We hope you were one of the more than 250 people who attended Gelek Rimpoche’s White Tara longevity empowerment on Sunday, Feb. 28. It was a beautiful day for all, inside and out. 

Rimpoche was the March 7 speaker for our weekly Sunday morning programs and talked about “Compassion for Ourselves." The talk was also video recorded as the seventh session of Tricycle’s eight-session online video retreat, which has been very well received, with 4,000 clicks a week from viewers around the country. During his talk, Rimpoche reminded us that “compassion is a human treasure shared by every tradition” and gave constructive insight into the individual responsibility each of us has to do the work of compassion for ourselves in order to be of the best help for others.

On Friday night, March 12, Rimpoche spoke to a record crowd of more than140 people at Tibet House in New York City about “Fearless Compassion” and then continued with weekend teachings on the “Swift Path to Enlightenment” at our Jewel Heart home and center in New York. As with so many of his teachings, we now are able to support live video Webcasts to Jewel Heart chapters as well as individual video subscribers across the country. 

Back in Ann Arbor that same weekend, Danish psychotherapist Lene Handberg brought “Unity in Duality” to Jewel Heart with an open public talk and weekend workshop. UD is an educational system founded by the Tibetan lama Tarab Rinpoche and presents the ancient eastern traditions of inner investigation of mind and science from a fresh, Western angle. The weekend was a wonderful mix of presentation and experiential practices with many expressing benefit and appreciation and enthusiastically requesting Lene to return to Jewel Heart next year. 

Join us this Thursday for B. Alan Wallace, a well known American Buddhist teacher and prolific author - also holding degrees in physics and philosophy of science and a PhD in religious studies - for a 7:30 p.m. talk on “The Question of Free Will from the Buddhist Perspective”. Visit the Jewel Heart Web site to learn more, and hope to see you there!

Hartmut Sagolla and Kathy Laritz
hartmut@jewelheart.org
kathy@jewelheart.org