{"id":1272,"date":"2016-04-06T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T03:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2016-04-06T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T03:34:11","slug":"we-begin-our-study-and-practice-theme-of-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/we-begin-our-study-and-practice-theme-of-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"We begin our study and practice theme of Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening dear friends<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, Thursday April 07, we begin our study and practice theme of Diversity with a Ceremony to Recite the <strong>EIGHT DIVERSITY MINDFULNESS TRAINING<\/strong>S that have been a part of our practice since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The next seven weeks &#8211; including a <strong>Day of Mindfulness on Saturday May 14<\/strong> &#8211; will include many different readings, Dharma talks, sutra services, and songs about diversity as a part of our practice.<\/p>\n<p>MOUNTAIN RAIN who developed and maintain the Zendo where we practice, invites us all to <strong>AN EARTH DAY FILM SHOWING AND CELEBRATION<\/strong> on Friday, April 22 from 7:00 to 9:00. <\/p>\n<p>They write: &#8220;Please join Mountain Rain Zen Community and BC Insight Meditation Society and Waves and Waters Sangha for a showing of the documentary film <strong>Planetary <\/strong> directed by Guy Reid. Discussion, Earth Day dedication of practice, and refreshments to follow. Everyone welcome.<\/p>\n<p>They will also have have an <strong>Earth Care Flea Market<\/strong> in the entry hall for the month of April. Items are available by donation with all proceeds going to a local organization devoted to caring for the earth. You are welcome to contribute Flea Market items. Due to space limitations, please do not bring clothing or kitchen items. <\/p>\n<p>Smiling as darkness falls&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening dear friends Tomorrow, Thursday April 07, we begin our study and practice theme of Diversity with a Ceremony to Recite the EIGHT DIVERSITY MINDFULNESS TRAININGS that have been a part of our practice since 2002. The next seven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/we-begin-our-study-and-practice-theme-of-diversity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}