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Purifying the Remember the many Rime scheduled meditations: Monthly Half-day Retreats, Guided Lha Bab Düchen, Meditations, Sunday service, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday evening practices. Body, Speech and

Sunday Service with Meditation: 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. Childcare & Sunday School Mind with Younge Meditation with the ‘Festival of the S M T W T F S available. Monday Meditation: 7-8 p.m. Aria Drolma Descent from Heaven’ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Khachab Tuesday Green Tantric Practice: 7-7:30 p.m. (upstairs) September 21-22, 2019 October 25-27, 2019 November 19, 2019 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Wednesday Meditation Instruction: 6:00 p.m. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Wednesday Meditation: 7–7:30 p.m. Join us as we welcome Younge Lama Aria Drolma will introduce Lha Bab Düchen occurs on the Thursday Meditation: 6:00-6:45 pm (upstairs) Khachab Rinpoche back to 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 “Calm- Abiding” meditation 22nd day of the ninth Tibetan Medicine Buddha Tantric Practice: 7–7:30 p.m. Kansas City. Rinpoche will September (called “Shamatha” in month. Buddha’s mother 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 Noon Meditation: Monday - Friday, 12–12:30 p.m. be teaching the basis for and “Shinay” in Tibetan) with Mayadevi was reborn in Indra’s 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Bodhi Bag prep: Wednesday 6:00pm Delivery: Sunday after Service 12:15pm understanding the path Second Saturday of Each Month: Half-Day Meditation retreat 9 a.m. - noon techniques to help you directly heaven. To repay her kindness and be giving an introduction 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 experience deep peace, and to liberate her, and also to into the practice of Tsa Lung, 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Spetember harmony and a genuine sense benefit the gods, Buddha spent Purifying the Body, Speech and Mind with or the yogic practice of working October October 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 of wellbeing. She will present three months of teachings in the Younge Khachab Rinpoche with the channels and winds. realm of the gods. When he was 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 September 21-22, 2019 Rinpoche will introduce the three detailed instructions guiding you through various stages of about to return to this world, Indra 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 October continuums, upon which we can Guided Mindfulness Meditation with Lama Aria practice that are suitable to both and Brahma manifested three 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 understand the practice of , Drolma new and experienced meditators. stairs of 80,000 yojanas each October 25-27, 2019 and teach various methods for 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 reaching this world in Sankisa. November purifying our own body, speech, Calm-abiding mediation is November 31 1 2 3 4 Full Day Meditation Retreat -Four and mind to actualize our innate essentially the foundation for As the Buddha walked down the *Schedule subject to change, see weekly email for Immeasurables Younge Khachab continued on Page 6 Lama Aria Drolma continued on Page 3 Lha Bab Düchen continued on Page 2 important updates. November 16, 2019 Lha Bab Düchen, the ‘Festival of the Descent These teachings are available to everyone regardless of ability to pay. We offer partial and full scholarships to those in need, so don’t let lack of finances prevent you from Find us on Facebook! from Heaven’ attending. Download and print out our scholarship form at: www.rimecenter.org. Scholarship forms are not accepted by e-mail. Please submit them either by mail, fax to “Rime Buddhist Center Community” November 19, 2019 816-471-7853, or at the Center. Scholarship forms need to be submitted in advance of the event. We have “suggested” fees however, pay what you can afford. Everyone is welcome! It is our hope that some will pay more to cover the those who cannot afford the fee. We simply want everyone to come enjoy these wonderful teachings. www.rimecenter.org talk podcasts: http://lama108.libsyn.com/ meditations by Redesigned Basics of Lama Matthew Rice (Lobpon Palden Gocha) Lama Matthew Rice (Lobpon Palden Gocha) serves as the spiritual director of the Rime Buddhist Center Class that he administers on a day-to-day basis. In addition he teaches classes on meditation and Buddhism. The Rime Center is pleased to announce that with the help and He also serves as the Buddhist Director for the Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council. Lama Matt is very involved in homeless outreach. He works closely with other Rime members to ensure that the Homeless input of the Dharma facilitators Sergio Moreno and Andrea Outreach program runs smoothly and that it receives the needed supplies for those in need living on the Duloc, Lama Matthew has redesigned the Basics of Buddhism streets. class. The class has been shortened to 8 weeks instead of the original 12 weeks. With the new format, the class will begin at 7 pm and use the Wednesday group meditation as part of the Oh The Stories We Tell Ourselves class. This will provide an opportunity for the facilitators and participants to cover the discussion topics. The other change I recently read an op-ed by Todd that make our lives seem interest- to the class is to have more in-class group activities rather May in the New York Times, pub- ing. And we tell these stories not Full Day Meditation than just discussion. The final change is that the class will be lished January 16, 2017, entitled only to others, but also to our- using Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo’s book. Into the Heart of Life. the Stories We Tell Ourselves. He selves. Retreat Topics covered in the class will be the meditation workshop, starts off with a story, This article brought to mind the Four Immeasurables Life of the Buddha and spread of Buddhism, , I was driving home from work and Buddha’s teaching on discursive November 16, 2019 Karma, Suffering and , the Eight Worldly Concerns, a car cut me off. The guy was thought. In the Dvedhavitakka Su- The Four Immeasurables are Renunciation, and Bodhichitta. As this is the first time having driving really slowly, and I wound tra the Buddha spoke about two the sublime expressions of the class in the new format the Rime Center would like to invite up following him for half a mile. types of thought patterns that we love, compassion, equanimity, those who have attended before to join the class again after As it stands, it’s not a very inter- must work with as practitioners of and joy. The Buddha said that esting story. But suppose we add the Dharma. it is wholesome to channel your another line: The Blessed One said, “Monks, Save the Date awareness in one of these four So I laid on my horn the whole before my self-awakening, when ways. No matter what your mind time. I was still just an unawakened state, you can always turn to one Or perhaps a different line: Bodhisatta, the thought occurred Meditation for of these four. That’s why I’m late. to me: ‘Why don’t I keep dividing During this retreat, Lama Matthew Each of those two lines add a my thinking into two sorts?’ So I World Peace Palden Gocha will give teachings dimension to the story that wasn’t made thinking imbued with sensu- Dec 31st, 2019 on the Four Immeasurables there before. Now, instead of just ality, thinking imbued with ill will, along with guided meditations, a story about me, we have a story and thinking imbued with harmful- 6:00 am and time for discussion. The about how I like to see myself, or ness one sort, and thinking im- retreat is suitable for beginners perhaps how I like myself to be bued with renunciation, thinking as well as more experienced Lha Bab Düchen, From Page 1 seen. Either way, I am express- imbued with non-ill will, and think- practitioners wanting to deepen ing what might loosely be called ing imbued with harmlessness central one, they accompanied their experience of the Four a “value.” This value is not neces- another sort. him to his left and right carrying Immeasurables. sarily a moral value, but a way of And as I remained thus heedful, umbrellas to honor him. He This retreat is open to all. being that I want to see myself ardent, and resolute, thinking im- descended to earth in Sankisa, However, there is a $30 Rainbow Body LGBTQIA+ Meditation Group as living, a way of being that I bued with sensuality arose in me. which is located in modern Uttar suggested donation. consider valuable for myself and I discerned that ‘Thinking imbued Pradesh, and which is counted Schedule Beginning last August the Rime Center will is hosting a monthly seek to associate myself with. In with sensuality has arisen in me; among the eight holy places. 6 am – Kum Nye meditation group and LGBTAIQ+ safe space. The meditation group the first case, I express some- and that leads to my own affliction 7 am – Teaching and Meditation meets the first Tuesday of the each month from 7:30 – 9:00 pm in our thing like, “I am not a person to be or to the affliction of others or to The Rime Center will be hosting 8 am – Morning Break main shrine room. Join us for meditation practice followed by mindful messed with.” In the second it is the affliction of both. It obstructs a special puja to commemorate 9 am – Teaching and Meditation dialogue. something like, “I am not a tardy discernment, promotes vexation, the Festival of the Descent from 12 pm – Lunch person.” and does not lead to Unbinding.’ Heaven and will be open during 2 pm – Teaching and Meditation This group is an open community of meditation practitioners led by Many of our stories about our- This is what Mr. May was refer- the day for you to come in and 5 pm – Tea Break and for LGBTQIA+ people and their friends. Intended to create a selves do this. We tell stories that ring to in his story. Robert Thur- meditate at your own pace and 5:30 pm – Teaching and space where members of these communities can feel safe, being make us seem adventurous, or man expands on these ideas in time limit. The Special Puja will Meditation less likely to face dynamics of oppression that are part of their daily funny, or strong. We tell stories his notes on the Teachings of begin at 7:00 pm and will be led 7:30 pm – Chenrezig Puja and lives, in our culture where progress is still needed to move towards a Mediations continued on page 4 by Ven. Tsewang Thinley. Dedication society free of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. 2 The Rime Jewel Newsletter — © 2019 Rime Buddhist Center Fall 2019 7 The Rime Jewel Newsletter — © 2019 Rime Buddhist Center Fall 2019 Help Update Our Mailing List Lama Aria Drolma From Page 1 Lama Aria Drolma cont. Member Profile If you would like to sign up for the weekly all other meditation practices. upstate New York. Lama Norlha e-mail updates, no longer wish to receive Jean Davis mailings from the Rime Center or you have The methods are simple but the Rinpoche’s teachers were one of moved, contact us at: [email protected] benefits are extremely profound. the most accomplished realized or 816-471-7073. This event is open to everyone, masters in Tibetan Buddhist Join a Committee Joining a Rime Committee is an excellent but please consider being a tradition H.H. the 16th way to contribute to the and to be- sponsor for this retreat for as and Kyabje . come more involved with the Rime Center. If little at $150. Your sponsorship Lama Aria Drolma has a B.A. you are interested in becoming involved and serving on a committee, please contact the will ensure everyone can attend degree in Sociology from Mumbai following chairs about coming to a meeting: these wonderful teachings. University and is trained in We live in a fast- paced and computer programming from Lay Pratimoksha Vows & Sangha Potluck Gift Shop Committee Gabriele Otto complex world and our state NIIT, India. Prior to her ordination Lama Matthew will be giving Lay Pratimoksha vows Sunday, [email protected] of mind is often too busy and as a Buddhist Nun, she had a September 15th during the Sunday Service. The pratimoksha vows Finance Committee a sense of calm evades us. successful professional career in or vows of ‘individual liberation’ mainly emphasize disciplining one’s Vickie Cumberland vickie.cumberland@ rimecenter.org By integrating calm- abiding Advertising, Marketing and Public physical behavior and not harming others. Pratimoksha discipline Membership Committee meditation into your daily life relations in NYC. Her career has is called the foundation of Buddhism because for ordinary people Sergio Moreno [email protected] spanned three continents working Dharma School Committee and engaging in a consistent physical discipline is the beginning of spiritual training and the basis Hometown: Chicago, Illinois practice you will begin to in Asia, America, Europe, and has Your role at the Rime Buddhist Vickie Cumberland vickie.cumberland@ of spiritual progress. rimecenter.org Center?: Member, Volunteer, experience a deep sense of lived in Australia and the Middle The lay vows consist of taking the five lay vows which are: 1) not to Library Committee East. Lama Aria Drolma also Day Job: William Hunter [email protected] peace and relaxation, leading kill, 2) not to steal, 3) not to lie, 4) not to commit sexual misconduct, Retired and loving it Prison Outreach one to progressively experience actively volunteers as a fundraiser and 5) not to take any intoxicants. Lama Matthew will give a short Description of your hobbies: Andrea VanBecelaere prison.outreach@ the unlimited potential of your and supports several nonprofit teaching about the vows followed by the pratimoksha ceremony. After Reading, cooking, making limoncello rimecenter.org mind and a lasting sense of organizations. What led you to the Dharma? Community Outreach the service we will have a potluck, so please bring a dish to share. Initially, curiosity mostly, then interest, Vickie Cumberland vickie.cumberland@ happiness and contentment. Schedule Lama Matthew asks that those who plan to take the vows have a connection and eventually a way of rimecenter.org Meditation has also proven to Friday, October 25 previously taken their Refuge Vows. There is no fee to take the vows life. Program Committee 7:30 – 9:30 pm Introduction to Chairs: Matt Rice spiritualdirector@rimecen- have medical health benefits Tell us something that most people but dana to the preceptor is suggested. If you plan to take the vows ter.org which can maintain our well- Calm-Abiding to sign up on the Rime Center’s website. don’t know about you. Volunteer Coordinator being. Lama Aria Drolma teaches Saturday, October 26 I have a keen interest and knowledge Lora Lee Reese [email protected] Younge Khachab From Page 1 Younge Khachab cont. of the Chinese Horoscope and Newsletter Team meditation worldwide and offers 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 pm buddha nature in this very 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Palmistry...use to do readings. Nicole Esquibel, Matt Rice corporate meditation programs to 2:00 – 4:00 pm Rime Board Members lifetime. Teachings Session 1 What Buddhist Book would you companies and is also invited as Sunday, October 27 recommend and why? Gabriele Otto, executive director and board This event is open to everyone, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Lunch chair a keynote speaker at universities 10:30 am Sunday Service “, My Son: A Mother’s Teri Brody, secretary and corporations to speak on but please consider being a Break Autobiography”. Great read to see Vickie Cumberland, treasure sponsor for this retreat for as 2:00 – 4:00 pm Teachings what life was like in before and Matt Rice, spiritual director topics related to Mental Health Baby Blessing little at $150. Your sponsorship Session 2 after the birth of the Dalai Lama from Beniah Leuschke issues and the benefits of On Sunday, October the perspective of his mother. Andrea VanBecelaere will ensure everyone can attend Sunday, September 22 Grievance Committee Mindfulness Meditation. these wonderful teachings. 9:00 am - 10:00 am - Open Gabriele Otto Lama Aria Drolma is a graduate 6th during the [email protected] Rinpoche will be presenting Meditation Session Special Thanks of the traditional Tibetan Buddhist Sunday Service, these teachings from the point of 10:00 am - 10:30 am Morning Rime Social Justice To Paul Kotz and FRD Communications for three year retreat program the Rime Center will view of one’s practice based on Break printing our newsletter. at Thubten Choling Committee Permission his own extensive contemplation 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Sunday Articles may be reprinted or reproduced with monastery and trained in the hold a baby and child and experience. This is a rare Service BOOK DISCUSSION permission. Please contact Lama Matt Rice. practices of the Karma Kagyu blessing ceremony opportunity to receive teachings 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Lunch Financial Aid Available tradition, as well as practices officiated by Lama and instruction from a true Break Workshops and classes, as with all Dharma from the Shangpa Kagyu and master. 1:00 – 3:00 pm Teachings teachings, are available to EVERYONE traditions under the Matthew. Part of the Schedule Session 3 regardless of ability to pay. Discounts, a limited number of scholarships and work/ guidance of the late Venerable ceremony includes the NO TEACHINGS ON FRIDAY study programs are available to those in Lama Norlha Rinpoche parents, the sangha Saturday, September 21 need. However, scholarship forms must who was an accomplished be submitted one week prior to the start 8:00 am - 9:00 am - Open meditation and retreat master and the children all Meditation Session of the teachings for review by our schol- arship committee. Call the Rime Center and was the Founder of Kagyu reading parts of a text. 9:00 am - 10:00 am Morning October 15-7:45 at 816-471-7073 or email Lama Matt at Thubten Choling Monastery in Break [email protected] for details. 6 The Rime Jewel Newsletter — © 2019 Rime Buddhist Center Fall 2019 3 The Rime Jewel Newsletter — © 2019 Rime Buddhist Center Fall 2019 Mediations continued from page 2 Mediations cont. Vimalakirti saying, having expressed values that are Vikalpa, parikalpa, samāropa, mistaken and abhorrent. It’s easy adhyāropa, kalpanā, samjñā, to see examples of this type of illuminations and prapāñca. All of these refer thinking, which then has spiraled to mental functions that tend to into harmful speech and negative superimpose upon reality, either physical behaviors. It is important relative or ultimate, a conceptu- that we don’t just look outside Lama Lena Teachings on alized reality fabricated by the of ourselves for examples, and subjective mind. Some transla- instead use mindful introspection the 21 Taras Retreat tors have tended to lump these to see our own negative thought together under the rubric “discur- patterns. sive thought,” which leads to the The Buddha also taught how misleading notion that all thought to work with these two types of is bad, something to be elimi- thought through the applying nated, and that sheer “thought- antidotes in the Vitakkasanthana lessness” is “enlightenment,” or , whatever higher state is desired. When evil unskillful thoughts con- According to Buddhist scholars, nected with desire, hate, and de- thought in itself is simply a func- lusion arise in a through tion, and only thought that is reflection on an adventitious ob- attached to its own content over ject, he should, (in order to get rid and above the relative object, i.e., of that), reflect on a different ob- “egoistic” thought, is bad and to ject which is connected with skill. be eliminated. Therefore we have Then the evil unskillful thoughts chosen a set of words for the sev- are eliminated; they disappear. By en Sanskrit. terms: respectively, their elimination, the mind stands “conceptualization,” “imagination,” firm, settles down, becomes uni- “presumption,” “exaggeration,” fied and concentrated, just within “construction,” “conception” or (his subject of meditation). Christy Markham leading “notion,” and “fabrication”. Todd May’s article ends with, I think the last term, prapāñca or In this age of polarization, where Yeshi Rinpoche the Mala Workshop fabrication, is the trap which we it is easy to dismiss others with a Retreat find ourselves in time and time righteous wave of our hand, we again. We tend to apply stories to could perhaps do worse than to the events in our daily lives until reflect on the complications that we have fabricated it into our own each of us lives, complications reality. By not recognizing these that are often on display in the fabrications as the display of our stories we tell about ourselves. own minds, we end up creating Next time you find yourself caught categories of self and other. up in negative thinking take a mo- Todd May later points to the fact ment to reflect on the story that that, due to social and main- you are telling yourself. Are you stream media, we create “echo caught in the trap of fabrication, chambers” that reinforce our embellishing a situation or mak- discursive thinking. This causes ing it more complicated than it is? us to believe that our values are If you are, take the advice of the the “right” values, and that our Buddha and reflect on compas- opinions are justified and supe- sion, patience, or another virtuous Dalai Lama Birthday rior. We then see those who live object. outside of our “echo chamber” as Celebration

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