If any of you find yourselves living, or in New York town come March, check it out. Parabola LIVE: Featuring the “Monkey King” at The New York Insight Meditation Center The Editors and Friends of Parabola Magazine Sunday, March 27, 2011.        Fee: $25 2 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Join Parabola editors Tracy Cochran, Jeff Zaleski, acclaimed storyteller Diane Wolkstein, musician and world traveler Jeff Greene and other special guests for an afternoon of music, meditation, and a rekindling of the lost arts of storytelling and conversation. The highlight will be a performance from the Monkey King Epic, which tells the story of how Buddhism came to China. Fall under the spell of the impetuous Money King and his guide and minder, a determined Buddhist monk, as they travel from China to India to bring back the Buddha’s scriptures. This event is suitable for adults and children, and will benefit both New York Insight and Parabola. Register now at the New York Insight Meditation Center *Illustration: Sun Wukong (The Monkey King) depicted in Yoshitoshi’s One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, 1889. Check out the cover of  Parabola”s Spring 2011  Issue: Suffering, after the jump. From parabola-magazine.

If any of you find yourselves living, or in New York town come March, check it out.

Parabola LIVE: Featuring the “Monkey King” at The New York Insight Meditation Center

The Editors and Friends of Parabola Magazine

Sunday, March 27, 2011.       

Fee: $25

2 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Join Parabola editors Tracy Cochran, Jeff Zaleski, acclaimed storyteller Diane Wolkstein, musician and world traveler Jeff Greene and other special guests for an afternoon of music, meditation, and a rekindling of the lost arts of storytelling and conversation. The highlight will be a performance from the Monkey King Epic, which tells the story of how Buddhism came to China. Fall under the spell of the impetuous Money King and his guide and minder, a determined Buddhist monk, as they travel from China to India to bring back the Buddha’s scriptures. This event is suitable for adults and children, and will benefit both New York Insight and Parabola.

Register now at the New York Insight Meditation Center

*Illustration: Sun Wukong (The Monkey King) depicted in Yoshitoshi’s One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, 1889.

Check out the cover of  Parabola”s Spring 2011  Issue: Suffering, after the jump.

From parabola-magazine.