Events for
July 24th - 26th 2015
  Visit our website for information on Classes,  Note:  Following is information about things happening this weekend at the Couch, along with other local and upcoming events.
 
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Movie Night
Movie:  Phenomenon
Date:    Friday July 24th 2015
Time:   8:00pm   (optional:  bring a dish or snack)
Optional:    Yoga and the Movie   ...  Yoga from 5:30 - 7:30 pm 
Phenomenon Youtube Trailer
  
Staring:  John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robret Duvall, James Cotton, Troy Evans, Michael Milhoan
Director:  John Turteltaub
Producer:  Barbara Boyle, Michael Taylor
Genres:   Drama, Fantasy 
Running Time:  124 min
 
This movie is a wonderful, poignant, graphic, serious and humorous look at what our higher human potential might look like.  It explores by example what we as humans could be and do when we are willing to step past the mental blocks, accidentally or deliberately, that limits us to just what we can experience through our five senses, and to what we accept as "real" or possible in our experience.  Getting past these mental blocks is simply a matter of changing our minds about what we believe, but is is not an easy trick to accomplish because of our long held beliefs about the world and our primal attachment to what our senses tell us is "real."   We would rather suffer insult and injury in the defense of our beliefs rather than calmly and objectively examine and question them especially when they lead us to false, irrational, and often painful conclusions, but it is through such honest, objective examinations, that we can modify our beliefs as necessary to bring them more in accord with a higher wisdom about ourselves and our environment. This movie provides the insights we need to begin this glorious journey towards a higher, "more perfect" experience of ourselves and everything else.   I'll leave you with two quotes from this movie that indicate its depth, and a reminder that any movie brave enough to meaningfully ponder these topics is well worth its salt, and well worth seeing, repeatedly:
  
"...everything is on its way to somewhere."
"...everything that we need is already in us." 
 
:) happy....Hope  to see you there.

Group Meditation
Sunday July 19th
1:00 - 2:00pm
The musical toning by Tom Kenyon entitled:
This is a special meditation to facilitate the release of stress.

Followed by:

Knowledge Cinema
"The Whole of Existence Is Your Sangha" by
Shri Mooji
Anthony Paul Moo-Young, known as Mooji, was born on 29 January 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica.   Mooji is a direct disciple of Sri Harilal Poonja, the renowned advaita master, or Papaji.  Since 1999, Mooji has been sharing satsang in the form of spontaneous encounters, retreats, satsang intensives and one-to-one meetings with the many seekers who visit him, from all parts of the world, in search of the direct experience of truth. Few amongst the modern teachers of the advaita tradition expound the 'knowledge of Self', and the method of self-enquiry, with such dazzling clarity, love and authority.  His style is direct, clear, compassionate and often humorous.
For more information, visit:  Satsang with Mooji





-----------Other Local Events---------

Book Release
"Sanskrit was a World Language" 

Saturday July 25th from Noon - 1:00pm
at
at the Indian Cultural Center (ICC) building
1595 Route 26, Vestal NY 13850

Hon. Richard David,
Mayor of Binghamton NY
will release Niranjan Shah’s book
 
 Dr. Rajesh Dave (vice president of UHS, and dean of clinical campus SUNY)
will speak on Sanskrit language.
The Mayor will proclaim July 25, as a Sanskrit Day.
 
Lunch will be served at the end of the program.
Books will be distributed to sponsors.
(minimum sponsorship: $25.00)

Contact information:
DR.SRINIVAS PRASAD: PHONE 770-9663, shrimati913@gmail.com
DR. RAMESH BHANDARI 748 9493 rbhandari@stny.rr.com
DR.ARJUN PATEL: 798 0280 arjunpatel2006@yahoo.com
NIRANJAN SHAH 722 1110, nshah32@hotmail.com


The Binghamton Buddhist Meditation Group presents:
Lovingkindness and Joy
A Silent Meditation Retreat
Friday, July 24 (6 p.m.) – Tuesday, July 28 (2 p.m.)
at
Light on the Hill Retreat Center, Van Etten, New York
Lead by:  Dr. Charles Goodman
This residential, silent meditation retreat will focus on the immeasurable emotions of lovingkindness and joy.  These profound and beautiful states can deeply enrich our practice and our life, even as they strengthen our commitment to work for the benefit of others.
We will learn several practical, effective techniques for connecting with the actual experience of lovingkindness and joy. We will also explore the nature of these emotions and their role in Buddhist practice through the teachings of Shantideva and other spiritual masters.
      
Cost:  $400, or $250 for the weekend only. 
Lodging at Light on the Hill and all meals are included. 
    
    Dr. Charles Goodman studied Korean Zen and Tibetan Buddhism in the United States and India.  He is an Associate Professor at Binghamton University and author of Consequences of Compassion:  An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics.  In 2003, he helped found the Binghamton Buddhist Meditation Group.
   
Contact Zen  zenaidas@gmail.com or
William Spangler  spangler@binghamton.edu   or call (607) 777-2563

Raja Yoga Class and Satsang
Raja Yoga is the royal yoga that brings the nature of our True Self to our awareness.  This awareness cannot be gained through perception or intellectual knowledge, it can only be known through cognition, like the knowledge that I am, that I exist, it needs no proof, but without this knowing, experience remains limited and misunderstood.  Come join us as we explore our True Self through: 
Silence, Meditation, Breathing, and gentle relaxing Postures.

at the Indian Cultural Center (ICC) building
1595 Route 26, Vestal NY

Sundays  8:30-10:00am
with Edmond Cotton

Cost:  $ 10.00

Bring your own yoga mat

For more information
Call:  232-6410 or e-mail:  e_cotton@yahoo.com

Unity In the Southern Tier
July 26th at 11:30 am
Speaker:  Rev. Ann Marie Acacio .
Topic:  "The Wisdom of Solomon"
at 
30 Main Street, Binghamton

For more information, contact:
Barb Parcells: parcekb@gmail.com or visit the website: Unity in the Southern Tier


Theosophical Society Study Group
meetings every alternate
 Tuesday at 8:00pm 
Next meeting August 421st.
at
Vishnu's Couch Yoga Studio
61 Prospect Ave. 4th floor.
 
Current discussion Chapters 26-42 of Paramahansa Yogananda's 
"Autobiography of a Yogi" Online Version available here.
 
for more info, contact Tom at:  tmoberg@frontiernet.net



-----------Upcoming Events----------

India Day 2015

at the Indian Cultural Center (ICC) building
1595 Route 26, Vestal NY

Saturday August 22nd 
from 12:00 to 6:00pm

Free Admission

For more information:
e-mail  iccindiaday@gmail.com  or visit  www.iccbinghamton.org

Blue Spirit Wheel band
Members: Ian Boccio (voice, bass guitar) Stephanie Kohler (voice, harmonium) Joey Dukes (percussion) Scott Pridgen (percussion) Jeffrey Lidke (voice, tabla)
 
 September 2015
For more information visit www.bluespiritwheel.com
More details to come...
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