Upcoming Events

Friday May 2nd — Sunday May 4: Traveling Teacher Kerstin Seifert

We want to invite you to Chicago May 2nd through 4th for a retreat with German traveling teacher Kerstin Seifert.

Kerstin took refuge with Lama Ole in 1980 and since 1990 has been living in the Wuppertal center. She received an education in bookbinding, restoration of antique books and paper arts from 1992-1999 and completed programs at Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (KIBI) from 1994-1999. She has been an international traveling teacher since 2000 and started organizing the KIBI courses in New Delhi in 2007.

Friday, May 2:

8.00pm  Public Lecture and Meditation - "Buddhist Meditation"
  

Saturday, May 3:

9.00am  Breakfast
10.00am Personal Practice
1.00pm  Lunch
2.00pm  Lecture and Meditation - "Karma - Cause and Effect" 
5.00pm  Dinner
6.00pm  Sangha Meeting: Organizing major events and working together as a Sangha
8.00pm  Lecture and Meditation - "Working with Disturbing Emotions"

Sunday, May 4:

9.00am  Breakfast
10.00am Personal Practice
1.00pm  Lunch
2.00pm  Lecture and Meditation - "Teacher-Student Relationship"
5.00pm  Dinner
6.00pm  Lecture amd Meditation - "Love and Partnership"

The retreat will include all meals on Saturday and Sunday, and room is available at the center for those who are staying the night. The cost of the retreat will be $20/day or $40 for the whole weekend.

For more information please email us at chicago@diamondway.org.

All The Best,
Chicago Sangha

 

Monday, Friday every week

Weekly meditations at the Center at 8 pm.

Wednesday every week

Informal meditations at Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago at 8 pm.