Dear friends –
This week we will begin listening to a two-part talk by Thich Nhat Hanh that may focus our embodied practice over the next weeks. This Thursday (June 26) we will have a talk on Hearing the Call of Mother Earth. The next, we will engage in the Ceremony for the Recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings. Then, July 10 we will continue listening to the talk as it shifts focus to Silence – the Silence that allows us to Hear something other than our mind our mind our mind.
We have a Day of Mindfulness July 12 that will allow us to explore one of the greatest obstacles to our embodied practice and our peacefulness of mind: Righteous Anger!
July 17 will include three periods of sitting and a sutra service. Then we will be led in Mindful Movements followed the next week week by Touching the Earth.
The Mindfulness Trainings recitation on August 7 will be followed by a panel looking at the impact of practicing silence on our lived experience of the Mindfulness Trainings. We will move from there to a week with Deep Relaxation, one with sitting and Sutra Service and one with a discussion of deep ecology and our connection with the Earth.
Most weeks there will be an opportunity for Dharma Sharing as well as Practice and Study.
May you be well. . . .
