2 options:
TM course A
3-year distant
learning course
+ two 6-day onsite
practice workshops
TM course B
3-year distant
learning course
Beginning of course:
October 2013
3-YEAR
TIBETAN MEDICINE
ONLINE COURSE
WWW.TIBETANMEDICINE-EDU.ORG
www.facebook.com/TME.tibetanmedicine
The course gathers several tools: students study
the theory with twelve textbooks based on
«The Essentials of Gyud-shi», an extensive three-
volume treatise written by Prof. Pasang Yonten
Arya, that expounds, explains and comments
the traditional Gyud-shi, the «Four medical
Tantras». These texts are complemented by
numerous recordings.
About once a month, students have the
possibility to directly ask questions to Dr Pasang
Y. Arya, through an interactive online class.
Practice training is given in intensive 6-day
workshops in Europe (TM course A) under
Dr Pasang Arya’s direct guidance.
TME
TIBETANMEDICINE
E
DUCATIONCENTER
A very rare opportunity to study traditional
Tibetan Medicine and its contemporary practice
with the prominent senior Tibetan doctor
Prof. PASANG YONTEN ARYA
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being. I’m a me,” she says. “Whatever I create comes naturally
from this being. Some people don’t like mangos, for instance.
You’re free to not like mangos, to not like me. But that’s what this
tree produces.” She goes on to say that her responsibility is only
to create. After she’s done her part, it’s others’ responsibility to
take, use, or discard what she’s created.
Healing our ancestors, Walker believes, requires that we
encounter them inside ourselves and understand the connec-
tions between who we are today and who they were then. “If
there are people back there who need working with, now is your
chance,” she says. “You won’t have another chance outside of
meditation to do the deep work of understanding how you got to
be in whatever weirdness you are in.”
The aim of deep-trench activity is not necessarily to forgive. It
may in fact be more difficult and far-reaching than mere forgive-
ness. Whether your ancestor was an indentured servant, beaten
and hungry, or the holder of the whip, buying the title to anoth-
er’s life, Walker says you have to “become this demon and learn
to love them.” To tear down the walls of segregation, you have to
start with the segregation in the heart.
It seems impossible that desire
can sometimes transform into devotion;
but this has happened.
And that is how I’ve survived:
how the hole
I carefully tended
in the garden of my heart
grew a heart
to fill it.
Those are the closing lines from “Desire,” one of the most mov-
ing poems in Walker’s new collection, The World Will Follow Joy.
“Joy” is one of Walker’s favorite words, as is “useful.” Joy can
come from gathering pine cones and twigs and scrolls of euca-
lyptus bark to make a fire, or from beholding the blooms on the
rosebush in her garden—common, everyday miracles. “Joy is
everywhere, closer to you than disasters usually,” says Walker.
And joy can be put to good use. It’s the foundation for gratitude.
It’s what fills the hole in the garden of the heart.
Charlie the Yorkshire terrier, who is not much bigger than a
Coulter pine cone, has been curled at Walker’s feet as we talk, but
as I stand to leave, he revives, barking, growling, weaving circles
of protest around me.
“He doesn’t like people to leave,” Walker explains, scooping
him up.
Walker recognizes that someday she’ll be an ancestor herself,
but she has no plans to leave soon—a relative of hers lived to be
125, so seventy isn’t intimidating. “I want to be a useful ancestor,”
she tells me. “If I were a tree, I’d be fruiting and they’d eat up the
fruit, spitting out the seeds, and more trees would come up from
those seeds.” ♦
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