September 10: CELEBRATION!
Waves and Water Sangha will soon be five years old! Immediately following the 2011 Vancouver retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village Sangha we began to practice together. Now we will begin anew….
On Saturday, September 10, we will hold a Day of Mindfulness. Beginning at 9:45 there will be two periods of sitting and walking meditation and then tea service. This will be followed by PEACE IS EVERY STEP, an early video documentary focusing on the beginnings of our tradition and the establishment of Plum Village.
For our formal mid-day meal, please bring a brown bag vegetarian lunch. Then, following deep relaxation we will explore the Ceremony to Begin Anew and how it can nourish all our relationships. We have made a wonderful addition to this Ceremony – Touching the Earth: Honouring Our Women Ancestors based on the Soto Zen Salt Spring Island Sangha’s initiative that was authorized by that tradition in 2014.
We will end with sitting and walking and then join together in A SOCIAL VEGETARIAN POT LUCK.
ALL ARE WELCOME: family and friends may want to join us at 5:00.
Please register [wwsangha[at]gmail.com] A donation of $20 is suggested – please offer what you can.
Three Month Practice Period: SOCIALLY ENGAGED BUDDHISM
This Day of Mindfulness will begin our three month practice period focusing on our tradition’s roots in socially engaged Buddhism. We will follow breath, read, chant, discuss, explore the history of our Tiep Hien :: Interbeing tradition beginning with excerpts from Sister Chan Khong’s book, Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War and a chapter in Christopher Queen’s edition of Engaged Buddhism in the West. Thich Nhat Hanh and senior practitioners have provided us with many resources and we will also discover key writings, talks and videos that will deepen our understanding of what it means to practice socially engaged Buddhism. This follows wonderfully on our four month practice with, first, Diversity and, second, Irritation and Anger.
