Tommy Boggs, an experienced Buddhist teacher from Denmark, will be visiting Hong Kong to give a talk about Buddhism in the Modern World. In each culture, the teachings of the Buddha find the form that suits them best. One can compare them to a diamond: on a red cloth it shines red, on a blue cloth it looks blue; regardless, the diamond itself remains the same. Without losing their essence, the teachings of the Buddha have adapted to the cultural conditions of different societies and times and are as relevant today as they were 2,500 years ago. Today, in our modern societies, the timeless view of the Diamond Way (skt. Vajrayana) and its methods are more and more appealing to educated and independent people around the world. This talk will explore how we can use these methods in our daily lives.

Date / time: Tuesday 25th November / 8pm

Venue: The Fringe Club (2nd floor, Fringe fotogalerie), 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

Cost: HK$60 / HK$30 for concessions

There will be an opportunity to ask any questions you may have, and take part in a guided meditation.

All are welcome!

Run, Kagyu, Run!

To help raise money for the building of a new gompa, or meditation hall, at our Europe Center in Germany (www.europe-center.org), Diamond Way Buddhist centres from all over the world are taking part in the 5th annual Kagyu Run on 21 September 2008.

Friends are invited to run / cycle / swim / walk as many kilometers as possible and are sponsored by other friends from other Diamond Way centres from around the world. The event ends with a meditation that is streamed over the internet, to allow everyone to join (exact time tbc).

The event works like this:

Register:         runners and sponsors register on this website, and are assigned randomly to your international partner.

Runners:        run as many kilometers as you can and want to, every step towards the Europe Center counts.

Sponsors:        transform the kilometers of “their” runner(s) into $$$ and donate the sum for the Europe center.

If you can, please register as both a runner and a sponsor – this way you’ll make two connections to the worldwide sangha – someone, somewhere will be your sponsor, and you have the honour of sponsoring someone else.

We’ve got just under 3 three weeks left to train! Get down the gym! Go on – you know it makes sense… 🙂

Registration and more details here: www.kagyu-run.org

If you’d like to join us, we’ll be running on Hong Kong island, please get in touch.

Eckardt Dross, an experienced Buddhist teacher from Argentina, will be visiting Hong Kong and will give a talk about Love and Partnership. Rather than competing with our partners, the Buddha advises us to support each other and stand side by side. This talk will discuss patterns of behaviour that can come up in our relationships and will include concrete advise on how we can use our closest connections as important steps on our way to reach enlightenment.

Date / time:    Saturday, 26th July / 1pm.
Venue:    DWB Centre Hong Kong (c/o Anthony & Kukka, Flat Q, 20F, 1 Robinson Road, Mid-levels)
Cost:        HK$60 / HK$30 for concessions

There will be an opportunity to ask any questions you may have and take part in a guided meditation.

All are welcome!

Dear all,

We’re very pleased to announce our first Meditation Course, taking place later this month. The course will run over three weekday evenings, from Monday 23 to Wednesday 25 June, starting at 8pm each day. The first talk on Monday night will be held in Central (a fantastic opportunity for those new to Buddhism to attend), the others will take place at our centre in Mid-levels

About the speaker

Our guest speaker will be Wojtek Tracewski, who was born in 1962, graduated from the Art Academy of Warsaw and for several years worked as a painter. He took refuge with Lama Ole Nydahl in 1980 and started to give lectures about Buddhism in 1992. He is Lama Ole’s official translator in Poland and an editor-in-chief of the Polish Buddhist magazine “Diamond Way”. Wojtek is one of our most experienced international teachers from the West and it is great pleasure to have him visit us in Hong Kong after a month long teaching tour of Australia and New Zealand.

About the course

The Buddha taught methods for skillfully working with mind. These meditation techniques have several aims: they free us from disturbing emotions; help us to realise the dreamlike nature of our experience while strengthening our compassionate ability to help others to do the same; and allow us to recognise the timeless and perfect potential of mind.

This series of talks will give an overview of the types of Buddhist meditation and will include guided Diamond Way Buddhist meditations. There will an opportunity to ask any questions you may have – all are welcome! You don’t have to come to all the sessions to attend the talks.

Venues

Mon 23 June – 12F, Southland Building, 47 Connaught Road Central, Central, Hong Kong (entrance on Jubilee St)

Tue 24 June – Diamond Way Buddhist Centre HK

Wed 25 June – Diamond Way Buddhist Centre HK

Cost

HK$60 / HK$30 concessions (for each session)