Yoga Classes in January - Ongoing

Christmas Greetings to All - hope you're happily digesting your Christmas feasts !

Just wanted to check in and see if everyone who was at the retreat is managing to keep up with their meditation, yoga and checking their business or personal issues using 'the book'

Please feel free to drop us an email here with any queries you have (3j.singapore@gmail.com).

Also, I've set up some yoga classes if you'd like to come and practice in a bit more of a structured way.

1. Diamond Flow (Beginners) - in English

This is what we learned at the retreat. If you've always wanted to get started with yoga but weren't sure how, this is the perfect series to get you going.

When: Sunday 3 jan, 10 Jan, 17 jan, 24 Jan, 31 Jan.

Where: Oasis Yoga, Blk 10 Selegie Rd, Selegie House #01-50 (http://www.oasisyoga.sg/location)

Time: 1.30-2.45pm

Cost: $10.00 per class

2. Tibetan Heart Yoga Series 3 - the 4 Immeasureable Thoughts (intermediate) - English with Mandarin Translation

This is a beautiful yoga series where we send out thoughts of love, compassion, and joy to all beings while we do the yoga asanas.

When: Sunday 3rd jan, 10 Jan, 17 Jan, 24 Jan, 31 Jan

Where: Eng Teng Association, 132 Neil Rd, Tanjong Pagar

( http://maps.google.com/maps/place?client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF 8&q=map+132+Neil+Rd+singapore&fb=1&hnear=132+Neil+Rd+singapore&cid=4332818188503364098)

Time: 10.00am - 11.30pm

Cost: $10.00 per class for non-members

3. Tibetan Heart Yoga Series 5 Practice Session (upper intermediate) - Offering to the Teacher

This series features an almost dance-like flow of asanas made as an offering to your teacher. It's one of the more advanced series, so some experience with yoga is recommended.

Where: Botanic Gardens

When: Saturday 2 Jan, 9 Jan, 16 Jan, 23 Jan 30 Jan

Time - 5- 6.30pm

Cost; Free

** if you'd like to come to this practice session, please ask me about specific directions for getting there :)

And starting on 9 Jan

Diamond Flow (Beginners) - in English with Mandarin Translation

Where: Eng Teng Association, 132 Neil Rd, Tanjong Pagar

When; Saturday 9 Jan, 16 Jan, 23 Jan, 30 Jan

Time: 10.00am - 11.30am

Cost: $10.00 per class for non-members

Fees charged for the yoga classes will be used in the following ways:

- to pay for renting the rooms used

- to support the Asian Classics Input Project which preserves endangered texts

- to go towards my remaining 2 journeys to Diamond Mountain University.

Please let me know if you intend to come to any of the classes, and feel free to call if you have any questions.

I hope that 2010 brings you a deeper and deeper understanding of the pen thing :)

Best wishes

Jaki

3 jewels singapore

96779969

Venerable Marut returns to Singapore January 2010 - Completed

In January 2010, Venerable Sumati Marut returns to Singapore for a week-long series of events and talks. This is a great opportunity to meet or re-connect with this warm and insightful spiritual master.

* THE YOGA OF THE BODY, MIND AND HEART: Lord Krishna's Advices on How to Live the Good Life
The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most important philosophical scriptures of the world, ranking in comparison to The Bible and The Koran. The content of this classic work is a conversation that takes place between a warrior prince, Arjuna, and his chariot driver and guide, Krishna, on a battlefield right before the beginning of a climactic war. Arjuna, filled with doubt and the realization that his enemies are in fact his family and loved ones, turns to Krishna, who in fact is the divine spirit in human form, for advice. What follows is a download of eternal wisdom that has the ability to inspire any woman or man to fulfill their own supreme accomplishment.

This five-class weekend aims to ‘yogafy’ one’s actions (karma yoga), minds (jnana yoga) and hearts (bhakti yoga). With philosophy teachings and guided meditations, Ven. Marut will lead students through the three yogas of discipline, wisdom and devotion found in this classic yogic text.

Cindy Lee will guide heart and mind opening asana classes inspired by Tibetan Heart Yoga, integrated with meditations on the essential ideas presented in Ven, Marut’s classes. Using inner and outer methods, these will help fire up your daily yoga practice.

When: January 15 (7:30-9:30PM), January 16-17 (afternoon 1:00-5:30PM)
Location and Sponsor: Pure Yoga (Ngee Ann City, Tower A, 18/F)
Fees and registration: Contact Pure Yoga at 6733 8863


* JUMP-STARTING YOUR PRACTICE
In his seminal work, The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Master Shantideva lays out six perfections that form a radiant bridge from suffering to happiness. In these talks, Venerable Marut will illuminate the fourth perfection of joyful effort, offering us practical steps to true and lasting happiness.

When: January 18-19 at 7:30-9:30PM
Fees: By Donation
Location: Oasis Holistic, #01-50 Selegie House, 10 Selegie Rd (Nearest MRT: Little India)
Free Parking: Mackenzie Rd (Public Car Park next to movie theater)
Pre-register: 9138 5438 or 3j.singapore@gmail.com


* LIVING THE PERFECT LIFE, HERE AND NOW
Well-known in the yoga world, the Sanskrit term jivamukti can be translated as "liberated in this lifetime." Drawing from Hindu, Buddhist and other sacred texts, Venerable Marut will bring to light the personal traits and lifestyle of a truly liberated person. Using this model, these teachings will explore how to live the perfect life, here and now.

When: January 20-21 at 7:30-9:30PM
Fees: By Donation
Location: Oasis Holistic, #01-50 Selegie House, 10 Selegie Rd (Nearest MRT: Little India)
Free Parking: Mackenzie Rd (Public Car Park next to movie theater)
Pre-register: 9138 5438 or 3j.singapore@gmail.com


ABOUT VENERABLE SUMATI MARUT
American monk Venerable Sumati Marut is ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He serves as a founding Board member of the Yoga Studies Institute, is the Spiritual Director of the Asian Classics Institutes of Los Angeles, California and Cape Ann, Massachusetts and is on the faculty of Diamond Mountain University in Arizona. As a Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religions, he taught for over twenty years at Columbia University and the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of several scholarly books and translations based on Sanskrit materials.

Venerable Marut’s personal understanding of our modern lifestyle unites with his extensive scriptural knowledge of authentic South Asian traditions to create spiritual teachings uniquely relevant to contemporary times. He is distinguished and adored for his down-to-earth humour, passionate drive, and ability to make even the most esoteric elements of eastern philosophy work as tools for immediate transformation.

Karmic Management - A New Start to 2010 - Ongoing

Start 2010 right as we follow up on Geshe Michael Roach's December 2009 Karmic Management talks. These two sessions of practical tips and ideas will help you put the concept of Karmic Management into practice for your daily life. This will be an open discussion, so please bring all your questions and ideas and get ready to share!

Dates: January 5, 12, and 26th, 2010
Time: 7:30 - 9:00PM
Where: 51B Temple Street (top floor), in Chinatown
Cost: Free! By Donation Only
Discussion Leader: Jaki Fisher
Pre-registration: 9677 9969 or 3j.singapore@gmail.com

Ceremony to clean up past negative karma - February 2; Time: 7.00pm - 9.30pm/ Venue: 74A Dunbar Walk (East Coast)

June dharma discussion - "Living a Spiritual Life - Daily, In Retreat, and Over a Lifetime" (June 16, 23, 30) - Completed

Dear friends,

Over the next three Tuesdays (June 16, 23, and 30th), we'll be discussing the practicalities of living a spiritual life, as it applies to the various cycles of time that govern our lives. It helps to start with a macro view, by establishing what we should aim for over the course of an entire lifetime. With that foundation, we can then map out what each day can look like in the context of a lifetime that's devoted to the sacred. Finally, we'll explore how to prepare for and accomplish deep retreats, which are a special and critical part of our lives if we are to make real progress toward our ultimate goals.

As a guide for how we should think about the arc of an entire life, we'll review the text "Source of All My Good" by Je Tsongkapa (1357-1419), as well as The Seven Step Practice For Developing a Good Heart in the Tradition of Geshe Chekawa (1101-1175).

Then, we'll look at a single day within a spritual life, using as a guide Lama Sumati Marut's extensive advices on how to use every hour in a day as a means for living meaningfully. (detailed teachings at www.aci-la.org)

Finally, we'll introduce Lama Thupten Pelma's instructions on how to prepare for and conduct a retreat -- only by withdrawing from the 'noise' of everyday life can we find the deep silence that's so conducive for achieving realizations. (detailed teachings available at: http://www.dmes.org/terms/2004-2005/Fall/CheckingIn )


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"Living a Spiritual Life - Daily, In Retreat, and Over a Lifetime"

Pre-Class Meditation: 7.00 - 7.30p

Class Time: 7.30p - 9.15p

Dates: June 16, 23, and 30th (2009)

Venue: 51B Temple Street, 2nd Floor (in Chinatown)

Cost: Free of charge (donations welcome to cover printed materials, and as a gift to venue host) - no registration necessary, feel free to let friends know

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Best wishes,
Alvin
tel 9138 5438

MANAGING YOUR KARMA - completed

MANAGING YOUR KARMA
For those of you who had the fortune of attending Lama Marut's teachings on emptiness last week, you heard him emphasize that we as spiritual practitioners must develop the wisdom that understands the world comes from us, not at us. And these projections are driven by our karma. We as beings are totally changeable, with infinite potential, and by extension, so is the world for each of us. We just have to learn how to "work the karma."

In this 'Dharma Essentials' discussion class, we will explore the marriage of karma and emptiness, focusing on the karma side of things. For the course readings, Lama Marut has selected verses from two classic works: Treasure House of Knowledge (Abhidharmakosha) by Master Vasubandhu (350 AD), and a commentary on this work, Illumination of the Path to Freedom, by Gyalwa Gendun Drup, His Holiness the First Dalai Lama (1391-1474). If you were excited by the possibilities suggested by the emptiness teachings last week, then you will find the karmic techniques presented here to be a practical starting point for realizing the full potential of your spiritual life.

Description: Dharma Essentials - How Karma Works

Dates: Mondays in February (Feb 2, 9, 16, 23)

Time: 7.30p - 9.30p

Cost: Free (donations for handouts and venue welcome)

Venue:

20A Smith St, 2/f

Chinatown

http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_1/travel_site_1908/

The location is a shophouse and you go upstairs to reach 20A -- if you get lost, give Alvin a call on 9138 5438

Discussion leader: Alvin Lee

RSVP: please RSVP to alvin.lee@riskmetrics.com or 9138 5438 so that we can prepare course handouts.

About Alvin Lee -- Alvin has been a student of Buddhism and yoga philosophy since 1999. He has studied in New York and California with Ven. Sumati Marut, Geshe Michael Roach, and the late Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin. Alvin relocated to Singapore in 2002, and has helped lead several dharma discussion groups and retreats.

Meditation Group - completed

If you're interested in starting to meditate regularly, or if you've been trying to meditate but it's been a struggle, this weekly meditation group aims to give you the tools to get yourself going and the support to keep you on track.

It is often said that without meditation lasting progress on a spiritual path is very difficult because meditation is how we check on our mind as we change it into one that can help all being and ourselves be truly happy.

During the session, there will be some instruction, some seated meditation, some walking meditation and a chance to discuss any questions or issues you may have.

Where

The Quayside, 60 Robertson Quay

#04-06, Lobby C

- ask for Benny's apartment

When: starts on Wed Feb 4

Time: 7.30 - 9pm

Cost: Free

Led by Jaki, 96779969

map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=map+the+quayside+singapore&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title

About Jaki Fisher - Jaki has been a Buddhist since 1998 and is currently 5 years into a 6 year programme at Diamond Mountain Buddhist University and Retreat centre where she also majors in sacred dance. At the request of her teachers, Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally, she has trained to teach Tibetan Heart Yoga, and she has been leading study groups and retreats in Singapore since 2005.

Tibetan Heart Yoga - Practice - completed

Tibetan Heart Yoga is a powerful and transformative practice which combines both traditional yoga asana with meditations designed to open the heart and increase our understanding of how reality works and how we can change it.

During the next 4 weeks, Series 1 and 2 of Tibetan Heart Yoga will be introduced.

Where

Oasis Holistic

Blk 10 Selegie Rd

#01-50 Selegie House

6442 2881

When; Saturdays starting this Sat 31st Jan

Time: 5 - 6.30pm

cost: Suggested donation $10 per class - 30% is to cover rental of the space and the rest will be donated to the Assian Classics Input Project which preserves precious and fragile sacred texts.

If you can't afford $10, please still come and donate what ever you can.

Led by; Jaki

map:

http://www.oasisholistic.com/location.htm

About Jaki Fisher - Jaki has been a Buddhist since 1998 and is currently 5 years into a 6 year programme at Diamond Mountain Buddhist University and Retreat centre where she also majors in sacred dance. At the request of her teachers, Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally, she has trained to teach Tibetan Heart Yoga, and she has been leading study groups and retreats in Singapore since 2005.

Dharma talks in January 2009 - Completed

Three Jewels (Singapore) presents

Teachings by Venerable Sumati Marut

1. Je Tsongkapa's Three Principle Paths (lam rim)

Dates: 20-21 January 2009
Time: 7.30-9.30pm

Address: 132 Neil Road

Free admission. Donations Welcomed!

2. Wisdom (Emptiness teachings) - using Arya Nagarjuna's root text - Song on the Root of the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika)

Dates: 22-23 January 2009
Time: 7.30-9.30pm

Address: 132 Neil Road

Free admission. Donations Welcomed!

Venerable Sumati Marut, an American monk, is ordained in the Tibetan tradition. As a Ph.D and Professor of Comparative Religions he taught for over 20 years at Columbia University and the University of California. He is a popular teacher in the USA and Canada, distinguished by his humour, extensive scriptural knowledge, and the ability to make ancient wisdom work to transform our modern lives.

How to get to 132 Neil Road:

Location Map
The location map is available @ http://www.map.gov.sg/StreetMap/. Just key in the Hse No (132) and Road Name (Neil Road) and the location will be highlighted.
The venue is located in one of the old Chinatown shophouses.

MRT
Nearest is Outram MRT. It's about 5-10 min walk away from the MRT station. You can walk along Cantonment Road or Bt Pasoh Road to get to Neil Road.

Buses
Along Neil Road (one-way street): 61, 166, 197
Along Cantonement Road: 75, 167, 196
Along New Bridge Road: 2, 12, 33, 54, 63, 124, 143, 147, 190, 851, 961, 970, CT8, 18, 28

For Those who Drive
Participants can park along Bt Pasoh Road (rate is probably $0.50 per half hour after 5pm.)
Alternatively, the parking at Craig Road's Craig Place multi-storey carpark is $2 per entry after 5pm. (http://www.earthsg.com/index.php?Search_Terms=parking&Zoom=2&Want_POI_id=4745&Page_Index=1&option=com_content&task=localsearchresults)


Contact:

Three Jewels 91385438, singapore.aci@gmail.com

Mastering the Inner and Outer Methods - Tibetan Heart Yoga - Completed

Dates: December 20-21 and January 16-19, 2009


By Venerable Sumati Marut and Cindy Lee.

Details here at Pure Yoga.