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Northeast
Ohio Sangham
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An
E-Newsletter for the Buddhist community in and around Northeast
Ohio
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Vol.
3, Issue 2, June 6, 2005
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Quick
Scan - This Month's Headlines
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Upcoming
Events
CloudWater
Zendo Pure Land Service on Wednesday, June 8
Cleveland
Shambhala offers Shambhala Training Level 1 June 10-12
Jijuyu-ji
group welcomes Chicago-area teacher June 11
Cleveland
Shambhala holds Midsummer's Day potluck on June 18
Taoist
Circle Walking class June 18 at CloudWater
Dharma
Dialogue on Anger will be June 22 at CloudWater
Jewel
Heart Cleveland welcomes Ven. Thubten Chodron July 22-24
Cleveland
Chapter of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship meets July 24
Udumbara
teacher will lead Jijuyuji's August all-day sitting on August
20
Jewel
Heart's Gehlek Rimpoche will visit Cleveland over Labor Day
weekend
Local
News
Dean Williams,
Zen sports authority, gets national attention
Jewel
Heart Cleveland hosts open meditation on alternate Sundays
CBT's
Zen Shin Sangha meets weekly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group offers three Saturday classes on "Principles of
Meditation"
New Buddhist
Precepts Study Group will meet on the West side
Cloudwater
Zendo celebrates two ordinations this summer
Regional
News
Chicago's
Udumbara Zen Center holds rural sesshin July 29-31
Author/teacher
Taigen Dan Leighton visits Chicago in August
National
News
HH the
Dalai Lama will tour U.S. in September and November
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Upcoming
Events
CloudWater
Zendo Pure Land Service on Wednesday, June 8
CloudWater
Zendo will hold a Pure Land Service on Wednesday, June
8 at 7:00 pm. The service includes chanting, Buddha-Name
recitation, visualization practice and a Dharma talk. All
are welcome. CloudWater Zendo is located at 14436 Puritas
Ave. on Cleveland's West Side. Call 216/889-1393 or e-mail
yingfa@cloudwater.org
for more information.
Cleveland
Shambhala offers Shambhala Training Level 1 June 10-12
On June
10-12, Trime Persinger, founding director of the Windhorse
Institute for Conflict Resolution based in Louisville,
KY, will direct Cleveland
Shambhala Meditation Group's (CSMG) weekend program,
"Shambhala Training Level I: The Art of Being Human."
From the flyer:
"This
program explores the ancient tradition of meditation practice
and its practical application to our everyday lives. This
program focuses on how the practice of meditation can
wake us up and connect us to our Basic Goodness which
is already within each of us."
Persinger
will give a free public talk on Friday at 7:00 pm. The Saturday
class will be 8:30 am to 6:00 pm; the Sunday class will
be 8:30 am to approximately 4:00 pm. Breakfast and a tea
break are provided but lunch is on your own. The Saturday/Sunday
classes cost $125 but some discounts are available.
Discounts
are available for those with financial need, seniors, students
etc. To register or for information, contact Evin
Bodell, 440/331-5377. CSMG meets at the Tyler Building,
3615 Superior Ave. near downtown Cleveland (Directions).
Jijuyu-ji
group welcomes Chicago-area teacher June 11
The
Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group of Cleveland will hold an all-day sitting
(Zazenkai) on Saturday, June 11 from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.
The guest teacher will be Chuck Hutchcraft, an ordained
priest from Udumbara Zen Center in Chicago. The Zazenkai
will be held at the Cleveland Buddhist Temple (Directions).
Contact Dean Williams
for more information. Suggested donation: $25. Includes
tea, coffee and a vegetarian lunch.
Cleveland
Shambhala holds Midsummer's Day potluck on June 18
The
Cleveland Shambhala Meditation Group (CSMG) will celebrate
Midsummer's Day (Nyida Day) on June 18 with a potluck at
Headlands Beach State Park from 10:00 am to dusk. For more
information, contact Fred Schwieg,
CSMG Coordinator, voice: 440/331-3581.
Taoist
Circle Walking class June 18 at CloudWater
Sifu
Rikk Mayr will lead a class on Taoist Circle Walking at
CloudWater
Zendo on June 18 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. The art of
circle walking originated in China and is related to the
I Ching. The practice is said to deepen awareness
and clear blockages of the chi. Class tuition is $25 and
can be paid at the door. CloudWater Zendo is located at
14436 Puritas Ave. on Cleveland's West Side. Call 216/889-1393
or e-mail yingfa@cloudwater.org
for more information.
Dharma
Dialogue on Anger will be June 22 at CloudWater
CloudWater
Zendo's Ven. Shih Bao-Hua, a senior Sangha member, will
moderate a Dharma Dialogue on "What Anger Is and Isn't"
on Wednesday, June 22 at 7:00 pm. The dialogue will explore
the dynamics of anger and the Buddhist path to avoid it.
CloudWater Zendo is located at 14436 Puritas Ave. on Cleveland's
West Side. Call 216/889-1393 or e-mail yingfa@cloudwater.org
for more information.
Jewel
Heart Cleveland welcomes Ven. Thubten Chodron July 22-24
Jewel
Heart Cleveland will welcome Ven.
Thubten Chodron July 22-24. The American-born Chodron
is a widely traveled teacher in the Tibetan tradition and
author of the recently published book, "How
to Free Your Mind: Tara the Liberator," (Snow Lion
Publications). She has published a number of other books,
including: Open Heart, Clear Mind (Snow Lion, Ithaca
NY), Buddhism for Beginners (Snow Lion, NY), Working
with Anger (Snow Lion), Taming the Monkey Mind
(Heian Publications), and Blossoms of the Dharma: Living
as a Buddhist Nun (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley CA).
Chodron is currently founding the Sravasti
Abbey monastic community north of Spokane, WA. Check
the group's newsletter page for an update on the schedule.
Jewel Heart Cleveland is located at 2670 W14th Street in
the Tremont neighborhood (Directions).
For more information, call 216/687-1617 or e-mail cleveland@jewelheart.org.
Cleveland
Chapter of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship meets July 24
The
newly formed Cleveland Chapter of the Buddhist
Peace Fellowship will hold its July meeting on July
24. The group will continue to collaborate on plans for
a fall workshop on non-violent communication to be facilitated
by Joshin
Robert Althouse. The Cleveland Chapter of BPF meets
at a different location each month. For more details on
the new group, see
the article in the April 24 issue of NEO Sangham. Contact
Mark McDermott
for more information about the next meeting.
Udumbara
teacher will lead Jijuyuji's August all-day sitting on August
20
Tricia
Teater, a priest from the Udumbara
Zen Center in Chicago, will lead the Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group's all-day sitting (Zazenkai) on August 20
from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. The Zazenkai will be held at the
Cleveland Buddhist Temple (directions).
Contact Dean Williams
for more information. Suggested donation: $25. Includes
tea, coffee and a vegetarian lunch.
Jewel
Heart's Gehlek Rimpoche will visit Cleveland over Labor
Day weekend
Jewel
Heart Cleveland is planning for a visit by its spiritual
leader, Gehlek
Rimpoche, over Labor Day Weekend, September 1-4. Rimpoche
was a classically trained Tibetan monk who fled Tibet in
1959 and studied with the Dalai Lama's own tutors. In the
late 1970s he was sent to teach in the West and began founding
Jewel Heart groups in North America and Europe. He now lives
in Ann Arbor as a lay teacher of the Gelugpa tradition.
He is the author many books, most recently Good
Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation,
(Riverhead Books, 2001). Check the group's newsletter page
for an update on the schedule. Jewel Heart Cleveland is
located at 2670 W14th Street in the Tremont neighborhood
(
Directions). For more information, call 216/687-1617
or e-mail cleveland@jewelheart.org.
Local
News
Dean
Williams, Zen sports authority, gets national spotlight
Dean
Williams, leader of the Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group of Cleveland, recently received an unusual
phone call at work. Harvey Araton, a sports columnist for
the New York Times, had an idea for a column about
why the famous basketball coach, Phil Jackson, should leave
the Lakers and move to Cleveland to coach the Cavaliers.
Jackson
is known as the "Zen Coach" because he adapted the precepts
of Zen Buddhism into coaching techniques while coaching
the world-famous Chicago Bulls in the 1990s. Jackson wrote
a best-selling book: Sacred
Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior (Hyperion,
1996).
Araton
decided to type "Zen" and "Cleveland" into Google: and came
up with Williams' name and phone number on the Jijuyu-ji
Web site. It was a truly "karmic" phone call, since Williams
is a long-time fan of both basketball and Jackson and has
even read Jackson's book.
Read
Araton's excellent column "Juicy
Offerings for the Zen Palate," May 17, 2005 (free registration
required). The column was also picked up by Tricycle:
"Cleveland
Zen Teacher Woos Zen Coach," May 18, 2005. Slam Dunk!!
Jewel
Heart Cleveland hosts open meditation on alternate Sundays
Jewel
Heart Cleveland (JHC) has a host of ongoing study and
meditation opportunities. Here are a few of them: A free
introductory Dharma Talk by a JHC student is offered the
first Sunday of each month, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, followed
by a tea.
Open
meditations are held the first and third Sundays of each
month from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm. These introductory classes
are free and designed for beginners. Students may sit on
the floor or in a chair. The class includes a question and
answer period.
On
the second and fourth Sundays of each month, the group holds
a free White Tara practice session from 1:00 pm to 2:00
pm. The group practices recitation of "The Prayer to the
Noble Tara," written by the group's spiritual leader Gehlek
Rimpoche.
Jewel
Heart Cleveland is located at 2670 W14th Street in the Tremont
neighborhood (Directions).
For more information, call 216/687-1617 or e-mail cleveland@jewelheart.org.
CBT's
Zen Shin Sangha meets weekly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Cleveland
Buddhist Temple's Zen Shin Sangha (ZSS) is among Northeast
Ohio's oldest continuously running meditation groups. It
was founded by the CBT's Sensei Ogui, who is now the head
of Buddhist Churches of America based in Chicago.
ZSS
meets on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 7:00 to 9:00 pm under
the leadership of senior students of Sensei Ogui. The Tuesday
class for beginners includes two 12 minute sitting periods,
walking meditation, chanting and a Dharma talk. The Wednesday
classes for experienced students have the same format but
more lengthy periods of sitting and chanting.
Every
Sunday, CBT holds a 20 minute sitting at 10:00 am that may
include chanting, depending on the service schedule. Newcomers
are welcome and encouraged to arrive 10 minutes early.
All
sittings are free, but a free will offering for the support
of the temple is encouraged. The Cleveland Buddhist Temple
is located at 1573 E. 214th St. (corner of E. 214th St.
and Euclid AVe.), Euclid, OH (Directions).
For more information, contact Peter
Junger.
Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group offers three Saturday classes on "Principles of
Meditation"
Dean
Williams will lead the Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group of Cleveland on three Saturday morning classes
June 18, July 9 and August 6 from 10:00 am to noon. After
a period of meditation, the class will listen to a series
of tapes on "Principles of Meditation" by the respected
Zen teacher, Steve Hagen of the Dharma Field Zen Center
in Minneapolis. Discussion will follow. A free will offering
of $5.00 for each class is suggested but not required. Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group of Cleveland meets at the Cleveland Buddhist Temple
(directions). Contact Dean
Williams for more information.
Saturday
Buddhist Precepts Study Group will meet on the West side
Lynne
Brakeman will host a Saturday morning Buddhist Precepts
Study Group at her Lakewood home from 10:00 am to noon on
June 25, July 23 and August 13. To begin with, the group
will read aloud and discuss from a series of unpublished
Dharma talks about the precepts given by the San Francisco
Zen Center's Suzuki Roshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's
Mind.
Brakeman,
who practices with both the Jijuyu-ji group and the NE Ohio
Soto Zen Group, is studying for lay ordination (jukai) in
the Soto Zen lineage. But the study group will not be limited
to texts from any one tradition. If the monthly reading/discussion
format finds acceptance, the group will make a collaborative
choice to work from other texts or recordings on the Buddhist
precepts from other traditions. Path treaders from all traditions
are welcomed. RSVP to Lynne
Brakeman for details and directions.
Cloudwater
Zendo celebrates two ordinations this summer
On Wednesday,
June 29, Cloudwater
Zendo will ordain David Clippinger as a Shramanera (or
novice) in the Nien-Fo Ch'an Order at the group's Ksanti
Sangha in Pittsburgh. On Friday, August 5, Cloudwater will
ordain Jorge Torres, an inmate at North Central Correctional
Institution in Marion, OH as a Ch'an monk. Torres has been
studying for six year's with Cloudwater's Ven. Ying-Fa.
New
SouthCoast Meditation Group meets Mondays on near West Side
Mark
McDermott and Jack Ricchiuto announced a new meditation
group that meets on Cleveland's Near West Side. The SouthCoast
Meditation Group meets Monday evenings from 5:30 to 6:30
pm at the West Side Ecumenical Ministry Building, 5209 Detroit.
Attendees should be at the door no later than 5:25 pm as
the door will be locked for security. The format includes
both sitting and walking meditation and Dharma dialogue.
For more information, e-mail jack@designinglife.com
or mcdwizard@yahoo.com.
Regional
News
Registration
deadline nears for Stillpoint's July 8-13 sesshin with Tenshin
Reb Anderson Roshi
June
15 is the deadline to register for the Stillpoint
Zen Community's five-day July sesshin with Tenshin
Reb Anderson Roshi, Senior Dharma Teacher and former
abbott with the San Francisco Zen Center. The retreat will
be July 8-13 at the Kearns Spirituality Center in Allison
Park, PA. The fee is $300 which includes meals and accommodations.
For more information or a registration form e-mail or call
Amy P. Kennedy
phone: 412/371-7891.
Chicago's
Udumbara Zen Center holds rural sesshin July 29-31
Udumbara
Zen Center, parent group of Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group of Cleveland, will hold a weekend sesshin
at its rural retreat facility in Ottawa, IL on July 29-31.
Jijuyu-ji's Megan Michaels will receive Jukai (lay ordination)
from Udumbara's Sojun Diane Martin during the sesshin. For
more information or to ask about car pooling, contact Dean
Williams.
Author/teacher
Taigen Dan Leighton visits Chicago in August
Taigen
Dan Leighton will visit Chicago for a series of classes
in August at the Ancient
Dragon Zen Gate (ADZG) sangha, an affiliate of Leighton's
northern California-based Mountain Source Sangha. Leighton
is the co-author of the recently published book: Dogen's
Extensive Record. For information or to register, visit
the ADZG
Web site. For more information about possible car pooling
from the Cleveland area, contact Dean
Williams.
National
News
HH
the Dalai Lama will tour U.S. in September and November
HH the
Dalai Lama has plans for an extensive U.S. tour in September
and November.
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11-14
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Idaho
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Public
events and venues TBA |
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Sept.
16-18
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Tucson,
AZ
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His Holiness will teach on the 8th Chapter of Shantideva's
Bodhicharyavatara at the invitation of Arizona Teaching
Inc.
Website: www.arizonateaching.org
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Sept.
19
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Tucson,
AZ
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His
Holiness will give a public talk/interfaith dialogue at
the Tucson Convention Centre being organised by the Arizona
Friends of Tibet. |
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Sept.
20
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Austin,
TX
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His
Holiness will give a public talk at the University of
Texas-Austin. www.utexas.edu/student/txunion/ |
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Sept.
22
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Houston,
TX
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Programme
at Rice University; Details TBA |
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Sept.
24
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New
York, NY |
New
York City and New Jersey (His Holiness to give teaching
to the Vietnamese community) |
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Sept.
25
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New
Brunswick, NJ
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A
Public Talk on "Peace, War and Reconciliation" at Rutgers
University. |
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Sept.
25
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New
York, NY
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At
3:00 pm, His Holiness will grant audience to Tibetans
and Buddhists from the Himalayan region at the Madison
Square Garden |
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Sept.
26
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New
York, NY
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Programme
at Columbia University, Details TBA |
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Nov.
4
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San
Francisco, CA
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Stanford
University dialogue between Religion and Neurosciences |
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Nov.
5
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San
Francisco, CA
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Stanford
University Meditation and public talk; Discussion on Non-violence. |
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Nov.
8-13
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Washington,
D.C.
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Programme
TBA |
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Nov.
8-10
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Washington,
D.C.
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Mind
and Life Conference. Web: www.mindandlife.org. |
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Nov.
13
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Washington,
D.C.
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Public
talk sponsored by International Campaign for Tibet. Web:
www.savetibet.org. |
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and then with all your heart to give yourself to it,"
— Dhammapada, trans. Thomas Byrom.
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