Volume 5, Issue 5 May 2015 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Daily Sits 4 New Classes 3 New Sit A sit has been added on Friday morning with Nick from 6:30-7:15 AM. TCMC Volunteer Needs Volunteers keep TCMC running effectively, and allow us to provide meditation, classes, retreats, and the library. Our current volunteer needs are listed here. You can earn volunteer vouchers for volunteer service that can be used to pay for any TCMC sponsored event. May 8 – 10 Recollective Awareness Meditation Why Recollect? A Non-residential Weekend Retreat With Linda Modaro Friday: 6:30-8:30 p.m. – Introduction to topic Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. We are pleased to welcome visiting teacher Linda Modaro for a weekend non- residential teaching retreat. She will be presenting a relatively new and unique meditation technique called Recollective Awareness as developed by Jason Siff (author of Thoughts are Not the Enemy). It is a gentle and open approach to meditation that is perfect for those that tend to over strive or anyone interested in bringing more awareness and compassion to their inner world. Adding in the use of memory to your meditation practice allows you to cultivate awareness of the dynamic, dependently arisen nature of your meditative experience. "Sati", the Pali word for mindfulness, can be translated in two different ways. One is as "wakefulness of mind or mindfulness," while the other is "calling back to mind, recollection, memory," which is its original meaning. Present-moment awareness techniques are a direct approach to achieving the aim of being in the present. For More Information and Registration Yard Clean-Up Day Sunday May 10 5 PM Please consider volunteering. You will earn volunteer vouchers for your participation. More info We are pleased to announce our new and improved website at tucsonmeditation.org. Please check it out
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Volume 5, Issue 5
May 2015
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :
Daily Sits 4
New Classes 3
New Sit A sit has been added on Friday morning with Nick from 6:30-7:15 AM.
TCMC Volunteer Needs
Volunteers keep TCMC running effectively, and allow us to provide
meditation, classes, retreats, and the library. Our current volunteer needs
are listed here. You can earn volunteer vouchers for volunteer service that
can be used to pay for any TCMC sponsored event.
May 8 – 10
Recollective Awareness Meditation
Why Recollect? A Non-residential Weekend Retreat With Linda Modaro Friday: 6:30-8:30 p.m. – Introduction to topic
Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
We are pleased to welcome visiting teacher Linda Modaro for a weekend non-residential teaching retreat. She will be presenting a relatively new and unique meditation technique called Recollective Awareness as developed by Jason Siff (author of Thoughts are Not the Enemy). It is a gentle and open approach to meditation that is perfect for those that tend to over strive or anyone interested in bringing more awareness and compassion to their inner world. Adding in the use of memory to your meditation practice allows you to cultivate awareness of the dynamic, dependently arisen nature of your meditative experience. "Sati", the Pali word for mindfulness, can be translated in two different ways. One is as "wakefulness of mind or mindfulness," while the other is "calling back to mind, recollection, memory," which is its original meaning. Present-moment awareness techniques are a direct approach to achieving the aim of being in the present.
Developing Tranquility, Insight and Happiness Through Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life
-- taught by Dharma Treasure Teachers René, Nick, Blake, Upasika Mahamudita (Tesa), and occasionally Upasaka Culadasa
Thursday Evenings ---- 6:30 - 7:30
In this class you will learn meditation techniques to unify the mind and improve your mindfulness. You will also learn a great deal about the mental patterns that cause you dissatisfaction and distress and strategies to increase mindfulness in your daily life. This leads to more ease and happiness and ultimately creates insights into the true nature of reality.
Each class will consist of a 30 to 40 minute guided meditation, a short talk about meditation or mindfulness, and an opportunity for questions and discussion.
When? 6:30 - 7:30 - *Please Note the New Schedule
Advanced registration is not required. Complete class information
Essential Teachings of Insight Meditation
May 26- June 30
Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30pm with
Community Dharma Leader, Lhasha Tizer
For those who wish to understand Mindfulness in the larger context of the Buddha's teachings, these classes in Insight Meditation will introduce the Three Trainings, the Four Noble Truths, and Loving Kindness practice. Classes build on one another. This series is suitable for those new to practice as well as those who already have an established Mindfulness practice.
Each class will offer meditation instruction, talks, contemplative inquiry and Q&A.
May 26– The Three Trainings, June 2 – Purpose of meditation,
Meditation practice, Ethics Obstacles to meditation, meditation instructions
Complete schedule of classes and registration information
Wednesday Sit: Each month, we will work with a different sense gate or a combination of sense gates,
in motion or stillness with variety of techniques to enrich our daily life practice.
6:35 - 7:35 or 8 p.m. on Wednesdays ------------------------------
Chuong Tran, Wednesday sit leader. More Information
Coming this summer
Hayward M. Fox, Ph.D.
Summer Series
Jun 27, Jul 25, Aug 29
“Love of Knowledge”
We are born knowing, but we are taught what to know. Preoccupation with the content of what we know deadens us to the enlivening presence of knowing. In knowing, we are alive, for knowing is our true nature.
We will make this inquiry together through the use of teachings, guided meditation and contemplative practices.
Saturdays, 8:30 am-12:00 pm at TOMF
Please visit www.haywardfox.com to see video clips from last summer’s workshop series.
MONDAY EVENINGS: 6:30-7:30pm All levels. Mindfulness Meditation Practice: A guided meditation suitable for beginners, followed by a brief, optional discussion. TUESDAY EVENINGS: 6:30-8:30pm Insight Meditation class with Community Dharma
leader Lhasha Tizer. Some classes are a series, each class building upon the previous
class; other times they are designed as drop-in classes. The classes consist of meditation
instruction, a dharma talk, Q&A and personal inquiry.
WEDNESDAY EVENINGS: 6:35-7:35 or 8pm. Each month, we will work with a different sense gate or a combination of sense gates, in motion or stillness with variety of techniques to enrich our daily life practice. The class consists of guided meditations, and discussion. Chuong Tran, teacher. Also Buddhist Book Group. THURSDAY EVENINGS: 6:30 – 7:30 pm Developing Tranquility, Insight and Happiness Through Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life taught by Dharma Treasure Teachers René, Nick, Blake, Upasika Mahamudita (Tesa), and occasionally Upasaka Culadasa.
Each class will consist of a 30 to 40 minute guided meditation, a short talk about meditation or mindfulness, and an opportunity for questions and discussion. Please note change of format and new schedule: 6:30 – 7:30 pm
FRIDAY MORNINGS: 6:30-7:15am – 45-minute silent sit led by Nick Van Kleeck. NEW 7:30-8:15am – 45-minute silent sit led by Nick Van Kleeck. SATURDAY MORNINGS: 8:30, 9 AND 9:30. You may join at the beginning of any half hour. The sits are silent (please maintain silence between Saturday sits). SUNDAY MORNINGS: 8:30, 9:00 & 9:30. You may join at the beginning of any half hour. The sits are silent.
TCMC 1231 E. Edison Street PO Box 40007 Tucson, AZ 85717
