The Center of the Heart's   
Elight News

September 13th, 2012

 Please Join us this
Sunday, September 16th  
for our
Sunday Celebration Service

Reverend Maryum 
will be sharing the podium with 
Sufi Author Omar Imadi  
  Their Talk Topic is: 
"Many Paths to God" 

 
Our Sacred Meditation

begins promptly at  10 AM  

(we close the doors to keep sacred space)

then our Sunday Service begins at 10:30 AM.  

         We welcome YOU!    

  

  

  

Youth Group News for this Sunday

 

This Sunday we will be talking about how we can
 be "bucket fillers" this week.
Together we will create a puzzle and take it apart and put it back together. We will continue to get to know the new youth in our group. We are so happy they have joined us!

 

This Sunday we will be collecting change for our Community of Friends project. We are also currently collecting new and slighty used jackets and sweaters for adults and kids for the families thur Goleta Elementary School District. Bring your jackets, etc. up until Oct 7th. 
For more info, talk to Leah.
(Thanks and Blessings to you, Leah, for helping our kids to find the joy and self-worth in helping others less fortunate! So might we all!)

 

Come play with us!

Head's Up for Members:

PLEASE TAKE NOTE

 There will be a Bi-Law change meeting for members 

immediately after service on Sept. 30 at 12 noon.   It will be short.

Please join us!  

 

 

 

                            

Rev. Maryum closeup

I Am One with the Creator.

"I am the Spirit of Joy within me." 

Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind

Spirit is all there is and my all. It is my health, wealth, my happiness and peace. I am one
with the Creator.

My mind is the director of my life, and Spirit as Law is that which carries out my thoughts. I focus on the power of my mind and my Inner Power to create perfect health, wealth, love and creative ideas and expression. I know and accept these qualities are
always within for I am made in the image and likeness of the Creator. There is nothing to heal only Truth to be revealed. Beginning today, I choose to create heaven on earth as my life. My body and health is perfect and whole. Abundance and love are all around me and it is God's good pleasure to give me the kingdom.

I am grateful for this perfect life, the perfection of God, perfect me and my perfect being. I release any preconceived ideas of what I deserve and release any unconscious limiting beliefs. I release my word to the Mind of God knowing this prayer is answered. I feel a deep sense of gratitude. It is done. And so it is. Amen.
Rev. Maryum Morse  

Back by popular acclaim..

 Lama Nyandak
returns to speak on three topics:


Tomorrow night-

Friday September 14th

7pm

"Eight Verses for Training the Mind"

 

Sunday September 16th: 2pm

"Instruction on Calm Abiding Meditation"

 

Wednesday September 19th: 7pm "Meaning of the Tibetan Mantra"

 

 Please join us for a rare opportunity to hear this wise and empowered master. Lama Nyandak has traveled throughout the world as both teacher and interpreter.  

 

Through his travels he has met many people from all walks of life and has come to the conclusion that training the mind is the only path that will lead to happiness and end our suffering or in the words of Shantideva; "What discipline do you need other than the disciplining of  your own mind?  A tamed mind is happiness and virtue, and the untamed mind is pain and suffering."  

 

Lama Nyandak was born in the Western part of Tibet.  He was ordained as a monk at the age of 13 at the local Drikung Kagyu monastery where he began his monastic training and education.  In 1991, he fled from Tibet to India for further Buddhist studies and joined the Drikung Kagyu Institute, which is the main monastery of the lineage in India.  There he studied Buddhist philosophy under the guidance of the late Khenpo Togtrol Rinpoche, Khenpo Tashi and Khenpo Monlam.

 

While continuing his studies in India, he had the great fortune of receiving teachings and empowerments from many great masters including; his Holiness the Dalai Lama, His Holiness Penor Rinpoche and His Holiness Sakya Trizin Rinpoche.  In 2000 he traveled to the United States for the first time where he began interpreting for Lho Kunsang Rinpoche.  Since that time he has interpreted and translated teachings for many Buddhist masters. 

 

Love donations welcomed to help him on his journey of sharing...

This Sunday, during and after Service
Please Join us and our Special Guest:
Sufi Disciple 
Omar Imady, author of
 "The Gospel of Damascus"
Talk & book signing
This Sunday, September 16,

Omar Imady
was born in Damascus to an
American mother and a Syrian father. He was
educated at Macalester College and subsequently
received his doctorate in Middle Eastern Studies
from the University of Pennsylvania.
For over twenty-two years, Imady was the disciple
of Bashir al-Bani (1911-2008), a Damascene
Muslim scholar and a renowned Sufi mentor - a
relationship which continues to impact his life and many others.

Imady is the author of several books in Arabic and
English. The Gospel of is his first.
http://www.omar-imady.com/#!the-gospel-of-damascus
The Gospel of Damascus is an eschatological 
novel that weaves Jewish, Christian and Islamic 
traditions to tell the story of eight angels who 
identify and prepare Yune Bukhari, a Damascene 
man born to a Christian mother and Muslim 
father, to be one of the successors to the 
Disciples of Christ. The preparation process 
is complex and entails spiritual and sensual 
experiences which Yune must successfully 
undergo. Guiding the preparation process are 
golden scrolls which can only be opened at very 
specific dates. The story appears to culminate 
on Christmas Eve 1999 when Yune, along with 
his co-disciples, believe Christ will return. Yune 
is shattered when Christ fails to descend on the 
White Tower east of Damascus. But thirty-three 
years later, the preparation of Yune is over and 
he is finally permitted to witness the event he 
had anticipated for so long. 

 

New Meditation Group- Please Take Note!


A meditation group is forming at the Center of the Heart on Wed. evenings at 7:00pm beginning Sept. 26 for weekly practice.

Stephanie Cree will facilitate the group. She has been a daily meditator for over 40 years. She has tried a variety of meditation practices & will bring in some of these to the group.

Meditation is good for the soul, good for the mind, good for the body.

Come to this group. All levels of experience are welcome.

 

Check out all of our upcoming events, classes and more at our website or on our back tables! Namaste

 


These wonderful events are only a part of what we have coming up! Please go to our website for more information on these and more upcoming offerings.
Love and Blessings


The Center of the Heart
487 N. Turnpike Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93111
info@centeroftheheart.com
805-964-4861