nWhich meditations will you learn? \n\nPreparing for meditation – The perfect ten\nWatch your thoughts – Don’t get involved\nTwo life-long basic traditional Buddhist meditations for any meditator:\n\nTong-Len – Taking and Giving\n“Preliminaries” – Taking care of your karma (a guided meditation) \n\n\n\n\nYoutube Playlist: Classes\n \nYoutube Playlist: Meditations\n \n  \nWho are my teachers?\nHanlie van Wyk \n“For me\, the value lies in applying the principles to every encounter\, situation\, and interaction. As a closet nerd\, I strive at all times to bridge the gap between theory and real world practice. The result is equanimity\, perpetual learning\, and loads of fun!” \nAn adventure seeker and serial entrepreneur she started her first of several businesses at the age of 23 followed by a career that spans three decades and four continents. As a social scientist she was inspired by Nelson Mandela who said: “People must learn to hate\, and if they can learn to hate\, they can be taught to love”.\nShe started meditating and doing spiritual retreats in the early 2000’s. A friend introduced her to Asian Classics Institute courses where she received teachings from Geshe Michael Roach\, Lama David Stumpf\, and Lama Marut. She taught herself yoga from The Tibetan Book of Yoga\, expanded her repertoire to Ashtanga\, Inyengar\, and Bikram only to find her way back to the yoga of Lady Niguma. A trip to the temples of Thailand forever changed her life. \nHanlie’s unique quality is to present complex concepts in a simple and structured way so that you can apply the principles consistently and reap the positive effects in your daily life. \nVenerable Sunam \nVenerable Sunam is passionate and joyful in everything she does and mixes “rock ’n’ roll” with a touch of German efficiency. She is a licensed veterinarian\, successful IT project/program manager\, and is working as a database specialist for multi-million dollar international projects. After decades of chasing her own happiness with egoism\, hazardous sports\, lots of work and not getting anywhere\, Ven. Sunam discovered Dharma in 2005 by reading the Diamond Cutter by Geshe Michael Roach. Ever since she has been studying\, teaching\, and translating ancient texts with joy and happiness\, transforming herself into a kinder person. \nVen. Sunam has studied all 18 ACI Courses and 11 DCI Seminars\, has attended nearly all LAM RIM Retreats and several Translator Terms. She is also a certified Sivananda yoga teacher since 2004. Ven. Sunam has done many retreats and has a wealth of experience in meditation and teaching. She successfully practiced the “Circle Day” for more than 10 years and has done lots of short retreats and a 3-month-retreat in our lineage. \nShe teaches with humor and lots of tips on how to apply the teachings in everyday life.
URL:https://dev.diamondmountain.org/event/chaotic-world-quiet-mind/
LOCATION:Diamond Mountain\, 3209 S Old Fort Bowie Rd.\, Bowie\, AZ\, AZ\, 85605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Events,ONLINE Courses
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SUMMARY:We'll Guide You Through a Meditation Retreat at Home (ONLINE ANYTIME)
DESCRIPTION:YouTube Playlist\n \nDo you have extra time on your hands\, have you always wanted to do a retreat? Grab the bull by the horns\, retreat at home!   We are offering a series of videos walking you through the steps on how to set up and do a retreat in your own home while you have the chance. \nNow is the time. Stop putting it off. \nNeed to catch up with your studies? Give yourself the time to let the teachings sink into your heart\, and wisdom will spread into your daily life and practice. \nHave you always wanted to do a solo retreat\, but haven’t had the time or courage to do your first one? We will guide you through your first home retreat. You will receive all the advice and instructions you need to do your first retreat at home. We will pass on the knowledge of the lineage and our own personal experience on how to do a retreat. \nWe know the ups and downs and can guide you through any difficulties. And you will be surprised by the many moments of bliss. \nContent: \n\nHow to set your motivation\nHow to prepare for retreat\nHow to do retreat\nRetreat schedule\nHow to eat during a retreat\nWhat to do and not to do during the retreat\nHow to stay balanced\nHow to retreat if you share your home with others\nAdvise on content and meditations\nHow to deal with lung*\nSpecial guest classes with Diamond Mountain Three Year Retreaters\nQ&A sessions\nOption to ask personal questions by email personalretreat@diamondmountain.org\n\nOpen to everybody who wants to learn how to do retreat. \nOffered by Diamond Mountain as a gift to you \nLanguage: English (If you need translation\, please let us know.) \nTeachers: \nVen. Gyelse: Practicing Buddhism for more than 20 years. She is Director of Diamond Mountain Retreat Center and has done countless retreats in our lineage\, including a 3-year-retreat at Diamond Mountain. She teaches with lots of compassion and is always willing to share her personal experience. \nVen. Sunam: Practicing Buddhism for 10 years. Successfully practiced the “Circle Day” for more than 10 years and has done lots of short retreats and a 3-month-retreat in our lineage. She teaches with humor and lots of tips on how to apply the teachings in everyday life. \nYouTube Playlist
URL:https://dev.diamondmountain.org/event/well-guide-you-through-a-meditation-retreat-at-home/
LOCATION:Diamond Mountain\, 3209 S Old Fort Bowie Rd.\, Bowie\, AZ\, AZ\, 85605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reshaping the Earth Summit
DESCRIPTION:Summit @ Online\n\nA series of talks with experts on how to reshape the earth and restore healthy habitat for all the animals has taken place in August 2023. \nCome learn about this amazing ecosystem and how to restore arid lands. Ecological restoration experts gave 45 minute lectures during the week long event on subjects such as water retention techniques\, soil regeneration\, green corridors and food forests. Check for recordings below \nProgram\nDr. Elise Gornish\, Cooperative Extension Specialist in Ecological Restoration at the University of Arizona.\nLet’s not reinvent the wheel: Using VERY old school strategies for cheap and easy restoration success!\nRecordings: English\, Pусский\, Español\, 中文\,  Slides \nDavid Seibert\, PhD\, of Seibert Ecological Restoration LLC\, on\nThe approach to restoring Bear Gulch.\nRecordings: English\, Pусский\, Español\, 中文\, Slides \nRudy Poe\, MLA Masters in landscape architecture\, PDC Permaculture designer with Geoff Lawton and the Sonoran Permaculture Guild on humans and nature working together.\nRecordings: English\, Pусский\, Español\, Slides \nPerin McNelis – the Native Plant Program Manager for Borderlands Restoration Network will present on\nstewarding native seeds in the Southwestern US.\nRecordings: English\, Pусский\, Español\, 中文\, Slides \nFrancesca Claverie\, Native Plant Program Director at Borderlands Restoration Network\, on\nnurturing native plant biodiversity in the Southwestern US.\n‍Recordings: English\, Pусский\, Español\, 中文\,Slides \nCharlie McIntosh\, Product Manager for Pacific Biochar Benefit Corp on\nan introduction to biochar; what it is\, how it is made\, and how it can be used as a tool for ecological restoration.\nRecordings: English\, Pусский\, Español\, Slides \nCaleb Weaver\, Community RestorationProgram Manager at Borderlands Restoration Network\, on\nhow humans can support wildlife at home.\nRecordings: English\, Pусский\, Español\, 中文\, Slides \nJoaquin Murrieta-Saldivar\, Conservation Director at Borderlands Restoration Network\, on\ncultural and spiritual relationships with water across the borderlands\nRecordings: English\, Pусский\, Español\, Slides\n \n\nResults of the SUMMIT by Caleb Weaver\nRecordings: English\, Pусский\, Español\, Slides
URL:https://dev.diamondmountain.org/event/reshaping-the-earth-summit/
LOCATION:Online Zoom
CATEGORIES:ONLINE Courses
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SUMMARY:MEET MEDICINE BUDDHA (ONLINE)
DESCRIPTION:Week 1:  September 6 & 7 \nWeek 2: September 13 & 14   \nWeek 3:  October 4 & 5 \nWeek 4: October 13 & 14 \n6-8am\, Arizona time\,
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SUMMARY:GRAND OPENING OF GOOD NAME STUPA
DESCRIPTION:STUPAS IN THE SILENT DESERT \nAt the next Medicine Buddha/Nagarjuna Retreat (October 20-29\, 2023\, at Diamond Mountain Retreat Center in Bowie\, Arizona)\, we are excited to announce that we will have the grand opening ceremony for the first of seven stupas planned for Diamond Mountain’s multi-year Marble Stupa Project! The stupa is named after the first Medicine Buddha\, Good Name. Its planning\, fundraising\, and construction of native Arizona marble took several years and was recently completed. During the upcoming retreat\, we will also open the Pilgrimage Path\, another exciting feature of the Marble Stupa Project that will connect the seven stupas\, planned to have vista-viewing benches and informational stations along the way once it is finished. \nThe Marble Stupa Project began in 2020\, when one of Diamond Mountain’s major donors decided to make their long-time dream a reality. Fundraising started\, marble was mined\, architects and construction crews were hired. Stupa construction began in 2022. \nThe stupas will be named after each of the seven Medicine Buddhas: 1) Good Name; 2) Jewel Moon; 3) Finest Gold; 4) Beyond Sadness; 5) Ocean Song; 6) Dharma Sea; and 7) Medicine Buddha himself. We expect the next stupa to be completed by the end of 2023. It will be stupa #7\, dedicated to Medicine Buddha. The third stupa is scheduled for 2024. Completion of the rest is dependent on successful fundraising. \nThe price tag for the project is $10.5 million. Each stupa costs about $1.5 million. Diamond Mountain has already raised $6.3 million\, leaving $4.2 million to go. The project director\, Venerable Sunam (who doubles as the Executive Director of Diamond Mountain Retreat Center)\, expects the remaining fundraising to take another three to four years. Stupa construction will proceed as fundraising continues. Four countries have each promised to build one (or more than one!) entire stupa: Taiwan has two\, Singapore\, Malaysia\, and Japan each have one\, and the remaining two are being funded by people all around the world. \nIt was Geshe Michael’s idea to use the beautiful marble that comes from the quarry right over the hill from where Good Name Stupa is located to build all the stupas. Marble\, he says\, has a good positive vibrational energy and is very suitable for meditation. So our neighbors at the Cochise Marble Company provided the stone. \nAnd how do you design a stupa\, anyhow? Ven. Sunam says nobody had any blueprints for such a thing! The architects\, Line and Space (lineandspace.com)\, used an old Tibetan book to get the outline and the spatial dimensions from old descriptions. Line and Space then created the actual design based on these descriptions. Our contractors\, Daniel Ward from D.O. Ward’s Custom Builders\, Inc.\, went to work on building once the marble was delivered (after it was mined and sent to Portugal for carving and shaping). \nThe results of all this work are exciting! We strongly urge you to attend the Medicine Buddha Retreat (click here for more information about the retreat) in person so you can gain the great benefit of attending this important ceremony. Stupas are magical buildings. The Good Name Stupa will confer the proven benefit of timeless wisdom on all who witness its unveiling. It provides a path of hope and healing for many things–not only health\, but relationships\, communication\, the environment\, and ailments of all kinds. The Medicine Buddhas made beautiful pledges to heal the world in many ways\, and this stupa embodies those promises. \n\nIf you can be present\, you will be one of the first of many pilgrims\, seekers who have likely been touched by trauma\, who will come to the stupa seeking healing. The Good Name Stupa is about healing both the place where it is located–a part of America where long ago much pain and harm came to native Americans\, the Apache people\, who live in the area–and all the people who visit it\, this October and for many years to come\, from around the world. All these people are seeking healing for the human pain and suffering they are experiencing–physically\, mentally\, in relationships\, from war\, and in many other ways. \nSo there is a very broad scope to the amazing benefits the Good Name Stupa offers. And what better place to find hope and healing than in the silence and quietude of the Arizona desert? \nDuring the Grand Opening Ceremony we will put a specially-made statue of Supari Kīrtita–that’s the Good Name Buddha in Sanskrit–in the stupa. \nHere is where the statue of Supari Kīrtita will be placed during the Grand Opening \nThis will make the stupa complete. There will be a ribbon-cutting for the Pilgrimage Path\, a beautiful winding walk that will eventually connect all seven stupas. We will reveal the donor wall\, honoring individuals who gave more than $5\,000 to the stupa project. We will joyously circumambulate our wonderful new stupa. And we will give attendees a piece of the marble from the stupa construction to take home. So you see there are many great reasons to make this trip! \nThis fall at Diamond Mountain\, you get to see a dream made real. It’s always a blessing to see a stupa\, which is the embodiment of emptiness\, the Buddha’s holy body\, and the teachings rolled into one. And to see the brand-new beginning of a stupa is extra special\, as you can imagine. The Good Name Stupa is intimately tied to the teachings we will be receiving simultaneously at the Medicine Buddha Retreat in the temple in the valley below every day. \nOne amazing secret about the stupa is that it contains a lot of Geshe Michael Roach’s translations–all his Medicine Buddha translations\, and the 36 Asian Classics Institute foundational and diamond way teachings\, comprising everything you need to know about Buddhism. These works are printed on special paper designed to last 500 years. Our intention is that loading the stupa with Geshe Michael’s translations will preserve and transmit the teachings for the next generation. As our dear friend Ven. Jigme points out\, many of the recent finds made by the Asian Legacy Library\, for example\, have been from desert stupas in Asia! So we hope the Diamond Mountain stupas will join a great ancient tradition and help carry the dharma far into the future. The Good Name Stupa also contains a special version of the Lotus Sutra and other books sent by friends and donors. \nFuture developments for the Diamond Mountain stupa site include historical markers and stations with information about the history of Diamond Mountain and its surrounding area; contemplation triggers to help meditation at the stupa and along the Pilgrimage Path; a guided walk; meditation places along with suggested meditations; and contemplation and vista-viewing benches. Please check Diamond Mountain’s stupa update site for a historical timeline: https://dev.diamondmountain.org/stupa-updates/ \nDiamond Mountain has invited Geshe Michael Roach to lead the ceremony\, the exact day and time of which is still to be determined.
URL:https://dev.diamondmountain.org/event/grand-opening-of-good-name-stupa/
LOCATION:Diamond Mountain\, 3209 S Old Fort Bowie Rd.\, Bowie\, AZ\, AZ\, 85605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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