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We're off this week! Instead, consider dropping by 12South Dharma Center for the interesting program featured below.

Dharma Study will be back on Friday, July 17, with the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche's teaching on Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness. Next up is the skandha of mental formations.

I'd like to take the opportunity to recommend the one-day silent retreat offered by One Dharma at the end of the month. My friend and dharma colleague, Lisa Ernst, will teach vipassana meditation -- the meditation method Buddha taught for realization of no-self and which is referenced in the current study series. More information and a link below.
How Brains Meditate:
Neuroscience Meets Contemplative Spirituality
Peter Grossenbacher, Ph.D.
flying brain

7:00 PM Wednesday, July 8
12South Dharma Center · 2301 12th Avenue So. Suite 202
No charge, but donations are accepted

How do the capacities of the human brain enable people to meditate? What lasting effects does meditation have on the brain? How do these anatomical and physiological changes impact the lives of meditators? Recent scientific investigation has begun to discover helpful answers to these compelling questions.

This talk presents exciting findings from recent studies of brain function and meditation, and offers a simple framework for understanding human nature revealed by these studies. Guided meditation will be offered to connect this emerging understanding with actual lived experience.

Dr. Grossenbacher is an international speaker on meditation and the brain, whose own research has been covered in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine and Discover Magazine. Associate Professor in the Contemplative Psychology Department at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, he teaches psychological courses on perception, cognition, statistics and research. Peter regularly provides meditation instruction, and also directs a program of research on meditation and contemplative spirituality.
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Area Retreats & Teachings

retreatwoodsJuly is going to be very rich for dharma retreats in the mid-state area.

July 10-12
Cumberland Sangha Retreat
Teaching retreat with Zen teacher / psychologist Sanchi Reta Lawler. Combination of teachings and encounter-type exercises.
$265
Click here for more info

July 17-19
Padmasambhava Buddhist Center
Summer Practice Weekend
Weekend student-led practice retreat in the Vajrayana tradition. Location: Padma Gochen Ling outside Monterey, 2 hours east of Nashville.
$10-15+/day
Click here for more info

July 25

One Dharma Retreat
Day-long SILENT mindfulness meditation retreat led by Lisa Ernst. Held in a wooded residential setting outside Bellevue. Photo above was taken at the site.
$25 includes lunch
Click here for more info


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With love,

Rita Frizzell
Luminous Mind

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