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• Special Green Tara Ritual

  • When
    11 Nov 2024
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    10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC and via Zoom

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  SPECIAL GREEN TARA RITUAL

  Monday, Nov 11, 10am-12pm, 1:30-3pm, In-Person or via Zoom

  Please meditate with us during this meaningful Green Tara Ritual for releasing obstacles and for building compassion in our world. Our Geshes offer this prayer as preparation for the 2024 Festival of Faiths.

  Register for the Zoom Link.

  Register for Festival of Faiths: Sacred Imagining, Nov 13 -16: https://festivaloffaiths.org/

  
  

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• Meditation 101 with Suhas Kulkarni

  • Start
    12 Nov 2024
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    7:30 AM
  • End
    26 Nov 2024
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    8:15 AM
  • Location
    DGCEC Zoom Platform

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  with Suhas Kulkarni

  3 Tuesdays, Nov 12 - 26, 7:30am - 8:15am, via Zoom

  Start your day well with a guided meditation with long-time practitioner, Suhas Kulkarni. He will explore some meditation techniques in these early morning gatherings, respond to questions, and guide the practice.   

  This class is suitable for beginners or a refresher for people who practice meditation. 

  Sliding Scale: $30, $35, $40 – please pay what you are able.

  Register HERE, at DrepungGomangUSA.org or call 502-614-5616.

  Some partial scholarships may be available: DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com. 

  Suhas Kulkarni is a lay practitioner of insight meditation. He is an ardent student of science and contemplative practices and will explore concepts in the context of the two traditions and science with the aim of deepening one’s practice. Suhas has lived in Louisville for 32 years with his family and participates in several non-profit activities.

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• Gladdening the Heart with Forgiveness

  • When
    21 Nov 2024
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC

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  with Jenny Bell

  Thursday, November 21, 6:00 – 8:00pm 

  In-Person at DGCEC

  Join Jenny for this compelling workshop on the Science of Forgiveness.  Learn how to become a forgiving person through practical and proven methods.

  Based on the forgiveness techniques for healing found in the groundbreaking research of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, learn and discuss what forgiveness is – and what it is not. Explore grievances, rules, wishes, hopes, letting go of hurts, and how to stop feeling like a victim.

  Forgive for Your Own Goodness Sake is framed with mindful self compassion and trauma sensitive mindfulness.  Together we will delve into the book and work of Dr. Fred Luskin and Forgive for Good.  Come learn this proven prescription for health and happiness ~ and forgive for good!

  Cost on a sliding scale – please pay what you are able:  $22, $33 or $44. Register HERE or call 502-614-5616. Some partial scholarships available: DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com.

  Jenny Bell is a poet, aspiring heart healer and earth artist. She is a Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness instructor offering classes and retreats throughout our community. Her offerings are born where spirituality + creativity intersect. She is a compassionist by heart ~ a stone mason by trade.  Most days you will find her in the wilderness creating nature mandalas.

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• Vajrasattva Practice and Meditation Mini-Retreat

  • When
    30 Nov 2024
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    10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC or via Zoom

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  with Geshe Kalsang Rapgyal

  Saturday, November 30, 10:00am – 3:00pm, In-Person or via Zoom

  Vajrasattva is the Buddha of Purification. In conjunction with our ritual practice booklet, this one-day retreat will provide us the opportunity to purify whatever karmic negativities that we have accumulated in the past. This practice of recitation and visualization will also help us to overcome our present suffering, remove causes of our future suffering as well as the obstacles to our meditation and spiritual practice.
  

  The retreat is spread over four sessions, with breaks for tea or lunch between them.  In each session Geshe Rapgyal will offer a teaching, lead a visualization practice and meditation.  This is a wonderful practice offered within the month of Saka Dawa.

  Cost:  The $40, $50, or $60 fee helps cover the costs of running a dharma center as well as providing a delicious, vegetarian lunch.

  Please contact us for a partial scholarship at DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com.

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• May I Be Free: A Mindful Self Compassion Series

  • Start
    05 Dec 2024
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    6:00 PM
  • End
    19 Dec 2024
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    7:30 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC

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  with Jenny Bell

  3 Thursdays, December 5, 12, 19, 6:00 - 7:30pm, In-Person

  Mindfulness and Compassion are two wings of the same bird which make it possible for the bird to soar! Join Jenny for this powerful and empowering three-session class – a map for your return to self, a journey of reparenting and self-mentoring.

  Learn the embodied practice of acknowledging your own suffering and offering yourself what you might need. Learn the antidotes to over-identifying with emotions and self-judgment. Learn this art of self-kindness and become a friend to yourself when you suffer!

  Adopting a Mindful Self Compassion practice can be life changing as it cultivates resilience, self-trust, healthy boundaries, personal growth and immense healing – and you will see the benefits for yourself and all relationships around you.

  Experience with meditation required.

  Cost on a sliding scale – please pay what you are able:  $75, $90 or $105. Register HERE or call 502-614-5616. Some partial scholarships available: DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com.
  

  Jenny Bell is a poet, aspiring heart healer and earth artist. She is a Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness instructor offering classes and retreats throughout our community. Her offerings are born where spirituality + creativity intersect. She is a compassionist by heart  ~ a stone mason by trade.  Most days you will find her in the wilderness creating nature mandalas.

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• Explore Crown of Light - Intergenerational Book Discussion

  • Start
    07 Dec 2024
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    1:00 PM
  • End
    21 Dec 2024
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    2:30 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC Zoom

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  Intergenerational Book Discussion of the award-winning novel Crown of Light by Rivera Sun

  Co-Facilitated by Anne Walter and Amelia Erler* 

  3 Saturdays, December 7, 14 and 21, 1:00 – 2:30pm Eastern Time, via Zoom

  Please register now for an inspiring exploration of this book and its message of finding ways to build peace! Registration is intergenerational, open to students in Middle and High School and Adults.

  About Crown of Light (Book 4 of the Ari Ara Series): 

  In the jagged peaks of the Border Mountains, Ari Ara revives the ancient legend of the Peace Force, gathering friends and strangers to stop violence and prevent war. With the Way Between guiding their footsteps, they set out to wage peace. Before long, a rising threat makes them take drastic action. Mysterious raiders are attacking villages, burning homes and terrifying families. Fingers point to the secretive Paika. For centuries, their clans have survived by double-crossing and backstabbing everyone else. But when young Finn Paikason is caught spying on the Peace Force, he swears the raiders are imposters. Ari Ara wants to believe him, but can she trust him? She can’t be certain – especially since this boy with storm-tossed eyes might be stealing her heart. Tracking lost cattle across borders, stopping blood feuds with hermits, thwarting bandit ambushes, Ari Ara and her friends seek the truth amidst a web of lies. Old enemies come back to haunt them. Friendships are strained to breaking. Tensions heighten between the two nations. When the Lost Heir is taken hostage, the Peace Force races to solve the mystery before the sparks of violence erupt into a raging inferno of war. Your heart will race along with the heroine’s in this exciting tale of waging peace.

  Register at DrepungGomangUSA.org or call 502-614-5616. Fee on a sliding scale: $20, $35, $50.

  Please let us know your grade level or if you are a life-long learner.

  Desert Song is available at https://riverasun.com/or in DGCEC’s Tibetan Marketplace.

  Meet the Facilitating Team*

  - Anne Walter has been a seeker on the path of compassion and nonviolence for over 40 years. She is deeply inspired by the wisdom imparted through stories like Rivera’s, as well as being the Director of Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion in Louisville.

  - Amelia Erler, co-facilitator, is 17 and is in the 11^th grade in Germany. After living in several countries, Amelia has learned to find strength in the world’s differences. She is an avid supporter for equality, equity and nonviolence.

  Author/Activist Rivera Sun has written numerous books and novels including the award-winning Ari Ara Series: The Way Between, The Lost Heir, Desert Sun and more. She is the Editor of Nonviolence News and a nationwide trainer in strategy for nonviolent change. Rivera is an organizer with Campaign Nonviolence, serves on the advisory board of the World BEYOND War, and is on the board of Backbone Campaign.

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• Sharon Salzberg -The Force of Kindness

  • Start
    13 Dec 2024
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    6:30 PM
  • End
    14 Dec 2024
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    5:00 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC's Zoom Platform

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  Online, Hosted by DGCEC, Eastern Time

  Friday, December 13 and Saturday, December 14, 2024

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama has stated, "My true religion is kindness." Although frequently denigrated in our culture as simplistic and weak, the quality of kindness has an inherent power to transform our worldview from one of fear and isolation to one rooted in clarity, courage and compassion in action. 

  Kindness is the fuel that helps us truly “walk our talk” of love. Many of us yearn for something we can turn to regardless of what life throws at us, a guiding force to pull all the disparate pieces of our lives together into a whole that enables us to be strong. 

  Through talks, guided meditations and question and answer sessions, Sharon Salzberg helps us reclaim kindness as the superpower it truly is.

  Suitable for both beginning and more experienced meditators. We will practice meditation together, have discussions, Q and A sessions and talks.

  Three Sessions, Eastern Time

  Friday, Dec 13, 6:30 - 8:30pm

  Saturday, Dec 14, 10am - 12:30pm

  Saturday, Dec 14, 3:00 – 5:00pm

  Cost on a Sliding Scale - please pay what you are able: $35, $60, $85 or Sponsor: $250. Register at DrepungGomangUSA.org or 502-614-5616.

  Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is among the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture nearly 50 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of fifteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Most recently Sharon released Real Life and Finding Your Way. Sharon’s podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed six million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond. www.sharonsalzberg.com.

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