Tuesday, June 30

Karen will share about the Second Mindfulness Training: Belonging and Connecting as True Happiness, of the Contemplations on the Five Mindfulness Trainings, A New Paradigm For Racial Justice and the Global Pandemic.

Sunday, June 28

Our dear friend, Stephanie Knox Steiner, (OI member, OHS facilitator before moving to Colorado, and Earth Holder CTC member) will facilitate the Recitation of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings.

Tuesday, June 23

Anita will explore and practice deeply with the First Mindfulness Training from ARISE Sangha Five Mindfulness Trainings New Paradigm For Racial Justice And The Global Pandemic: Acknowledging Beauty As Reverence For Life.

Sunday, June 21

Marge will share from A New Paradigm For Racial Justice and the Global Pandemic. This new set of Contemplations on the Five Mindfulness Trainings has been offered to the Plum Village communities by the ARISE Sangha (Awakening through Race, Intersectionality, and Social Equity).  Sangha members are encouraged to read these five contemplations before Sunday’s gathering, and we will share how we may wish to integrate them into our practice.

Tuesday, June 16

Pete will share about protecting and transforming, Dharma tools for nourishing happiness, not burning out and engaging the mind of love in this turbulent time.

Tuesday, June 9

Dear Community,

Thay has taught us, to love is to understand. To understand ourselves is to love ourselves and to love and understand ourselves is to love and understand the world, for Thay has also taught us, the self is made entirely of non-self-elements. We are the world. If we turn our mindfulness and concentration upon ourselves, we realize immediately that our self is the world. We gain the great insight of Interbeing, with all beings and with the whole of being.

We come together to cultivate the mind of love, love of self, of each other, of all beings, of the whole of being. This is our practice and we are a community dedicated to realizing and sharing the fruit of this insight. I look forward to practicing with you.

Keith