Natural Surrender in the Heart of Reality An Evening Sitting and a Weekend Intensive with Krishna Gauci and Vivian Coles Fayetteville, Arkansas June 7 - 10, 2007

Join us as we explore the startling miracle of how natural surrender—which begins with being honest with ourselves– can offer us what we’ve always really wanted deep inside.

The real Secret of Life is that you are not separate from it. All of our experiences, the good and the bad, can bring us into a direct felt experience of our connection to Being, to the Divine in and as ourselves and others.  Discover the flow that moves in natural cooperation with Reality, and invites our deeper trust in and surrender into Reality’s very Heart.

Krishna and Vivian facilitate this exploration and flow through talks, guided meditation, questions and answers, gazing transmission and silent sitting.
 

Friday June 8th, 7:00 pm
Satsang (A gathering for spiritual inspiration)
Everyone is welcome!
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, south annex
(Suggested donation $15, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds)

Saturday, June 9th 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday June 10th 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Natural Surrender: Embodying Paradox
A Weekend intensive with Krishna and Vivian
This weekend workshop is open to everyone
The weekend cost is $160
Single days may be attended for $100

Krishna is an experienced teacher with a strong background in Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism, and is a senior teacher in the Waking Down in Mutuality organization. He’s a gifted presenter, and a down to earth guy.  

Vivian Coles is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a teacher of the Waking Down in Mutuality process. She has a long time interest in women’s issues and spirituality. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she holds Waking Down Sittings as well as maintaining a private practice in psychotherapy.

Contact Leslie Oelsner to register for the weekend and for all inquiries: (479) 521-2395 or leslieo(at)cox.net

Monthly Meditation Day:
Investigating Your Own Mind
And Understanding How it Works
Saturday May 19, 9 am- 4 pm 
Unity of Fayetteville

Our ways of thinking are addictive. You will understand how your thinking is conditioned by your past and limits you in the future. Using both science and Buddhist trainings, we will look into the depths of our own minds. This will include applying the 5 Aggregates of Clinging to Human form and meditation techniques to experience more happiness.

Dawn Downey, a free lance writer, will share an essay about the universal spiritual journey. She embraces the little things in life to weave a humorous view of our human experience.

Retreat leader Ben Worth has been a spiritual guide in Kansas City for over ten years, and a spiritual seeker for more than twenty. His unique teaching combines Buddhist and Christian philosophy with the wisdom of science. He is dedicated to creating pragmatic techniques for healing our wounds, learning from our problems, and finding peace.

The day-long retreat requires no registration or fees. Attend either the morning or afternoon session (9:00 am to noon, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm) or both. There will be a silent potluck lunch. Donations will be received.

For more information, visit www.unityfay.org

The miracle is not walking on water
but walking mindfully upon the earth.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness Meditation Residential Retreat:
Focusing on our Inner Landscape

Sponsored by Unity of Fayetteville
June 6-9 with Ben Worth and Kate Guendling at country home of Mary Lightheart
Full retreat Wednesday night 6 pm through Saturday Dinner, $75
Mini retreat…Friday night and Saturday, $30

Ben Worth and Kate Guendling will lead this retreat to create openings for our spiritual nature to be felt and expressed in creative ways. We will use structured silence and rituals as the tools to explore our inner landscape and go beyond the senses. Age-old methods will be used to resolve issues and find answers not available to our analytical minds. This will be a sangha (community) experience as we support each other to go beyond our normal stress-filled world to a place of compassion, love, and peace. Mindfulness has a way of reducing our stress and allowing us to see things more clearly without having to think our way out of our messes. Regular practice of mindfulness will integrate our meditation with our everyday lives.

Retreat leader Ben Worth has been a spiritual guide in Kansas City for over ten years. He has pursued healing, wholeness and awakening for more than twenty years. Combining Buddhist and Christian philosophy with the wisdom of science sets Ben’s teachings apart. He is dedicated to creating simple and practical techniques for healing our wounds, learning from our problems, and finding peace.

Kate Guendling holds degrees in Communications and Religious Studies. She has completed the Association of Unity Church’s Personal Development program and is an applicant in Unity’s Licensed Teacher certification program. She is a Spiritual Life Coach and a Teacher. She blends the mystic teachings of Buddhism, Sufism, and esoteric Christianity into transformational rituals that move people beyond the physical and into their authentic inner Being.

Housing and all meals included. Donations will be received for Ben Worth at the retreat. Contact Ben at 816-210-3378 or email bmwabc1(at)yahoo.com for more information. Registration: call Unity of Fayetteville at 442-0680. Directions, information will be mailed to you.

For more information visit www.unityfay.org

Silent Day-long Meditation Practice
Sunday, May 27 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Wattle Hollow Retreat Center

On these Dharma Days, we practice Vipassana, (a form of Theravadan Buddhist meditation), alternating sitting and walking, throughout the day. The sitting periods are 30 - 40 minutes, generally, and walking periods are 30 minutes.

Dharma Day includes complete meditation instructions, a cupful of Buddhist philosophy (dharma talk), and a question and answer period. Beginners are welcome, along with our usual sangha.

Lunch is potluck - Wattle Hollow provides brown rice and peppermint tea.

No charge for Dharma Day. All are welcome, but pre-registration is appreciated.
 
For more information, visit www.wattlehollow.com

Tibetan monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery are touring the U.S. to share the compassion and wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism. The purpose of the tour is to generate funds to insure the survival of this culture-in-exile. These funds will be directly utilized by the monks of the Drepung Gomang Monastery. They will be used to house, feed and educate everyone wishing to study at this monastic center of higher learning including orphans and refugees fleeing Chinese occupied Tibet. We are so fortunate to have the monks from the Drepung Gomang monastery return to the Rime Center and we have a number of events planned for them listed below.

Schedule of Activities - Kansas City

May 21 - 26 (daily 9 - 5) Creation of Chenrezig Sand Mandala at Union Station.

Friday, May 25 at 7:30 p.m. Performance of “Sacred Music/Sacred Dance) at Rime Buddhist Center. Tickets are $15 adult; $10 children under age of 12.

Saturday, May 26 at 2:00 Closing Cermonies at Union Station

Saturday, May 26 at 7:30 pm “Tibetan Culture Evening With The Monks” Designed for families and children. Activities include, learning butter sculpture, and sand mandala from the monks. Prayer flag printing, and Tsa Tsa making. And a special class to learn how to make Tibetan “mo mos” a Tibetan dumbling. Cost: Suggested donation to the monks of $15 per person and $5 per child.

For more information, visit http://www.rimecenter.org/

Wangdor Rinpoche To Give Dzogchen Teaching During Retreat June 1 - 3, 2007

Wangdor Rinpoche will visit the Rime Buddhist Center in Kansas City, Missouri from June 1 - 3. He is a Tibetan monk and lama who is respected worldwide as a venerable teacher and a master of the “direct mind perception” or Dzogchen meditation. He has spent more than 30 years meditating in caves first used by the Tibetan saint, Padmasambhava, above the Lotus Lake (Tso Pema) in Northern India. He has taught and given empowerments in Asia, Europe, and the United States over the past two decades. Wangdor Rinpoche holds both Nyingma and Kagyu Dzogchen/Chagchen lineages and is considered a Rime teacher

Dzogchen means the great perfection in Tibetan and is the consummate practice of Tibetan Buddhism. it is considered to be the “teaching of our time” because it is direct, immediate and profound. It is a teaching that allows a person to discover their true human nature and transcends the existence conditioned by any cultural, historical and/or social context.

Rinpoche will be accompanied by Lama Lena, who will lead meditation sessions before and after the Dzogchen teachings.

Schedule and Fees

Friday, June 1
7:30 pm Introductory talk

Saturday, June 2
10 am - Noon 1 1/2 hour Dzogchen teaching by Wangdor Rinpoche; followed by 1/2 hour group meditation session supervised by Lama Lena.
3-5 pm 1/2 hour meditation supervised by Lama Lena followed by 1 1/2 hour Dzogchen teaching by Wangdor Rinpoche.

Sunday, June 3
11:30 am - Dharma talk by Wangdor Rinpoche.
2 - 4 pm 1/2 hour meditation supervised by Lama Lena followed by 1 1/2 hour Dzogchen teaching by Wangdor Rinpoche.

Residential Retreat (all teachings) $120 in advance or $140 at the door plus $25 per each night’s stay. Stay includes two meals per day.

Non-residential Retreat (all teachings) $120 in advance or $140 at the door. No meals are includes.

For more information, visit www.rimecenter.org.

Wattle Hollow Retreat Center hosts a weekend retreat, Unveiling Lovingkindness, with Amita Schmidt, June 16 - 17, 2007.

Through stillness and awareness, lovingkindness is possible for everyone.  Each of us has an inherent stillness and love which can be accessed at any time.  In this retreat we will discover how we resist love, how we choose love, and how we embody love.  This will be a silent retreat, with daily teachings on lovingkindness.

Amita Schmidt was the resident teacher at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA from 2000 to 2006. She is the author of “Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master “(BlueBridge, May 2005) and a contributor to “Buddha Laughing: A Tricycle Book of  Cartoons.”  Amita has been practicing Vipassana for 21 years.  She currently combines mindfulness and open awareness practices in her teachings.

Fee for weekend: $60 - will cover food and lodging. Dana (donation) is traditionally offered to the teacher at the end of the retreat.

For more information, visit WattleHollow.com