TRAVELING TO THE DIAMOND WORLD
JOIN US TO REACH TEN MILLION MINUTES OF MEDITATION DURING ACI’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY!
We have learned the value and benefits of a on-going, regular meditation practice in ACI 3, and maybe we have some direct experience with many of those benefits. We also know that meditational insight only comes from consistent, deep states of a fully concentrated mind, an insight that has the capacity to bring about impactful, lasting changes to remove the subtlest causes of the sufferings in this life.
This year-long meditation challenge is designed to develop these powers of meditational insight through a gentle and inspirational approach. The strength and clarity of a mind that can reach the highest goals of meditation only comes through a dedicated and consistent practice.
The hope is that each of us can develop and hone that strong foundational, meditative platform necessary for the insight to arise in the Diamond World: emptiness.
WE WILL START WITH A SIMPLE 8-MINUTE MEDITATION AND BUILD EACH WEEK BY ONLY ADDING ONE MINUTE MORE.
Each step on this journey will be led by senior mediators from ACI to bring you to more and more subtle places in your practices.
We will have monthly sessions to take you deeper into your practice, as well as answer the questions that may arise on your year-long journey to the Diamond World.
Together we will track our meditations online with ACI’s mediation tracker.
JOIN OUR ONLINE COMMUNITIES AS WELL, SO WE CAN SUPPORT EACH OTHER, SHARING OUR INSIGHTS, ADVICES, DIFFICULTIES, AND SUCCESSES TOGETHER. SENIOR TEACHERS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE IN OUR ONLINE COMMUNITIES TO HELP GUIDE YOU FROM THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCES.
Let’s make it ten Million minutes together
NOVEMBER 2023
Lion's Dance Meditation
with Constance O’Brien
Sunday, November 5, 2023
6 AM Arizona Time
Join ACI Senior Teacher Connie O’Brien for a lesson on how to dance with lions and why it is important to do so. Geshe Michael Roach taught us this important meditation at the 2017 Lam Rim Retreat in Guadalajara, Mexico, for the first time. This very special meditation practice, called The Lion’s Dance meditation, was originally taught by the future Buddha, Maitreya, to Master Asanga 1,700 years ago.
The Lion's Dance is a very important, very magical meditation, one of the most powerful in the repertoire of our tradition. It involves a meditative trip from the desire realm through four levels of the form realm and four levels of the formless realm. At the end of this journey, you will reach the very edge of emptiness.
Join us! The class is free to all.