Upcoming events at Upaya Zen Center
Upaya Zen Center, a residential Buddhist community founded by Roshi Joan Halifax and located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will host these events:

May 13: A public dharma talk (5:30 p.m.) given by Sensei Beate Genko Stolte on “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.”

May 17-28: “Opening Prajna,” a retreat/work week at the Prajna Mountain Forest Refuge with Roshi Joan Halifax, Sensei Beate, Marty Peale, and others.

May 29-31: This weekend retreat, “Science Meets Meditation,” will be led by Alan Wallace .

July 10-12: A retreat exploring compassion and fearlessness at the end of life, led by Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan Halifax. This retreat is for professional and family caregivers, those with life-threatening illness, and those wishing to explore approaches to end-of-life care and issues related to dying and death.

Roshi Joan Halifax gave the annual Sue MacRae lecture on bioethics in Toronto in May. A powerful talk on care of the dying, Buddhism, and ethics, she makes the important point that one cannot separate compassion and ethics. She uses the three-fold training as a model ethical care of the dying. She addresses the development of moral character. This is a video presenttion of the talk with powerpoint.
 
http://epresence.ehealthinnovation.org/epresence/1/watch/320.aspx

i am so looking forward to the program with alan wallace that will happen may 29-31 at upaya. he is an extraordinary teacher, has opened buddhist teachings on meditation in a way that makes them very accessible. all of upaya's residents will be in the program, as i feel his way of teaching meditation is important for our sangha to absorb. his shamatha project, which had cliff saron as the chief neuroscience researcher, is the most ambitious neuro research project on meditation ever done. cliff did a stunning presentation at the recent mind and life meeting in dharamsala with his holiness. new and stunning unpublished results were presented at this gathering. am glad that alan will be covering this as well. upaya@upaya.org