{"id":1339,"date":"2016-08-15T11:16:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2016-08-15T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:16:17","slug":"celebration-and-fall-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/celebration-and-fall-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration and Fall Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 10: CELEBRATION! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Waves and Water Sangha will soon be five years old!<\/strong> 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&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Saturday, September 10<\/strong>, we will hold a <strong>Day of Mindfulness<\/strong>. Beginning at 9:45 there will be two periods of sitting and walking meditation and then tea service. This will be followed by <strong>PEACE IS EVERY STEP, an early video documentary <\/strong>focusing on the beginnings of our tradition and the establishment of Plum Village. <\/p>\n<p>For our formal mid-day meal, please bring a brown bag vegetarian lunch. Then, following deep relaxation we will explore the <strong>Ceremony to Begin Anew<\/strong> and how it can nourish all our relationships. We have made a wonderful addition to this Ceremony \u2013 Touching the Earth: <strong>Honouring Our Women Ancestors<\/strong> based on the Soto Zen Salt Spring Island Sangha\u2019s initiative that was authorized by that tradition in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>We will end with sitting and walking and then join together in <strong>A SOCIAL VEGETARIAN POT LUCK<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>ALL ARE WELCOME<\/strong>: family and friends may want to join us at 5:00.<\/p>\n<p>Please register [wwsangha[at]gmail.com] A donation of $20 is suggested \u2013 please offer what you can. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Three Month Practice Period: SOCIALLY ENGAGED BUDDHISM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Day of Mindfulness will begin our three month practice period focusing on our tradition\u2019s 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\u2019s book, <em>Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War<\/em> and a chapter in Christopher Queen\u2019s edition of <em>Engaged Buddhism in the West<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;. 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