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LU JONG WORKSHOP ON TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18th 2008
with Loten Dahortsang
The two-hour workshop will be taught in English by Loten Dahorsang on the evening of Tuesday, November 18. The cost is of CHF 40.-- per person and you can pay at the door. It will take place at the following centre:
CENTRO CARPEDIEMVITAE
Via Tavernola 22
Please email us at
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or call us on +41 76 571 72 73 to confirm your participation by no later than November 17th.
About Lu Jong
Lu Jong is a system of physical movements developed centuries ago by Tibetan monks living in remote, cold, and extremely inaccessible places in the Himalayan region. The movements help to open the channels leading to the meridians, thus unblocking the natural energies of the body. When practiced regularly Lu Jong becomes a healthy yet simple method to maintain physical well-being. It also makes our body positively responsive to the challenges of daily stress and seasonal changes.
The last words Buddha told his disciples before dying were: Sammasati, Remember that you are a Buddha. Buddha-nature begins in treating our body as a temple and Lu Jong has long been practiced as an effective method to balance inner harmony with outer conditions.
Please come and join us for this very special event!
About Loten Dahortsang
Loten Dahortsang was born in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. In 1979 he immigrated to Nepal and began studying Buddhism in the monastery headed by Lama Yeshe. Since 1982 he has been living in the monastic community of the Tibet Institute at Rikon, on the outskirts of Zürich, where he has been educated by his uncle, Geshe Jampa Lodro, as well as by Geshe Ugyen Tseten and Geshe Gedün Sangpo. He has continued his studies in Tibetan Buddhism since 2002 at the monastic university of Sera in South India. He conducts both meditation and teaching classes and retreats in Buddhist centres throughout Europe, and was first assistant director of the documentary The Saltmen of Tibet, a New York Times Film Critics’ Pick. |
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Matthieu Ricard Switzerland 2008 |
Matthieu Ricard
Cultivating the Inner Conditions for Genuine Happiness
Images from the seminar can be found in our gallery section; a CD with original data (12MP per image) is available on request (+41 79 821 50 33).
Recordings (mp3) will be available here for download from May 1, 2008 on.
You can directly support his humanitarian projects here (www.karuna-asia.org and www.shechen.org)
Matthieu Ricard introduces the seminar as following: "We all seek some kind of happiness and a sense of fulfillment. No one wakes up in the morning thinking: May I suffer the whole day. When we engage freely in any long-term activity, we do so in the hope that it will increase our well-being or that of others. We usually look outside for the causes of happiness. Likewise, when things go wrong, we instinctively search for outer remedies and try to change the conditions to suit ourselves. This often fails as, unfortunately, our control of the outer world is limited, temporary and often illusory. In fact, it is our mind that translates outer conditions into happiness or suffering, and, even though it may not be easy to transform one's mind, it is something that lies within the reach of our capacities."
Please find enclosed (Read more, below) a short biography of Matthieu Ricard.
Matthieu Ricard Biography
Matthieu Ricard has lived in the Himalayan region for the last thirty-five years. Born in France in 1946, he grew up among the personalities and ideas of Paris’ intellectual and artistic circles. He studied classical music, ornithology and photography and worked for his Ph-D degree in molecular genetics at the Institute Pasteur under the Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob.
After completing his doctoral thesis in 1972, he decided to forsake his scientific career and concentrate on Tibetan Buddhist contemplative practice. Since then, he has lived in India, Bhutan and Nepal with the greatest living teachers of that tradition and became the disciple and attendant of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (one of the most eminent Tibetan masters of our times). Matthieu is a Buddhist monk and, since 1989, he has acted as the French interpreter for His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
He is the author of several best selling books including The Monk and the Philosopher (Schocken, 1999), a book of dialogues with his father, the French philosopher Jean-François Revel, which has been translated into twenty-one languages; The Quantum and the Lotus (Crown, 2002) a dialogue with the astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan and, recently, Happiness, A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill (Little, Brown and Co, New York; Atlantic Press, London). When he was twenty, he wrote the widely read book Animal Migrations (Hill and Wang, 1969).
For the nearly four decades, he has been photographing the spiritual masters, the landscapes and the people of the Himalayas and has published several albums including Buddhist Himalayas (Harry Abrams, 2002), Journey to Enlightenment (Aperture, 1996 - The Spirit of Tibet in paperback, Aperture 2001), Monk Dancers of Tibet (Shambhala, 2003), Tibet (Thames and Hudson, 2006) and Motionless Journey (Thames and Hudson, 2007). Henri Cartier-Bresson has said of his work, “Matthieu’s spiritual life and his camera are one, from which springs these images, fleeting and eternal.”
A board member of the Mind and Life Institute, which is devoted to meetings and collaborative research between scientists and Buddhist scholars and meditators, his contributions have appeared in Working with Destructive Emotions (edited by Daniel Goleman) The Dalai Lama at M.I.T (edited by A. Harrington and A. Zajonc), Train Your Mind, Change your Brain (Sharon Begley) and other books of essays.
He is engaged in the research on the effect of mind training and meditation on the brain, at Madison-Wisconsin, Princeton, Harvard, and Berkeley Universities and is the co-author of a ground breaking scientific paper published by the PNAS (Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, in the USA in September 2004). He holds regular meetings with neuroscientists, psychologists (positive psychology) and therapists (cognitive therapy). He is particularly interested in promoting the concept of Gross National Happiness.
He also translated several books from Tibetan into English and French, including - The Life of Shabkar, The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin (Snow Lion), The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones (Shambhala Publication), One Hundred Verses of Advice (Shambhala) and The Heart of Compassion (Shambhala). He was the cinematographer and scriptwriter for the video, The Spirit of Tibet, National Film Board of Canada.
Matthieu lives at Shechen Monastery in Nepal and devotes much of his time to taking care of thirty humanitarian projects (clinics, schools, orphanages, elderly people’s home, bridges etc.) in Asia (Tibet, India, Nepal and Bhutan), to the preservation of the Himalayan cultural heritage and to spending time in his hermitage in the Himalayas. (See websites www.karuna-asia.org and www.shechen.org )
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