Online retreat 21-23rd February with Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche.
Topic: Higher Tantra Kalachakra
My Thangka teacher, who is excellent, has a Losar promotion (Tibetan New Year, this Friday) with courses and things that might be of interest. No obligations and some nice videos and other things for the new year. No obligations. Free to sign up. Free to not sign up.
Our local Subaru dealer is giving away trees for Arbor Day in the US, April 25. Perhaps the dealer in your area is having the same promotion?
10:00am PDT 1:00pm EDT 5:00pm GMT 6:00pm CET
Throughout 2022 Àlex initiated The Future Scientist conversation series, a monthly virtual encounter with selected guests to understand where science is going and to reimagine where we hope it might go.
Maintaining the spirit and the format intact, in 2023 the series expanded its scope and morphed into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity.
In 2024 Àlex continued his exploration with The Future Mind, diving further into consciousness from a theoretical perspective but also integrating numerous embodied aspects of the human experience.
Now, in 2025, Àlex will continue to curate and host such conversations to address The Future World, seeking to gain clarity and insight into important contemporary matters that require both urgent action as well as deep reflection.
Peach Marches and Peachful protests for Peach are my favorites
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According to NASA, the Moon will be eclipsed by Earth’s shadow on March 14. The eclipse begins at 11:57 p.m. ET Thursday and reaches totality at 2:59 a.m. ET Friday.
The maximum eclipse time will vary depending on where you are in the U.S. The graphic below breaks down the timing across all time zones. Those on the East Coast will need to pull an all-nighter to see the total lunar eclipse. However, Hawaii lucks out with the totality happening early enough for some kiddos to stay up and see.
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LOVE the title of this event: Living with joy, dying in peace
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Living with joy, dying in peace
Online retreat, 21-23 March 2025
What if you were told you had one year to live? How would that change your outlook on life, on yourself, on your priorities?
At the moment of death, we let go of everything – our belongings, our loved ones, our body, our identity. Resisting letting go at this point – or at any point of change in life – leads to suffering. By accepting the truth of impermanence, we can open to each moment as it is. We can experience an awakening. We don’t have to wait until the last moment to awaken. We can awaken in the here and now.
Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche as he invites us to reflect on impermanence, our sense of identity and hidden attachments. By exploring and deepening our personal relationship with impermanence and death, we can discover the key to joyful living.
Through teachings and meditations, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will help us:
– become aware of the importance of resolving conflicts with our friends, family members and others;
– to recognise death as the gateway to opening the heart and achieving self-realisation;
– to cultivate a connection to an inner source of refuge that serves us when other support is gone;
– explore our individual relationship to death, and our desire and commitment to serve others in the dying process;
– to learn how to promote a more peaceful and uplifting dying process; and to help a dying loved one physically, emotionally and spiritually through prayer and mantra.
Language: teachings in English with translation into Polish.
Recordings: retreat will be recorded and recordings will be available after the retreat.
Suggested donation: 280 PLN.
Program (CET time):
Friday 21 March 2025
16.30-17.45 session with Rinpoche
19.00-20.15 session with Rinpoche
Saturday-Sunday 22-23 March 2025
15.00-16.00 session with the intructor
16.30-17.45 session with Rinpoche
19.00-20.15 session with Rinpoche
Online: we will be doing this retreat via Zoom. If you do not have Zoom, you can download and install it for free from https://zoom.us
Questions: info@ligmincha.pl
Interesting coincidence
“Tempa Lama was born in the Humla valley of Nepal”
Humla was where i stayed for 2 months with a family Tempa Lama knows. The photo album on this site brings back memories.
Senior
" The first solar eclipse of 2025 will take place at sunrise on Saturday, March 29, with eastern Canada, the northeastern U.S., Europe and Africa all in the path. A deep partial eclipse will be seen from North America, with Canada seeing as much as 94% and the U.S. up to 85% of the sun blocked by the moon at the event’s peak. A smaller eclipse will be seen across western Europe and northwestern Africa later in the day."
Thank you for telling me this!
I have heard people speak very highly of him.
He sent me a letter talking about how they used peoples donation funds to help Build a Monastery in Asia.
Sounds like he is a VERY Realized Being
Faith, Imagination, and Science](https://paricenter.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73647ab0762e1517c63abb375&id=4e6efd0954&e=28f0f61dd3)
Curated and Mediated by Àlex Gómez-Marín
With Robert Duncan and Brett Robinson
12:30am PDT 3:30pm EDT 7:30pm GMT 8:30pm CET
Science can explain many things about reality but the addition of theology, literature, and art deepens our understanding and makes for a much richer appreciation of life on this weird and wonderful planet. How can Religion respond to evolving scientific discoveries? How should the Church think about UFOs? What are the boundaries for Catholic belief? The McGrath Institute for Church Life is proud to present “Edge of Belief: UFOs, Technology & The Catholic Imagination”, a documentary short that explores the outer limits of belief.
“The Edge of Belief” is a documentary film about the interplay of faith, imagination and science. The film looks at the modern UFO phenomenon through the lens of the Catholic theological, scientific and literary tradition. This impactful documentary gives viewers a holistic framework for thinking about the mysteries of the universe and dealing with the claims that we are not alone in it. “The Edge of Belief” features interviews with CS Lewis scholar and Oxford professor Michael Ward, religious studies researcher and author of American Cosmic, Diana Pasulka, icon artist and host of “The Symbolic World,” Jonathan Pageau, Notre Dame theologian Christopher Baglow, and Chair of Astronomy at Cornell, Jonathan Lunine, among others.
Link to the film (31 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA0ah6Xmqus
Schedule:
08:30pm CET – Introduction
08:45pm CET – Live film watch
09:15pm CET – Conversation between Robert, Brett, and Alex
10:00pm CET – Q&A from the audience
10:30pm CET – End