ZEN PEACEMAKERS

Enter a new era of peacemaking     Same inspiration, new website, new approach

Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat Nov 5-9, 2012   India Pilgrimage: Footsteps of the Buddha Jan 7-20, 2012   Street Retreat April 27 – 29, 2012                 Israel & Palestine: The Holy Land May 7-20, 2012

Bernie's April 2012 Bowery Street Retreat      Street retreats have been a core practice of the Zen Peacemakers since 1991, when Roshi Bernie Glassman led the first one in the streets of the Bowery in New York City. Since then they have been held annually in New York, Denver, Paris and Zurich, and occasionally in many other cities around the world.   Tompkins Park, Bowery NY, 1991   Roshi Bernie and Roshi Grover Genro Gauntt will lead a street retreat in New York from April 27 – 29, 2012. Attendance in this retreat is limited to Friends of Bernie. Those attending are asked to raise a mala (view mala description) of 18 beads of $108 and one large bead of $1,080.     Visit Our New Website!

REUNIÓN DE ZAZÉN

El Centro Zen celebró su primera reunión de zazen ayer, domingo, y fue todo un éxito.
Agradecemos a los que nos agraciaron con su grata visita.
Esperaramos que nos sigamos reuniendo en el futuro para lograr nuestra superación personal y espiritual.
Recordar que la recomendación es establecer su práctica diaria y llevar su visión renovada al resto de sus actividades diarias.
Cualquier persona interesada en asistir a nuestra reuniones, favor dirigirse a la dirección electrónica "santodomzen@yahoo.com".

CENTRO ZEN DOMINICANO

Se complacen en invitarle a:

Reunión de ZAZEN

Abierto a todas edades, géneros, razas, y credos religiosos.

Próxima reunión:

Domingo :           27/11/2011

3:00-5:00 Breve introducción sobre el Budismo Zen (Opcional)

5:00-7:00 Inicio de sesión de Zazén (Meditación)

Dirección

Calle Orión #8

Torre Orión

Naco

Para mayor información:

Tel                         (809) 399-8690

Email                     santodomzen@yahoo.com

Online                  http://zendominicano.blogspot.com/

AVISO DE INTERÉS:

Estamos formando grupos de meditación Zen en ciudades del interior como sigue:

CABARETE

PUNTA CANA

SANTIAGO

Los interesados favor de enviar un email de interés a la dirección electrónica siguiente:

santodomzen@yahoo.com que se dirigirá a los organizadores.

TENEMOS REUNIONES POR LA VÍA DE SKYPE EN LAS QUE PUEDEN PARTICIPAR LOS INTERESADOS.

Por la misma vía nos pueden enviar su clave de Skype para participar. 
 

136 ANIVERSARIO DE LA SOCIEDAD TEOSÓFICA

CONVOCATORIA A REUNIÓN ESPECIAL

CONMEMORACIÓN DEL 136 ANIVERSARIO

DE LA SOCIEDAD TEOSÓFICA

  

A:                Miembros de la ST, amigos e interesados en Teosofía

FECHA:      Miércoles, 16 de noviembre de 2011

HORA:        de 5:00 a 7:00 pm

LUGAR:     Ateneo Dominicano, Inc.

                  Calle Félix Mariano Lluberes No. 18

                  Ensanche Gascue, Santo Domingo, D.N.

MATERIAL:    “Las Tres Ideas Fundamentales" y conmemoración del 136to Aniversario de la Fundación de la Sociedad Teosófica.

CONTRIBUCIÓN:  Un plato vegetariano o una bebida no alcohólica.

TELÉFONO DE CONTACTO:        809-707-4416

VISITANTES BIENVENIDOS

DALAI LAMA VISITA A MÉXICO

Durante su estancia en México, Su Santidad el Dalai Lama participará en una variedad de eventos públicos y privados, así como culturales y religiosos. El 9 de septiembre, visitará por vez primera a la ciudad de Monterrey, Nuevo León, donde dictará la conferencia: “Construyendo armonía a través del altruismo y la compasión” en el Tercer Encuentro Mundial, Valores y Cultura de la Legalidad, que se llevará a cabo en el Auditorio Banamex.

Reality Itself is Annihilation and Change

by Aik Theng Chong, The Buddhist Channel, Sept 23, 2011

Singapore -- There are two kind of annihilation, an empirical one called destruction and a transcendental one called evanescence or impermanence. The first is the annihilation said of a jar, which when drop, broke into pieces. The second refer to imperceptible gradual, constant deterioration over time of a jar, which is the very essence of reality of all things. 

As Santiraksita has pointed out, reality itself is called annihilation as what is ultimately real has only the duration of a moment of existence. Its essence is impermanent, it is dynamic and indivisible. It cannot be divided such that non-existence should follow upon existence as its impermanent arises simultaneously with its production.

Transcendental ultimate reality is a never beginning and never stopping, infinitely graduated, constant change. There is nothing permanent, no static element in this process. An everlasting substantial Soul or matter is pure imagination. There is in every next moment not the slightest bit left of what has been existent in the former moment.

Every momentary thing is annihilated as soon as it appears, because it does not survive in the next moment as if it does, it would mean eternity because it would survive in the third and all the following moments. Static means eternal. If matter exist it necessarily is eternal, if it does not exist, being is necessarily instantaneous. The first view is advocated in the theist religion, the second in Buddhism.

Transcendental annihilation is not produced by occurring causes. Since existence itself is constant annihilation, it will go on existing, being annihilated and changing without needing in every case any cause of annihilation. The elements of existence are automatically evanescent and impermanence, they do not need any additional circumstance in order to produce that change which is going on always and by itself. Reality is characterized as efficiency it can also be characterized as evanescence or annihilation.

. To you who think there’s something to being “in”

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You’re always hanging onto others. If somebody’s eating French fries, you want French fries too. If somebody’s sucking on a candy, you want a candy too. If somebody’s blowing on a penny whistle, you scream, “Mommy, buy me a penny whistle too!”
And that doesn’t just go for children.
When spring comes, you let spring turn your head. When autumn comes, you let autumn turn your head. Everyone is just waiting for something to turn their head. Some even make a living turning heads – they produce advertising.
People love emotional confusion. Just look at the film posters in front of the cinema: nothing but emotional confusion on their faces. Buddha-dharma means not putting yourself at the mercy of emotional confusion. In the world, on the other hand, a big fuss is made over nothing.
It goes with being an ordinary person: he can only see with the eyes of collective stupidity.
Being surrounded by heroes and scraping up the courage to play hero yourself – there’s nothing so heroic about that. A thief says to his son, “If you don’t stop right away with your damned honesty, you’ll never be a respectable thief like me. You are a disgrace to the profession!”
Man makes a clever face and talks about being lord on Earth. And at the same time he doesn’t even know where to begin with his own body: he watches sports on television and defends himself saying that everyone else does it too.
We live in group stupidity and confuse this insanity with true experience. It is essential that you become transparent to yourself and wake up from this madness. Zazen means taking leave of the group and walking on your own two feet.
One at a time people are still bearable, but when they form cliques, they start to get stupid. They fall into group stupidity. They’re so determined to become stupid as a group that they found clubs and pay membership dues. Zazen means taking leave of group stupidity.