Lift Your Spirits This Weekend
With Some Dharma & Community
These have been difficult days recently here in our nation's capital. We invite you to join us at events this weekend that will nourish your spirit, and connect you with others who are traveling along the path of spiritual awakening.
On Saturday, Tara Brach helps to lead an intriguing daylong event, Spirituality + Emotions: Awakening to the Wisdom of Your Heart. The day opens with the Washington, DC premiere of TEARS OF THE BUDDHA, and concludes with an inspiring evening of music featuring singer/songwriter Carrie Newcomer.
Then on Monday, experience and insightful and entertaining program with Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman at the Washington, DC launch of their new book, Love Your Enemies. They'll be signing books afterwards.
See details about these events below!
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Join Us for A Fascinating Journey Into
POWERFUL. SCARY. ADDICTIVE.
NOURISHING. MEANINGFUL. LIBERATING.
How do we view our emotions as we advance along our spiritual path?
This special daylong program exploring the power and role of emotions includes the film TEARS OF THE BUDDHA, a discussion with director Joel Lesko, meditation and teachings by Tara Brach and Judith Blackstone, and a concert with Carrie Newcomer.
This program is inspired by the questions asked in this film.
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DC Premiere of
Tears of the Buddha
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 Saturday, October 12
10 am - 5 pm Concert at 7:30 pm
Spectrum Theatre at Artisphere
1611 N. Kent St.
Rosslyn, VA 22209
Free Parking
4 Blocks from Rosslyn Metro
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Some Thoughts on Emotions from Judith Blackstone:
"Spiritual awakening is not an eradication of our internal experience. It is deepened contact with our internal experience."
Judith says that this deepened internal contact includes our thoughts, emotions, sensations and perceptions. She describes spiritual awakening as the experience of a "subtle unbroken consciousness pervading our own form and our environment as a unity." Within this pervasive consciousness, Judith says, every aspect of our experience flows without obstruction or distortion.
"In practical terms, this means that with spiritual awakening, we become more open and resilient to the movement of life. We feel our emotions even more deeply and clearly, but without grasping on to them. We allow them to flow, to arise and dissipate. The important principle and practice of non-grasping does not refer just to our perception of our environment or circumstances, but to all of our internal experience as well.
"We let go of our grasp on our heart, and allow it to function freely. This allows for the spontaneous upwelling of love and compassion. And it also allows for other emotions, like grief or anger or fear. All of these emotions are part of the richness of being human, which grows richer and brighter as we know who we really are."
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Carrie Newcomer in Concert
An Evening of Spirit and Song
Saturday, October 12
7:30 pm
Spectrum Theatre at Artisphere
Rosslyn, VA
Free Parking
4 Blocks from Rosslyn Metro
 Named One of the Top 50 Folk Artists
Of the Past 50 Years by the Chicago Tribune
"I continue to create works that affirm the human spirit, call together what has been divided, and advocate for positive social change."
Carrie's music explores the intersection of the spiritual and the daily, the sacred and the ordinary. Billboard describes her as "a soaring songstress," the Boston Globe calls her "a prairie mystic," and the Associated Press says,"Carrie Newcomer combines a rich voice with equally rich lyrics to weave a tapestry of life and hope."
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Love Your Enemies
Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman
Monday, October 14 at 7 pm
Friends Meetinghouse at Dupont Circle
2111 Florida Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20008
Join renowned Buddhist teachers Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman for their only DC-area appearance celebrating their new book, Love Your Enemies.
Mixing ancient Buddhist wisdom, modern psychology and the latest neuroscience, Salzberg and Thurman address an urgent need we have today: to overcome the real sources of our rage and fear, and thereby find inner peace and peaceful coexistence with the world. Using their practical methods, including Shantideva's advice on replacing anger with patience, we can transform our relationships with our outer, inner, secret and super-secret enemies.
Sharon Salzberg cofounded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass. and is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including Faith and Real Happiness. Tenzin Robert Thurman holds the chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and is co-founder of Tibet House in New York.
Produced by Grace Productions, this "Living Sacred" event is co-sponsored by Politics and Prose Bookstore and the Shambhala Meditation Center of Washington DC.
Buy Tickets Online or by Phone
http://loveyourenemies.bpt.me
1-800-838-3006
For More Information:
Contact gr...@graceproductions.co
301-445-6771
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Join others circling the world with prayer. Whether praying 40 hours or 40 minutes, alone or with others, your prayer can make a difference.
Shalem's Contemplative Prayer Vigil is the culminating event of Shalem's 40th Anniversary year. We invite all who are committed to trusting the Spirit to join us during the 40 hours for however long you can.
Together, we offer thanksgiving for all that has been given, we listen more deeply to what the Spirit is inviting, and we re-dedicate ourselves to responding to that invitation.
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BuddhaFest Thanks Its Sponsors
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington
At George Mason University
World Wildlife Fund
Climate Change Program
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