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"Empty Mind, Full Heart" (Los Angeles)

Public Zen talk by Jeff Albrizze Roshi, July 6, 6:30 PM


Meditation as Enlightenment
Led by Jeff Albrizze Roshi

The noble silence of Zen meditation has been a gateway to spiritual awakening for hundreds of years. Find out how this form of silent concentration awareness can liberate one from suffering and help one live more fully right now.

• Learn to meditate like a Zen master in just minutes
• Use the mind's patterns to set oneself up for success
• Find out how difficulties are actually doorways to enlightenment
• Find a meditation posture that works according to body type

There will be a question and answer period and sever short meditations.

• Talk, meditation 6:30-8:00 pm
• Wednesday, July , 2011
  
• Alexandria II Bookstore (626) 792-7885
• 170 S. Lake Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101

Jeff Albrizze Roshi From Catholic altar boy to traveling Pentecostal preacher to part-time Buddhist monk, Roshi's spiritual journey has led him down many paths. He has been practicing Zen Buddhism for over 20 years and has been leading PasaDharma, a Zen Buddhist meditation group in Pasadena for 12 years.

• Zen Center Los Angeles (ZCLA)
• Zen in Long Beach (zmc.org)
  
• Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, So Cal
  

Shaolin Temple Warrior Monks

Empty Mind films - This footage, taken outside a Shaolin temple, is from The Empty Mind documentary showing warrior monks who are students of Shaolin master ShiDeYang.

Wisdom Publications

Johnny Diaz (Globe Staff, 5/17/09)

Tim McNeill, Wisdom Publications, beside Dalai Lama poster (Globe/Wendy Maeda)

SOMERVILLE -- Walk inside the offices of Wisdom Publications in Davis Square and the Dalai Lama's smiling face greets you in every room. The Tibetan Buddhist leader's image adorns book covers, photographs, and posters inside this nonprofit, which is literally a publishing house: The offices are in a two-story 1920 mansard-roof Victorian house.

Welcome to the Dalai Lama's primary publisher in Boston and one of the largest English-language Buddhist-dedicated literary companies in the world, selling 200,000 books a year from a catalog of 300 titles in 34 languages. The Dalai Lama's books are regular top 10 best-sellers in the company's collection: In all, Wisdom has published 14 books with the Dalai Lama, who is believed to be a manifestation of the Buddha of compassion and a reincarnation of 13 previous Dalai Lamas.

"He is our biggest celebrity author," said Tim McNeill, Wisdom's publisher and chief executive who this month released the Dalai Lama's newest book, The Middle Way: Faith Grounded in Reason... More>>

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