Krishna Das Tomorrow in Chicago! April 11

Some tickets are still available at Yoga Now's website.

It's a happy convergence of events: Easter, Passover and Hanuman's Birthday! Krishna Das was recently written up in the New York Times and also on Huffington Post. Also, you can learn more about the event on Yoga Now's events FaceBook page.

Here's a map.

The Irish American Heritage Center is located at 4626 n. Knox, near both the Edens and kennedy Expressways. From Lake Shore Drive, Head straight west toward Cicero Avenue. Via public transit, take the Blue Line toward O'Hare and exit at the Montrose stop,

From there:
1. Head east on W Montrose Ave toward N Kilbourn Ave 0.1 mi
2. Turn left at N Kilbourn Ave 0.1 mi
3. Turn left at W Sunnyside Ave 0.1 mi
4. Turn right at N Knox Av

Krishna Das in Chicago April 11

For one evening only.


Location: Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N. Knox Ave.
Chicago, IL 60630
Cost: $25 prepay/ $30 at the door
Children under 12 are free

Tickets are available at Yoga Now.
You can visit KD's website and learn more.

From KD's website
Sharing his heart through music and chanting is the basis of Krishna Das' own spiritual work;his way of serving the Divine within himself and others.

In the winter of 1968, Krishna Das met Ram Dass, who had just returned from his first trip to India. After living and traveling with Ram Dass in the U.S., and hearing Ram Dass' many stories about Maharaj-ji, Krishna Das traveled to India, where he was blessed to meet and stay with this extraordinary guru.

While living in India for almost three years, Krishna Das' heart was especially drawn to the practice of Bhakti Yoga—the yoga of devotion. Fanning the flames of his inner longing, Maharaj-ji led him deeper and deeper into the practice of kirtan—chanting the Names of God. As an appointed pujari (priest) for the Durga temple in Maharaj-ji's ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas, Krishna Das immersed himself in the worship of the Divine Goddess.

If you are wondering what Kirtan with KD looks, sounds and feels like, take a peek at this video.

Sacred Activism Feb.21-22 at Yoga Now

SACRED ACTIVISM with Andrew Harvey

Saturday *February 21, 2009
~ Workshop ~
1pm - 4pm
$50 prepay
$60 at door
8pm -10pm
$20 in advance
$25 at door
Sign up at Yoga Now.



Sacred Activism is one solution to the world’s crises in which ordinary people can make a real and profound necessary contribution.By uniting spiritual and mystical knowledge and understanding, and its attendant compassion, peace, energy, clarity and vision, with focused, wise, radical action in the world we can contribute to creating a better world.

In the afternoon workshop Andrew will convey his understanding of our contemporary world crises; including five types of service that together constitute Sacred Activism. He will also offer mystical practices for activists, and a deep grounding of the mystical journey as understood by major mystical traditions.

In the evening workshop, Harvey will weave the poetry of Rumi, the role of the Divine Feminine, into the story of his path to Sacred Activism as he lays out a vision of focused radical action to support life, preserve the environment, ensure human rights, protect animal species, and transform political, economical, and cultural systems.

The subject of the 1993 BBC documentary, The Making of a Modern Mystic, Harvey is the Executive Director of the Center for Spiritual Democracy and the Founder Director of the School for Sacred Activism. He has authored numerous books including The Direct Path and Teachings of Rumi. Harvey has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and has a spiritual counseling practice in Chicago.

Details on Ven. Bardor Tulku Rinpoche

Ven. Bardor Tulku Rinpoche
at Chicago KTC
2100 S. Central in Cicero
www.chicagoktc. org
Sept. 12-14, 2008
Celebrating 30 years of Chicago KTCs existence!

For added info contact:
Phone: (708) 652-9722
Email: office@chicagoktc.org

Learn more about Rinpoche



Rinpoche's schedule
Friday
7:00pm Meditation
7:30pm Public Talk on Compassion
Sugg. Donation $10

Saturday
3:00 pm Meditation
3:30 pm Teaching on Chenrezig
7:00 pm Meditation
7:30 Refuge and Chenrezig Empowerment ceremony
Sugg. Donation $35
(please be on time, doors will close promptly at 7:30)

Sunday
2:00 pm Meditation
2:30 pm Teaching on Chenrezig
Sugg. Donation $20

All our programs are free due to the generosity of the members of KTC. Donations to Chicago KTC go toward defraying some of the costs of bringing the teachings of highly qualified lineage master to Chicago. However, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Ven. Bardor Tulku Rinpoche at KTC in September

It looks like Ven. Bardor Rinpoche will be teaching at Chicago KTC Sep. 12-14.

Friday
7:00 pm Shinay
7:30 Public Talk on Compassion

Saturday
3pm Shinay
3:30 Chenrezig transmission, explanation and Empowerment

Sunday
3:00 pm Shinay
3:30 Chenrezig contin.

Sunday evening there is a members' potluck dinner celebration commemorating 30 years of Chicago KTC.

Chenrezig at Chicago KTC

Weekly Events at KTC
visit www.chicagoktc.org.

Summary of Meditation Schedule:
Sundays:
9:30 AM Green Tara (short version)
10:00 AM Shinay (sitting meditation)
11:00 AM Chenrezig (chanting liturgy)

Wednesdays:
7:00 PM Shinay (sitting meditation)
7:30 PM Dharma readings and discussion
Shinay Meditation

Time: Sunday at 10:00 AM and Wednesday at 7:00 PM

Shinay means “calming” in Tibetan. Shinay meditation is the process of calming the mind to allow deeper awareness to come forward. This meditation involves holding the correct physical posture while focusing the mind on the sensation of breathing. Variations of this meditation are done in almost every other Buddhist tradition.

Instruction in Shinay is available before or during any Shinay meditation session.

A talk given by Venerable Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche entitled “Meditation and Mental Well-Being” provides an excellent overview of the need for and purpose of Shinay meditation. There are also many good books on the subject.

Chenrezig: Boddhisattva of Compassion

Chenrezig (Tibetan) or Avalokiteshvara (Sanskrit):
Boddhisattva of Compassion

Chenrezig Meditation
Time: Sunday at 11:00 AM
Chenrezig is the representation of compassion. Through Chenrezig meditation one develops a deeper compassion for the suffering of others and purifies one’s tendency for selfish motivation. The meditation itself involves chanting a liturgy while mentally performing a series of visualizations and finishing with mantras and an insight visualization. This liturgy also contains brief meditations of Amitabha and Guru Padmasambhava.

Instruction and guidance is available upon request. There are bimonthly guided Chenrezig sessions which walk practitioners through each step of the visualization.
The female Boddhisattva Green Tara

Green Tara
Green Tara Meditation
Time: Sunday at 9:30 AM

Description: Green Tara is the female representation of compassionate activity and fearlessness. This meditation is similar to Chenrezig meditation both in purpose and content.

There are as yet no scheduled Green Tara teaching sessions. There are a number of fine texts available on the subject however. A teaching about Green Tara will also be available on-line in streaming video format (coming soon).


Dharma Reading and Discussion
Time: Wednesday at 7:30 PM (Shinay starts at 7:00 PM)
The Dharma reading and discussion at KTC focuses on the study of sutras (in English), commentaries and texts by current Kagyu masters followed by discussion of practical aspects of Buddhist practice for Americans. Food and beverages provided. The sessions offer a very congenial, informal environment to study and discuss the Dharma. All questions and comments are welcome. All discussions are self-contained and require no previous instruction.

Please note: followers of other buddhist traditions (or even other religious faiths) are welcome to come to Chicago KTC to practice meditation or discuss Dharma. There is no need to be a 'Buddhist' or 'Karma Kagyu Buddhist' to join us in practice.

May precious Bodhicitta arise within those where it has not arisen.
Where it has arisen, may it not decline, but ever grow and flourish.

Durga Das on Aug. 2 - 3 at Yoga Now

Join David for a bliss-filled, inspirational experience of sacred yoga teachings and practices, For ages yogis have known that Love is the master key to happiness, and therefore created a practice, called Bhakti Yoga, which is centered around the manifestation of that Love. B

Kirtan with Durge Das (David Newman)
Date: Saturday 8/2/08
Time: 8:00-10:00pm
Cost: $15 prepay / $20 at the door

Bhakti Yoga workshop
Location: Gold Coast
Date: Sunday 8/3/08
Time: 12:30-2:30pm
Cost: $30 in advance, $35 at the door

To learn more visit Yoga Now or David's website.

How to get to Krishna Das at NU's Millar Chapel

Kirtan with Krishna Das
Alice S. Millar Chapel is a 600-seat early music venue located at Sheridan Road and Chicago Ave., at the main South entrance to the Northwestern University campus in Evanston.

Millar Chapel
1870 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL.
Sunday, July 27, 7 PM,
$25 advance / $30 door
312-280-9642

There is abundant parking at $1 per hour one block away at Church St. Self Park. Enter from Church or Clark east of Chicago Ave.

Getting there:
the North line Metra to Davis street.
The purple line to Foster.

Heart of Devotion workshop with Krishna Das
Yoga Now Gold Coast
742 N. LaSalle, Suite 20
Chicago, IL
(312) 280-9642
$45 advance/ $50 door

Getting there:
the brown line to Chicago Avenue
the red line to Chicago Ave.

WEB info:
Email info@yoganowchicago.com
Web www.yoganowchicago.com

Krishna Das on the power of chant

“These names. the very fact that they don’t really mean anything specific in the conceptual mind level is actually where the power of the chant comes from.

“These chants comes from a place in your own being that is your true nature. It’s a place that is deeper than your thinking mind.

“Chanting is a mystical yogic practice. And the mystical part of it is that we are chanting these names.

“What Ram Dass and I do more than anything is - what we share with people is our faith.

“There is that place within us that can survive, grow and flourish no matter what comes at us. This is what chanting is about.

“When we chant together, we get a couple of hours of feeling some other quality, some other possibility that you can do anything that you want to do. This is devotional. There are no rules.

“We are tricking ourselves to fall in love with ourselves by thinking that we are loving something outside of ourselves. That’s because psychologically we do not know how to be good to ourselves. We do not know how to love ourselves, it looks like it is outside our selves. But it only looks that way.

These are sound syllables that will help the mind calm down and pull you out of any anxieties or worries or business in your day and in your daily life.

It helps you understand that the script is not written. That the ending is not necessarily a sad ending. That the happiness is within us.

Chanting with Mary Huddleston this weekend

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
2:00-4:00pm
East Meets West
2118 W. Lawrence
Chicago, IL 60625
$10 Love Offering

In these groups, Mary brings people together to practice Japa (repetition) meditation of Sanskrit Mantra. This form of meditation helps to raise our individual and collective vibration as we address personal and collective karmic issues such as health, prosperity, spiritual advancement, peace and protection.
We work with mantras from the collected works of Thomas Ashley-Farrand.

Loyola/Shambala with Khandro Rinpoche July 6-8

Rinpoche looks like an excellent teacher [she speaks fluent English for those of us who are Tibetan language challenged!] from viewing this video. Thank you, Gregg, for pointing this out.



Monday, July 7, 9am-5pm
Making it Real: The Three Prajnas of Hearing, Contemplating and Meditating
(Held at the Shambhala Center)

Tuesday, July 8th, 9am-5pm
Karma: Cause and Effect
(Held at the Shambhala Center)

Tuesday, July 8th, 9am-5pm
Karma: Cause and Effect
(Held at the Shambhala Center)

You can register for the Shambala teachings here.

Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche at Chicago KTC

Chicago Karma Thegsum Choling will be hosting Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche on Chokhor Duchen (Buddha Sakyamuni taught the Four Noble Truths)

Sunday July 6th
7:00 pm Shinay
7:30 Teaching on Bodhicitta

Teachings free to all Chicago-ktc members, Chicago Shambhala members, Tibetan Community
or suggested donation $10

Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche holds both Nyingma and Kagyu lineages and was recognized by the 16th Karmapa as the reincarnation of The Great Dakini of Tsurphu, Khandro Ugyen Tsomo, an emanation of Yeshe Tsogyal and consort(wife- practitioner) of the 15th Karmapa. Khandro Tsering Paldron, endowed with the lineage of Yeshe Tsogyal, was born at the monastery of Zangdok Palri in Kalimpong in the Tibetan fire sheep year (1967) as the eldest daughter of His Holiness Kyabje Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche.

for more information about Her Eminence view her bio.