Sponsored by the Arizona International Buddhist Meditation Center   (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization)   432 South Temple Street, Mesa, Arizona, 85204

Email   info@aibmcseminar.org    Phone: 480-626-4153

December 9th - 11th , 2011 Living in Harmony and Peace With Ourselves and Others - A weelend retreat with Venerable Yogavacara Rahula

Bhante Yogavacara Rahula was ordained in Sri Lanka in 1975. He was a part of the Bhavana Society, West Virginia since 1987 and served as the vice-abbot. He regularly teaches and conducts retreats, including retreats integrating yoga breathing and exercise with vipassana. His approach to meditation emphasizes mindfulness of the body. Bhante Rahula conducts retreats in the United States, Canada and Germany. He also regularly goes to India to teach Buddhists and give talks in remote villages.

As a self-described “confused youth”, Bhante Rahula served a three-year stint in the army, then traveled in Europe and Asia. He spent much of this time living as a hippie, experimenting with a variety of recreational drugs. Eventually, he encountered Tibetan Lamas in Nepal and, after a month-long meditation course, began earnestly seeking a spiritually fulfilling life. He studied yoga in India, then traveled south and began learning about Theravada Buddhism. He ordained at Tapovanaya Buddhist Monastery under the tutelage of Late-Venerable Vangeesa Maha Thero in Sri Lanka and lived there for 11 years, practicing in solitary caves and huts, learning dhamma, and eventually leading retreats. Bhante Rahula describes his transformation from a young hippie and army dropout to a Theravadan Bhikkhu in his autobiography, One Night’s Shelter.

He has also written a number of other books. Most recently Meditation: Body and Mind Connection, a manual about the integration of simple yoga and movement with vipassana meditation which is not available because it is out of print now. Bhante Rahula has also written two other meditation manuals, Cutting through the Self-Delusion and The Way to Peace and Happiness , and a chronicle of his hiking and travels as a bhikkhu in India and Nepal, Traversing the Great Himalayas which you can order online. http://www.bhavanasociety.org/main/teacher/bhante_yogavacara_rahula/

Purpose of the retreat

Learning theory and practice of meditation and how to apply meditation into our daily life so that we may live in harmony and in peace within ourselves and with others.

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