The Two Truths and Inter-Subjectivity
Sunday February 5th - 1:00pm
An Open Teaching with Kimberley Theresa
A Sarva Yoga Academy Public Event
Suggested Donation $20
Please arrive by 12:45 - space is limited

ACI III: Applied Meditation, Thursdays 7:30 - 9:30pm, Begins Feb 2, 2012

Asian Classics Institute Course 3: Applied Meditation

Your mind filters & interprets every experience, literally creating your very reality from birth to death. Find the source of your world. Learn to Meditate.

This Course is a must for anyone who wishes to practice meditation effectively. Topics include: the different types of meditation, best conditions for meditation, parts of a meditation, preliminaries, posture, objects to focus the mind upon, the 5 problems, 8 corrections, and 9 states leading to the attainment of deep meditative concentration. Based on The Stages of Meditation (Bhavana Krama) by Master Kamalashila (750 AD), and presentations by Je Tsongkapa and Pabongka Rinpoche.

Hector Marcel is a Change management consultant helping executives drive transformational change in their organizations through an emphasis on culture, people and service. He applies ancient Buddhist teachings to his consulting work around the globe. Hector has been a student of Geshe Michael Roach & Tibetan Buddhist philosophy since 1995.

Friday November 27th
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Taught by Venerable Nyingpo
at The Three Jewels

Clear Thinking is the art of figuring out logically how to get what we want. There are techniques that you can learn to prove to yourself how you can effectively bring about the results you're after guaranteed, every time.

To learn these techniques we're going to use a book by Kedrup Je, one of the main disciples of Je Tsongkapa. He wrote a wonderful book on logic called Clearing the Darkness from Your Mind. So that's what we're going to do: clear away our misconceptions so we can think clearly and make choices that will bring us everything we can dream of and more.

The Three Jewels presents
Surrendering Ourselves to find Ourselves
Secrets of the Ancient Tibetan Practice of Chod, Part II
with Geshe Michael Roach

January 28-29 2-4pm
at Asher Levy School
185 1st Avenue @ 11th Street
Suggested donation $30.00 for one day/$50 for two days
to benefit The Three Jewels New York City
Rsvp today: threejewels.nyc@gmail.com

The Three Jewels Open House &
Beatles Tribute Concert

Join musicians, students of Buddhism and folks who just wanna have a good time for The Three Jewels Open House Beatles Night! - a live performance of classic Beatles tunes you know and love hosted by the Yoga and Dharma center you know and love. Performance by Stephen Toriello~Drums/Vocals, Adam Bernstein~Bass/Vocals, Ben Cohen~Guitar, Ian Christenson~Tenor Sax +extra special guests brought together by Three Jewels community member and student of Venerable Lobsang Chunzom, Stephen Toriello.

There will be Indian food, homemade desserts, and other treats.

Practical Info:
Saturday, December 3rd, at 6:30 PM.
At The Three Jewels

$10.00 Suggested Donation.
All proceeds from this concert go to Venerable Lobsang Chunzom's 3-year retreat.

Saturday November 12th

5:30pm to 7:30pm
At The Three Jewels

Eliminate Anger From Your World

Anger Workshop- Yoga

Ahimsa

Journey through a hoopla of hip targeting yogic postures infused with pranayama, psychology, mantra, visualizations, and eastern philosophy thereby cleansing your world of unwanted anger and violence.

RSVP: yoga3js@yahoo.com

$20/ $10 each with a friend

Lead by Stefan Drayton Certified Yoga Teacher and student of Venerable Lobsang Chunzom

The 108 Lives Project Auction Event

Wednesday November 9th 7:00pm to 11:00pm

Please join us in our efforts to spread the word,
raise awareness, fund raise, assist with travel,
and fill the world with the realization that if you
put your mind to it you too can help make
this a better place for all who we share it with.

For information, or to get involved
Go to 108lives.org, E-mail the108livesproject@gmail.com
or
Stop by the Three Jewels NYC, take a class, and ASK!

http://www.108lives.org

Gurus, Gods, Gravity • Saturday, October 15, 7pm

• How to find your Lama
• The importance of having a Lama
• What to do once you find one and how to stay close

Join Rebecca Vinacour for a workshop on how to find, serve and keep a Lama. Rebecca has a been a close student of Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally since 1998, she was one of their three main attendants during the 7-year program at Diamond Mountain University. A graduate of NYU's theater department, she has studied at monasteries in India and Nepal, and serves on the board of ACI Phoenix.

Class is free, though donations will be gratefully accepted.

To register or for questions, please email: ilovemylama@yahoo.com

Unlocking the Extraordinary: The Yoga of Everyday Life • Oct 1 & 3, 7 - 9pm

A Lady Lamas Series, For Women by Women

Nancy Allen, Jennifer MacFarlane, Sherry Tenant, Suzanne Wise, Roisin Brennan, Mirian Parker

Discover how to use Buddhist wisdom to abandon old habits, dissolve ordinary views, and cut at the very root of what's holding you back. Rooted in Master Shantideva's poetic and profound Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, we'll explore simple practices to transform ordinary life into something magical.

RSVP: evewsmith@gmail.com

All donations benefit the Three Year Retreat for Peace

Mahamudra: The Six Flavors of Emptiness • September 24 & 25, 2 - 4pm

Please join Michale Hewett for two afternoons, exploring and deconstructing how unexamined beliefs in permanence, ownership, accidents, labels, essences, and nihilism force us to experience inner and outer suffering. Through experiencing the ultimate/stainless nature of our own minds, suffering can ultimately be stopped.

ACI IX: Ethics with John Stilwell, Tuesdays 7-9pm, beginning Sept 20

Why do ethics matter? What's the point in taking vows; what are they, what do they do? Why do all spiritual traditions emphasize ethics? This course explains the role of Buddhist ethics in achieving enlightenment—why living an ethical life is the secret key to deep meditation, experiencing ultimate reality, and paradise. Every happiness and success stems from ethical living, and we explore methods to train in ethics, keep vows from being damaged, and clean past negativity.

One day vows, lifetime lay vows, freedom vows, along with the three trainings and an outline of novice, intermediate, and fully ordained monastic vows are included based upon the Sutra on Vowed Morality (Vinaya Sutra) by Master Gunaprabha (500 AD), with a commentary from The Essence of the Ocean of Vinaya (Dulwa Gyatsoy Nyingpo) by Je Tsongkapa (1357-1419).

John Stilwell is a former director of the Asian Classics Institute (ACI), Godstow Retreat Center, and was General Manger of Land of Medicine Buddha. He is an executive and father who began teaching yoga 20 years ago, and has taught Buddhist sutra and tantra in the tradition of Je Tsongkapa for 15 years with a contemporary perspective highly relevant to daily life. John received transmission of the 18 Courses from Arya Sumati Dharmadhara, Geshe Michael Roach.