Aro Ling classes and events in July

Weekly classes

Monday
7.30 - 9pm: Tibetan Yoga - sKu-mNyé

Tuesday
7.30 - 9pm: Yogic Song

Wednesday
Please note our lunchtime classes and Tibetan Yoga - sKu-mNyé  are not running for the time

Thursday
7 - 9pm Meditation

Special Events

Saturday 9th July at 7.30pm
Empowerment of Kurukulla and eveneing talk
with Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen.

Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen., the Aro lineage holders will talk first about the nature of empowerment and the nature of desire within Vajrayana and then will conclude the evening by giving the Kurukulla empowerment.

How to be Good in Bed
(behaving well in your dreams matters too)
Dream Yoga workshop 
with Métsal Wangmo

The practice of dream yoga is of falling asleep with awareness. We spend a third of our lives asleep so being able to devote that period of time to practice is crucial for anyone whose available waking life  is limited by work and family circumstances. Dream Yoga practise can also free us from conceptual limitations of time and space and allow us to penetrate the illusory nature of what we take to be concrete reality.

For more details and enquires
phone 0117 239 8505
email enquiry@aro-ling.org
or pop in 127 Gloucester Road, BS7 8AX
http://aro-ling.org/

Aro Books worldwide, fridge magnets and a prize draw

Do you have space on your fridge for a fridge magnet?

In a departure from books, posters and cards Aro Books worldwide are about to begin the production of fridge magnets of calligraphies and quotations.  Some people have already expressed enthusiasm about this possibility.

We would like to offer five fridge magnets as prizes.  If you would like to win one here are the rules.

(1) Find Aro Books worldwide on Facebook and become a fan.

(2) Take a photograph of the space on your fridge that you'd like to fill with one of the magnets.

(3) Upload your fridge photo to the Aro Books worldwide Facebook wall.


(*)Alternatively for anyone without a camera, please just post a note on our Facebook wall.  Feel free to describe your collection of fridge magnets.

We'll hold the prize draw at the end of June and notify the winners then.

The calligraphies are by Ngak'chang Rinpoche and examples can be seen on the Aro Encyclopaedia site. Calligraphies will also be available as greetings cards and posters.

Aro Ling classes and events in June

Weekly classes at Aro Ling:

Mondays, 7.30 - 9pm

Tibetan Yoga - sKu-mNyé 

with Naljorma Thrinlé

Tuesdays, 7.30 - 9pm

Yogic Song 

with Ngakma Shé-zér and Ngakgpa Namgyal 


Wednesday, 12.30 - 1pm and 1 - 1.30pm
Meditation classes 
with Ngakma Nor'dzin Pamo


Wednesday, 2 - 3pm

Tibetan Yoga - sKu-mNyé 
with Ngakma Nor'dzin Pamo

Thursdays, 7 - 9pm

Meditation 

with Ngakma Métsal

Evening classes £5, £3 concession.
Lunchtime classes £3

For more details see the Aro Ling calender or email enquiry@aro-ling.org

Events at Aro Ling:

June 5th 

Aro LIng Fundraising plant day - 

come and buy plants, all proceeds go to Aro Ling. 

11- 4

also as part of the fundraising day:

Buddhism and the Art of Gardening Maintenance

a talk by Ngakma Shé-zér at 2 - 3pm.

Weekend Meditation Retreat, 

The Four Naljors of Dzogchen Sem-dé  

with Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen

11th June - 13th June

DVD screening of Visual Dharma, State of MInd, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

18th June

7.30 - 9.30

Introduction to Buddhism, Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to Practice.

a talk by Ngala Nor'dzin Pamo and Ngala 'ö-Dzin Tridral

19th June

10am - 6pm

For more details see the Aro Ling calender or email enquiry@aro-ling.org

Aro Ling Buddhist Art and Meditation Centre,

127 Gloucester Road,

Bristol,

BS7 8AX,

United Kingdom.

Aro Ling opens today in Bristol

Aro Ling Buddhist Centre for the Arts and Meditation

opens today, 21st May in Bristol.

It is a Buddhist bookshop and meditation equipment supplier, at 127 Gloucester Road, Bristol City Centre. It is also much more than simply a shop. Aro Ling is a creative space, where you will find local artists’ works on display. It is a stimulating space, home to the Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Research Library, containing a host of titles on Buddhist teachings, and Asian culture, for casual perusal or serious study by practitioners and scholars. It is a healing space, in which Aro Elemental Balancing and Aro Bodywork are practiced, along with other complementary therapies in our therapy room. It is a space to explore – to develop an understanding of oneself through meditation, martial arts, and dance – by spending time practicing in our shrine room. Above all, it is a welcoming space, where you can sit and read, chat with our staff or with passing friends and acquaintances – about meditation, the arts, or whatever enters your mind. 

There will be regular weekly drop in classes and regular activities and events, see the calender for details.

The first teaching event will be this evening and will be a talk on

Reality as Art

with Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen at 7.30pm.

see here for details.

Reality as Art - Aro Ling Buddhist Art and Meditation Centre - Bristol

Reality as Art

Talk with Ngak´chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen

Friday 21st May 7.30pm

Aro Ling Buddhist Art and Meditation Centre
127 Gloucester Road, BS7 8AX
Near Montpelier Railway Station
Bristol, UK 

When we allow our senses uncontrived freedom to experience the world – Art is discovered as the nature of reality. Reality is provocative of Art – and Art is the medium of our relationship with life. We are all Artists and only to make that discovery. 


Prepare to have your senses dazzled as Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen explore and explode our cherished notions of 'What is Art'.

cost £10 

Booking is required for this event please contact enquiry@aro-ling.org or call/text 07505 569680

Aro Books worldwide : Quotations, Reviews, Discussions

There area now pages on the Aro Books worldwide Facebook discussion board where you can post Quotations, Reviews, Discussions, Links and other information about Spacious Passion, the teachings on Tobacco, Moving Being and Rays of the Sun.

Feel free to post reviews. They can be quite succinct

"For me, even more remarkable is the introduction and commentary by Khandro Déchen, in which she discusses the theory that is realised as practice. The language is crisp and clear and direct; I find it accessable but also subtle, so that every time I read it, something I'd not realised before, or understood becomes apparent or tugs invitingly at me." - Kira O'Reilly reviewing Moving Being

It is not possible to taste the fruits of Buddhist practice without fully engaging with its radical horticulture. Fruit will not grow if the seed of view is not sown, watered, and fed by the energy of practice. 

 Spacious Passion - Ngala Nor'dzin Pamo
  
 Khandro ’ö-Zér











Forthcoming Events



Romance and relationship in Buddhist Tantra 9 April
Weekend event with Ngala Rig´dzin Dorje in Helsinki, Finland.

Yogic Song and Silent Sitting from the Aro Tradition 11 April
Meditation group in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Practice in Cornwall 11 April
Meditation group in Penzance, Cornwall, UK.

Study group 13 April
Seminar with Ngakma Nor´dzin Pamo and Ngakpa ´ö-Dzin Tridral in Whitchurch, Cardiff, UK.

Public event 14 April
Retreat with Ngala Rig´dzin Dorje in Rovaniemi, Finland.

Buddhism: religion, philosophy or way of life 15 April
Talk with Ngala Rig´dzin Dorje in Rovaniemi, Finland.

The essence of Buddhist meditation 16 April
Retreat with Ngala Rig´dzin Dorje in Rovaniemi , Finland.

Meditation Group 19 April
Meditation group with Naljorpa Ögyen Dorje and Ngakma Zér-mé Dri´mèd in Alameda, CA, USA.

Evening Talk with Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen 19 April
Talk with Ngak´chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen in Bristol, UK.

Guru Padmasambhava Tsog 'khorlo 20 April
Ceremony with Ngakma Nor´dzin Pamo and Ngakpa ´ö-Dzin Tridral in Whitchurch, Cardiff, UK.

Practice in Cornwall 25 April
Meditation group in Penzance, Cornwall, UK.

Meditation Group: Tsog Khorlo 26 April
Meditation group with Naljorpa Ögyen Dorje and Ngakma Zér-mé Dri´mèd in Alameda, CA, USA.

Study group 27 April
Seminar with Ngakma Nor´dzin Pamo and Ngakpa ´ö-Dzin Tridral in Whitchurch, Cardiff, UK.

Evening talk 29 April
Talk with Ngala Rig´dzin Dorje in Austria.

Bewegendes Sein - die Praxis des sKu-mNyé 30 April
Weekend event with Ngala Rig´dzin Dorje in Munich, Germany.

The Poetic Science of the Natural State 30 April
Weekend event with Ngak´chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen in Kings Capel, Herefordshire, UK.

Meditation Group 3 May
Meditation group with Naljorpa Ögyen Dorje and Ngakma Zér-mé Dri´mèd in Alameda, CA, USA.

Meditation Group 10 May
Meditation group with Naljorpa Ögyen Dorje and Ngakma Zér-mé Dri´mèd in Alameda, CA, USA.

Wesak festival 16 May
Talk with Ngala Rig´dzin Dorje in Germany.

The Heart of the Sun & Moon 4 June
Weekend event with Lama Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo in Berlin, Germany.

Public event 4 June
Talk with Ngala Rig´dzin Dorje in Edinburgh, UK.

Public event 5 June
Weekend event with Ngala Rig´dzin Dorje in Edinburgh, UK.

Weekend Retreat with Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen 11 June
Retreat with Ngak´chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen in Bristol, UK

Compassion in the Nine Yanas 17 June
Talk with Lama Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo in Pittsfield, MA, USA.

Liebeserlebnis und Beziehung im buddhistischen Tantra 25 June
Weekend event with Ngala Rig´dzin Dorje in Zürich, Switzerland.

The North American Phurba Project & Craft Retreat 26 June
Retreat with Lama Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo, Ngakpa Trögyal Dorje, Ngakma Pema Zangmo and Naljorma Dzü´drül Pamo in Willowemoc, NY, USA.

Thunderbolt Nail 3 July
One-day event with Lama Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo in Willowemoc, NY, USA.

Summer retreat: Through the Looking -Glass 9 July
Retreat with Ngala Rig´dzin Dorje and Tsal´gyür Wangmo in Tuscany, Italy.

Evening Talk with Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen 12 July
Talk with Ngak´chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen in Bristol, UK.

Aro Tharpa Ling 25 July
Retreat with Ngakma Nor´dzin Pamo in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.

Summer course: Natural Heroism, the path of the Warrior 30 July
Retreat with Lama Bar-ché Dorje and Naljorpa Chhi´mèd Künzang in Porvoo area, Finland.