Archive (Partial List):
Dhammapada Part II (On-Campus One-Day Retreat)Saturday, May 12, 2012, 10:30am-4:30pm Cultivating Patience (On-Campus One-Day Retreat)Saturday, March 3, 2012, 10am-4pm Retreat on Dhammapada(On-Campus One-Day Retreat) Field Trip to Leverett Peace StupaWake Up to Life(Mindfulness Seminar) Joyful Living(On-Campus One-Day Retreat: live webcast teachings with the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi) On-Campus Meditation Retreat: “Buddha Nature”Taught by the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Introduction to Zazen Thursday, September 2, 6pm-7pm A one time opportunity to learn about Zen Meditation from one of the bests. Rev. Ichigaku Nagira is the disciplinarian monk of Myoshinji Temple (Headquarters for Rinzai Zen) in Kyoto, Japan. He oversees the training of novices at Myoshinji and Hanazono (affiliated university). Open to: the general public Finding Peace and Happiness Within
Friday, September 3 at 7PM Prajnopaya is pleased to present one of its Spiritual Patrons, His Holiness Chhetsang Rinpoche the 37th Drikung Kyabgon, the co-head of the Drikung Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhism. He resides at JangChub Ling in Dehra Dun, Northern India. In 1985 Drikung Kyabgon founded the Drikung Kagyu Institute, an education center, which emphasizes both traditional monastic education and contemporary training. The Institute has started a research project collecting all the Drikung Kagyu texts and the latest project is a Computer Library, where documentation materials on the ways of living, philosophy and religious thought of the peoples of the Himalayas are to be centrally registered. There is also a meditation retreat center nearby. His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche was born in 1947 in Lhasa. In 1969, he was a student in Chinese schools and later worked in communes in Central Tibet. The latter became an invaluable experience for learning about the Tibetan spiritual and temporal condition in a changed society. One Day Retreat: Introduction to Mantra and Visualization Practices Saturday, August 28, 2010, 10:30am-4pm Sand Mandala Workshop Friday, May 7, 2010, 4:30pm-7pm Indian food will be served following the workshop. Retreat: The Foundation of All Good Qualities Saturday, April 17, 2010, 10:30am-4pm From Me to We: A New Look at Resilience and Well-Being A Talk by Daniel Siegel Friday, March 19, 7:30pm-9pm Dan Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative. An award-winning educator, Dan Siegel is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is a Co-Investigator at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development (cbd.ucla.edu) and is Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (marc.ucla.edu). with Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Saturday, February 27, 2010, 10:30am-4pm
Retreat: Parting from the Four Attachments, written by Drakpa Gyaltsen with Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Saturday, January 23, 2010, 10:30am-4pm Saturday, February 21, 2009 (10:30am-4pm) See the calendar for details. —————————————– Meditations on Dependent Origination October 3, 2009, 10:30am – 4:30pm The Attention Revolution A multimethod inquiry into meditation, cognition, emotion, and motivation Clifford Saron, Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California at Davis (http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu), and faculty member of the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, has taught Buddhist theory and meditation throughout Europe and America since 1976. Having devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. the Dalai Lama, he went on to earn an undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford. Cultivating Emotional Balance A two-day workshop with Alan Wallace Biosketch of B. Alan Wallace: B. Alan Wallace began his studies of Tibetan Buddhism in 1970 in Germany and was ordained as a Buddhist monk by H. H. the Dalai Lama in 1975. He has taught Buddhist meditation and philosophy worldwide since 1976 and has served as interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars and contemplatives, including the Dalai Lama. After earning his undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at from Amherst College in 1987, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in religious studies at Stanford University. He is now the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies.
________________________________________________________________ Contemplation and Education: A Talk by Father Thomas Keating Wednesday, March 22, 7 pm at MIT (Room 10-250) Father Thomas Keating OCSO: Father Keating is founder of the Centering Prayer Movement and Contemplative Outreach and former chair of the Monastic Inter-religious Dialogue. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Christian contemplative practice and one of the world’s most revered teachers of the contemplative and mystical dimensions of Christianity. At the age of eighty-one, he continues to be a prominent voice in the Christian Centering Prayer movement through the organization he founded, Contemplative Outreach is an international network committed to renewing the contemplative dimension of the Gospel in daily life. Father Keating was Superior of St. Benedict’s Monastery of Snowmass, Colorado, and the Abbot of St. Joseph’s Abbey of Spencer, Massachusetts. His books include, Open Mind, Open Heart, The Mystery of Christ, Invitation to Love, Intimacy with God, The Human Condition, The Better Part, and the Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit Part of the Mandala Project 2006: Aesthetics, Contemplation & Education ________________________________________________________________ The Ceaseless Society: A Talk by Jon Kabat-Zinn Tuesday, April 25 2006 at 5:30PM Simmons Hall (MIT) Click below to access the web-cast. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is founder and former executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founder and former director of the Stress Reduction Clinic, where mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) originated. He is the author of Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness; Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life; co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting; and author of Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria. His research since 1979 has focused on mind/body interactions for healing and on the clinical applications and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness meditation training for people with chronic pain and stress-related disorders, including a work-site study of the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the brain and how it processes emotions, particularly under stress, and on the immune system (in collaboration with Dr. Richard Davidson). He has trained groups of judges, business leaders, lawyers, Catholic priests, and Olympic athletes (the 1984 Olympic Men’s Rowing Team) in mindfulness, as well as directed multi-year programs in the inner city and in the Massachusetts state prison system. Part of the Mandala Project 2006: Aesthetics, Contemplation & Education ________________________________________________________________ MIT Past Retreat Topics: Click here to view archive of events. Partial List of Retreats and Events: Introduction to Mind Training Between Samsara and Nirvana Sadhana of 1000 Arm Avalokiteshvara Led by The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Introduction to Chenrezig
An Evening with Krishna Das Friday, January 13, 8 PM MIT’s Kresge Auditorium: Concert/kirtan.
Saturday, January 14, 1-4 PM MIT Chapel, Workshop with Krishna Das. January 14 Workshop with Krishna Das @ MIT is now sold out. For Insight, Awareness and Altruism  Please click here for more information and Live Web Cast of the Sand Mandala Simmons Hall, MIT April 2-9, 2005 Awakening Bliss, Generating Compassion Bodhicarya: Contemplation and Compassionate Action Listening to the Sound of Silence (Re)generating the Altruistic Mind
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