Introduction to Meditation

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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:56:30 -0400
Subject: [AABS] Free / Fwd: [LBA] Monthly Meditation Class for Beginners, 10/20, 9am - 12 noon at Amitabha Village
From: georget.yeh@gmail.com
To: amitabuddha@googlegroups.com

Dear AABS Friends,

FYI, it is a free Meditation Class for Beginners. Please feel free to let me know if you need a ride from Ann Arbor to AVRC.
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George Tye-Yan Yeh
心不隨境，是禪定的功夫；心不離境，是智慧的作用 --- 聖嚴法師
知幻卽離、不作方便。離幻卽覺、亦無漸次  -《圓覺經》
When you know it is illusion, you would immediately depart from it, without the need to devise expedient means. Depart from illusion is in itself enlightenment, and there are no gradual steps!
- 《The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment》

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From: Lansing Buddhist Association <lansingbuddhist@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:52 PM
Subject: [LBA] Monthly Meditation Class for Beginners, 10/20, 9am - 12 noon at Amitabha Village
To: lansingbuddhist <lansingbuddhist@googlegroups.com>

Introduction to Meditation

The Lansing Buddhist Association is happy to announce a three hour course "Meditation for Beginners" from 9:00 a.m. to 12 Noon each third Saturday of the month. The course meets at Amitabha Village Retreat Center near Williamston (20 min from Lansing and 50 min from Ann Arbor). There is no charge for the course (donations are welcome to cover expenses).
The meditation teacher Mr. George Yeh is a certified Assistant Meditation Instructor of Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association.  He was trained by the world renowned venerable Ch'an Master Shengyen, founder of the Dharma Drum Mountain Association.

Students should register by email at lansingbuddhist@gmail.com.  The courses are offered October 20, and November 17 for 2012.  The teaching will cover;

1. The right attitude for practicing meditation.
2. Selection of a suitable time, location, and environment for meditation
3. Selection of meditation aids, such as towels, sitting square cushion, round cushion, or sitting   
bench

4. Proper posture for meditation.  Introduction to alternative postures, e.g. full lotus, half lotus,
quarter lotus, riding saddle' form, Japanese sitting styles, use of a chair or meditation bench
Correct adjustment of head, eyes, chest, lower back, arms and hands during meditation.
How to use meditation aids to support sitting postures.
How to make micro adjustment to your meditation aids

5. Steps and method for whole body relaxation

6. The method of meditation by feeling the sensation of breath

7. The method of meditation by counting the breath

8. Correct procedure to enter and exit the meditation state.

9.. Warm up steps to prepare sitting posture.

10. Whole body message after exiting a meditation session.

11. Three forms of walking meditation. Where should mind be anchored when practice walking meditation?

12. Guided practices for all above instructions.

After the morning teaching, students are welcome to practice in the afternoon along with other meditators who attend LBA's Monthly Day of Mindfulness, also scheduled each third Saturday of the month.

Everyone is Welcome

p.s. Please wear comfortable and loose-fitting clothing in a modest style that won't distract other meditators (e.g. choose darker colors and avoid heavy perfumes, shorts, tank tops and tight fitting slacks).

Directions to  Amitabha Village Retreat Center (14796 Beardslee Rd, Perry MI  48872)
>From East Lansing?Go east on Saginaw.  Bear right at Haslett Road.  Stay on Haslett for 9.1 miles.  Turn left onto N. Williamston Road.  After 2.2 miles, N. Williamston becomes Beardslee, a dirt road.   Go about 1/3 mile to Amitabha Village. Retreat check-in is at  the first house on your right (14791 Beardslee).   
>From Ann Arbor/Detroit. Take I-96 west to exit 117 (Williamston Rd). Go north on Williamston to Haslett Rd, a dead end.  Turn right on Haslett, then make an immediate left on next street (N. Williamston), & proceed as in the E. Lansing directions

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