Hi, just a reminder that you're receiving this email because you have expressed an interest in Kurukulla Center. Don't forget to add [email protected] to your address book so we'll be sure to land in your inbox! You may unsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive our emails. This Week at Kurukulla Center November 11 November 17, 2013 Quick Links About Us Programs Calendar Audio Teachings Stupa Project Contact Us eNews Archive We need your support! With over $8,000 of monthly expenses, we need your continued support. Please consider making a onetime donation, becoming a member, or increasing your membership. Thank you for all you do to support our center and the Dharma! From the Center Dear Kurukulla Center, A Huge Thank You to Sarah & Devin! A Big Welcome to Erika! by Wendy Cook In recent weeks there has been a transition of the Spiritual Program Coordinator (SPC) position. Please join me in sending a huge thank you to Sarah & Devin and a big welcome to Erika! Sarah Frederickson and Devin Jones arrived at Kurukulla Center on New Year's Eve, 2007, for a community potluck, came back the next day to join in a New Year's Day recitation of The Golden Light Sutra, and that was it. They have been unfailing in their energy and devotion ever since. They became the SPC duo two years ago when they stepped up to the plate and were appointed by thenDirector Debra Thornburg, as Tsultrim Davis was moving to Sera Je Monastery in India. During their two years Sarah gave birth to their first child, Saskia, and they are due to welcome their second child in December (or Thanksgiving, if Sarah has her way!). That they have started a family while simultaneously overseeing and coordinating the myriad responsibilities of the spiritual program is testament to their skills, talents, and love for the Center. We cannot thank you both enough!!! With a deep interest in Tibetan Buddhism, Erika Nagy began listening to Kurukulla's teachings online
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This Week at Kurukulla Center November 11 November 17, 2013
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With over $8,000of monthly
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support. Pleaseconsider making
a onetimedonation,becoming amember, or
increasing yourmembership.
Thank you for allyou do tosupport our
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From the Center
Dear Kurukulla Center,
A Huge Thank You to Sarah & Devin!A Big Welcome to Erika!
by Wendy Cook
In recent weeks there has been a transition of the Spiritual Program Coordinator (SPC) position. Please join me in sending a huge thank you to Sarah & Devin and a big welcome to Erika!
Sarah Frederickson and Devin Jones arrived at Kurukulla Center on New Year's Eve, 2007, for a community potluck, came back the next day to join in a New Year's Day recitation of The Golden Light Sutra, and that was it. They have been unfailing in their energy and devotion ever since. They became the SPC
duo two years ago when they stepped up to the plate and were appointed by thenDirector Debra Thornburg, as Tsultrim Davis was moving to Sera Je Monastery in India. During their two years Sarah gave birth to their first child, Saskia, and they are due to welcome their second child in December (or Thanksgiving, if Sarah has her way!). That they have started a family while simultaneously overseeing and coordinating the myriad responsibilities of the spiritual program is testament to their skills, talents, and love for the Center. We cannot thank you both enough!!! With a deep interest in Tibetan Buddhism, Erika Nagy began listening to Kurukulla's teachings online
several years ago and has followed with great interest the program and activities ever since. After she and her daughter, Elisabeth, came to see His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, in October 2012, Erika and her family connected with Barbara Melanson and Ven. Ani Yeshe. They guided her to Geshe Tenley who, in turn, graciously helped Erika and her family transform difficulties and remove obstacles they were encountering. As a result of this experience, and having a strong devotion to Hayagriva, Erika's passion is to ensure that the jewel of Kurukulla Center, with its vibrant teachings and dedicated community, are readily available to all, especially those facing life's special challenges. With this as her intention, and given her many skills and the active and enthusiastic support of her whole family, Sean and FPMT Center Services have confirmed her appointment as SPC. Welcome Erika!!! But the Spiritual Program Coordinator of the Center is only as strong as the support they receive from other volunteers. Please stay tuned for ways you can become part of the Spiritual Program Team!
Photo via Kurukulla Facebook, His Holiness' Visit, 2012; by Kadri Kurgen Photography
Weekly Update from the Spiritual Program Team Last week we mentioned that there are some exciting volunteerled projects getting underway. Today we'd like to announce the first of these. It's the reinvigoration of the Kurukulla Children's Program! We've been planning this program for some time, working with various members of our community, and now it's time to get this exciting new opportunity for our kids up and running!
We need the time and talents of a variety of people with all sorts of skills to make this program a success. Sharon Muddiman and Anna Nagy have agreed to coordinate the program, and if you are able to help contribute with organizing, teaching, preparing materials, and/or a have wish to help students of all ages learn basic Buddhist principles, please let them know. The current plan is for the Children's Program to run during the Sunday morning teachings in order to be convenient for both kids and their parents. Also, if you would like to contribute materials, our current wishlist includes pencils, markers, paper, and dharmainspired kids books!
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Sharon Muddiman or Anna Nagy at [email protected].
Dharma Thought
Lama Zopa Rinpoche guides us with compassion and kindness by encouraging us to help others and to consider that the purpose and joy of our life simply is to serve others:
This is the reason that I normally give as to why we need to help others. It is a cleanclear pure reason: it is simply that a
Ven. Tenzin Gyeltsen, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Dagri Rinpoche going to the ocean to bless sentient beings, Aptos,
California, USA, October 2013. Photo by Ven. Roger Kunsang. Photo and caption via FPMT.
sentient being is suffering and needs our help. Of course, you incidentally get a lot of benefit from
helping others. You get skies of benefit when you help others sincerely from your heart, by knowing that the meaning of your being born as a human being at this time is to serve others. The purpose of your life is to serve others. When we serve others with this knowledge and with compassion, our everyday life brings us so much peace, happiness, and satisfaction. Our inner life is then full rather than empty.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Talk to Cittamani Hospice Service, 2000
General Announcements
Yoga & Meditation with Wendy will resume next Tuesday, November 19th. Links to the videos are posted to the homepage and on facebook, and the archives of the teachings will be on website and YouTube. And as always, we encourage comments and questions!
Please Donate!
There's always something amazing happening at our Center. Pleaseconsider supporting it today with your time, your talents, andyour financial resources. Thank you!
Any Questions?
If you have any questions about anything related to Kurukulla Center orto Buddhism in general, please email our Spiritual ProgramCoordinator, Erika, or our general questions box. We truly look forward tohearing from you!
Many Thanks Wendy, Kim, and AnnaSpiritual Program Team
Please continue to check the homepage and calendar for last minute updates as they develop!
Introductory Series: Buddhism in a Nutshell with Sean González7:00 pm 8:30 pm Buddhism in a Nutshell is an introductory course on Buddhism for beginners. Itpresents basic Buddhist philosophy and principles within the Tibetan Mahayanacontext, and provides simple meditation instruction. The series is also suitable forthose who have done some independent reading on Buddhism and are interested in amore systematic study. The course is presented over a series of five Mondays from 7:00 8:30 pm: October
7, 21, 28 and November 4, 11. You are encouraged to attend all sessions but it is not required. Noregistration is required.
Tuesday, November 12
Lama Chopa (Guru Puja) 7:00 pm 9:00 pm The word puja means "to please" and has the connotation to please through offeringsand practice. The Guru Puja lays the whole path to enlightenment on ourmindstream, connects us more strongly to our teachers, allows us to accumulateskies of merit and purifies eons of negative karma. We chant the first 2/3rds ofthis puja in Tibetan and the last 1/3 we recite in English.
You are encouraged to bring offerings of some sort, food, unscented tea lights,flowers, etc, as a way of earning merit. By making donations at, or sponsoring, a
specific puja, you are strengthening and empowering the merit you receive in relationship to that puja, inthis case the merit we receive by celebrating our gurus and the immeasurable benefit they have offeredall sentient beings through their teachings. All welcome.
Wednesday, November 6
The Wheel Of Sharp Weapons with Geshe Ngawang Tenley7:00 pm 9:00 pm
This will be an intermediate level course on The Wheel of Sharp Weapons, byDharmarakshita.
The Wheel of Sharp Weapons, composed by the great Indian yogi Dharmarakshitamore than a thousand years ago, is among the most esteemed of the socalledmind training teachings. Mind training is a special genre of teaching that deals withemploying techniques for transforming problems into happiness. Geshe Tenley will
guide us verse by verse through Dharmarakshita's classic, explaining the workings of karma, thebenefits of altruism, and the means to cut through our true enemies: selfgrasping and selfcherishing.
Sunday, November 10th
Medicine Buddha Puja4:00 pm 6:00 pm
Puja is a Sanskrit word that means "pleasing by making offerings." Making offering prayers totheMedicine Buddhas is the same as offering to numberless buddhas and brings inconceivable meritlike the limitless sky. The special mantra of the Medicine Buddha quickly actualizes prayers thattheMedicine Buddhas made in the past: to bring happiness to all beings by showing them the causes ofenlightenment, pacifying their problems, fulfilling their positive wishes and, especially, helping those
afflicted by illness. The Medicine Buddha practice is extremely powerful andbeneficial for the sick and dying, helps those who have already passed away, allowsthose practicing healing methods to benefit others more profoundly and helps bringsuccess in general.
It is customary to bring offerings of items such as food, unscented tea lights, orflowers to a puja. All are welcome.
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