practicing mindfulness in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Sunday, October 20 at UU
Dear Friends,
Thay has said the purpose of our practice is to enable us to live every moment of our lives deeply. He has also said we already are everything we want to become. This suggests that our problem is a lack of mindfulness of the reality we already are. Thay also teaches us that we suffer from a fundamental delusion that we are separate beings in a world of separate beings, and that what is needed is the insight that we are not separate from anything and everything. This is the meaning of Interbeing. Interbeing is the nature of reality and all that is required of us to live our lives deeply and with the maximum amount of joy, happiness and peace possible, and the least possible amount of suffering, is that we wake up to the reality of Interbeing. Our practice is designed to help us wake up. Grounded in this awakened way of being, we will be able to communicate this possibility to others and to show them the way to true happiness. This is the process of transforming ourselves and our world. Join us as we use our practice to deepen our experience of being alive, soften our defenses, and master the art of being relaxed and free, filled with love and overflowing with joy as we go through our lives. Along the way we will honestly acknowledge and transform our suffering and the suffering of our loved ones and our world. Thay said our practice is a gentle encounter with reality.
I look forward to being with you,
Keith
True Enlightenment Garden
Thay has said the purpose of our practice is to enable us to live every moment of our lives deeply. He has also said we already are everything we want to become. This suggests that our problem is a lack of mindfulness of the reality we already are. Thay also teaches us that we suffer from a fundamental delusion that we are separate beings in a world of separate beings, and that what is needed is the insight that we are not separate from anything and everything. This is the meaning of Interbeing. Interbeing is the nature of reality and all that is required of us to live our lives deeply and with the maximum amount of joy, happiness and peace possible, and the least possible amount of suffering, is that we wake up to the reality of Interbeing. Our practice is designed to help us wake up. Grounded in this awakened way of being, we will be able to communicate this possibility to others and to show them the way to true happiness. This is the process of transforming ourselves and our world. Join us as we use our practice to deepen our experience of being alive, soften our defenses, and master the art of being relaxed and free, filled with love and overflowing with joy as we go through our lives. Along the way we will honestly acknowledge and transform our suffering and the suffering of our loved ones and our world. Thay said our practice is a gentle encounter with reality.
I look forward to being with you,
Keith
True Enlightenment Garden
Tuesday, October 15 at DBT
Tree will share about mindful consumption, especially focused on the impact of media, websites and how screen addiction can highjack our brains. We will look deeply at the Fifth Mindfulness Training to see the connection between loneliness, anxiety and other suffering that leads to losing ourselves in consumption. and practice coming back to the breath.
Tuesday, October 8 at DBT
Thay has written a series of simple “How To” books that are gems to aid us in our practice. Marge will facilitate, sharing some of her favorite teachings from How to Sit.Sunday, October 6 at UU
Pete will share about the eleven guidelines for daily living, based on the insights found in the sutra The Eight Realizations of the Great Beings, from Awakening of the Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh.
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