April 2015

In This Issue

Friends Scheme

Don't be Yourself by Lama Zopa

This Month at Jamyang

Geshe Tashi's column

The Director's Column

His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the UK

Easter Compassion Retreat

Dagri Rinpoche at Jamyang

Coming up this Spring

Jamyang, the Building and Global Warming

Volunteers Needed

Library Stocktake

Jamyang Spring Walk

Poetry Corner

Opportunities for Service around the FPMT

About FPMT

Your Thoughts for Gentle Voice

Quick Links

Jamyang Website

Current Programme

Talking Buddhism

Editor's welcome

Sun or Moon? Solar eclipse of the 20th March

Dear friends,

I hope you are all well and enjoying life. The start of official summertime always seems to me to bring the start to a season of optimism. Somehow, in spite of the clocks going forward, it seems to be easier to get up early. So this might be a good time to reconnect with your practice. The Easter retreat with Geshe Tashi starts at Jamyang soon, details below, and we are very happy to confirm the visit of Dagri Rinpoche in June. Robin Bath is busy planning the first of this year's Jamyang walks and there are some very spectacular plans for the building that we share with you below.

Don't miss Lama Zopa's talk that we reproduce below with the unusual title of "Don't be Yourself".

Please enjoy this edition of Gentle Voice and may the causes of happiness shower down upon you.

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Don't be yorself by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

If you do not practice compassion, loving kindness and patience towards others, if you do not cultivate these healthy minds, these positive, beneficial thoughts for the sake of yourself and all other sentient beings, if you don't make an effort to develop these positive attitudes, you are just being yourself; you are allowing yourself to be your old self. Your old self follows your ego and self-centred mind and thinks only of your own happiness and nothing else. From beginningless time, in every rebirth, your old self has been under the influence of ego and self-centredness, the unhealthy, uptight, unpeaceful mind. Your old self's heart is closed, not open. Your old self works only for your own happiness and cares nothing for the needs of others. Your old self does not think that you are responsible for the happiness of others, that your happiness comes from others and that their happiness depends upon you. Your old, self-centred mind

thinks only of your happiness and nothing other than that. So "being yourself" means just that - being your old self, instead of practicing those positive minds, you do just the opposite. You follow disturbing thoughts such as attachment and anger, which offer your mind no peace, no rest, no realisation - only agitation, trouble and unhappiness. There's no holiday for your mind. Even if you take your body on vacation, there's no vacation for your mind, no rest and relaxation for your mental continuum. The result of continually following your old self - ego, attachment and anger - is that you never find satisfaction. These thoughts can never bring you satisfaction, no matter for how many eons you follow them. This is simply the nature of attachment. As Guru Shakyamuni Buddha said, "As long as you follow desire you will never be satisfied." It's like sitting in a fire. As long as you sit in a fire you will never experience the pleasure of not being burned. If you long to be comfortable and cool, you have to get out. In just the same way, as that is logical, so it is logical that as long as you follow attachment you will not find inner peace, true satisfaction, real rest. There's no vacation for your heart. That's the old self at work. When the Rolling Stones sang, "Well I tried and I tried, I tried and I tried - I can't get no, satisfaction," they were actually giving a lam-rim teaching; a lam-rim teaching with guitar accompaniment. They were teaching meditation. If you don't have a good heart, if you have no satisfaction - which can be experienced only by not following the painful minds of desire and attachment - if you don't develop loving kindness and compassion, then even if you do take a break from your job and take your body to the beach, there's no rest for your mind. There's no peace within your mental continuum because you have taken with you your attachment and anger and the constant problems they create. Because you lack a good heart and cannot dedicate yourself to others, there's no fulfilment in your heart. Because of the disturbing emotional thoughts of attachment and anger, you get no satisfaction and experience constant problems. Your emotional thoughts are the foundation of all your problems. They themselves are the main problem. Because of them, you have no inner peace and cannot enjoy life. Even though externally it might look as if you're enjoying yourself, as if you're experiencing excitement and pleasure, when you look into your heart, you know that there's always something missing. Only by giving up - cutting, freeing yourself from -disturbing emotional thoughts, such as the painful mind of attachment, can you find satisfaction in your heart, in your inner life. If you can stop being your old self, if you can stop following the beginningless discriminating thoughts of attachment and anger, stop forming the thought of anger, stop transforming the mind that was not angry into one that wants to harm others, you will never have enemies. Wherever you go, you will never find an enemy trying to harm you. From Virtue and Reality, Chapter 3, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Return to Contents

CLASSES AND EVENTS IN APRIL AND MAY AT JAMYANG Full information about these and all our events can be found here on the

Jamyang Website

CLASSES and RETREATS with GESHE TASHI Easter Compassion Retreat Good Friday 3 April, Sat 4 April (with 8 Mahayana Precepts), Sun 5 April (finishing with a shared lunch at 1pm) Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 8am - 5pm (precept lunch at 11.30am), Sun 9am - 1pm Enlightenment Potential Tuesdays 12 May to 7 July at 7:30 Buddhist Practice - Step by Step Wednesdays 13 May to 8 July at 7:30 Special Insight Weekend 16 and 17 May VISITING TEACHERS AND WEEKEND TEACHINGS Sublime Continuum with Andy Wishreich 18, 19 April (can be taken as part of the Basic Programme) Don't just do something, sit there! with Nat B and Anne S Saturdays 2 and 9 May Andy Weber Art Workshop 29 - 31 May Dagri Rinpoche 26 - 28 June See article below for details PRACTICE GROUPS Insight Meditation Practice Group 11 and 25 April and 23 May 10.30- 12.30pm Open to all Guhyasamaja Practice Group Saturdays 11 April, 9 May 2 - 5pm for initiates only Vajrayogini Practice Group Sundays 12, 26 April, 10, 24, 31 May For initiates only

WEEK DAY EVENINGS AND AFTERNOONS Introduction to Meditation 11 May 7:30 Buddhist Meditation: Wisdom Mondays 18 May onwards 7.30. Buddhist Meditation in Practice with David Ford Thursdays 9 April, 7 May to 18 June 7.30pm Vajrasattva Practice with Mike Murray. Wednesdays 1, 8 April 7.30pm Mindfulness. Really? with Mike Murray Tuesday14 April 7.30pm Vajra Cutter Sutra with John Bonell Wednesdays 15, 22, 29 April 7.30pm Kindness with Robin Bath Mondays 13, 20 April 7.30pm Mahayana Mindfulness With Mike Murray Monday 27 April 7.30pm Inner Job Description With Roy Sutherwood Tuesday 28 April 7.30pm Lunchtime Meditation Thursdays 1 - 2pm Silent Meditation Thursdays weekly except 2, 9 and 30 April 6.15 - 7.15pm

Tara Puja Tuesdays at 4.30pm except 21, 28 April and 5 May Medicine Buddha Puja Tuesdays at 6pm except 21, 28 April and 5 May

Kalachakra Practice Group Sat 25 April, 23 May 2 - 5pm For initiates only SPECIAL EVENTS Peace in the City 4 May 1-4pm Death Cafe with Jon Underwood 27 May Please book for all weekend classes or retreats other than practice groups on-line if you can. If you can't call the office on 02078208787 or email admin@jamyang.co.uk You can drop in to all evening classes unless we state otherwise

Lama Choepa 14 April, 13, 28 May,12, 26 June COMMUNITY Jamyang Walk Saturday 25 April Community Dharma Sunday 17 May 2 - 4pm Dying Well 24 May Chi Kung and Tai Chi Monday evenings taught by William Walker. For more information and to book call William (follow the link above) Satyananda Yoga Tuesday evenings taught by Judy Watchman For more information and to book call Judy (follow the link above)

Gentle Vinyassa Flow Wednesday 6:00pm to 7:15pm Hridaya (Heart Centre) Yoga Taught by Naz Wednesday evenings 7.30pm For more information please call Naz (follow the link above) Chair Yoga Taught by Cathy Brebion Tuesdays 10.30am - 11.30am Meditation and Yoga for Mind and Body Fridays 6.45-7.45PM For more information please call Nicolette (follow the link above) Return to Contents

Geshe Tashi's column

Hello Everybody,

When holiday time comes it is very important to make good use of your time. It is very important to relax and enjoy some time away from your usual work or study responsibilities. It is good to spend time with your family and friends. The support we give each other is very important and we often do not value this enough. Giving our friends and family support by just being with them and sharing is a good way to practice an open heart is a very simple but sincere manner. This makes the best use of our leisure time and ensures that we do not use our time unwisely thinking only of our own benefit. Of course a break from the usual activities in life also gives us the opportunity to put a little more into our formal Dharma practice, meditation or study. That is also a very productive way to spend some of your time. In fact a combination of spending some time supporting others, supporting our friends and family, and also some time on caring for ourselves through our Dharma practice is a good balance.We need to take care of ourselves by gently challenging the normal habitual patterns of our minds, not in a critical way, but in an inquisitive manner. If we can take a look at our minds with patience, with humour, without attachment or aversion, then we can really learn to let go of the usual thinking, the thinking that is based on me and what I want for myself. A more realistic attitude, an attitude based on less self-centredness, less concern for the mundane aspects of our welfare, that sort of more realistic attitude is one that is very useful when you are dealing with others. Then our leisure time, our time spent with friends and family can really be for their benefit. In that way even a visit to our family can become a positive experience for all concerned. So enjoy the holiday. If you come to Jamyang it would be very nice to see you. If you spend time with friends and family make sure that your time is spent wisely, with an attitude that really feels concern for their welfare. Return to Contents

Director's Column

The roofs are shining from the rain. The sparrows tritter as they fly, And with a windy April grace The little clouds go by. Yet the back yards are bare and brown With only one unchanging tree-- I could not be so sure of Spring Save that it sings in me.

April by Sara Teasdale (1884 -1933) Greetings from the Somerset levels at the start of a bright, blustery spring day. With apologies to Robert Browning for the tweak, turning a distant yearning into a present rejoicing: "Oh to be in England now that April is here! " As we enter the month of April. About to enter retreat for the spring break. There is an old Chinese proverb that says that the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. Same with retreat! Geshe-la is leading the Jamyang Easter Compassion Retreat here from Good Friday, 3 April to Sunday, 5 April - as it says in the programme: "At this special time when Christians contemplate the great love of God in sacrificing his only son for the sins of the world, take time out to go large with positive emotions." Although winter continues for now farther north, good to read the news from Land of Joy, with the Venerable Barbara already making her mark both there and in Leeds and the welcome return of Michelle to full health. What a great kitchen - more than enough to make the Café team here at Jamyang envious of the space and wonderful modern facilities! Café team doing great things here though - take a look at the latest on: Jamyang Cafe Facebook Page and don't forget to like and share them with your friends on facebook! We are also looking for a full-time, live-in three-month replacement Café yogini or yogi volunteer for the wonderful Maria from Spain who will be heading off to hep out at Tushita at the end of this month. Please get in touch if you are interested. After the Vernal Equinox, spring is marked by the clocks going forward into what we call here, British Summer Time. If unable to remain in the present, more a time for naturally looking forward than back and we are now hopefully looking forward to the visit of Dagri Rinpoche to Jamyang! His scheduled visit here coincides with His Holiness the Dalai Lama visiting the UK. Following his official 80th birthday celebrations in Dharamsala, His Holiness is giving a public talk on Buddhism in 21st Century, in the UK at Aldershot, on June 29. The event is organised by the Buddhist Community Centre UK at the ESS Stadium in Aldershot. For more details and booking, check out their website: www.bccuk.co.uk/bccuk/ Should we have the great good fortune to have Dagri Rinpoche with us in June, he is at the moment scheduled to be here at Jamyang from Friday, 26 June to Monday, 28 June. We have requested Lam Rim teachings and initiations from him and if all goes well, the most excellent Venerable Sean Price will be translating for us.

All of this subject to the visa process going well and the visit dovetailing with any calls His Holiness may have on Dagri Rinpoche while he is here in the UK, so by all means save the dates but please offer prayers and dedicate the benefits of your practice for this possibility to be realised. Speaking of the Lam Rim, watch this space for news of Geshe-la's summer Lam Rim teachings. This month we have Andy Wistreich as one of our visiting teachers starting a series on the Sublime Continuum or Buddha Nature. This course can be taken as part of the Basic Programme at Jamyang. It will be running on the weekends of Saturday, 18 & Sunday, 19 April, Saturday, 13 & Sunday, 14 June, Saturday 11, July & Sunday, 12 July from 9m - 6pm on all days. This course is based on the fourth part of the first chapter of Maitreya's Sublime Continuum teaching. This is the part that sets out the teaching of Buddha Nature, our inalienable ability to become fully enlightened for the sake of others should we choose to make the effort. It is a key part of Tibetan Buddhist teaching, introducing us to the concept that unhelpful mental activity is superficial and removable and that the most subtle, most basic nature of our awareness is good, unsullied and pure. It also acts as a bridge to the teachings on subtle levels of mind and how to activate them found in the Highest Yoga Tantra teachings. Our very own John Bonell returns fresh from his retreat over the spring break and will be leading us reciting, studying, contemplating and meditating on the powerful Diamond or Vajra Cutter Sutra on the Wednesday of the 15, 22 & 29 of this month. This famous Sutra is of the Wisdom Gone Beyond teachings, to create merit and banish obstacles. The Vajra Cutter, or Diamond Sutra, is one of the Three Sutras recommended for ritual recitation by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Many thanks as ever for your continuing and much valued support in so many ways. Enjoy the spring break and much look forward to seeing many of you here at Jamyang over the coming month. Return to Contents

His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the UK

A reminder that the Dalai Lama is on a flying visit to the UK in June. Book now for the Dalai Lama's public talk at Aldershot Football Club Monday 29 June 2015 from 12.45 - 14.45 organised by BCCUK Yes please register for a place at this Website or call 01252 338765

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Easter Compassion Retreat

Join with Geshe Tashi for his annual meditative, contemplative two and a half day retreat on compassion and the value of generating it in our daily lives to be of more benefit to others. Compassion waters the tender shoots of our spiritual transformation and ensures that development is well grounded in the desire to care for others. It is a great protector from the possibility of developing the wrong sort of pride in our Dharma knowledge. Good Friday 3 April, Sat 4 April (with 8 Mahayana Precepts), Sun 5 April (finishing with a shared lunch at 1pm) Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 8am - 5pm (precept lunch at 11.30am), Sun 9am - 1pm Return to Contents

Dagri Rinpoche at Jamyang

Dagri Rinpoche will visit Jamyang London Friday 26 - Sunday 28 June. Please save the dates

We are very pleased that the Dagri Rinpoche has agreed to visit Jamyang London. The visit will take place from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 June inclusive.

Rinpoche's programme at Jamyang will be in the evenings from 7 - 10pm. The programme is provisionally as follows

Friday 26 June, 7 - 10pm, teachings on the graded path to enlightenment

Saturday 27 June, 7 - 10pm, Green Tara Initiation (for liberating energy)

Sunday 28 June, 7 - 10pm, White Mahakala (Gonkar) Initiation (for wealth and experiential richness)

As we get further details we will post them on pages on the website but for now please save the dates and book yourself accommodation locally or with friends. Please note that no pages are likely to go up on the website in the next two or three weeks.

Please note that we cannot provide dormitory accommodation during the visit. There is very limited cell availability for the Sunday night.

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Coming up this Spring

First a few corrections to the printed programme. Yes the printed programme has gone out and inevitably there are a few corrections.

No Tuesday pujas on Tuesday 21 and Tuesday 28 April (and 5 May) yes the title says it all there will be no Tara or Medicine Buddha pujas in the Small temple on Tuesdays 21 and 28 April and none on Tuesday 5 May either. Also- No Silent Meditation on Thursday 30 April (and pse don't forget that there is no Silent Meditation on Thursdays 2 and 9 April, they are not advertised in the printed programme) Again the title says it all. Please remember that in April the Thursday Silent Meditation will only happen on Thursdays 16 and 23 April.

Geshe Tashi will be teaching on Special Insight over the weekend of the 16 and 17 May not Dependent Arising as published. Tsog Pujas: Tuesday 14 April 6pm What is it with 'titles' and 'saying it all'. We will host Lama Choepa with Tsog puja here at Jamyang in the Small Termple on Tuesday 14th April at 6pm. Apologies that these were not in the printed Spring programme but with the Jamyang Spring Programme which goes to the printers in November we always have the problem of not knowing for sure when the Tsog Puja dates will fall in the first few months of the Tibetan Clandar because the astronomers do not finalise it so far in advance of the New Year. When we try to out guess them we always get it wrong.

And now for some programme news. Dagri Rinpoche 26 - 28 June See article above for details

Easter Compassion Retreat Good Friday 3 April, Sat 4 April (with 8 Mahayana Precepts), Sun 5 April (finishing with a shared lunch at 1pm) Join with Geshe Tashi in working to develop those positive emotions. A beautiful way to spend Easter. Special Insight Geshe Tashi will be continuing his teaching on Special Insight from the middle length Lamrim. In these classes, Geshe Tashi is very carefully explaining how to approach the understanding of emptiness. That is very special indeed. The classes will take place over the weekend of the 16 and 17 May. Buddha Nature Weekends 18/19 April, 13/14 June and 11/12 July 9am - 6pm each day Andy Wistreich and Shan Tate: Sublime Continuum, Buddha Nature (A stand alone module of the Basic Programme) What in us gives us the capacity to break free from samsara and become a fully enlightened Buddha truly capable of helping others also break free from samsara. What is it? How does it operate? Is it something we have to acquire or is part and parcel of our very being ? You need to register for all three weekends, as this this is not a drop in course. Please visit the website entry for the April weekend and register there. For those doing the Basic Programme at London (registration for which is now closed) please note that Andy is teaching on one of the required study texts for the course. Ebola Prayers and Mantras with Rose Williams Wednesdays 5.45- 6pm ish

Don't forget that the Ebola Prayer Group is stiil meeting weekly in the Small Temple on Wednesdays to say prayers to help stop the spread of the Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone, Guinea and West Africa. The 'Ebola ladies' are very happy for new people to join them for the recitations. Don't Just do something, sit there! Natascha Bolonkin and Anne Swindell Saturdays 2 and 9 May 10am - 5pm each day A facilitated course over two days introducing students to the basics of meditation through the FPMT Introductory course Meditation 101. In American English '101' means introductory/ for beginners.Nat and Anne promise it will be fun, exploratory, creative and sharing journey. Nat is a school teacher and street performer and Anne is a fully qualified psychotherapist and landscape gardener. Andy Weber Tibetan Art Weekend Illustrated Lecture 7.30 - 9.30pm Friday 29 May Weekend art course 30 and 31 May 9am - 6pm each day The Eight Auspicious symbols (for indoors and outdoors) A unique opportunity to study the art techniques and guild secrets for the creation of the Eight Auspicious Symbols in the painting lineage of this revered master. The Eight Auspicious symbols are a very practical method for attracting positive energy into your life and have a long history of rich symbolism in Tibetan Buddhism. Having matured over forty years of practice Andy is at the peak of his creative potency and is now actively transmitting his encyclopedic knowledge and creative lineage to his disciples. Be part of a rare and unique creative flow. Andy Weber's chief disciple Dolma Beresford, the highly successful CEO of the world famous Meridian Trust, will be in attendance. Do connect with her as she runs regular group practice days in London, designed to embed, support and reinforce what Andy has taught over the weekend Return to Contents

Jamyang, Global Warming and Sea Level Rise

We always take the long view at Jamyang and we have been examining the potential impact to Jamyang's historic old courthouse of the rise in sea levels that are predicted to occur as a result of global warming. It is a well known fact that the part of South London where Jamyang is located would be frequently flooded at high tides without the protection of the Thames Barrier that is raised on an increasing number of ocassions to keep the water out. The Greater London Authority recognises that the Barrier will be unable to cope in as little as thirty years time, with the

result that Jamyang faces the risk of increasingly frequent flooding during high tides. We face a stark choice of dealing with the progressive destruction of our building through floods or moving out entirely. As we have done so much work on the building and so many special teachers have been here we want to do all that we can to preserve it. Research has shown that in Holland they are planning to deal with rising sea levels, and the flooding that will bring, by designing houses that will rise with the water. You can find out more at this website. http://inhabitat.com/amphibian-houses-rising-water/ This seems like a good way forward for Jamyang so we are launching (no pun intended) a project to turn Jamyang into a sort of floating house like the Dutch model but a bit more sophisticated. Our plan is to underpin Jamyang with a solid platform that will support the whole building and that can be raised on hydraulic stilts to a height of 20 metres during flood events. This would lift Jamyang out of any flood waters (and give us a great view). This is not quite the Dutch design but it is a hybrid design also based on the design of the permanent base at the South Pole. Permanent here means it is designed to last a long time - no created thing is permanent. The South Pole base would slowly disappear under the snow and ice were it not for the fact that the whole base is periodically raised up further on a series of supports. It is a marvel of engineering and you can read about it here: Scott Amundsen South Pole Base As the rise in sea levels will probably eventually result in the abandoning of this part of London to the sea, then the new Jamyang on its stilts would stand as an island of refuge in the new sea of despond. As part of this scheme, we propose to convert the garden into a marina where those Jamyang students who live on house boats will be able to moor at very reasonable rates. We feel the new Jamyang will bring real benefit to the local community as Jamyang will become one of the few places in the area that are safe from flooding. We will allow local people to take refuge here as part of our Repaying the Kindness programme. We will also allow locals to bring two of any type of animal to Jamyang during floods as part of our Animal Liberation Project. We are at a very early stage in the feasibility study on this project. If you would like to help with this project then we are looking for a range of volunteers from structural engineers, planning consultants, marine biologists, underwater gardeners, fund raisers, DIY experts and houseboat specialists or just generally interested parties. We would also like to hear the views of all our community about this plan. Please contact us via the office. admin@jamyang.co.uk More information can be found on the GLA website www.glaprilf.ool.org though we are informed that it will be taken down for maintenance after 12:00 today. Return to Contents

Volunteers Needed!

Our Friends scheme needs you.

Can you spare an hour or two a week? Do you want to spend some quality time in our office? Do you want to help Jamyang secure its ability to offer teachings in the future?

If the answer to these questions is yes then why not help us with the organisation of the Friends scheme. It's easy, fun and a noble thing to do, and you get to laugh politely at the jokes that Roy and Mike like to make.

Drop Roy a line on director@jamyang.co.uk and he or Alison will talk you through what's required. Why not persuade a friend to do this with you as a job share? We are very open to that. Return to Contents

Library Stocktake Preparations

Julie Speechley, the volunteer who looks after our library, writes ..... to help us with our stocktake in the Jamyang London library next month would all borrowers be kind enough to return or renew all items and check their shelves, cupboards, bags and boxes et cetera for any books borrowed from Jamyang's wonderful dharma collection over the years. So thank you so much for bringing back those hidden gems or renewing your borrowing by writing the details in the borrowing book. Return to Contents

Have you squirrelled away any books?

Jamyang Spring Walk

Over the years we have done some delightful rambles close to the capital to keep travel costs down, and while routes can be rediscovered it's always good to try somewhere fresh. With this in mind I hope to research the area around Eltham Palace and Oxlease Wood before Easter, but we may repeat the Happy Valley Walk which is always a treat when the spring flowers come out. Please check the updates and a poster will go up in the lobby with more precise details...Importantly do note the date Saturday 25th April, and look forward to seeing you. Contact Robin on 0207 736 2771 / mobile 07442179739

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Poetry Corner

Parting with the Monk Ho-lan by Wu Pen (Chia Tao) 779 - 843 Wild monk, come to make a parting with me. We sit a while on the sand beside the welling source. You'll go a long way on that empty alms bowl, deep among mountains, treading, fallen flowers. Masterless Ch'an, our own understanding? When you've got it, there's no place for it but a poem. This parting's nothing fated: orphan clouds just never settle down. From "The Poetry of Zen" by Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton Return to Contents

Opportunities Around the FPMT

There are work and volunteer opportunities in many of the FPMT Centres around the world. You can find details of these on the FPMT website. There are also volunteer opportunities in India, Spain, New Zealand.......... .................. And especially here at Jamyang, London! Return to Contents

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