{"id":1571,"date":"2017-08-13T20:20:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T03:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2017-08-13T20:20:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T03:20:34","slug":"taking-refuge-and-receiving-the-mindfulness-trainings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/taking-refuge-and-receiving-the-mindfulness-trainings\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Refuge and Receiving the Mindfulness Trainings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Waves and Water Sangha&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/P25YRa-r\"><strong>Day of Mindfulness<\/strong><\/a>, September 9, 2017, there will be an opportunity to take Refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha and to receive the Mindfulness\u00a0Trainings. You may choose to receive any or all of the Five Mindfulness Trainings. At the same\u00a0time, others may choose to renew or add to their earlier transmission. You may find the Five\u00a0Mindfulness Trainings <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/P25YRa-2i\"><strong>at this link.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You do not need to be a long-term or consistent practitioner. You do not need to currently attend a\u00a0Sangha in the Tiep Hien\/ Interbeing tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. You simply have, in your heart,\u00a0an aspiration to do your best in your daily life to increase happiness and decrease suffering in the\u00a0world.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, coming forward to take Refuge and receive the Mindfulness Trainings is an act of\u00a0generosity. You are expressing generosity not only to yourself, your family and friends but also to all\u00a0beings \u2013 animal, vegetable, and mineral. As we are taught, none of us are separate-self entities. All<br \/>\nour actions of body, speech and mind are interconnected.<\/p>\n<p>Our Day of Mindfulness will begin at 10:00 in the morning. The Ceremony will take place at 3:00\u00a0in the afternoon and last approximately an hour. Each of us brings our own bag lunch and we will\u00a0offer a light social supper following the Ceremony. Family and friends are welcome to join for the\u00a0Day of Mindfulness or simply for the Ceremony and\/or the supper.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to take Refuge and receive some or all of the Trainings, please let us know as soon as\u00a0possible (wwsangha[at]gmail.com) so we can send you an Application. We are happy to answer any\u00a0questions you might have.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in attending the Day of Mindfulness and\/or the social supper let us know in\u00a0advance so that we prepare. There is no charge. A suggested donation is $20-$40; any amount is\u00a0gratefully accepted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Waves and Water Sangha&#8217;s Day of Mindfulness, September 9, 2017, there will be an opportunity to take Refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha and to receive the Mindfulness\u00a0Trainings. You may choose to receive any or all of the Five &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/taking-refuge-and-receiving-the-mindfulness-trainings\/\">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-1571","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\/1571","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=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}