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Schedule
Friday, March 7
7:30 p.m.
First teaching
Saturday, March 8
10 a.m.–noon
Second teaching
Sunday, March 9
10:30 a.m.
Dharma Talk
2–4 p.m.
Third teaching
Schedule
Friday, April 4
7:30 p.m.
First teaching
Saturday, April 5
10 a.m.–noon
Second teaching
Sunday, April 6
10:30 a.m.
Dharma Talk
2–4 p.m.
Third teaching
Note: These teachings, as
with all Dharma teachings,
are available to everyone
regardless of ability to
pay. Discounts, a limited
number of scholarships and
work/study programs are
available to those in need.
However, scholarship forms
must be submitted one week
prior to the start of the
teachings for review by our
scholarship committee.
Call the Rime Center at
816-471-7073 for details.
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Michele Cavin Lowrie
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Teachers from Many Traditions
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Four Immeasurables Weekend Retreat
B. Alan Wallace, March 7–9
This retreat will focus on
meditation, with teachings,
guided meditation and discussion.
Featured will be a sequence of
meditation practices designed to
cultivate the Four Immeasurables
– loving kindness, compassion,
empathetic joy and impartiality.
These practices will be followed by teachings on
tonglen and Bodhichitta.
For more information about Alan Wallace, see his
biography at www.alanwallace.org.
Fees:
Exploring the Dimensions of Self
and No-Self Weekend Retreat
Matthew Flickstein, April 4–6
Having a healthy self-image and knowing that
we create our own reality is essential for
our psychological well-being. At the same time,
knowing who we are beyond our own creations is
essential for our spiritual well-being.
This retreat will explore the dimensions of self
and no-self through meditation, contemplation,
dharma talks and discussion. It will be a journey
into the realm of time, space and emptiness.
For more information on Matthew Flickstein, see
his biography at www.forestway.org/teach.htm.
Drepung Gomang
Monks
May 15–24
Monks will create a sand mandala
at Union Station May 19-24,
2008. The concluding ceremony will
be on Saturday, May 24 at 2:00 p.m.
Performance of their program “Sacred
Music, Sacred Dance” will be at the
Rime Center on Saturday, May 17 at
7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 each and
available at the gift shop.
The monks are also available for
house and business blessings.
Residential Retreat (all teachings): $140 in
advance or $160 at the door, plus $25 per night
stay. Stay includes two meals per day (breakfast
and lunch). Retreatants are on their own for
dinner; there are many restaurants near the Rime
Center and the Rime kitchen is always available
for use.
Non-Residential Retreat (all teachings): $140
in advance or $160 at the door. No meals are
included.
Fees:
Residential Retreat (all
teachings): $120 in advance or $140 at the door,
plus $25 per night stay. Stay includes two meals
per day (breakfast and lunch). Retreatants are on
their own for dinner; there are many restaurants
near the Rime Center and the Rime kitchen is
always available for use.
Non-Residential Retreat (all teachings): $120
in advance or $140 at the door. No meals are
included.
Special Tuition
Requests
The Gesche with the
Drepung Gomang monks
left photos and bios of
children from Ladakh (in far
northwest India – an
all-Tibetan community).
Instead of asking for $30
per month sponsorship, he
is requesting sponsors who
will pay
these
children’s
school
tuition
of $300
per year,
paid $25 Tenzin Wangal
per month.
Stenzin Dorgee
Member Profile
Refugees in Need of Help
Many Tibetan refugees in India are
still looking for American sponsors.
Refugees who make it to India
have survived an incredible ordeal escaping
from Tibet over the Himalayas.
When they arrive in India they have few
if any job skills and they live in abject
poverty.
Tsering Lhakpa
Age 21
Tenzin Nyidon
Age 5
Name: Matthew Rice
Hometown: Homerville, Ga. After moving when I was
a small child, I still consider Georgia home.
Role at the Rime: I’m a board member and was the
Chair a few years ago. As a senior student, I help
facilitate classes. I have worked in the gift shop, have headed several
committees and I manage the Rime Center’s Myspace profile.
Day Job: I help manage a residential program for Mosaic, a non-profit
organization that works with people with developmental disabilities.
Hobbies: Music, movies and the Internet, especially Myspace. Most of
my time is spent with college classes and studying the Buddha dharma.
What led you to Buddhism? I was searching for a spiritual path and
wanted to find a non-Christian path. After searching online, I stumbled
onto the Four Noble Truths. They seemed to make sense and resonated
with me. I also like the fact that the Buddha wants you to test his
teachings to see if they work, rather than accept them with blind faith.
Something about you that most people don’t know: When I was
fourteen, my family joined the Society for Creative Anachronism – an
international organization dedicated to researching and recreating
the arts and skills of pre-17th century Europe. One of our big events
was the Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs. I performed with
others in the fighting demonstrations and had to make my own armor,
so I learned a lot about metalworking and leatherworking. I stopped
participating after high school, but my parents can still be found at the
blacksmith’s forge every year.
Karma Dolma
Age 19
Thupten Gakey
Nun, Age 19
You can help for as little as $30 per month.
This small amount can allow a Tibetan refugee
to have a roof over his/her head, food to
eat and even an education. Please consider
sponsoring a refugee – you can literally
save a life and you will have a friend for
life. For more information, please contact
Lama Chuck at lama108@aol.com.
Minyak
Lobsang Palden
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Nga Wang
Phuntsok
Passang Dolma
Lobsang Gelek
Monk, Age 8
Losar Celebration
Feb. 9, 5–7 p.m.
On the Tibetan calendar, the Year of the Male Earth Rat
begins Feb. 8. The Rime Center will hold a Losar
celebration Feb. 9.
The Rime’s Tibetan New Year celebration will begin at 5 p.m.
with a variety of activities including the traditional throwing of
the I-Ching, linked verse poetry, and the making of tsa tsa votive
tablets and
prayer flags.
At 6 p.m. Lion
Dancers from
Kansas City’s
Vietnamese
Buddhist
Temple will
perform, and
at 6:30 p.m.
there will be a
potluck dinner.
Be sure to bring a dish to share.
Damdul
Age 74
Pasang Ghuti
Age 17
Participants
created
prayer flags
at the last
Rime Center
Losar
Celebration