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DREPUNG LOSELING – Basic of Meditation
Affilate to Emory University & North American Seat of Drepung Monastery
Our Buddhist Studies and Practice program is designed to provide instruction and practical training at beginner’s, intermediate, and advanced levels. We offer a number of free, weekly opportunities to learn about meditation and Buddhism, as well as more formal taught courses. We are fortunate to have highly qualified teachers, most of whom come from and were educated at Drepung Loseling Monastery in India.
Newcomers are recommended to start with our monthly “Basics of Meditation” sessions, held on the first Sunday of each month, from 11:00am-12:00 noon. Other regular events include the Tuesday night Medicine Buddha practice (6:30-7:15pm) and public talk (7:30pm-9:00pm), and Sunday morning > shamatha meditation < practice (11:00am-Noon). We also have a monthly Guru Puja and Tsok. All these events are free of charge and open to everyone.
On top of our regular schedule, we offer a number of special courses, lectures, workshops, and empowerments. Please check our calendar for these, or subscribe to our email list to receive news and updates on events.
THE RADIANT LAURA SHAKTI
> Belly Dance and raqs sharqi <
> YOSAN University of Chinese Medicine <
Laura Shakti is a master teacher and performer with over 15 years of experience as a professional Middle Eastern Dancer. She has been the featured artist in numerous music videos, television appearances, and at Los Angeles’s finest Middle Eastern venues. Laura has appeared in concert with Alabina, Cheb Mami, Hakim, Amr Diab, Ahab Taysik, and Dina.
As a performing artist, Laura understands the importance of keeping energy flowing and healthy. She has used the healing arts of yoga and mind- body therapies to improve her own life as a dancer and teacher. Laura enhances the lives of her students and clients by bringing this experience and wisdom to all her offerings.
Laura is certified in several traditions of Healing Arts, including Swedish Massage Therapy, Jin Shin Do, Shiatsu, Pranic Healing, Reiki, and Sat Nam Rasayan Yogic Healing. Laura holds a Bachelors Degree from UCLA in Women’s Studies and Anthropology, then continued her studies in Healing Arts at the YOSAN University of Chinese Medicine. Her interest in Ayurveda and yoga led her to study Kundalini Yoga, the yoga of awareness, with Yogi Bhajan in Los Angeles. Laura is a fully certified Kundalini Yoga teacher.
Laura Shakti’s experience of practicing the Healing Arts in conjunction with the Performing Arts led her to a unique appreciation of Middle Eastern Dance, which she joyfully brings to her classes. She has conducted hundreds of Women’s Rites of Passage Ceremonies, helping women dance the divine feminine into their lives. Laura’s unique classes and workshops allow students to discover their own radiance and beauty while developing excellent technique.
SWAMI YOGA CAMPING
NATURE CAMPING
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ADVAITA ON ZEN AND TAO
> Advaita On Zen And Tao – Book <
Insights On Huang Po And Lao Tzu
We are at a unique moment in the evolution of spirituality. For centuries, sages of various traditions around the world have been expressing the Truth of non-duality; and their disciples have been faithfully preserving the teachings and passing them on. But it is only now, in this era of advances in mass communication, that it has become possible for a living sage of one tradition, to produce commentaries inspired by the mystical traditions of another.
Imagine if > Chuang Tzu < had written a commentary on the > ‘Bhagavad Gita’ < , or if the sage Jnaneshwar had produced reflections on the > ‘Heart Sutra’ < ! Within these pages a similar dream has been realised – commentaries on the teachings of the revered > Zen Master Huang Po <, and a modern ‘Book of the Way’ inspired by Lao Tzu’s ‘Tao Te Ching’, both written by Advaita Master Ramesh S. Balsekar.
The repetition of tradition cannot be termed as wrong, but when the teaching is embodied the teacher is at liberty to put it in his own words instead – because he is It.
Ramesh’s words bridge the apparent gap of centuries and geographical boundaries, revealing the hidden Truth behind the illusion of time and space: Advaita, Zen, and Tao.
Ramesh Balsekar, author of over 20 books, discusses the Indian philosophy of Advaita daily at his residence in Mumbai, with visitors from around the world. The basic concept is that “all there is, is Consciousness;” all actions are happenings, the functioning of the Primal Energy, and not the doing by anyone. He has a unique focus on what we all have to deal with in our daily living. His teaching has impacted the lives of many people.
AFRICA´s MEDICINE
THE HEALING METHODS OF AFRICA´s MEDICINE
The healing methods and medicine developed in Africa differs in many aspects from western medicine. Western medicine is technically and analytically based, while the traditional African medicine takes a holistic approach.
It is believed that good health, disease, success or misfortune are not chance occurrences but arise from the actions of individuals and ancestral spirits according to the balance or imbalance between the individual and the social environment.
Traditionally, every rural African community would have a traditional medical practitioner, to which they would go for advice on a number of issues, including health-problems. These traditional “doctors” have an invaluable botanical knowledge of plant species and their ecology and scarcity.
The community would rely upon this knowledge, as well as the spiritual and practical skills of the traditional healer, since they themselves were not allowed to gain this knowledge.
NOURISHING BOTANICALS: www.nourishingbotanicals.com
- is filled with the bounties of the earth and the simple things many take for granted.
- is open to working with like minded professionals and communities to help resolve health disparities that we face globally.
- calls you to live your life fully with plant medicine under the guidance of a professionally trained practioner to provide health support for healing and wellbeing.
- specializes in green conciousness: herbal medicine, nutrition, wellness counseling, education and workshops, as well as, custom tailored formulations from our growing apothecary.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN´s MEDICINE
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN´s MEDICINE
Hildegard of Bingen – a legendary healer, visionary, musician, artist, poet, and saint. Her works include seventy-seven symphonic compositions; Scivias, a compilation of her visions; and her two major medical works, Causae et Curae, the first christian medical compendium, and Physica – nine volumes on natural healing.
Hildegard‘s wisdom and healing art is not just a story for Germany or Europe, but since God is the creator of the entire universe, it relates to all of humanity. Therefore you will find here medicinal and nutritional informations in as many languages, as you can help me to translate. Please send translations to praxis@.st-hildegard.com
About Hildegard of Bingen’s Medicine
This ground-breaking contribution to medicine and healing contains translations of Hildegard text which reflect the high point of medieval, alchemical, and healing science. Commentary by the authors who have worked clinically with Hildegard’s wisdom for over thirty years includes information on ways to treat nervous disorders, indigestion, heart problems, and cancer.
About the Author(s) of Hildegard of Bingen’s Medicine
Dr. Gottfried Hertzka is a medical doctor in Germany, and author of the bestselling book on Hildegard medicine, So heilt Gott. He has worked clinically with Hildegard’s theories for thirty years. Dr. Wighard Strehlow was a research chemist in the pharmaceutical industry in West Germany, and now works with Dr. Hertzka in the Hildegard Practice at Konstanz, West Germany.
PROJECTS:
Plans for a New Foundation
Abbey of St. Hildegard owe the plan to found a new convent, which would revive the old religious house at Eibingen and also be a link to the one destroyed by the Swedes at Rupertsberg in 1632 (founded by Hildegard herself), to Bishop Peter Josef Blum of Limburg (1842-1883)
INFORMATION:
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http:// > www.regionalgeschichte.at <
INTERNATIONALER FRIEDENSLAUF
Mae Sot Peace Walk 2009
INTERNATIONALER FRIEDENSLAUF FÜR DIE WELT UND BURMA
“My life is for peace and justice nothing more.”
„Peace inside is Peace outside“
Ashin Sopaka wurde 1977 in Burma geboren. Als er 12 Jahre alt war wurden durch die Militärregierung alle Schulen geschlossen. Er wurde mit 13 Jahren Novize in dem buddhistischen Kloster KabarAye (Weltfrieden). Nach seiner Ausbildung begab er sich auf eine Wanderschaft durch Burma, Thailand, Singapur, Malaysia, Laos und Japan. Seit 2003 lebt Ashin Sopaka im Exil in Köln.
Alle Informationen über den Internationalen Friedenslauf für die Welt und Burma, und die schönen Friedensmeditationen seit dem Jahre 2006 nach Christus finden Sie im Peace March Archiv * hier *
Ausserdem gibt es auch noch in anderen Ländern auf dieser Erde auch die schöne und gesunde Gelegenheit für einen Friedensmarsch. Alle Informationen dazu gibt es auf der Homepage: www.theworldmarch.org
A bridge to the future: Welcome, to the international site of the first ever World March that will travel the world asking for the end of wars, the dismantling of nuclear weapons and for an end to all forms of violence.
Be one of the brave and help us to create a new, non-violent global consciousness!
Help monks & nuns Bat Nha Monastery
>>>>> Bat Nha is Now a Legend <<<<<
>> Help monks & nuns in Bat Nha Monastery <<
Monastery in tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh needs urgent help-please write to government leaders Monastery inhabited by disciples of Thich Nhat Hanh in Vietnam are being asked to leave by Sept. 2. The locals have used force in the past. Please help by writing letters.
Old Report from A University Dean May Shed Light on Bat Nha Situation:
Sightings 11/17/05, Religious Rights in Vietnam,– Alison L. Boden
I recently returned from a trip to Vietnam with a group of University of Chicago faculty and students to study first-hand the state of human rights there. Concerning religious rights and freedoms, our conversations with representatives from the government’s Department of Religion in Hanoi and with several religious communities were illuminating, as was a meeting with researchers at the Vietnamese Institute for Human Rights at the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy.
Both the U.S. Department of State and the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch have strongly criticized the Vietnamese government’s policies toward — and participation in — the internal workings of that country’s religious communities.
My visit convinced me that their concerns are indeed warranted.
MIND & LIFE, Meditation und Forschung
>> Educating World Citizens <<
>> Meditation verändert Gehirnströme im ORF <<
>> MIND & LIFE Institute, Vision & Purpose <<
Mind and Life XIX brings together world-renowned educators, scientists, and contemplatives, with the Dalai Lama presiding, to explore new avenues for science and educational practice related to the cultivation of these positive human qualities —mindful awareness, self-control, social responsibility and concern for the welfare of others –among children, youth, and the adults who educate them. This interdisciplinary dialogue will honor insights from various perspectives on this issue, including those from educational theory and practice, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and the wisdom of contemplative traditions.
Nutzen von Meditation: Neueste Forschung
Inhalt
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1. Meditation verändert Hirnfunktionen: Erfahrung & Forschung
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2. Moderne Methoden der Achtsamkeitsschulung
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3. Das Cultivating Emotional Balance, Challenging Times-Projekt
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4. Studien zur klassischen tibetischen Meditation
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5. Weiterführende Literatur und Links
1. Meditation verändert die Hirnfunktionen: Erfahrung und Forschung:
„Die Meditation verändert Körper und Geist“, behaupten diejenigen, die sie ausüben. In welcher Weise diese Veränderungen auftreten und welchen Nutzen sie für die Medizin haben könnten, ist mehr und mehr Forschungsthema.
Natya Mandir – Carnatica Brothers
Association for Classical Indian Dance
Die beiden Musiker K.N.Shashikran und P. Ganesh, die als „Carnatica Brothers“ in der indischen Musik bekannt sind, sind tatsächlich Cousins und entstammen einer hoch angesehenen, traditionellen indischen Musikerfamilie. Die beiden Künstler treten auch als Gesangduo auf.
Der erste Teil des Konzertes wird von P. Ganesh als Solist auf der Chitravina bestritten. Der zweite Konzertteil wird ein Vocal-Konzert des Sängers K.N. Sashikiran sein, der von der Chitravina begleitet wird. Beide Künstler werden von dem Mridangamspieler K. Murugaboopathi und dem Kanjiraspieler Herbert Lang begleitet.
Unter den außereuropäischen Musikkulturen nimmt die indische Musik eine Sonderstellung ein. Mit mehreren hundert technisch und namentlich verschiedenen Ragas bildet sie das größte modale Musiksystem der Welt. Kein geringerer als Olivier Messiaen hat daher im Vorwort zu seiner Kompositionslehre (Technique de mon langage musical) der indischen Tonkunst seinen Respekt gezollt und sie zu seinen Lehrmeistern gezählt.
Zeit: 2. Oktober 2009, 19.30 Uhr
Ort: Natya Mandir Studio, 1010 Wien, Börseplatz 3 , www.natyamandir.at
Eintritt: 15 € /12 € ermässigt
Anmeldung: Bitte um Anmeldung für einen Sesselplatz . Tel. 01/532 14 94 oder 0676 312 57 36, E-Mail: austro-indian@hotmail.com
Vayu Rahasya: The Secret of Vayu
Vayu Rahasya: The Secret of Vayu
Written by Dr. David Frawley,Sept. 2009
The magazine of > Sringeri Shankaracharya Math < , the oldest and most respected of the Shankara monastic centers in India, representing the great tradition of Advaita Vedanta. Dr. Frawley has written many articles for the magazine over the years and been closely connected to the Math.
Vayu, the Cosmic Power
Vayu is one of the key concepts of Vedic thought that has great importance in Yoga, Ayurveda and Vedanta. It has many profound implications both at a cosmic level and relative to our own individual lives. Indeed if one understands Vayu, one understands everything, including time, space and karma, life and death and one’s own deeper Self.
Vayu is usually regarded as the element of air at a material level. This is a good place to begin a study of Vayu, but only the beginning of many correspondences. In Vedic thought, Vayu includes the concept of space or Akasha. Space in motion is air, while air at rest is ether. These are the two sides of Vayu, which is the unity of air and ether. Ether is the field in which Vayu as a force operates.
Modern science recognizes that the universe consists of a fabric of space filled with various types of channels, currents or wormholes that are filled with dynamic interchanges. This is a picture of the cosmic Vayu, which is not only space but the energy within it both potential and actual. One could say that potential energy is space while activated space is air. The universe itself is Vayu in its ethereal vibration.
However, Vayu is much more than the material or even subtle elements. Vayu is the power through which everything comes into manifestation and into which everything eventually returns. Vayu is not just the material element of air and space but the cosmic principle of energy and space that pervades body, life, mind and consciousness. The entire manifest universe arises from space and energy which is Vayu at an outer level. At an inner level, Vayu stands for the formless principle of air and space, the invisible Spirit or Brahman behind the visible world of the earth, water and fire elements, the realm of name and form. The famous Shantipath of the Taittiriya Upanishad declares this:
Namaste Vayo, tvam eva pratyaksham Brahmasi.
`O, Vayu, you are the directly perceivable Brahman.‘
Vayu often symbolizes the supreme deity, the spirit that is formless in nature yet full of power like the wind or air. Vayu as the creative or causal power is the power of Ishvara or the Cosmic Lord. Yet Vayu as the receptacle of all power and the ground of all existence can symbolize the Supreme Brahman as well. Vayu can indicate both Saguna and Nirguna Brahman. Vayu thus often means Spirit, not just the air as an element but the presence of being and consciousness that exists everywhere but cannot be seen anywhere. We find this idea of Spirit or air in many spiritual traditions throughout the world, and in the very term `spiritual‘.
Geschichte des Ayurveda; Ursprung Ashtanga
>> Ayurveda a system of traditional Medicine <<
Was verstehen wir heutzutage unter Ayurveda ?
Betrachtet man den gegenwärtigen Gebrauch des Begriffes Ayurveda, so kann man vier Bedeutungen unterscheiden:
1. Äyurveda bezeichnet eine traditionelle gelehrte medizinische Wissenschaft im Indischen Kulturbereich. Auch heute noch wird Äyurveda gelegentlich im traditionellen Kontext gelernt. Eine solche Ausbildung erfolgt meist in engem persönlichen Kontakt zu einem Lehrer und ist eingebettet in eine umfassende traditionelle Bildung. Beispielsweise werden eine solide Kenntnis der klassischen grammatischen Wissenschaft des Sanskrit und der klassischen indischen Philosophie als Voraussetzungen für diese Art der traditionellen Ausbildung angesehen. Grundlage für diese Ausbildung sind die klassischen Texte der Äyurvedischen Wissenschaft, die in Sanskrit verfasst sind.
2. Äyurveda ist heute ein eigenständiges professionalisiertes Medizinsystem in Indien. Im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert hat der Äyurveda in Indien einen tiefgreifenden Wandel erfahren, der äußerlich dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, daß die Äyurvedische Ausbildung und Berufsausübung nach dem Vorbild der Biomedizin professionalisiert wurde. So wird Äyurveda heutzutage an Hochschulen gelehrt und nach einem fünfeinhalbjährigen Studium kann die Approbation als Äyurvedischer Arzt (B. A. M. S., d. h. „Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery“) erlangt werden. Zudem existieren auch eigene Äyurvedische Ärztekammern und Forschungsräte.
3. In Europa und Nordamerika ist in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten eine besondere Form des Äyurveda verbreitet worden, die man in Anlehnung an Kenneth G. Zysk (Zysk 2001) „New Age Ayurveda“ nennen kann. Diese Spielart des Äyurveda ist gekennzeichnet durch eine übermäßige Betonung von Spiritualität. Die klassische Äyurvedische Tradition hat im Gegensatz dazu die religiös-spirituellen Aspekte immer von der ayurvedischen Heilkunde unterschieden.
„Der klassische Äyurveda in Indien hat die medizinische Ausbildung des Äyurveda bewusst getrennt von der spirituellen und religiösen Disziplin der yogischen Askese.“
4Kenneth Zysk, Indologe (2001, p.24)
4. Ebenfalls in Europa und Nordamerika wird Äyurveda in den letzten Jahren oft in den Bereich von „wellness“, d. h. Maßnahmen zur Erhaltung und Steigerung von Wohlbefinden, eingeordnet. Dabei wird die heilkundliche und therapeutische Dimension des Äyurveda vollkommen außer Acht gelassen.
4 Quelle: Kenneth Zysk,Kenneth G.Zysk: Medicine in the Veda. Religious Healing in the Veda
EWAC – European World Ayurveda Congress
> EWAC – European Ayurveda Congress <
> EUAA – Ayurveda Association <
( Hier entsteht die neue Internet-Seite v. EuAA – Europ. Ayurv. Ass.)
Die > European Ayurveda Association (EUAA) < vertritt als europäische Dachorganisation die Interessen des Ayurveda aus 27 Ländern. Ziele und Aufgaben sind die Förderung des Ayurveda als ganzheitliches medizinisches System mit 5.000-jähriger Tradition, die Gestaltung einheitlicher Standards zur Ausbildung und Anerkennung durch die Gesundheitsbehörden, die Definition und Sicherung der Qualitätsstandards für ayurvedische Produkte europaweit.
Press Release European Ayurveda Association (EUAA) Nigel Hubbers – General Secretary – EUAA
On 10th and 11th October Baden-Baden Congress House in Germany will be host the largest and most significant Ayurvedic event ever to have been staged outside India.
The two day event in the intimate and up to date Conference and exhibition Centre is an invitation to all those who want to experience Ayurveda for the first time or those who want to learn and experience another aspect of this ancient system of Indian medicine to come and enjoy the European World Ayurveda Congress EWAC 2009 ….. Read the full information by: > Ayurveda-Portal <
DAVID HELFGOTT – SHINE ON
>> DAVID HELFGOTT & Biography <<
Veranstalterinformation: David Helfgott Tour 2009 *Shine on* David Helfgott begeistert sein Publikum und seine Musikerkollegen als Mensch und als Musiker.
David Helfgott Tour 2009 *Shine on*
Samstag, 24. Oktober 2009, 19:30 Uhr Mozart-Saal
- Frédéric Chopin: Walzer e-moll op. posth. BI 56, Walzer cis-moll op. 64/2, Scherzo Nr. 1 h-moll op. 20
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonate d-moll op. 31/2 «Der Sturm»
- Franz Liszt: Mephisto-Walzer Nr. 2 S 515, Dantes Sonett G-Dur S 479, Etude Des-Dur S 144/3 «Un sospiro / Waldesrauschen»
DAOISM – Traditional Meditation
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(FIVE CENTERS FACING HEAVEN)
> ITCCA International Tai Chi Chuan Association <
Tai Chi and Qi Gong schools Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherland, Switzerland, Finnland
taoist meditation means to be in the center of our spirit. Deep inside our consciousness far beyond the movements of our daily mind, which is full of thoughts and feelings is peace and calmness and happy contentment. The spirit can drown in itself.
concentration needs the crossed leg sitting position or the sitting on the heels. During that positions the energy centers of the sole of foot are very close to the dantien. The life energy will become stronger and the bloodcirculation in the belly will increase. Sitting on the ground increases the alertness and vitalises the whole human.
A good concentration needs a sitting form which is like a tight bow. By this the body helps to concentrate the mind.
After this internal posture of concentrated alertness like a tight spring, the relaxed floating in the meditation can happen. Here too the Yin and Yang principle is fullfilled. The Yang of the concentrated mind finds it fullfilment in the relaxation and widening of the spirit.
The focusing of the mind in one point requires a strong and healthy energy system with no fluctuations and disharmonies. Otherways it is not possible to keep on in the concentration. Concentration awakes psychic energies, which floating freely become a warm and lifely stream and expand the spirit.
We feel safe, snugged and intact, as a part of the whole. But when the energy channels are blocked and weak and cannot become a part of the concentration, we start to dream or to sleep.
the significance of Tai Chi for the meditation: Body and soul become calm and peaceful when we follow the slow and floating movements of Tai Chi. We breath deeply and constantly. The chi cleans the energy channels. They open and come into balance. Body and soul will be concentrated, listening to the stream of the floating chi.
If the alertness stays by the internal principles, the dantien, and the floating chi meditation happens and the absent mindedness within the stram of the life energy.
The same internal attitude will continue in the sitting position. The body which has calmed down during the the movements of the form is absolutely still now. But the breath and the floating of the chi stay in their interaction.
