Buddhism on the Radio (worldwide)

Roy Tuckman (weekdays 12:00 am -5:00 am)

Aside from broadcasting Gary Null, "Something's Happening with Roy of Hollywood" on Thursday nights regularly features Alan Watts, Pema Chodron, Shinzen Young, and other voices rarely heard on the public airwaves. The Dharma is alive at KPFK.org (listen free 24/7).

• Support free speech radio: (818) 985-5735

Shows are available for 90 days or to download at the KPFK AUDIO ARCHIVES.

Nita Valens (InnerVisionTuesdays)
How can we create emotional and spiritual balance through these tough economic times? What is the link between neuroscience and spiritual wisdom?

InnerVision guests Dr. Marion Solomon, Jack Kornfield, and Dan Siegel (Nov. 1, 2011) explain. This topic improves all areas of our lives, adding humility and grace. Inner Vision radio airs Tuesdays at 1:00 pm.


Lisa Garr (Wednesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-2:00 pm PST)

Health and spirituality at midday (Pacific Standard Time) brings New Age, Buddhist, and independent spiritual luminaries to the air (and Web). Alternative and complementary medicine are also explored.

• 90.7 FM in Los Angeles
• 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara
• 93.7 FM in North San Diego
• 99.5 FM in China Lake
  
• Live on the web at KPFK.org

Buddhist Geeks Conference begins

Buddhist Geeks Conference


Keynote Presenters

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Nalandabodhi

Jane Mcgonigal Reality is Broken

Shinzen Young The Five Ways

Other Conference Presenters

Diane “Musho” Hamilton Dragon Heart Sangha	Ken McLeod Unfettered Mind	Trudy Goodman InsightLA
Ethan Nichtern The ID Project	Vincent Horn Buddhist Geeks	Hokai Sobol Mandala Society
Danny Fisher University of the West	Diana Winston UCLA	Rohan Gunatillake 21awake.com
Kenneth Folk Kenneth Folk Dharma	Afra Moenter Ordinary Awakenings	Emily Horn Ordinary Awakenings
Kelly McGonigal Stanford University	Michael Trigilio StarveLab	Benjamin Beirs Classical Guitarist

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Meditation Feng Shui; Concentration (video)

What is Feng Shui? Theory, Tools, Cures, and Tips

Google Talks: Shinzen on Deep Concentration in Meditation

The amazing Shinzen Young (live)

The Science of Enlightenment (ebook3000.com)

• Shinzen Young
  
• Saturday, July 23, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
• Against the Stream
• 1001a Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, 90401

AGS is hosting famous Western science/meditation master Shinzen Young for an evening in Santa Monica, California. There will be meditation, a talk, and conversation with the lay sangha. No registration needed. By donation only. This will be followed by an all-day intensive on Sunday.

What is the best path? Shinzen answers.

SHINZEN YOUNG became fascinated with Asian culture as a teenager in Los Angeles. Later he enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin. He eventually went to Asia and did extensive monastic training in all three of the major Buddhist meditative traditions: Tibetan (Vajrayana), Zen (Mahayana), and Vipassana (Theravada). His specialty is linking Eastern internal science and Western technological science.

• shinzen.org
• basicmindfulness.org
• VIDEOS: Shinzen Young

Buddhist Geeks Conference (Los Angeles)

• Buddhist Geeks, The 2011 Conference
• July 29-31
• University of the West (Hsi Lai)
  
• Los Angeles, California
• Opening speaker: Shinzen Young

Workshop: Healthy (Non)-Attachment

• Against the Stream, Melrose
• Day-long Workshop with George Haas*
• Saturday, June 25
• 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

“My job is a travel agent, taking you effortlessly between heaven and hell.”

- Joshu Sasaki Roshi

Somewhere along this Buddhist path, one may have heard that “attachment” is the cause of suffering (dukkha, disappointment), and that “non-attachment” is the way out of suffering.

If this is interpreted to mean that the best way to live life is to never become attached to anything no matter what -- that is wrong view.

People, places, things... the failure to remain attachment-free is what is making life miserable? No.

This workshop will focus on how to use the wisdom aspects of the Noble Eightfold Path (right view and right intention) and the ways we get them wrong. It is not about why we cling, but how we actually do it -- the mechanics of clinging -- and how it leads to suffering.

The workshop will use John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory as the reference point for healthy attachment in the everyday sense for practical applications to day-to-day life.

The meditation techniques offered in this workshop will be specific, simple, and easy-to-do. So whether an established practice already exists or is just beginning, all can benefit.

This class is a taste of what George Haas will be teaching in his 8-week series, "The Meaningful Life," which begins July 7, 2011.

• Daylong cost $50 plus dana for the teacher.
• Some scholarships and work study available.
• No one turned away for lack of funds.
• Call or write for more info.
• Please pack a brown bag.

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SPECIAL OFFER: Register, pay in full, and attend daylong for dana only.

*George Haas began down his path with a period of lightweight spiritual seeking (and heavy duty drug and alcohol use). In 1978, he began a serious exploration of the 11th step of the 12-Step tradition, working primarily with concentration to reduce the anxiety of living a sober life. In an effort to make sense out of, and live with, the mounting AIDS deaths of the 1980s, Mr. Haas began walking the Red Road and reading Buddhist texts. Moving to Los Angeles from Manhattan in 1992, he began sitting Vipassana at Ordinary Dharma and reading extensively. In 1998, he began studying with his current teacher, Shinzen Young at Vipassana Support International (VSI). Haas is a Senior Facilitator at VSI and teaches in an irreverent style. He has been teaching meditation in Los Angeles since 2000.