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Fresh Start Mondays “Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don’t interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.” Pema Chodron
Join us for our Spring 2010 cycle of Fresh Start Monday. We will practice mindfulness and awareness through the sitting meditation practice of shamatha, or peaceful abiding. Additionally, we will be building on the steadiness of mind we nurture in shamatha to support the compassion practice of tonglen, literally taking and sending. In tonglen practice we cultivate kindness toward ourselves and deepen our aspiration to be of help to others. Mondays from 7-8:30 pm All are welcome Free. Fresh Start Mondays will offer a schedule of topics as follows:
March 22 Sitting Meditation March 29 The Practice of Compassion April 5 The Four Stages of Tonglen April 12 Start Where You Are, Again and Again April 19 Getting to Know Fear April 26 “Be grateful to everyone” May 3 “Drive all blames into one” May 10 “Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment.” May 17 On the Spot Tonglen May 24 TBA Guiding personnel: Tom Adducci, Teacher A student of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Tom was one of the founding members of the Shambhala Meditation Center of Minneapolis and is an authorized teacher and meditation instructor in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. Tom lives in Minneapolis with his daughter and her dog and works as an independent human resources consultant. tadducci@recruitstream.com. Kimberley Lueck, Assistant Teacher/Coordinator Kimberley is a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche has been studying and practicing Shambhala Buddhadharma since 1995. She is an authorized meditation instructor and an ordained Shambhala buddhist minister. Her primary work is as tantric Buddhist housewife and mother of four.kalueck@comcast.net Mark Lueck, Gatekeeper and Greeter Mark Lueck has served in many roles at the Minneapolis Shambhala Center, including Center Co-Director. He currently serves as main teacher for the Shambhala Children’s program. He is an economist by day and family man 24/7. |
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