Lama Rod visited the Rime Center November 16-18 to teach on Liberation through Love and Rage. Important themes for me included developing a healthier relationship to our anger or rage (or any of the other afflictive emotions), embodied practice, and the importance of self-care on the path to becoming a Bodhisattva. Continue reading
December 31st, 2018 at 6 am
Bodhisattva Award Winner – Midwest Innocence Project
The Rime Buddhist center will host the 33rd Annual World Peace Meditation, an interfaith gathering on December 31, at 6:00 a.m. (*please arrive by 5:30 a.m.). The program will consist of religious observances from various cultures and faith traditions including Native American smudging, Tibetan Buddhist chanting and meditation, Christian prayer, devotional music, and the Muslim “call to prayer.”
The Rime Center’s Social Justice Committee will be screening the film Time Simply Passes Tuesday November 27th at 7:45 pm. Stay after the film to discuss the topics presented. The film screening is free and open to the public.
We are extremely delighted to welcome to Kansas City and the Rime Center Anyen Rinpoche, October 19 – 21st. Anyen Rinpoche will be teaching on “ground of Compassion” Introductory teachings to the Dying with Confidence Series.
November 16 – 18, 2018
We are extremely delighted to welcome back to Kansas City and the Rime Center Lama Rod Owen, November 16th & 18th. Lama Rod will be teaching on how we can achieve liberation through love and rage.
Welcome to The Rime Buddhist Center’s summer curriculum. This semester Geshe Lharampa Tsewang Thinley will continue to lead classes on Shantideva’s Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra. There are also exciting classes that will be offered on Wednesday evenings. Look for details below on these opportunities to deepen your practice with the support of fellow practitioners.
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Santikaro, a former Theravada monk, returns to the Rime Buddhist Center to teach from the newly translated book, Under the Bodhi Tree: Buddha’s original dependent co-arising teachings.
The Social Justice Committee is pleased to announce this fall’s topic study will be wrongful convictions. On September 23rd, The Innocence Project will be in attendance for the Sunday service. On October 16th, the film screening will be Time Simply Passes. The film screening will begin at 7:45. The social justice book title for the fall is Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions The book will be for sale in the bookstore in September. Discussion of the book will be on November 13th. at 7:45pm. All are welcome to participate.
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October 31, 2018
Lha Bab Düchen occurs on the 22nd day of the ninth Tibetan month. Buddha’s mother Mayadevi was reborn in Indra’s heaven. To repay her kindness and to liberate her, and also to benefit the gods, Buddha spent three months teachings in the realm of the gods. When he was about to return to this world, Indra and Brahma manifested three stairs of 80,000 yojanas each reaching this world in Sankisa. As the Buddha walked down the central one, they accompanied him to his left and right carrying umbrellas to honor him. He descended to earth in Sankisa, which is located in modern Uttar Pradesh, and which is counted among the eight holy places. Continue reading