MINDSPACE: GESHE LA & RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

March 01, 2008

GESHE LA & RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

For those of you who missed the wonderful piece that Christie Storm wrote in The Democrat Gazette last Sunday (27 February 2008), you can have a look at it here. Thanks to Christie--she does remarkable work covering religion and spirituality in our state, and she and her paper have been extraordinarily generous to Geshe la, Rinzin, and the Tibetan Cultural Institute.

Also on a distantly related topic . . . I stumbled on the following site through a newsletter I received. It's a very brief and helpful discussion, particularly for beginners, of the proper leg positions in seated meditation.

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Who We Are, What We Do, and Where We Do It

We are a diverse group of individuals of all ages from all backgrounds who simply have an interest in what Geshe Dorjee and Rinzin Dorjee have to teach us. We meet every Sunday at Dramis Hardwood Floors (see directions below) at 11:00 a.m. for meditation, instruction, and discussion. Typically, we are finished betweeen 12:30 and 1:00 p.m. Some of us are Buddhists, some of us are not, and all are welcome. You may bring a cushion if you have one, but we provide cushions for those who do not.

May 2008

What We're Reading

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The Dalai Lama: The Meaning of Life
The book that we're currently reading (having begun January 2008), THE MEANING OF LIFE, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, addresses the 12 links of dependent origination and other issues.
Ven Lobsang Gyatso: The Four Noble Truths
The first book we read together, and a detailed--at times, overly detailed--treatment of the founding platform of all Buddhist philosophy and practice.
The Dalai Lama: Stages of Meditation
The book we finished, January 2008. It's actually the second part of a three-part work by Kamalashila, an Indian monk and scholar from the 8th century. The Dalai Lama has supplied copious commentary to Kamalashila's translated text.