Green Island Sangha: 2014

Monday, December 29, 2014

January Schedule

SUNDAY January 04

Nassau Hall

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Note: Sit will begin with a Beginners Mind Gathering Our first Sunday of the Month Intro Meeting
for Those new to Mindfulness
or new to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

SUNDAY January 11

Nassau Hall

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY January 18

Nassau Hall

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be reading selections from, “Love Letters to Earth” by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY January 25

Nassau Hall

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry.

Friday, November 28, 2014

December Schedule PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE TO NASSAU HALL as of 11/30/14 (see address and directions on side panel)*****

We are moving!

SUNDAY December 07

Nassau Hall

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Note: Sit will begin with a Beginners Mind Gathering Our first Sunday of the Month Intro Meeting
for Those new to Mindfulness
or new to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

SUNDAY December 14

Nassau Hall

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY December 21

Nassau Hall

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be reading selections from, “Love Letters to Earth” by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY December 28

Nassau Hall

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry.

Friday, October 31, 2014

November 2014

SUNDAY November 02

Chelsea Mansion

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Note: Sit will begin with a Beginners Mind Gathering Our first Sunday of the Month Intro Meeting
for Those new to Mindfulness
or new to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

SUNDAY November 09

Chelsea Mansion

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY November 16

Chelsea Mansion

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be reading selections from, “Love Letters to Earth” by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY November 23

Chelsea Mansion

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY November 30
********PLS NOTE LOCATION CHANGE**************

Nassau Hall

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry.

Thursday, October 16, 2014

October 2014 PLEASE NOTE: Beginning this month sit times are changed to 9:30AM-11:30 AM

Photo by Ruby Moy

SUNDAY October 18

Chelsea Mansion

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will Be reading selections from the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings

SUNDAY October 25

Chelsea Mansion

09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry

Monday, September 8, 2014

September 2014

SUNDAY September 14

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY September 21

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will Be reading selections from the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings

SUNDAY September 28

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 AM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry

Saturday, August 16, 2014

August 2014

SUNDAY August 03

Chelsea Mansion

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Beginners Mind Gathering Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting
for Those new to Mindfulness
or new to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be reciting The Five Mindfulness Trainings.

SUNDAY August 10

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY August 17

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY August 24

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Fragrant Palm Leaves
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY August 31

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry

Thursday, July 3, 2014

July 2014

SUNDAY July 06

Chelsea Mansion

10:00 AM - 10:30 PM
Beginners Mind Gathering Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting
for Those new to Mindfulness
or new to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be reciting The Five Mindfulness Trainings.

SUNDAY July 13

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY July 20

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Fragrant Palm Leaves
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY July 27

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

June 2014

SUNDAY June 01

Chelsea Mansion

10:00 AM - 10:30 PM
Beginners Mind Gathering Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting
for Those new to Mindfulness
or new to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be reciting The Five Mindfulness Trainings.

SUNDAY June 08

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY June 15

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Fragrant Palm Leaves
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY June 22

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY June 29

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

May 2014

SUNDAY May 04
***NOTE LOCATION CHANGE***
Chelsea Mansion will be unavailable
We will be sitting at Deb's house in Melville
please RSVP for details

GRnIslandSangha@gmail.com

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY May 11

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY May 18

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Fragrant Palm Leaves
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY May 25

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry

Friday, April 4, 2014

April 2014

SUNDAY April 6

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
(Please note that the Beginners Mind Gathering that is usually schedules for first meeting of each month is being moved up this month one week to April 13.)

Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be reciting The Five Mindfulness Trainings.

SUNDAY April 13

Chelsea Mansion

10:00-10:30
Beginners Mind Gathering Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting
for Those new to Mindfulness
or new to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY April 20

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Fragrant Palm Leaves
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY April 27

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Saturday March 29 and Sunday March 30 Two Days of Mindfulness w Michael Ciborski & Fern Dorresteyn & Morning Sun Community‏

Please click HERE for details on this special event.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

March 2014 Sitting Practice and Event Schedule

SUNDAY March 02

Chelsea Mansion

10 AM - 10:30 AM

Beginners Mind Gathering Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting
for Those new to Mindfulness
or new to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be reciting The Five Mindfulness Trainings.

SUNDAY March 09

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY March 16

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY March 23

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Fragrant Palm Leaves
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SATURDAY March 29

Veatch House@Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock

10:00 AM - 4 PM

Joyful Together: A Day of Mindfulness for Adults, Teens and Children.
Click HERE for further information on this special event

SUNDAY March 30

Chelsea Mansion

10:00 AM - 4 PM

Earth and the Three Jewels:
A Day of Mindfulness in the Plum Village Tradition
Click HERE for further information on this special event

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

February 2014 Sitting Practice Schedule

Earth cakes being prepared for Lunar New Year Celebration at Deer Park Monastery

SUNDAY February 02

Chelsea Mansion

10 AM - 10:30 AM

Beginners Mind Gathering Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting
for Those new to Mindfulness
or new to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be reciting The Five Mindfulness Trainings.

SUNDAY February 09

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY February16

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Fragrant Palm Leaves
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY February 23

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

January 2013 Sitting Practice Schedule

SUNDAY January 5

Chelsea Mansion

10 AM - 10:30 AM

Beginners Mind Gathering Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting
for Those new to Mindfulness
or new to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY January 12

Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY January 19
Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Fragrant Palm Leaves
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY January 26
Chelsea Mansion

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We will be collecting canned goods/non-perishables
for a local food pantry

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Zen master, poet, peace activist, and the author of many books, including Peace Is Every Step and The Miracle of Mindfulness. He was born in Vietnam in 1926, and left home as a teen of 16 to become a Zen monk. He founded the School of Youth for Social Services, Van Hanh Buddhist University and the Tiep Hien Order (Order of Interbeing), in Vietnam. He has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University and the Sorbonne, was Chair of the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks, and was nominated by Martin Luther King Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was exiled from Vietnam in 1966 and lives in a monastic community in southwestern France called Plum Village, where he teaches, writes, gardens, and works to help refugees worldwide.
"We must be aware of the real problems of the world. Then, with mindfulness, we will know what to do and what not to do."
Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step

Green Island Sangha

The Green Island Sangha is inspired by the teachings and practice of Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh; we belong to the international Sangha which he founded: the Order of Interbeing, a "fourfold community" of lay women and men, nuns and monks. We are a grassroots Sangha, beginners and more experienced practitioners learning from and supporting one other on the path of awakening. We are also a part of The Community of Mindfulness New York Metro.

Our aspiration is to bring mindfulness, concentration, and insight to daily living. During our sessions, we apply the practice of conscious breathing to sitting and walking, as well as communicating with compassionate listening and loving speech. Our gatherings also reflect the values of openness. For example, many members continue to participate within other religious or ethical traditions. We are a Sangha of practitioners from the entire length and breath of Long Island and consider ourselves to be part of a world wide Sangha. Beginners are welcome.

Sitting & Walking Meditation

Sitting Meditation

"Sit or lie down in a way that allows your body to rest. Sitting, your head and spine form a straight line. Relax all your muscles. Find a way of sitting that allows you to sit for at least 20 minutes without becoming too stiff or tired. As soon as you sit down, pay attention to your breath. Then notice your posture, a little bit everywhere. Relax the muscles in your face. If you are angry or worried, those muscles will be tense. Smile lightly, and you will relax hundreds of muscles in your face. Then notice your shoulders, and let go of the tension there. Don’t try too hard. Just breathe mindfully, and scan your whole body."

Thich Nhat Hanh, The Mindfulness Bell, Issue 23, pages 1,4.

Walking Meditation

"Walk more slowly than you usually do, but not too slowly, while breathing normally. Do not try to control your breathing. Walk along this way for a few minutes. Then notice how many steps you take as your lungs fill and how many steps you take as they empty. In this way, your attention includes both breath and steps. You are mindful of both.... Your half-smile brings calmness and delight to your steps and your breath.... After a few hours of serious practice, you will find that the four of them — the breath, the counting, the steps, and the half-smile — blend together in a marvelous balance of mindfulness. This is equanimity, created by the practice of walking meditation. The four elements of breathing, counting, stepping, and the half-smile become one."

Thich Nhat Hanh, A Guide to Walking Meditation.

Five Mindfulness Trainings

Five Mindfulness Trainings

The Five Mindfulness Trainings were developed during the time of the Buddha to be the foundation of practice for the entire practice community, including monastic and lay members. The basis for the trainings is mindfulness.All Sangha members and guests are requested to observe these trainings to support our practice of mindfulness and living harmoniously together. No smoking, no drinking and no sexual misconduct constitute part of the Five Mindfulness Trainings to be observed at a practice center. The Five Mindfulness Trainings protect our freedom and make life beautiful. As guidelines for our daily lives they are the basis of happiness for individuals, couples, families and society.
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Reverence For Life

Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating the insight of interbeing and compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, or in my way of life. Seeing that harmful actions arise from anger, fear, greed, and intolerance, which in turn come from dualistic and discriminative thinking, I will cultivate openness, non-discrimination, and non-attachment to views in order to transform violence, fanaticism, and dogmatism in myself and in the world.

True Happiness

Aware of the suffering caused by exploitation, social injustice, stealing, and oppression, I am committed to practicing generosity in my thinking, speaking, and acting. I am determined not to steal and not to possess anything that should belong to others; and I will share my time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need. I will practice looking deeply to see that the happiness and suffering of others are not separate from my own happiness and suffering; that true happiness is not possible without understanding and compassion; and that running after wealth, fame, power and sensual pleasures can bring much suffering and despair. I am aware that happiness depends on my mental attitude and not on external conditions, and that I can live happily in the present moment simply by remembering that I already have more than enough conditions to be happy. I am committed to practicing Right Livelihood so that I can help reduce the suffering of living beings on Earth and reverse the process of global warming.

True Love

Aware of the suffering caused by sexual misconduct, I am committed to cultivating responsibility and learning ways to protect the safety and integrity of individuals, couples, families, and society. Knowing that sexual desire is not love, and that sexual activity motivated by craving always harms myself as well as others, I am determined not to engage in sexual relations without true love and a deep, long-term commitment made known to my family and friends. I will do everything in my power to protect children from sexual abuse and to prevent couples and families from being broken by sexual misconduct. Seeing that body and mind are one, I am committed to learning appropriate ways to take care of my sexual energy and cultivating loving kindness, compassion, joy and inclusiveness – which are the four basic elements of true love – for my greater happiness and the greater happiness of others. Practicing true love, we know that we will continue beautifully into the future.

Loving Speech and Deep Listening

Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and the inability to listen to others, I am committed to cultivating loving speech and compassionate listening in order to relieve suffering and to promote reconciliation and peace in myself and among other people, ethnic and religious groups, and nations. Knowing that words can create happiness or suffering, I am committed to speaking truthfully using words that inspire confidence, joy, and hope. When anger is manifesting in me, I am determined not to speak. I will practice mindful breathing and walking in order to recognize and to look deeply into my anger. I know that the roots of anger can be found in my wrong perceptions and lack of understanding of the suffering in myself and in the other person. I will speak and listen in a way that can help myself and the other person to transform suffering and see the way out of difficult situations. I am determined not to spread news that I do not know to be certain and not to utter words that can cause division or discord. I will practice Right Diligence to nourish my capacity for understanding, love, joy, and inclusiveness, and gradually transform anger, violence, and fear that lie deep in my consciousness.

Nourishment and Healing

Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful consumption, I am committed to cultivating good health, both physical and mental, for myself, my family, and my society by practicing mindful eating, drinking, and consuming. I will practice looking deeply into how I consume the Four Kinds of Nutriments, namely edible foods, sense impressions, volition, and consciousness. I am determined not to gamble, or to use alcohol, drugs, or any other products which contain toxins, such as certain websites, electronic games, TV programs, films, magazines, books, and conversations. I will practice coming back to the present moment to be in touch with the refreshing, healing and nourishing elements in me and around me, not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past nor letting anxieties, fear, or craving pull me out of the present moment. I am determined not to try to cover up loneliness, anxiety, or other suffering by losing myself in consumption. I will contemplate interbeing and consume in a way that preserves peace, joy, and well-being in my body and consciousness, and in the collective body and consciousness of my family, my society and the Earth.

Monday, December 29, 2014

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