Green Island Sangha

February 2012

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THURSDAY February 2nd

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Sangha Caretaking Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY February 5th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

THURSDAY February 9th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY February 12th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

THURSDAY February 16th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Dharma Study Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY February 19th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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.

THURSDAY February 23rd

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

Mindful Living Practice
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY February 26th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

Local Food Pantry Collection

January 2012 Schedule

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THURSDAY January 5th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Sangha Caretaking Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY January 8th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

THURSDAY January 12th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM

5 Mindfulness Training Recitation
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY January 15th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

THURSDAY January 19th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Dharma Study Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY January 22nd

St Ignatius Retreat House

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.

THURSDAY January 26th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM

Mindful Living Practice

SUNDAY January 29th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

Local Food Pantry Collection

Dec 17 Cookie Baking Meditation Dec 18 sit at St Ignatius

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This year on Saturday Dec 17th at 1PM , we will be having our
4th Annual Vegan Cookie Baking Meditation at Karen and Robert Katz’s
house in Merrick…all are welcome. The cookies are our GIS homemade gift that we
give to the monastics each holiday season and brings our love to them in a real
and tangible way.
If you are interested in a fun and festive time together of sending our love into
cookies practice then please RSVP to Karen at KZ2@aol.com if you are interested in coming so she can send you directions to her house.

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO BE:

Dough Makers: make cookie dough a day or so in advance (we make
the cookies with egg replacer and non dairy spread instead of eggs and butter).
Please contact Jeanne if interested so we know how much dough we will have/need.
Jeanselmo@aol.com

Cookie Makers: bring a rolling pin and or cookie sheet to help cut out cookies with
lots of fun shaped cookie cutters.

Cookie Tasters: we will need some official tasters

Vegan Pot Luck : Please bring a vegan dish or juice/drinks to share for we end the day
with a pot luck mindful lunch together.

Please RSVP soon to Karen for directions and letting her know if you are bringing a
dish and to Jeanne re cookie dough.

Dec 18 Sun @ 10:30 AM we will be having our Holiday Sit at St Ignatius.
This will be our last sit at St Ignatius till after New Years. See our Thurs evening Brentwood Schedule below for more holiday practice days and times.

December 2011 Schedule

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Our Sunday December 11th Sit will be at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, 48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset, NY 11030, 1st floor in the Veatch Hall Ballroom.

For easy parking for all and wheelchair access at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock please make an immediate right when entering the parking lot and go to the Veatch Hall courtyard and park. Go up the steps from the Veatch Parking lot to the building entrance.
For wheelchair access after taking the right toward Veatch Hall follow signs for Administration and delivery for Veatch Hall, park in courtyard, enter the building and take the elevator to first floor to the Ballroom.

There are plenty of chairs. Please bring your own cushion.
48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset, NY 11030
Directions can be found at their Website:
UUCSR

We will not be gathering on Christmas Day Sunday December 25th nor on Sunday January 1st.
Please enjoy your family and friends.

SUNDAY December 4th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

THURSDAY December 8th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY December 11th

UU Congregation at Shelter Rock
48 Shelter Rock Road Manhasset, NY 11030

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

THURSDAY December 15th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Dharma Study Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY December 18th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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.

THURSDAY December 22th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Mindful Living
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY December 25th

We will not be sitting together this day.
Please enjoy your Family and Friends

THURSDAY December 29th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
TBD

November Schedule

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THURSDAY November 3rd

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Sangha Caretaking Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY November 6th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

THURSDAY November 10th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY November 13th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

THURSDAY November 17th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Dharma Study Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SATURDAY November 19th

Day of Mindfulness with
Dharma Teacher Joanne Friday

Riverside Church, South Hall, 91 Claremont Avenue, NY, NY

10am until 4:30pm
Please arrive by 9:45

Joanne Friday, leads retreats and workshops throughout New England. She received the Dharmacharya Lamp Transmission from her teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh in 2003. Joanne considers the transmission of the Dharma to be the most wonderful gift she has received and her greatest joy is passing it on. It will be our joy to receive it on this day along with her beautiful presence and deep practice.
Please RSVP to DavidRflint@gmail.com

SUNDAY November 20th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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.

THURSDAY November 24th

We will not be sitting on Thanksgiving

Please enjoy your Family and Friends

SUNDAY November 27th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

Local Food Pantry Collection

Thay at Blue Cliff Monastery

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photo by Diane Wolkstein (dianewolkstein.com)

October Schedule

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BELOW ARE SCHEDULES FOR BOTH
THE THICH NHAT HANH AND
THE PLUM VILLAGE SANGHA'S
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
AND FOR BLUE CLIFF MONASTERY.

ALSO - NOTE THAT ON OCTOBER 9TH
GREEN ISLAND SANGHA WILL BE AT
CEDARMERE PARK IN ROSLYN.

SUNDAY October 2nd

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

THURSDAY October 6th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Sangha Caretaking Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY October 9th

Cedarmere Park
225 Bryant Ave., Roslyn, NY

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

Weather Permitting

THURSDAY October 13th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY October 16th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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.

THURSDAY October 20th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Dharma Study Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY October 23rd

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

THURSDAY October 27th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Mindful Living Practice
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us As We
Discuss the 5 and 14 Mindfulness Trainings

SUNDAY October 30th

St Ignatius Retreat House

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Beginning Anew

We are offering a Beginning Anew Ceremony to the Community.

To begin anew is to look deeply and honestly at ourselves, our past actions, speech and thoughts and to create a fresh beginning within ourselves and in our relationships with others.

We welcome everyone to come join us in this wonderful practice.

Local Food Pantry Collection

SCHEDULE FOR
THICH NHAT HANH TOUR AND
BLUE CLIFF MONASTERY

Mindfulness Retreat Oct 5-10, 2011
from Oct 5-10, 2011 02:00 PM to Oct 10, 2011 04:00 PM — Blue Cliff Monastery
Stepping Into Freedom, Savoring Life
A retreat with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and the monks and nuns of the international Plum Village delegation.

Public Talk in New York City Oct 14, 2011
from 07:00 PM to 10:00 PM — Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom
Global Ethics for Our Future

Day of Mindfulness in NYC Oct 15, 2011
from 09:30 AM to 04:00 PM — Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom
Global Ethics for Our Future

Day of Mindfulness at Blue Cliff Monastery Oct 16, 2011
from 09:00 AM to 04:30 PM — Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush, NY
Fundraising Day of Mindfulness

Ngày Quán Niệm cho người Việt Oct 23, 2011
from 09:00 AM to 04:00 PM — Tu viện Bích Nham - Blue Cliff Monastery, Sư Ông sẽ cho pháp thoại bằng tiếng Việt. Thay will offer a Dharma talk in Vietnamese for the Vietnamese community in the local areas.

Public Talk in Washington, DC Oct 25, 2011
from 07:30 PM to 10:00 PM — Warner Theatre, Washington, DC by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Winter Retreat Opening Ceremony Nov 27, 2011
from 09:00 AM to 03:00 PM — BCM Rain Retreat for Monastics and Lay Residents

Holiday Retreat Dec 29, 2011 - Jan 02, 2012
from Dec 29, 2011 03:00 PM to Jan 02, 2012 03:00 PM — Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush, NY
Resting in Mindfulness

September Schedule

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InterSangha Day of Mindfulness offered on Saturday September 17th, from 10 to 4:30, at The Riverside Church.
see September 17th below

THURSDAY September 1st

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7 - 8:30 PM
Sangha Caretaking Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY September 4th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

THURSDAY September 8th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM - New Times
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY September 11th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

THURSDAY September 15th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Dharma Study Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SATURDAY September 17th

InterSangha Day of Mindfulness

Riverside Church, 8-T, 91 Claremont Avenue, NY, NY

"There is no way to Peace, Peace is the Way" Thich Nhat Hanh

Our tradition offers many practices to help us meet life's challenges from a place of peace, compassion and joy... and not out of fear, violence, suffering or worry.
This month let us collectively plant seeds of peace, with our Sanghas and in our daily lives.

We encourage local Sangha members and local Sanghas to explore peace, healing and reconciliation practices from our tradition in our personal and collective practice during this month

To support this intention, there will be an

InterSangha Day of Mindfulness offered on Saturday September 17th, from 10 to 4:30, at The Riverside Church.

The Day will focus on teachings, study and practices that have inspired our local teachers as they reflect on this month which holds the 10th Anniversary of September 11th.

To help support the collective energy please arrive on time, plan to stay for the whole day and bring a vegetarian lunch.
___________________________________________

Let us take this this month to strengthen our intention to plant seeds of peace and healing in our own hearts, the hearts of our families, communities, and society.

May all our actions send peace, compassion, reconciliation and healing for the benefit of all Beings throughout space and time.

David, Jeanne, Marjorie and Dennis

www.communityofmindfulnessnewyorkmetro.blogspot.com

SUNDAY September 18th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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.

THURSDAY September 22th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Mindful Living Practice
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us As We
Discuss the 5 and 14 Mindfulness Trainings

SUNDAY September 25th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

Local Food Pantry Collection

THURSDAY September 29th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7:15 - 8:45 PM
Beginning Anew

In support of this month's intention to explore peace, healing and reconciliation, we are offering a Beginning Anew Ceremony.

To begin anew is to look deeply and honestly at ourselves, our past actions, speech and thoughts and to create a fresh beginning within ourselves and in our relationships with others.

We welcome everyone to come join us in this wonderful practice.

Cancellation

2011-08-13T20:35:00.002-04:00

SUNDAY August 14th

at Cedarmere Park

CANCELLED
due to rain

August Schedule

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THURSDAY August 4th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7 - 8:30 PM
Sangha Caretaking Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY August 7th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

THURSDAY August 11th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7 - 8:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY August 14th

NOTE We Will NOT be at St. Ignatius

Cedarmere Park
225 Bryant Ave., Roslyn, NY

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

Weather Permitting

THURSDAY August 18th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7 - 8:30 PM
Dharma Study Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY August 21st

St Ignatius Retreat House

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.

THURSDAY August 25th

Law Office of Allison Boyd Crain
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7 - 8:30 PM
Mindful Living Practice
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us As We
Discuss the 5 and 14 Mindfulness Trainings

SUNDAY August 28th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

Local Food Pantry Collection

July Schedule

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SUNDAY July 3rd

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

THURSDAY July 7th

Allison's Office
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7 - 8:30 PM
Sangha Caretaking Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY July 10th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

THURSDAY July 14th

Allison's Office
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7 - 8:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY July 17th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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.

THURSDAY July 21st

Allison's Office
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7 - 8:30 PM
Dharma Study Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY July 24th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

THURSDAY July 21st

Allison's Office
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7 - 8:30 PM
Mindful Living Practice
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SUNDAY July 31st

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

Local Food Pantry Collection

Cancellation

2011-06-11T15:57:00.002-04:00

SUNDAY June 12th

at Cedarmere Park

CANCELLED
due to rain

June Schedule

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THURSDAY June 2nd

Allison's Office
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7 - 8:30 PM
Sangha Caretaking Gathering
Everyone is Welcome to Join Us

SATURDAY June 4th

Blue Cliff Monastery is having an open house Saturday June 4th, 3-7pm, to celebrate it's 4th anniversary

"Blue Cliff opens its doors to our neighbors. Blue Cliff celebrates it's 4th anniversary.

Neighbors and friends are warmly invited to join us for our 4th-Annual Open House Pot-Luck BBQ. Guided tours will be available for those who come for the first time, along with great food, raffles, beautiful scenery, good company for all, and and maybe even a game of volleyball. As we do each year, we will also celebrate Blue Cliff Monastery's 4th birthday. Thank you to everyone for helping our roots to grow deeper and stronger. Those attending are encouraged to RSVP to the registrar: 845-733-4959 ext 22; office@bluecliffmonastery.org”

SUNDAY June 5th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY June 12th

Cedarmere Park
225 Bryant Avenue
Roslyn, NY

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Weather Permitting

THURSDAY June 16th

Allison's Office
130 Third Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717

7 - 8:30 PM
Dharma Study
Everyone is Welcome

SUNDAY June 19th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

SUNDAY June 26th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

Local Food Pantry Collection

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support
Our Community & Our Hosts

May Schedule

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SUNDAY May 1st

We will not be at St Ignatius Retreat House

SUNDAY May 8th

We will not be at St Ignatius Retreat House

We will be offering a "ROSE FOR YOUR POCKET" ceremony in celebration of Mother's Day. Please see Special Events below.

SUNDAY May 15th

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY May 22nd

St Ignatius Retreat House

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.

Local Food Pantry Collection

SUNDAY May 29th

We will not be at St Ignatius Retreat House

We will be offering a ceremony in celebration of VESAK. Please see Special Events below.

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support
Our Community & Our Hosts

SPECIAL EVENTS

CHAN HUY, one of our senior Dharma Teachers will be in New York.

Chan Huy (true radiance) was ordained as a dharma teacher by Thay in 1994. Born in Vietnam and raised in France, Chan Huy resides in Canada and serves as the primary teacher for a number of sanghas in the U.S. and Canada. Dharma Teacher Dennis Bohn said: "For many years i have been deeply impressed by Chan Huy's generosity and free spirit" and his "skillful, compassionate and joyful presence."

Chan Huy will visit the Rock Blossom Sangha on Sunday evening, May 1, at 6:30PM and will offer a fund-raising talk at 6:30 PM on Monday, May 2, at the Three Jewels, 61 Fourth ave. (9th street) - 212-474-6650. It will benefit the Saigon Children's Charity (USA). The suggested donation is $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Chan Huy will join the Riverside Sangha gathering on Tuesday evening, May 3, at 7 PM.

Locations:

Rock Blossom Sangha
A Brooklyn Community of Mindfulness
Church of Gethsemane
1012 Eighth Avenue,
between 10th and 11th Streets,
Park Slope,
Brooklyn, NY 11215
http://rockblossom.org/
We gather every Sunday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Church of Gethsemane in Park Slope. (Very close to the Park Slope/7th Ave. F-stop.) We begin promptly.

Riverside Sangha
Riverside Church, Wellness Center. At 91 Claremont Avenue, between 120-122nd St., one block west of Broadway. [We are listed as Mindfulness Meditation on Church calendar.] Contact David, davidrflint@gmail.com , or Marjorie, Marjoriem4@juno.com. We gather every Tuesday 7-9:00 pm.

MOTHER'S DAY - SUNDAY May 8th

A Special Offering in

Celebration of

Motherhood

A ROSE FOR

YOUR POCKET

Mothers Day

Sunday May 8th

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Cedarmere Park

225 Bryant Avenue, Roslyn, NY

(just north of Northern Boulevard)

map & directions

http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/cedarmere_garden/map

Weather Permitting

Watch this Website for Weather Updates

InterSangha Spring Cliff Retreat

May 20-22, 2011

For

Quiet Harbor, Rock Blossom, Green Island and NYC Metro Area Sanghas

Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush NY

Because of many upcoming events,

Blue Cliff Monastery requests that participants register early,

and send payment in full to Blue Cliff Monastery,

3 Mindfulness Road, Pine Bush, NY 12566

Please fill out the registration form on line at

http://bluecliffmonastery.org/sidebar/visiting-us/how-to-register

To Room Share Please include the name/s of your roommates on the registration form

All registrations will be confirmed by e-mail directly from Blue Cliff Monastery.

Questions? E-mail Blue Cliff Monastery at office@bluecliffmonastery.org

SUNDAY May 29th

A Special Offering in

Celebration of

VESAK

Sunday May 29th

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Cedarmere Park

225 Bryant Avenue, Roslyn, NY

(just north of Northern Boulevard)

map & directions

http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/cedarmere_garden/map

Weather Permitting

Watch this Website for Weather Updates

April Schedule

2011-03-28T18:29:00.003-04:00

SUNDAY April 3rd

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY April 10th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

SUNDAY April 17th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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.

Local Food Pantry Collection

SUNDAY April 24th

St. Ignatius is unavailable on Easter Sunday

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support
Our Community & Our Hosts

2011-03-15T08:09:00.001-04:00

Thich Nhat Hanh: Message to Friends in Japan
by Thich Nhat Hanh on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 at 04:34

Dear Friends in Japan,

As we contemplate the great number of people who have died in this tragedy, we may feel very strongly that we ourselves, in some part or manner, also have died.
The pain of one part of humankind is the pain of the whole of humankind. And the human species and the planet Earth are one body. What happens to one part of the body happens to the whole body.
An event such as this reminds us of the impermanent nature of our lives. It helps us remember that what's most important is to love each other, to be there for each other, and to treasure each moment we have that we are alive. This is the best that we can do for those who have died: we can live in such a way that they continue, beautifully, in us.
Here in France and at our practice centers all over the world, our brothers and sisters will continue to chant for you, sending you the energy of peace, healing and protection. Our prayers are with you.

Thich Nhat Hanh

March 2011 Schedule

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SUNDAY March 6th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

WEDNESDAY March 9th

UU Fellowship of Huntington

7:30 PM - 9 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
We Will Be Reading From Happiness.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY March 13th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

SUNDAY March 20th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

WEDNESDAY March 23rd

UU Fellowship of Huntington

7:30 PM - 9 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
We Will Be Reading From Happiness.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

Local Food Pantry Collection

SUNDAY March 27th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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

Local Food Pantry Collection

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support
Our Community & Our Hosts

Lamp Transmission!

2011-02-22T06:57:00.024-05:00

2011 Feb 21-Lamp transmission -Plum Village

In our tradition the Great Ordination Ceremonies

begin after the annual winter retreat.

This year is particularly auspicious for those of us in the Northeast because Four long-time OI members and Sangha builders have been invited to receive Lamp at Plum Village for ordination as teachers. This includes Green Island Sangha's Jeanne Marie Anselmo.

Thay offering Incense with the High venerables

Elder nuns paying respect to the Buddha and the ancestors

Chân Tuệ Quán

True insight looking

Marjorie Markus

Quản đại trí tuệ quán
Hạnh nguyện Quan Âm xưa
Hiểu thương là sự nghiệp
Thành tựu pháp chân thừa.

Chân Bản Thiện

true Goodness

David Flint
Đường về thấy lại bản nguyên
Bàn tay thiện hữu trợ duyên vững bền
Tăng thân tìm lối đi lên
Nguyện xưa ân trả nghĩa đền đẹp sao

Chân An Sơn

True mountain of peace

(Dennis Bohn

Năm tháng an cư trên đất Tịnh
Ngắm nhìn sơn thủy cảnh thần tiên
Nắng xuân về lại trên quê cũ
Hạt giống đầy gieo thửa phước điền.

Months and years residing in the Pure Land
Observing and enjoying the heavenly scenery of Mountains and rivers
The Spring sunshine has come back to the old path
The Seeds has been fully sown all over the fertile land

Chân Bảo Thủ

Jeanne Marie Anselmo

Tam Bảo nương về mỗi bước chân
An ban thủ hộ cả thân tâm
Chùa xưa trên đỉnh non mây trắng
Trăng sáng hiên ngoài hiện pháp thân.

8 new Dharma teachers: Sr Thang Nghiem, Marjorie Marcus,Phap Tap,David Flint, Dennis Bohn,GlenSchneider, Br Phap Vu, Jeanne Anselmo

Thank you to Brother Phap Khong for positing these photos and information on his Facebook page

St Ignatius Closed

2011-02-19T08:31:00.001-05:00

NO SIT SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20TH

Unfortunately St. Ignatius is unavailable.

Stony Brook Sangha

2011-02-18T07:58:00.004-05:00

Stony Brook Sangha, in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, meets on Saturday mornings from 8-9:30am for sitting, walking meditation, and dharma sharing. We gather at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 380 Nicolls Rd in Stony Brook. All are welcome. Bring your own cushion if you like. We can supply chairs.
For more information contact Linda Anderson at revlin23@gmail.com

February 2011 Schedule

2011-02-02T08:24:00.004-05:00

SUNDAY February 6th

St Ignatius Retreat House

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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

WEDNESDAY February 9th

UU Fellowship of Huntington

7:30 PM - 9 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
We Will Be Reading From Happiness.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY February 13th

St Ignatius Retreat House

10 AM - 12 PM
A Special Offering
Our Sangha Sister Jeanne Anselmo will be Traveling to Plum Village, France this Month to be Ordained as a Dharma Teacher by Thay. We Will be Having a Shining The Light Ceremony and Wishing Her a Bon Voyage.

SUNDAY February 20th

*CANCELLED*

St Ignatius Retreat House is unavailable

WEDNESDAY Febuary 23rd

UU Fellowship of Huntington

7:30 PM - 9 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
We Will Be Reading From Happiness.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

Local Food Pantry Collection

SUNDAY February 27th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Local Food Pantry Collection

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support
Our Community & Our Hosts

A Special Offering

2011-01-26T13:36:00.010-05:00

We Will Not Be At St. Ignatius
Sunday January 30

Please see our January schedule below for time and place

Cheri Maples in NY

2011-01-24T07:48:00.000-05:00

Tues Jan 25th

7-8:45 PM

"Mindfulness and Justice"
Free Evening Talk w Cheri Maples

Open to Public

Law School Auditorium

CUNY School of Law Flushing NY

For directions - //www.law.cuny.edu/about/directions.html

Thurs Jan 27^th through 30^th

Cheri Maples, Sharon Salzberg,
Gina Sharpe

People Who Care for People:
Tools for Resiliency

Open to the public
This retreat sponsored by the Garrison Institute’s Wellness Project will help caregivers and those in helping professions enhance resiliency skills and healing and coping strategies in response to stress, burnout and secondary trauma, as well as offer training in meditation and yoga.

Please see their website for more info - http://www.garrisoninstitute.org/

For more information about Cheri see www.mindfulnessandjustice.org.

A Day of Mindfulness

2011-01-06T13:50:00.000-05:00

A Day of Mindfulness with Cheri Maples
Saturday January 22nd 9:45AM - 4PM

Veatch House Ballroom
Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock
48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset, NY 11030

For travel directions and LIRR pickup please see below.

Free will donation (Dana) to the Teacher

Cheri Maples is a dharma teacher, keynote speaker, and organizational consultant and trainer. For 25 years she worked in the criminal justice system as an Assistant Attorney General in the Wisconsin Department of Justice, head of Probation and Parole for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, and as a police officer with the City of Madison Police Department, earning the rank of Captain of Personnel and Training. She has also worked as a lawyer and social worker. She has experience in conflict resolution working with strong emotions, and promoting restorative justice. Many know Cheri from Thay's retreat which focused on the criminal justice system and was the basis for his book Keeping the Peace.

For more information about Cheri see www.mindfulnessandjustice.org.

If you plan to attend please RSVP to grnislandsangha@gmail.com
BYO Veggie lunch; tea and hot water will be available.
BYO Cushions; chairs will be available.
For directions see the UUC Shelter Rock website: www.uucsr.org/find.asp
After entering the driveway from Shelter Rock Road, take the first right turn and follow the signs to the Veatch House Parking.
For wheelchair access follow signs for Administration and Delivery for Veatch House, park in the courtyard, enter the building and take the elevator to first floor to the Ballroom.
Long Island Rail Road Service: The 8:19AM train from Penn Station arrives in Manhasset at 8:58. If you would like to be picked up at the Manhasset station, please send an email to grnislandsangha@gmail.com.

Cheri's visit is co sponsored by your local Sanghas:

Green Island Sangha
Morning Star Sangha
Quiet Harbor Sangha
Riverside Sangha
Rock Blossom Sangha

Please Check this Page for Weather Updates

January 2011 Schedule

2010-12-21T18:35:00.002-05:00

Our Sunday January 2nd Sit will be at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock 1st floor in the Veatch Hall Ballroom.

The Remaining Sits in January will be at St. Ignatius Retreat House in the Interfaith Room.

For easy parking for all and wheelchair access at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock please make an immediate right when entering the parking lot and go to the Veatch Hall courtyard and park. Go up the steps from the Veatch Parking lot to the building entrance.
For wheelchair access after taking the right toward Veatch Hall follow signs for Administration and delivery for Veatch Hall, park in courtyard, enter the building and take the elevator to first floor to the Ballroom.

There are plenty of chairs. Please bring your own cushion.
48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset, NY 11030
Directions can be found at their Website:
UUCSR

Our Wednesday Evening Sits in Huntington are Unchanged

SUNDAY January 2nd

UU Congregation at Shelter Rock
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
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

1 - 3 PM
Community Caretaking Gathering and
Potluck Vegetarian/Vegan Lunch
All are welcome!

SUNDAY January 9th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

WEDNESDAY January 12th

We will not be gathering due to the Snow.

UU Fellowship of Huntington
7:30 PM - 9 PM

SUNDAY January 16th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Peace Is Every Step.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SATURDAY January 22rd

Our Local NY Metro Sanghas are hosting A Day Of Mindfulness with Dharma Teacher Cheri Maples at the UU Congregation at Shelter Rock.

Details are above.

SUNDAY January 23rd

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

WEDNESDAY January 26th

UU Fellowship of Huntington
7:30 PM - 9 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Happiness.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

Local Food Pantry Collection

SUNDAY January 30th

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

We Will Be Offering A Ceremony For The Deceased In Addition To Our Regular Sitting Practice.
Our Location For This Day Only Is:
130 Third Avenue, Brentwood, NY 11717

All Are Welcome

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support
Our Community & Our Hosts

Winter Retreat Talks On Line

2010-12-02T09:22:00.000-05:00

There is a new channel on vimeo.com with the talks of Thay from this Winter Retreat: http://vimeo.com/channels/152644
Plum Village Winter Retreat 2010-11 on Vimeo vimeo.com
These are the talks from the Winter Retreat in Plum Village offered by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh from November 2010 to February 2011. The talks are recorded with the original Vietnamese on the left stereo channel and the English translation on the right stereo channel.

Talk 1 - "Enjoying the Ultimate" - Winter Retreat 2010-11 from Brother Stream on Vimeo.

December Schedule

2010-11-24T18:42:00.000-05:00

With the Holiday Season We Will Need to Make Some Changes to Our Sunday Schedule

Our First Sunday Sit of the Month Will be at St. Ignatius Retreat House in Manhasset.

The Following Sundays will be at
the Unitarian Universalist Congregation
at Shelter Rock 1st floor Ballroom in Veatch Hall.
For easy parking for all and wheelchair access please make an immediate right when entering the parking lot and go to the Veatch Hall courtyard and park. Go up the steps from the Veatch Parking lot to the building entrance.
For wheelchair access after taking the right toward Veatch Hall follow signs for Administration and delivery for Veatch Hall,,,park in courtyard, enter the building and take the elevator to first floor to the Ballroom.

There are plenty of chairs. Please bring your own cushion.
48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset, NY 11030
Directions can be found at their Website:
UUCSR

Our Wednesday Evening Sits in Huntington are Unchanged

SUNDAY December 5th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:00AM - 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

10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

WEDNESDAY December 8th

UU Fellowship of Huntington
7:30 PM - 9 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Happiness.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY December 12th

UU Congregation at Shelter Rock
10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Local Food Pantry Collection

12:30 -3:30 PM
Potluck Vegan Lunch and
Community Caretaking Gathering
All are welcome!

SUNDAY December 19th

UU Congregation at Shelter Rock
10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Peace Is Every Step.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

WEDNESDAY December 22th

UU Fellowship of Huntington
7:30 PM - 9 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Happiness.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

Local Food Pantry Collection

SUNDAY December 26th

UU Congregation at Shelter Rock
10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support
Our Community & Our Hosts

November Schedule

2010-10-31T19:59:00.000-04:00

We Are Now Meeting in Two Locations:

St. Ignatius Retreat House in Manhasset, NY
UU Fellowship of Huntington in Huntington, NY

Addresses and Directions are below and to the right

SUNDAY November 7th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:00AM - 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

10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

WEDNESDAY November 10th

UU Fellowship of Huntington
7:30 PM - 9 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Happiness.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY November 14th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY November 21st

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Peace Is Every Step.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

WEDNESDAY November 24th

UU Fellowship of Huntington
7:30 PM - 9 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Happiness.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

Local Food Pantry Collection

SUNDAY November 28th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Local Food Pantry Collection

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support
Our Community & Our Hosts

New Addition! Wed. Evenings

2010-10-25T16:01:00.000-04:00

Public Tak from Penahg 2010

2010-10-19T09:26:00.000-04:00

Thich Nhat Hanh - Public Talk from Penang from Brother Stream on Vimeo.

Living Happily in the Present Moment!
Enjoy!

Next Gathering

SUNDAY October 24th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Happy Continuation Day

2010-10-11T07:49:00.000-04:00

Continuation Day of Thich Nhat Hanh (b. 1926)

"I have arrived.
I am home.
In the here,
In the now.
I am solid.
I am free.
In the Ultimate I dwell."

One of the best known and most respected Zen masters in the world today, poet, and peace and human rights activist, Thich Nhat Hanh (called Thây by his students) has led an extraordinary life. Born in central Vietnam in 1926 he joined the monkshood at the age of sixteen. The Vietnam War confronted the monasteries with the question of whether to adhere to the contemplative life and remain meditating in the monasteries, or to help the villagers suffering under bombings and other devastation of the war. Nhat Hanh was one of those who chose to do both, helping to found the "engaged Buddhism" movement. His life has since been dedicated to the work of inner transformation for the benefit of individuals and society.

In Saigon in the early 60s, Thich Nhat Hanh founded the School of Youth Social Service, a grass-roots relief organization that rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools and medical centers, resettled homeless families, and organized agricultural cooperatives. Rallying some 10,000 student volunteers, the SYSS based its work on the Buddhist principles of non-violence and compassionate action. Despite government denunciation of his activity, Nhat Hanh also founded a Buddhist University, a publishing house, and an influential peace activist magazine in Vietnam.

After visiting the U.S. and Europe in 1966 on a peace mission, he was banned from returning to Vietnam in 1966. On subsequent travels to the U.S., he made the case for peace to federal and Pentagon officials including Robert McNamara. He may have changed the course of U.S. history when he persuaded Martin Luther King, Jr. to oppose the Vietnam War publicly, and so helped to galvanize the peace movement. The following year, King nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Subsequently, Nhat Hanh led the Buddhist delegation to the Paris Peace Talks.

In 1982 he founded Plum Village, a Buddhist community in exile in France, where he continues his work to alleviate suffering of refugees, boat people, political prisoners, and hungry families in Vietnam and throughout the Third World. He has also received recognition for his work with Vietnam veterans, meditation retreats, and his prolific writings on meditation, mindfulness, and peace. He has published some 85 titles of accessible poems, prose, and prayers, with more than 40 in English, including the best selling Call Me by My True Names, Peace Is Every Step, Being Peace, Touching Peace, Living Buddha Living Christ, Teachings on Love, The Path of Emancipation, and Anger. In September 2001, just a few days after the suicide terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, he addressed the issues of non-violence and forgiveness in a memorable speech at Riverside Church in New York City. In September of 2003 he addressed members of the US Congress, leading them through a two-day retreat.
Thich Nhat Hanh continues to live in Plum Village in the meditation community he founded, where he teaches, writes, and gardens; and he leads retreats worldwide on "the art of mindful living."

Teachings

Thich Nhat Hanh's key teaching is that, through mindfulness, we can learn to live in the present moment instead of in the past and in the future. Dwelling in the present moment is, according to Nhat Hanh, the only way to truly develop peace, both in one's self and in the world.

Courtesy: Parallax Press

New Wednesday Evening Sit

2010-10-06T08:10:00.000-04:00

NEW WEDNESDAY EVENING SIT

7:30 - 9 PM
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington
109 Brown's Road, Huntington, NY

October 13th and 27th
Join us for sitting and walking meditation

in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

Please bring your cushions/mats. Chairs will be available.

see map

October Schedule

2010-10-06T08:09:00.001-04:00

Green Island Sangha
October Schedule

Sangha Generosity Practice non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry Collection at our October 24th sit

SUNDAY October 3rd

Lazy Monk Festival

Special Lazy Monk Festival off site
Outdoor Meditation at Cedarmere Gardens in Roslyn
Bring something to sit on
10:15 -12:30 PM
(dependent on weather)

St. Ignatius Retreat House will be closed so Green Island Sangha Will Not Be Sitting there.

SUNDAY October 10th

St. Ignatius Retreat House will be closed so Green Island Sangha Will Not Be Sitting there.

SUNDAY October 17th

10:00AM - 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

10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY October 24th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY October 31st

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

We Will Be Reading From Peace Is Every Step.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

Local Food Pantry collection

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community

& our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

Lazy Monk Festival

2010-09-29T12:37:00.001-04:00

SUNDAY October 3rd

Special Lazy Monk Festival

cloud watching, poetry reading, tea drinking, breathing, sitting, walking, listening to nature

Special Off Site Event

Outdoor Meditation at Cedarmere Gardens in Roslyn

Directly on Roslyn Harbor
Bring something to sit on or lie on

10:15AM -12:30 PM

(This event is dependent on weather since there is no indoor space there, also rest rooms are down the road ...

Weather report says sunny with some clouds…perfect for cloud watching!)

The gardens are just north of Roslyn Village on the west side of
Bryant Ave just north of and below the Northern Blvd via duct
We will meet below the Main Garden by the water
under a large tree on the left

There will NOT be a sit at St Ignatius Retreat House
which will be closed on October 3rd

For directions to Cedarmere see
map

or for info contact Jeanselmo@aol.com

Nalanda Buddhist Society: 13 September 2010 - Welcoming Reception for Thich ...

2010-09-13T14:48:00.000-04:00

So much wonderful material is being produced by the four fold sangha!
Please check out the below photos and story!

Nalanda Buddhist Society: 13 September 2010 - Welcoming Reception for Thich ...: "Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh has arrived in Kuala Lumpur at 12.45pm today. With him was the entourage consisting of monks and nuns. Representative..."

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN ON THE BLOG FOR SEPTEMBER SITTING SCHEDULE!

Lang Mai - Thich Nhat Hanh

2010-09-13T13:20:00.000-04:00

(thank you to Phap Khong- Diep Nguyen for positing this on Face Book)

Bon Appetit!

2010-09-12T09:06:00.000-04:00

Please check out the "Wake Up" site..it is full of wonderful creativity!
http://www.wkup.org/

September Schedule

2010-08-17T19:07:00.000-04:00

Green Island Sangha
September Schedule

Please note that beginning September 12th the times have been changed for all of our gatherings. Our regular sitting practice will be from 10:30am until 12:30pm and our Beginner's Mind gathering will be from 10am until 10:30am.

Sangha Generosity Practice non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry Collection at our September 26th sit

SUNDAY September 5th

St. Ignatius Retreat House will be closed so Green Island Sangha Will Not Be Sitting there.

SUNDAY September 12th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:00AM - 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

10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY September 19th

10:30-12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
We Will Be Reading From Peace Is Every Step.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY September 26th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Local Food Pantry collection

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community

& our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

New Videos Posted

2010-08-16T18:44:00.000-04:00

Dear Friends,

Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to enjoy new videos from the 4 fold sangha. Additionally please take a look at the various videos from the 2010 England retreat to be found at the link on the right hand side of this blog.

Blue Cliff Day of Mindfulness

2010-08-16T13:39:00.000-04:00

what follows are some photos taken from the Budding Flower Facebook site. If you have any photos from the day that you would like to share please email them to Grnislandsangha@aol.com and we will gladly add them here!....

The community of monk/nuns of Blue Cliff invited practitioners from around the region to a Special Day of Mindfulness on AUGUST 15th 2010 (Sunday) in Blue Cliff Monastery. This DOM was hosted by the monastics of Deer Park and Blue Cliff. During lunch, the monastics participated in an alms round, begging for food as lay practitioners offered cooked food into their bowl. The lay practitioner also followed behind the monastics serving the food provided on the serving tables. Everyone walked mindfully in two lines men & women then eating together in the big Meditation Hall. According to the monastics It happened like that every day during the Buddha's time.

The 4 fold Sangha Arrives Via The Internet

2010-08-12T13:36:00.000-04:00

Our Brothers and Sisters in the practice have been diligently working to bring the entire world wide sangha the most up to the minute access to our dear teacher's current talks. Please see the below information to hear new talks and to find out about up coming streaming dharma talk opportunities.

Thich Nhat Hanh - Global Ethics for Our Future from Brother Stream on Vimeo.

Thich Nhat Hanh -- Live from London -- Global Ethics for Our Future
Thank you to the London Sangha for helping us to arrange with the Hammersmith Apollo to stream this talk live. Please consider making a donation to cover the cost of offering this for all. Thank you.

We are planning to stream a good part, if not all, of Thay's talks at the Nottingham England Retreat from 13-18 August. The orientation will take place at around 7:30 PM BST (UTC +1) British Summer Time, on 13 August, 2010. Stay tuned to Thay's Facebook Page for more details.
The following links bring you to a talk was offered by Thich Nhat Hanh on the 11th of August, 2010, at the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in London. Thay teaches about the Noble Eightfold Path, and offers a session of questions and answers. This talk was streamed live at stream.pvweb.org.

http://stream.pvweb.org/ or http://vimeo.com/14088277
(cut and paste these links into your Internet browser)

The following link will bring you to the preparation for a talk by Thich Nhat Hanh given in London, U.K. on the 11th of August, 2010. This part includes singing by Sister Chau Nghiem and Brother Phap Lai as the audience enters, and a guided meditation by Sister True Virtue. The talk itself is labeled "Global Ethics for Our Future - Talk" and is also on vimeo.com.

http://vimeo.com/14072338
(cut and paste this link into your Internet browser)

August Schedule

2010-07-21T07:56:00.000-04:00

We accept this food ...

Green Island Sangha
August Schedule

A Mindfulness Retreat led by the Monks/Nuns of Blue Cliff & Deer Park Monastery

August 4-8th, 2010 - Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush, New York

Please see the Blue Cliff website for more information

http://bluecliffmonastery.org/

Sangha Generosity Practice non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry Collection at our August 29th sit

SUNDAY August 1st

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:15-10:45 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

10:45-12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY August 8th

10:45-12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY August 15th

St. Ignatius Retreat House will be closed so Green Island Sangha Will Not Be Sitting there Sunday August 15th.

The Brothers and Sisters of Blue Cliff Monastery and Deer Park Monastery have invited the community to come to Blue Cliff Monastery for a Special Day of Mindfulness on Sunday August 15th. They will offer a Dharma Talk, Walking Meditation, Lunch, and an afternoon activity.

Many of us from Green Island Sangha will be be going up on either Saturday or Sunday. If anyone would like to join us, or car pool, please send an email to us at

Grnislandsangha@aol.com

There is more information about the day on the Blue Cliff Monastery website:

http://bluecliffmonastery.org/

SUNDAY August 22nd

10:45-12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
We Will Be Reading From Peace Is Every Step.
Please Bring your Books with you if you have them.

SUNDAY August 29h
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:45 -12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Local Food Pantry collection

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community

& our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

We Will Not Be Meeting July 4th

2010-06-28T08:14:00.000-04:00

Green Island Sangha will not be sitting together at St. Ignatius on Independence Day, Sunday, July 4th. But we can sit together wherever we are and celebrate our Interdependence Day.

July Schedule

2010-06-28T07:52:00.000-04:00

Green Island Sangha
July Schedule

Sangha Generosity Practice non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry Collection at our July 25th sit

SUNDAY July 4th

We will not be sitting at St. Ignatius
on the fourth. Please celebrate Independence Day Mindfully.

SUNDAY July 11th

St Ignatius Retreat House
10:15-10:45 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

10:45-12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them, if not we can share.

SUNDAY July 18th
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:45 -12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
We are reading Peace is Every Step
Please Bring your Book with you if you have them, if not we can share.

SUNDAY July 25th
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:45 -12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Local Food Pantry collection

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community

& our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

Thich Nhat Hanh in Shambhala Sun

2010-06-02T14:43:00.000-04:00

New to our blog is an interview from the current issue of Shambhala Sun. the entire issue is dedicated to our teacher! If you have not purchased this magazine before, now might be a lovely time to show them some support and buy one.

http://www.shambhalasun.com/

Love and Liberation:An interview with Thich Nhat Hanh

To read this interview from this magazine please see the side bar titled Thich Nhat Hanh interviews.

June Schedule

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Green Island Sangha
June Schedule

Sangha Generosity Practice non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry Collection at June 27th sit

SATURDAY June 5th
Blue Cliff Monastery
4PM - 7PM
Open House for everyone to come visit the Monks and Nuns at Blue Cliff Monastery.
Please see their website for more information:

Blue Cliff Monastery

SUNDAY June 6th
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:15-10:45 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

10:45-12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them, if not we can share.

SUNDAY June 13th
Special Lazy Monk Festival off site
Outdoor Meditation at Cedarmere Gardens in Roslyn
Bring something to sit on
10:15 -12:45 PM
(dependent on weather)

The gardens are on Bryant Ave just north of and below the Northern Blvd via duct
(we will meet in the Main Garden and may sit below by the water)

There will NOT be a sit at St Ignatius Retreat House
which will be closed on June 13th

For directions to Cedarmere see

map
or for info contact Jeanselmo@aol.com

SUNDAY June 20th
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:45 -12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step
Please Bring your Book with you if you have them, if not we can share.

SUNDAY June 27th
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:45 -12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community

& our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

MAY SCHEDULE

2010-04-26T17:24:00.000-04:00

Green Island Sangha
May Schedule

Sangha Generosity Practice non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry Collection at May 2nd and May 23rd sit

SUNDAY May 2nd
St Ignatius Retreat House
NO Beginners Mind Gathering due to Community Meeting Gathering after today’s sit
10:30-12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them, if not we can share.

SUNDAY May 9th
Special Mother’s Day Off site
Outdoor Meditation at Cedarmere Gardens in Roslyn
Bring something to sit on
10:30 -12:45 PM
(dependant on weather)

The gardens are on Bryant Ave just north of and below the Northern Blvd via duct
(we will meet in the Main Garden and may sit below by the water)

Thay’s a Rose for Your Pocket Practices/Ceremony for all Mothers
And our Regular Sitting Practice
There will NOT be a sit at St Ignatius Retreat House
which will be closed on May 9th

For directions to Cedarmere see
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Cedarmere&sll=40.777774,-73.873189&sspn=0.028338,0.052271&ie=UTF8&filter=0&ll=40.81316,-73.641529&spn=0.026764,0.052271&z=14&iwloc=E#http%3A//maps.go
or for info contact Jeanselmo@aol.com

SUNDAY May 16th
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:45 -12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step
Please Bring your Book with you if you have them, if not we can share.

FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY May 14th, 15th and 16th
Open Center/Green Island Sangha Retreat
At Blue Cliff Monastery
All Welcome
Contact Jeanne at Jeanselmo@aol.com for info and registration

SUNDAY May 23rd
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:45 -12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
We will have a Buddha's Birthday celebration
(Vesak). Please bring your chanting books if you have them.

NO SUNDAY May 30th
St Ignatius Retreat House is closed

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community

& our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

Buddhist Films in NYC

2010-04-15T11:06:00.000-04:00

We received the following announcement at our email address:

Join us for this rare event graciously offered by Asia Society to the New York Sangha in their beautiful theater. It also includes free admission to the new Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art exhibition prior to the screening beginning at 6 pm.

http://www.journeyintobuddhism.com/trilogy.html

Asia Society presents the acclaimed film trilogy:
Journey Into Buddhism

John Bush, Director

Yatra is the sanskrit word for pilgrimage or sacred journey. These visually stunning documentaries are cinematic pilgrimages to legendary places in Southeast Asia and Tibet, including the spiritual wonders of Laos, Thailand, Burma, Bali, Cambodia, Java and Central Tibet. Journey into the living traditions, and vanished civilizations of this vibrant part of the world and explore the universal ideals of wisdom, compassion and inner peace at the very heart of these ancient Buddhist cultures.

The living presence of place is the primary focus of these three lyrical films which are meditations themselves. Their deliberate pacing, unobtrusive narration, and inspired sounds are created to induce an inner journey while traveling to these legendary places.The trilogy features an expansive soundtrack of classical Asian sacred music, leading world musicians and singers and an original harmonic chant score by David Hykes.

Dharma River Journey of a Thousand Buddhas
Friday April 23 6:45 - 8:30 pm

Dharma is the Sanskrit word for universal law. Essential to Buddhist understanding, dharma is the natural order, a living truth, and a force for awakening. Dharma River is a lyrical and exquisite sensory journey through Southeast Asia’s great spiritual and cultural treasures. Visiting the legendary vanished civilizations and living wisdom traditions of Laos, Thailand, and Burma, Dharma River powerfully conveys their continuing
relevance for contemporary audiences. Ancient temples, mystical landscapes, and wondrous shrines—many of them UNESCO world heritage sites—provide a rich visual tapestry. With a score of rare classical Southeast Asian music, this visual voyage masterfully illuminates artistic and devotional traditions. From the canals of Bangkok
to the mountains of Laos, from the golden pagodas of Burma to the Mekong River, the film is a unique experience of sacred space.

Prajna Earth Journey into Sacred Nature
Friday April 30 6:45 - 8:30 pm

Filmed entirely on location in Southeast Asia, the second film of the Yatra Trilogy is a stunning cinematic journey to the legendary temples of Angkor in Cambodia, the spiritual sites of Bali, and finally the marvel of Buddhist Borobudur in Java. Prajna Earth is a pilgrimage to sacred intersections where Buddhist and Hindu wisdom traditions merge with the animist worship of nature. Monks and nuns travel on foot for days to reach a full moon gathering
near Angkor Wat, the largest temple in the world. The dance of the Devatas celebrates the rebirth of this classic art form within the cultural healing of war torn Cambodia. As the journey moves to Bali, gamelan music, Ramayana dance, and lively street processions echo through the hill town of Ubud. In Java, a night of animist trance dance and
spirit possession is followed by a golden dawn and ascent of the startling seven-level stupa of Borobudur. Narrated by Sharon Stone

Vajra Sky Over Tibet
Friday May 7 6:45 - 8:30 pm

Vajra is the thunderbolt of awakening that cuts through delusion. It is the indestructible power of truth at the heart of Vajrayana Buddhism in Tibet. Filmed in Central Tibet, Vajra Sky is a cinematic pilgrimage offering a direct experience of some of the most revered temples, monasteries, and festivals still surviving. The vastness of snow mountains, rushing rivers, and turquoise lakes leads the journey westward to the holy sites of Shigatse and Gyantse.
Returning to Lhasa, the luminous faces of pilgrims in front of the legendary Jokhang Temple glow in the flicker of butter lamp offerings. The empty windows and doors of the traditional homes of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the Potala and Norbulinka, signal his painful absence. Yet the exuberant blossoms of the Summer Palace hold the promise of natural cycles of return. During the colorful Drepung Monastery festival, a giant scroll painting of the Buddha covers
a mountain as spiritually famished Chinese join with the multitude of Tibetan pilgrims.
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Asia Society & Museum 725 Park Avenue at 70th St. New York NY

April Schedule

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Green Island Sangha
April Schedule

SUNDAY April 11th

St Ignatius Retreat HouseBeginners Mind Gathering
10 to 10:30 AM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh10:30-12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them, if not we can share.

SUNDAY April 18th

St Ignatius Retreat House10:30 -12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY April 25th

NO MEETING THIS DAY

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community
and our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

Partial March/April Schedule

2010-03-24T18:00:00.000-04:00

Green Island Sangha
Sangha Generosity Practice non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry
Collection at March 28th sit

SUNDAY March 28th
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30- 12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
A little 10 min video for us all

SUNDAY April 4th
No Sit

Enjoy a Mindful Holiday in whatever tradition you are practicing http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2438/The-Alchemist

View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

SUNDAY April 11th
St Ignatius Retreat House
Beginners Mind Gathering 9:40 to 10:30 AM Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
10:30-12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version) Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them, if not we can share.

SUNDAY April 18th
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30 -12:45 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community and our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

Help Relocate Bat Nha Monastics

2010-03-20T19:15:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends,

Here is a message about our Bat Nha monastics and plans to relocate some of them.

"Dear Friends,

I am writing to report the latest situation with the Bat Nha (Prajna) monastics and to convey Plum Village's request for financial help to relocate them for temporary asylum outside of Viet Nam.

As you know, despite much effort at intervention by the international community, by the end of 2009 the nearly 400 young monks and nuns of Bat Nha were all ejected by force and totally dispersed from the monastery. Bat Nha is history. Some of the monastics have ended in small numbers at a few temples here and there which are willing, quietly, to let them stay, some trying hard to maintain the practice by themselves at home, and about 160 went to Thailand where they have been receiving a lot of support by the local community.

Despite the difficult situations, the spirits are reported to be high. The monastics are confident of their spiritual direction and of the support from Plum Village, as well as many of us around the world.

The stories they tell of their last days together, of the brutal treatment they received, and what they are having to do to maintain diligence in the practice, are both heart breaking and heart warming. The whole saga is an shining example of how the practice of love and compassion--as manifested through the non-violence on the part of the monastics towards the brutality they received--can offer not only peace but also strength in difficult times. Many of the details could be found at helpbatnha.org.

Plum Village is making plans to help over 300 of the monastics to obtain temporary asylum in Thailand, France, the US and other international locations. (We on the East Coast may see an increase in the monastic population at Blue Cliff itself.) The main costs associated with this process are for visa and passport fees, and especially for air transportation from Viet Nam. Plum Village is making a request for financial support to make the location of the monastics possible. Any amount you can give would be gratefully accepted. Donations to Plum Village are tax-deductible.

If you could help, please send check or money order made out to Unified Buddhist Church (legal name for Plum Village) to:

Sr. Dang Nghiem/Sr. Huong Nghiem
Deer Park Monastery
2499 Melru Lane
Escondido, CA 92026

with a note indicating that the donation is for the Bat Nha fund.

Thank you for helping.

With a deep bow,

Dat"

Thich Nhat Hanh on Mindful Eating Oprah.com

2010-03-19T13:52:00.001-04:00

A Conversation with Thich Nhat Hanh About Savor
- Oprah.com

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/A-Conversation-with-Thich-Nhat-Hanh-About-Savor

"World-renowned Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh has teamed up with nutritionist Dr. Lilian Cheung to change the way we eat with their book Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Living. Get his take on the root of our weight problems, what he eats every day and how to change your own eating habits forever."

Spring Forward with Mindfulness!

2010-03-19T12:07:00.000-04:00

Green Island Sangha
SUNDAY March 21st
at St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30 -12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy with you if you have one...if not we can share!)

Please see the below email detailing other events this weekend.....

Community of Mindfulness New York Metro
Inspired by the Teachings and Practice of Thich Nhat Hanh
www.communityofmindfulnessnewyorkmetro.blogspot.com

Dear Friends,
Below are 4 events happening on the March 20-21 weekend. The first two are Sangha Days of Mindfulness. The third event is an event sponsored by the Buddhist Council of NYC, of which the CMNY is a member. The fourth event is the 'Truth Commission on Conscience in War' at Riverside Church, where Thay has spoken several times and our Riverside Sangha practices. The Buddhist Peace Fellowship is one of many supporting organizations.
Take care,
David Flint

FLOW LIKE A RIVER:
A DAY OF MINDFULNESS
in Collaboration with Mindful Peace Building*
Saturday, March 20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Riverside Church, Room 8-T
91 Claremont Avenue, NY, NY

Water flows over these hands.
May I use them skillfully,
To preserve our precious planet.
--Thich Nhat Hanh

On this day, which coincides with World Water Day, we will practice sitting meditation and walking meditation by the river. We will share stories, poems and reminiscences about waters we have loved, share a vegetarian lunch, practice deep relaxation, touching the earth, and dharma sharing.

Please bring something vegetarian for lunch and a blanket for deep relaxation.

Facilitated by David Ostwald (True Path of Equanimity) and Birgitte Moyer-Vinding (True Path of Light). David and Birgitte practice with the Riverside Sangha , the Sunday Morning Sangha, which they founded in 2006, and with Lyn Fine in Berkeley, CA.
Please feel free to come for all or part of the day. If you have questions, please call David or Birgitte at (212) 645-0834.
* Mindful Peace Building was founded by Dharma Teacher and CMNY co-founder Lyn Fine. For more information, see www.mindfulpeacebuilding.org.
________________________________________________________________

Rock Blossom Sangha Afternoon of Practice
Sunday March 21
1012 8th Avenue, Church of Gethsemane, Basement
Dear Thây, Dear Sangha,
This coming Sunday, March 21st, on the first full day of spring, there will be an Afternoon of Practice at the Rock Blossom Sangha, in addition to our regular evening gathering. We will gather at 2:30, and spend some time in sitting meditation and looking a little further into the Sutra on Breath Mindfulness, which is one of the Buddha's explicit guides to meditation. Perhaps we will review sections one and two, and look a bit into section three, as Thây has taught it over a number of years.
Later we will have the opportunity for walking meditation, dharma sharing and a mindful (vegetarian) meal together at around 5:30. You may come for only the afternoon, or remain for our evening gathering for a longer (stronger?) practice experience.
metta,
dennis
____________________________________

Buddhist Council of New York, Annual Buddhist Forum, 2010 “What is sustainable sangha? : Buddhist perspectives on environmental and economic longevity”Date: Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm (note: registration with light breakfast will begin at 9:30am and lunch will be served at 11:30am)
Location: Brooklyn Zen Center – 505 Carroll St. Suite 2A, Brooklyn, New York (between 3th and 4th Avenues)
________________________________________________________________________

March 21, 4-8 pm
Public hearing of Truth Commission on Conscience in War
Location: The Riverside Church Nave, New York City
· Screening of Soldiers of Conscience
· Testimony from Veterans
· Briefings from Expert Witnesses
The Truth Commission on Conscience in War, a national gathering of community and religious leaders, advocacy groups, and artists, will receive personal testimony from veterans and briefings from expert witnesses about:
· moral and religious questions facing soldiers both before and during combat
· moral and religious criteria of just war
· international agreements governing the justification and conduct of war
· limits of military regulations on Conscientious Objection
See www.conscienceinwar.org for more information

__._,_.___

National Day of Unpluging

2010-03-19T10:18:00.000-04:00

Join in fighting back against the tidal wave of technology taking over society and our lives. Are you sick of having conversations with people with their noses buried in an iPhone? Are you that person?

Put down the cell phone, stop the status updates on Facebook, shut down Twitter, sign out of e-mail and relax, as part of our National Day of Unplugging.

People across the nation will tune out to reclaim time to slow life down and reconnect with friends, family, the community and themselves for 24 hours, starting at sundown, Friday, March 19. The Sabbath Manifesto’s principles were created for individual styling, but for one day we are asking you to take on the challenge of Principle Number 1: AVOID TECHNOLOGY. For those of you who can’t resist the temptation we created cell phone sleeping bags.

http://www.sabbathmanifesto.org/unplug

March Schedule

2010-03-09T16:06:00.000-05:00

Green Island Sangha March Schedule

SUNDAY March 14th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30 -12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY March 21st
at St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30 -12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy with you if you don't have one, we can share!)

SUNDAY March 28th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30- 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Sangha Generosity Practice non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry
Collection at March 28th sit

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community and our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

2010-03-09T15:58:00.000-05:00

http://www.savorthebook.com/savor-the-book

I recieved the following email about this new book.

Dear Sangha,

I offer you a lotus flower on this day.

As some of you know, over the last year Thay and I have worked together to write Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life. The book is being released today by HarperOne. Our intention is to raise awareness of the suffering caused by unmindful consumption and to provide the tools to transform suffering into well-being.

As a complement to the book, we have built a website with resources and a space to further cultivate mindfulness practice in our daily lives. In particular, we hope the website will provide an online Sangha to share and support mindful living and eating.

We invite you to visit and share this site with your Sangha, friends and greater community:

www.savorthebook.com

The website includes:

· Savor Community: A forum for sharing our experiences with mindful eating and living. Post recipes, videos, share thoughts on practice.
· Resources: Download printable content such as Five Mindfulness and Five Contemplations.
· Links: Discover a library of over 100+ websites related to mindfulness, nutrition, and healthy living.

We hope that this is a space to connect all of us to explore our practice and plant seeds of compassionate living. Please join us in establishing a Savor community to look deeply at the benefits of mindful eating and living in ourselves and others.

Peace in oneself, peace in the world.

With a smile and great compassion,

Dr. Lilian Cheung

Editorial Reviews from Amazon
Review
“Among Buddhist leaders influential in the West, Thich Nhat Hanh ranks second only to the Dalai Lama.” (New York Times )

“Authored by an eminent spiritual leader and a renowned nutritionist, this work infuses science into wisdom and wisdom into science. It is a practical guide to eating mindfully and points the way to attain a healthier weight and a more satisfying life.” (From the foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D. President, Institute of Medicine )

“Hanh and Cheung explore the convergence of nutritional science with Buddhist teaching and find complementary insights. Together, they provide approaches that help to heal both the individual and societal illness that is being manifested as an epidemic of obesity. Everyone can learn from this book.” (Walter Willett, M.D., author of Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy and Chair, Department of Nutrition Harvard School of Public Health )
Product Description
Common sense tells us that to lose weight, we must eat less and exercise more. But somehow we get stalled. We start on a weight-loss program with good intentions but cannot stay on track. Neither the countless fad diets, nor the annual spending of $50 billion on weight loss helps us feel better or lose weight.

Too many of us are in a cycle of shame and guilt. We spend countless hours worrying about what we ate or if we exercised enough, blaming ourselves for actions that we can't undo. We are stuck in the past and unable to live in the present—that moment in which we do have the power to make changes in our lives.

With Savor, world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and Harvard nutritionist Dr. Lilian Cheung show us how to end our struggles with weight once and for all.

Offering practical tools, including personalized goal setting, a detailed nutrition guide, and a mindful living plan, the authors help us to uncover the roots of our habits and then guide us as we transform our actions. Savor teaches us how to easily adopt the practice of mindfulness and integrate it into eating, exercise, and all facets of our daily life, so that being conscious and present becomes a core part of our being.

It is the awareness of the present moment, the realization of why we do what we do, that enables us to stop feeling bad and start changing our behavior. Savor not only helps us achieve the healthy weight and well-being we seek, but it also brings to the surface the rich abundance of life available to us in every moment.

New Video

2010-03-04T14:48:00.000-05:00

A New Video focusing on our sisters in practice in Plum Village has been posted at the bottom of this blog! Please scroll down to enjoy.

The Video comes from a project entitled The Journey TV.

http://thejourneytv.moonfruit.com/#/home/4535924484

The Journey is a non-funded and not for profit documentary project that aims to raise awareness to sustainable ideas, projects and lifestyles by documenting people who are committed to creating a sustainable future. The project concentrates on the positive action that is taking place today, and how in the heart of these actions could be real solutions to global issues.

March Schedule

2010-03-04T11:22:00.000-05:00

Green Island Sangha March Schedule

SUNDAY March 7th
St Ignatius Retreat House
Beginners Mind Gathering 9:40 to 10:30 AM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering
10:30-12:30PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have them, if not we can share.

SUNDAY March 14th
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30 -12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY March 21st
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30 -12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading (please bring your copy with you if you have ...if not we can share )

SUNDAY March 28th
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30- 12:30 PM

Our Regular Sitting Practice
Sangha Generosity Practice non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry Collection at today's sit

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community and our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

Audio of Thich Nhat Hanh with Oprah

2010-03-01T09:58:00.000-05:00

http://www.oprah.com/oprahradio/Celebrate-Happiness-Audio

Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes from the Oprah website

~ "Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out." ~

~ "People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." ~

~ "Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment." ~

~ "Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive." ~

~ "It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more." ~

~ "People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore." ~

~ "Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes." ~

~ "Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now." ~

~ "When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?" ~

~ "To be loved means to be recognized as existing." ~

~ "Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature." ~

~ "We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality." ~

Next Gathering

2010-02-23T19:56:00.000-05:00

SUNDAY February 28th
St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Sangha Generosity Practice
non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry
Collection at Feb 28th sit

Next Gathering

2010-02-17T10:23:00.000-05:00

SUNDAY February 21st
at St Ignatius Retreat House
10:30AM-12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy with you if you have one....if not, bring yourself, we can share!)

Oprah Talks to Thich Nhat Hanh

2010-02-16T19:19:00.000-05:00

"He's been a Buddhist monk for more than 60 years, as well as a teacher, writer, and vocal opponent of war—a stance that left him exiled from his native Vietnam for four decades. Now the man Martin Luther King Jr. called "an apostle of peace and nonviolence" reflects on the beauty of the present moment, being grateful for every breath, and the freedom and happiness to be found in a simple cup of tea.
The moment I meet Thich Nhat Hanh at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan, I feel his sense of calm. A deeply tranquil presence seems to surround the Zen Buddhist master.

But beneath Nhat Hanh's serene demeanor is a courageous warrior. The 83-year-old native of Vietnam, who joined the monastery when he was 16, valiantly opposed his own government during the Vietnam War. Even as he embraced the contemplative life of a monk, the war confronted him with a choice: Should he remain hidden away in the monastery tending to matters of the spirit, or go out and help the villagers who were suffering? Nhat Hanh's decision to do both is what gave birth to "Engaged Buddhism"—a movement that involves peaceful activism for the purpose of social reform. It's also what led Martin Luther King Jr. to nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1967.

As part of his denunciation of the violence inflicted on his countrymen, Nhat Hanh founded a relief organization that rebuilt bombed Vietnamese villages, set up schools and medical centers, and resettled homeless families. Nhat Hanh also created a Buddhist university, a publishing house, and a peace activist magazine—all of which led the Vietnamese government to forbid him, in 1966, to return home after he'd left the country on a peace mission. He remained in exile for 39 years.

Before his exile, Nhat Hanh had spent time in the West (studying at Princeton and teaching at Columbia University in the early 1960s), and it was to the West that he now returned. Seeing an opportunity to spread Buddhist thought and encourage peaceful activism, he led the Buddhist Peace Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks in 1969, established the Unified Buddhist Church in France, and went on to write more than 100 books, including the 1995 best-seller Living Buddha, Living Christ—a volume that never leaves my nightstand.

Nhat Hanh eventually settled in Southern France and founded Plum Village, the Buddhist meditation practice center and monastery where he still lives. Thousands of people travel there each year to join him in exploring the tenets of Buddhism—including mindfulness (intentionally tuning in to the present moment), the development of a practice (a regular activity, such as mindful walking, that redirects you toward right thinking), and enlightenment (the liberation from suffering that comes when you wake up to the true nature of reality). These principles were introduced to the world more than 2,000 years ago by Siddhartha Gautama, or the Buddha, the Indian-born prince who left a life of ease and indulgence in order to seek enlightenment—and founded a religion along the way.

Thich Nhat Hanh—or, as his students call him, Thây, the Vietnamese word for "teacher"—brings along a group of Plum Village monks and nuns to listen in on our conversation. In some spiritual traditions, there is a concept called "holding the space"—or showing up as a compassionate listener. Thây's friends are the space holders who have traveled with him from France, and as we take a photograph together just before our chat, they usher in a peaceful mood by collectively singing a Buddhist song: "We are all the leaves of one tree; we are all the waves of one sea; the time has come for all to live as one."

Read the entire interview on Oprah.Com

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Oprah-Talks-to-Thich-Nhat-Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh Magazine News

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(picture from Shambhala Sun Magazine)

Oprah interviews Thich Nhat Hanh in O Magazine. On news stands,February 15th. Feature title, Call Me By My True Names.

Thich Nhat Hanh article in Shambhala Sun, Mindfulness Is a Source of Happiness. On news stands, February 1st (see below)

Shambhala Sun March 2010
You'll find this article on page 34 of the magazine.

MINDFUL LIVING: MINDFULNESS PRACTICE

Thich Nhat Hanh on The Practice of Mindfulness

“Breathing in, I know that I am breathing in.” It is such a simple practice, but it can transform your life. The great meditation master Thich Nhat Hanh teaches five mindfulness exercises to help you live with happiness and joy.

Our true home is not in the past. Our true home is not in the future. Our true home is in the here and the now. Life is available only in the here and the now, and it is our true home.

Mindfulness is the energy that helps us recognize the conditions of happiness that are already present in our lives. You don’t have to wait ten years to experience this happiness. It is present in every moment of your daily life. There are those of us who are alive but don’t know it. But when you breathe in, and you are aware of your in-breath, you touch the miracle of being alive. That is why mindfulness is a source of happiness and joy.

Most people are forgetful; they are not really there a lot of the time. Their mind is caught in their worries, their fears, their anger, and their regrets, and they are not mindful of being there. That state of being is called forgetfulness—you are there but you are not there. You are caught in the past or in the future. You are not there in the present moment, living your life deeply. That is forgetfulness.

Excerpted from the March 2010 issue of the Shambhala Sun.

New Year... New Schedule... New Time!

2010-02-12T11:29:00.000-05:00

Green Island Sangha
February Schedule

IMPORTANT UPDATE
St Ignatius has asked if we would change our sit schedule to
10:30AM to 12:30 PM
starting Feb 21st.

There will be no sit on Feb 14th because the Retreat House will be closed.

Sangha Generosity Practice
non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry
Collection at Feb 28th sit

Tet (Lunar New Year) Celebration at Blue Cliff Monastery Feb 12-14th
contact Blue Cliff Monastery office@bluecliffmonastery.org

SUNDAY February 14th
Retreat House Closed

SUNDAY February 21st
at St Ignatius Retreat House10:30AM-12:30 PM Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading (please bring your copy w you)

SUNDAY February 28that St Ignatius Retreat House 10:30AM - 12:30 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community
and our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

The Year of the Tiger

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Lunar New Year aka "Tet" or "Chinese New Year" is Feb 14 2010; The Year of the Tiger....Another chance to begin a new!... and to eat wonderful things! In the tradition of our four fold sangha, one of the special foods for the celebration are "Earth Cake/Sky Cake"..."Banh chung"

Please check out this lovely video made by our monastic brothers and sisters.

"During the New Year of 2009, we felt the need to explain the meaning of wrapping earth cakes, because practitioners that come to visit Plum Village each year during the Lunar New Year are quite surprised to see the four-fold sangha spending one whole day wrapping earth cakes and staying up the whole night to cook them. So please enjoy this video performance made by the monks and nuns of Plum Village…"

http://www.www.plumvillage.org/performance-a-skits.html

vegetarian banh chung

usually eaten at Tet (Vietnamese new year)

Ingredients
3 lbs sticky rice, uncooked, soaked 1 night and drained
3 c mung beans, raw
6T oil
banana leaves

Directions
Cook mung beans according to package instructions. After mung beans are cooked, mash until smooth, then make into 8 square patties, .75 inches thick.

Add oil to uncooked sticky rice and mix well.

On a big piece of banana leaf, put .5 cup sticky rice. Put 1 mung bean patty on top. Pour .75 cup sticky rice on top and wrap tightly in banana leaf. Tie with twine to hold leaf in place. After all 8 have been wrapped, boil submerged in water for 6 hours until cooked.

Makes 8 banh chung, each having 8 servings for a total of 64.

Number of Servings: 64

* if you go onto Youtube there are hundreds of videos of families gathering to make this treat. There are many videos showing how to wrap these delicacies, unfortunately they all show the use of animal products. Traditionally meat is used, but the Vegetarian ones are so much more yummy and better for you!

February 14th Cancelled

2010-02-09T07:58:00.000-05:00

St Ignatius just contacted us to tell us this weekend there will not be any staff available to host us on Sunday sit so we will not be able to meet to sit this weekend at St Ignatius. Our next scheduled sit is the following Sunday Feb 21st.

New Video

2010-02-07T10:10:00.000-05:00

Dear friends please enjoy the new video posted at the bottom of this blog.

Schedule for February

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SUNDAY February 7 th
at St Ignatius Retreat House

Beginners Mind Gathering
2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
(Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have one)

Tet (Lunar New Year) Celebration at Blue Cliff Monastery Feb 12-14th
contact Blue Cliff Monastery office@bluecliffmonastery.org

SUNDAY February 14th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY February 21st
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy with you if you have one)

SUNDAY February 28th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community
and our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

Great Ordination Time in Plum Village

2010-01-30T10:43:00.000-05:00

Thanks to Phap Khong Nguyen who posted the following pictures on his Facebook page.

2010 Jan 12-19 "Daffodil ordination"
and Lamp Transmission,plus others!

Plum Village in January is the location of our Tradition's Great Ordination Ceremonies. Over a span of approximately two weeks new monks and nuns are ordained and already ordained brothers and sisters receive other teachings such as the "great precepts." Yet this is not an event just for monastics! We are a four-fold community and being so, monks, nuns, lay sisters and brothers also receive lamp transmission during this auspicious time of year. Lamp transmission is the process by which a person becomes a Dharma Teacher.

Phap Man wrote on the Wake Up web site ( http://wkup.org/ ) :

"The Daffodil Great Ordination Ceremony will begin this Tuesday, Jan. 12! Well I'm into it because our family, the Papaya family, will receive our great precepts this year (on Jan. 14). I just wrote this poem and letter to family and friends, and thought you might enjoy!"

Going Forth

Going forth on the path,
I say goodbye to loved ones,
Letting go of illusory bonds,
Tears of release may fall --
I know you have always been there.
Countless rivers of feeling flow in me in every moment --
You are my voice...

I carry thousands of seeds in every cell of my body --
This wondrous body, more vast than space, transmitted again and again.
There are seeds of love, seeds of joy --
You have brought them to me, put them into me time after time.
I promise night and day to care for them,
To plant them everywhere and to help them grow,
To collect them, new and beautiful, everywhere,
To sow them into the Earth with every step, every breath, every smile.
Even in midst of this quiet cold winter stillness,
Flowers of joy, of hope, of peace,
Continue in us to bloom:
Healing us,
Guiding us,
Renewing us.

May we be fresh and free --
As the new-formed flakes of snow,
Falling gently now, all around.

Phap Khong Nguyen wrote the following about this picture:
"You notice that there are the " famous" Br Phap Si and Br Phap Quan from Bat Nha temple and Phuoc Hue temples. He is alive, smiling and well in Upper Hamlet, Plum Village and we all got the Lamp transmission."He also had this picture and comented "one is called Venerable when one has practiced over 40 years of annual rain retreat after being ordained as a Bhikshu/bhikshuni."

Bat Nha: A Koan

2010-01-24T22:43:00.000-05:00

Do not just look for what you want to see,
that would be futile.
Do not look for anything,
but allow the insight to have a chance to come by itself. That insight will help liberate you.

- Nhat Hanh

The above Koan is Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's response to the persecution of his students in Vietnam. Our teacher, Thay, has offered a new meditation practice, the Bat Nha Koan. You are invited to look deeply into this. Below is a link to a special letter that Thay has written in response to what has unfolded in Bat Nha .

http://deerparkmonastery.org/community/deer-park-news/press-releases/bat-nha-a-koan

January/February Schedule

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Sangha Generosity Practice
non perishables and canned goods for a local food pantry
Collection at Jan 24th & Feb 28th sits

SUNDAY January 24th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy with you if you have one)

SUNDAY January 31st
Green Island Caretaking Council Meeting
Vegan Pot Luck 12:30 -1:30 PM
Meeting 1:30 till 4:30
for further info including location, contact Grnislandsangha@aol.com

SUNDAY February 7 th
at St Ignatius Retreat House

Beginners Mind Gathering
2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
(Please Bring your Chanting Books with you if you have one)

Tet (Lunar New Year) Celebration at Blue Cliff Monastery Feb 12-14th
contact Blue Cliff Monastery office@bluecliffmonastery.org

SUNDAY February 14th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY February 21st
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy with you if you have one)

SUNDAY February 28th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Your Free Will Donation Helps to Support Our Community
and our hosts St Ignatius Retreat House

A Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh

2010-01-14T22:09:00.001-05:00

A Collective Awakening for the Future of Our Planet from Upper Hamlet Brothers on Vimeo.

January Schedule

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Green Island Sangha
January Schedule

SUNDAY January 10 th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
New Beginners Mind Gathering
2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY January 17th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy w you)

SUNDAY January 24th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Sutra

2010-01-02T15:22:00.000-05:00

Next Gathering

2009-12-24T10:38:00.000-05:00

SUNDAY January 10th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
Beginners Mind Gathering 2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering
2:45-5 PM5
Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

Though The Weather Outside Was Frightful…..

2009-12-24T09:02:00.000-05:00

Despite blizzard warnings our intrepid sangha continued forward with cookie practice!

baking cookies for the Blue Cliff Monastery and Winter Retreat is becoming a tradition of our merry band of vegan bakers...those who are master craft persons worked side by side with novice culinarians creating editable delights....beginner mind prevailed along with a good ol' dose of happy holiday cheer!

Cookie Joy

These cookies are the gifts of the whole universe

( and the sangha)

the earth, the sky, and much fun work.

May we make cookies and eat cookies in mindfulness so as to be worthy to receive and give them.

May we transform our
states of mind and learn to eat cookies in joy!

May we take cookies that nourish us in body and spirit!

We accept and give these cookies so that we may realise the path of understanding and love.

SNOW!........

2009-12-19T23:56:00.001-05:00

Green island Sangha Sit Canceled Sunday Dec 20th due to Snow Meditation

Be Safe
Be Zen
and
Watch and meditate on the falling snow
Be
Warm
and
Mindful
at
Home
in the
Snow..

Childlike wonder
Beginner's mind
Fresh
Free
New
Joy

Alive!

Happy Blessings of the Holidays to All!

See you all in the New Year at St Ignatius or for the Holiday Retreat at Blue Cliff!

Next Meeting Information

2009-12-12T19:38:00.001-05:00

SUNDAY December 20th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy with you)

Green Island Holiday Generosity Practice:
Please Bring non Perishable Food (Canned or Boxed) for a Local Food Pantry Donation during the month of December. We will collect it at our sits and offer it as a sangha donation from us all.

The Newsletter of the Mindfulness Practice Center of Fairfax

2009-12-10T08:39:00.000-05:00

Our practice invites us to be very gentle and non violent with ourselves but also to not avoid any hidden wounds that are still needing clearing and healing...
Please see the below link to the newsletter from a Sangha in Virgina with an interview with a lovely sister in the practice who is also Thay's niece...Anh Huong-Nguyen...

Along the Path – Winter 2009

http://mpcf.org/Newsletters/Along%20the%20Path%20-%20Winter%202009.pdf

copy and paste the above address into your browser to view the newsletter....

Support Our Sangha's Home

2009-12-10T08:25:00.000-05:00

Dear Friends

Besides our free will donation to help support the care,heat, use and upkeep of the zendo and Inisfada , each year St Ignatius teams up w Barnes and Noble for a fund raiser for the retreat house and invites our participation.

By optaining the cupon and bringing it to any B&N this weekend December 11th, 12th and 13th and giving it to the cashier when you make your purchase , a percentage of your sale will be given to St Ignatius as a donation! Easy! Please help our hosts and neighbors as you buy your holiday book gifts and when we are sitting and walking in the beauty of St Ignatius we will also have the gift of knowing we are helping the retreat house continue to be there for us and all.

Please email Grnislandsangha@aol.com for a copy of this PDF coupon.

Schedule

2009-12-02T23:12:00.000-05:00

Green Island Sangha
December, January
Schedule

Green Island Holiday Generosity Practice:
Please Bring non Perishable Food (Canned or Boxed) for a Local Food Pantry Donation during the month of November & December. We will collect it at our sits and offer it as a sangha donation from us all.

SUNDAY December 6th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
New Beginners Mind Gathering
2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY December 20th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy w you)

SUNDAY January 10th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
New Beginners Mind Gathering
2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY January 17th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy w you)

SUNDAY January 24that St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Happy Thanksgiving

2009-11-25T19:00:00.000-05:00

Alive!
by Chan Phap Ho from Deer Park Monastery

Thank you! What a wonderful thing to think and say. Thanksgiving is coming up... Let's start practice today, so that when Thanksgiving Day is here we are prepared and already in grateful mode.

Where to begin... There are so many things to be grateful for, isn't there...
In the tradition we talk about the Four Gratitudes:

to our mother and our father, who as brought us life to our teachers, who have taught us how to love, understand and to live deeply in the present moment. to our friends, who guide and support us especially in difficult moments to all beings in the animal, vegetable and mineral world, who makes our life possible When there is gratitude in my heart, I feel happy and at ease. I feel connected and alive.

I read an article a while back in Scientific America Mind. It was called "We are hard wired to care". Researchers have found that our happiness and well being increases when we do kind things. I think we already know this, but sometimes we forget. With the practice of coming back to the present moment to be aware of our thoughts, words and actions we have a wonderful opportunity to run a little experiment on ourselves. Saying thank you, opening our heart to receive and to give, helps us to be happy. Does this ring true for you as well?

I feel so grateful for our teacher and innumerable teachers and practitioners that show and tread the path of joy, compassion and freedom. Just remembering that I have a practice that can help me deal with whatever comes up, helps me to cultivate happiness and enables me to transform suffering. Thank you!

Eating Meditation

This piece of bread is an ambassador from the entire cosmos. Eating a meal together is a meditative practice. We should try to offer our presence for every meal. As we serve our food we can already begin practicing. Serving ourselves, we realize that many elements, such as the rain, sunshine, earth, air and love, have all come together to form this wonderful meal. In fact, through this food we see that the entire universe is supporting our existence.

We are aware of the whole sangha as we serve ourselves and we should take an amount of food that is good for us. Before eating, the bell will be invited for three sounds and we can enjoy breathing in and out while practicing the five contemplations.

This food is a gift of the earth, the sky, numerous living beings and much hard work.
May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive it.
May we recognize and transform our unwholesome mental formations, especially our greed, and learn to eat with moderation.

May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that we reduce the suffering of living beings, preserve our planet and reverse the process of global warming.

We accept this food so that we may nurture our brotherhood and sisterhood, strengthen our sangha and nourish our ideal of serving all beings.

We should take our time as we eat, chewing each mouthful at least 30 times, until the food becomes liquefied. This aids the digestive process. Let us enjoy every morsel of our food and the presence of the dharma brothers and sisters around us. Let us establish ourselves in the present moment, eating in such a way that solidity, joy and peace be possible during the time of eating.
Eating in silence, the food becomes real with our mindfulness and we are fully aware of its nourishment.

In order to deepen our practice of mindful eating and support the peaceful atmosphere, we remain seated during this silent period. After twenty minutes of silent eating, two sounds of the bell will be invited. We may then start a mindful conversation with our friend or begin to get up from the table.

Upon finishing our meal, we take a few moments to notice that we have finished, our bowl is now empty and our hunger is satisfied. Gratitude fills us as we realize how fortunate we are to have had this nourishing food to eat, supporting us on the path of love and understanding.

From The Deer Park Website

Next Gathering

SUNDAY December 6th

at St Ignatius Retreat House

New Beginners Mind Gathering 2:15 to 2:45 PM

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

Our Regular Sitting Practice

2:45-5:00 PM

Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)

Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

New Dharma Talk Posted

2009-11-25T18:56:00.000-05:00

Cultivating Peace, Joy, and Happiness
November 19, 2009 dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hanh from New Hamlet in Plum Village.

In this talk Thay demonstrates the importance of gathas, short verses for practice, in the cultivating of peace, joy, and happiness.

Water flows from high in the mountains.
Water runs deep in the Earth
Miraculously, water comes to us, and sustains all life.

During the second part of the talk, we hear about the first few exercises from the Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing.

http://tnhaudio.org/2009/11/25/cultivating-peace-joy-and-happiness/

Our Teacher!

2009-11-25T17:53:00.000-05:00

From the album:
"The New Meditation Hall" by Phap Huu, from a link from Face Book

Another Resource for listening to Dharma

2009-11-22T10:49:00.000-05:00

The below letter and dharma talk link comes from a sister in the OI....enjoy!

Dear friends,
I have created a new web site for listening to recent dharma talks by our
Teacher. Most talks have been available on the Vietnamese site for some
years, but some English-speaking users find it difficult to navigate and
there is no automatic notification when new talks are posted. Therefore,
this new site will allow you to subscribe using iTunes or RSS. It will
include English language dharma talks and you may listen to the talk on the
web site and/or download the file to your computer.

At this time, the three most recent talks have been posted (from November).
I would highly recommend the talk "Deep Desire: Spiritual Strength" from
November 5. In this talk, Thich Nhat Hanh explore the idea of aspiration. He
also suggests a new part to the Five Mindfulness Trainings Transmission
Ceremony liturgy.

Get started at http://tnhaudio.org

November, December & January

2009-11-22T10:45:00.000-05:00

Green Island Sangha
November, December, January
Schedule

SUNDAY November 22 nd
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Green Island Thanksgiving & Holiday Generosity Practice:
Please Bring non Perishable Food (Canned or Boxed) for a Local Food Pantry Donation during the month of November & December. We will collect it at our sits and offer it as a sangha donation from us all.

SUNDAY December 6th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
New Beginners Mind Gathering
2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY December 20th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy w you)

SUNDAY January 10 th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
New Beginners Mind Gathering
2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY January 17th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy w you)

SUNDAY January 24th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

Audio of Thich Nhat Hanh from 1968

2009-11-08T08:31:00.001-05:00

Newest Schedule

2009-11-04T12:21:00.000-05:00

Green Island Sangha
November, December, January Schedule

Dear Friends,

The Green Island Sangha is moving to a weekly sitting schedule. Our hosts, The Saint Francis Retreat House and the White Plum Sangha, (it is their Zendo that we use) on occasion have activities planned for the Sundays we would meet. On those occasions we will skip the weekly sit and gather on the next available Sunday. Check this blog site for the updates on our schedule. We hope you will join us for our weekly gatherings!

See you at Sangha!

SUNDAY November 8th

at St Ignatius Retreat House
New Beginners Mind Gathering
2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY November 15th

at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
we will continue to read Peace is Every Step
(please bring your copy w you if you have , if not there will be copies to share)

SUNDAY November 22nd

at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

SUNDAY December 6th

at St Ignatius Retreat House
Beginners Mind Gathering
2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY December 20th

at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy w you if you have , if not there will be copies to share)

SUNDAY January 10th

at St Ignatius Retreat House
Beginners Mind Gathering
2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY January 17th

at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice
Peace is Every Step Reading
(please bring your copy w you if you have , if not there will be copies to share)

SUNDAY January 24th

at St Ignatius Retreat House
2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice

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Next Meeting Information

2009-10-24T11:18:00.001-04:00

SUNDAY October 25th
at StIgnatius Retreat House2:45-5 PM
Our Regular Sitting Practice Peace is Every Step Reading (please bring your copy w you)

Dharma Talk: Cultivating Wisdom, Transforming Mano

2009-10-14T15:41:00.001-04:00

In this talk given at Stonehill College during the 2009 U.S. Tour, Thay shares on three themes: the beauty and importance of the sangha; transforming mano; and the 16 Exercises of Mindful Breathing.

Cultivating wisdom, transforming "Mano" from Plum Village on Vimeo.

Next Meeting Information

2009-10-12T08:36:00.000-04:00

SUNDAY October 18th

at St Ignatius Retreat House

Beginners Mind Gathering 2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradiion of Thich Nhat Hanh

Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering2:45-5 PM 5
Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version) Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

Plum village organizes Peace walk in Paris Oct 11, 2009

2009-10-12T08:29:00.000-04:00

2009-09-21T22:46:00.000-04:00

Green Island Sangha

September/October

SUNDAY September 20th at StIgnatius Retreat House

Beginners Mind Gathering 2:15 to 2:45 PM Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradiion of Thich Nhat Hanh

Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering 2:45-5 PM5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version) Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY September 27th

at StIgnatius Retreat House2:45-5 PM

Our Regular Sitting PracticePeace is Every Step Reading (please bring your copy with you)

FRIDAY October 2 - 6

Thich Nhat Hanh Mindfulness Retreat at Blue Cliff Monastery

Enlightenment is Now or Never Join us as we practice together as a Sangha at this special retreat

FRIDAY October 9th

Thich NhatHahn PublicTalk: Building a Peaceful & Compassionate Society

New York City, at Beacon Theatre

SATURDAY October 10th

Day of Mindfulness with Thich Nhat Hahn

at Beacon Theatre, New York City, NY

see http://www.beacontheatre.com/events/thich-nhat-hanh-1009.html

SUNDAY October 18th

at StIgnatius Retreat House

Beginners Mind Gathering 2:15 to 2:45 PM

Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradiion of Thich Nhat Hanh Our Regular Sitting Practice will meet after Beginner's Mind Gathering2:45-5 PM 5

Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version) Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY October 25th

at StIgnatius Retreat House2:45-5 PM

Our Regular Sitting Practice Peace is Every Step Reading (please bring your copy w you)

Come Practice with us At Inisfada
St Ignatius Retreat House
Interfaith Room
251 Searingtown RoadManhasset, NY 11030

free will donation for use of St Ignatius Retreat House

Sangha Dana (generosity) Donations for Hungry Children in VietNam and Blue Cliff Monastery Joyfully Welcomed

Thay Needs Our Help

2009-08-26T08:29:00.001-04:00

Dear Friends
As many of you know Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) was hospitalized for a lung infection and was receiving IV antibiotics in Mass General Hospital. He was just discharged and will be continuing treatment as an outpatient which is very good news. He is 83 and was unable to go to the Colorado Retreat but will be rejoining the tour in California after his treatment ends.
But Right NOW Thay NEEDS OUR HELP

Right now 400 young Plum Village VNese monastics are under attack in VN and are being forced to leave by Sept 2. There is no place to go and the govt is trying to force them to disrobe (abandon their monastic vows)
Please see http://helpbatnha.org/ for more info and/or below .

We need you to handwrite, mail, fax, email , contact your representatives NOW ...and please send your practice energy as support
please see http://helpbatnha.org/2009/08/sample-letter-to-us-congress-rep-and-senator/#more-359 for contact info for you senators and reps

For a sample letter see below and :
http://helpbatnha.org/2009/08/immediate-help-needed-handwriting-letters-to-us-congress-rep-senator/#more-369

Please send right away!

August, September & October 2009 Full Schedule

2009-07-30T16:05:00.000-04:00

Friday July 31st to Sunday August 2nd
Sangha Service Community Work Day
Blue Cliff Monastery

Friday July 31st: Arrival Day

Saturday August 1st: Sangha Service

Sunday August 2nd: Half Day of Mindfulness

please see the following web site for more informationhttp://www.bluecliffmonastery.org/ or email the Green Island Sangha Grnislandsangha@aol.com

Sunday August 9th 9:00am to 4:30pm
Day of Mindfulness Fundraiser for Blue Cliff Monastery with Thich Nhat Hanh at Blue Cliff Monastery please see the following web site for more information http://www.bluecliffmonastery.org/

August 11th through the 16th
Thich Nhat Hanh Retreat Stonehill College, Easton MA. please see the following web site for more information http://tnhtour.org/

Sunday August 23rd
at St. Ignatius Retreat House
Beginners Mind Gathering 2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradiion of Thich Nhat Hanh.
Our Regular Sitting Practice 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version)
Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

Sunday August 30th
at St. Ignatius Retreat House
Our Regular Sitting Practice 2:45-5 PM
Peace is Every Step Reading (please bring your copy with you)

SUNDAY September 6th St Ignatius Retreat House Closed

SUNDAY September 20th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
Beginners Mind Gathering 2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradiion of Thich Nhat Hanh.
Our Regular Sitting Practice 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version) Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY September 27th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
Our Regular Sitting Practice 2:45-5 PM
Peace is Every Step Reading (please bring your copy w you)

FRIDAY October 2 - 6
Thich Nhat Hanh Mindfulness Retreat
at Blue Cliff Monastery Enlightenment is Now or Never
see http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102641525133&s=44&e=001bRqTATnGviBG9m2M351v1s5JXXF7pdKPON3i1bu_7hCeHUHoSWdm8nGZuSI79YNLKYBCfYMB9g3d-VxqU9881M4TSE6iHBzXKgzXYEojG5k= for more info

FRIDAY October 9th
Thich Nhat Hahn Public Talk New York City "Building a Peaceful & Compassionate Society" at Beacon Theatre

SATURDAY October 10th
Day of Mindfulness with Thich Nhat Hahn
New York City, Beacon Theatre
see http://www.beacontheatre.com/events/thich-nhat-hanh-1009.html for more info

SUNDAY October 18th
at StIgnatius Retreat House
Beginners Mind Gathering 2:15 to 2:45 PM
Our Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradiion of Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Regular Sitting Practice 2:45-5 PM
5 Mindfulness Training Recitation (New Version) Please Bring your Chanting Books with you

SUNDAY October 25th
at St Ignatius Retreat House
Our Regular Sitting Practice 2:45- 5 PM
Peace is Every Step Reading (please bring your copy w you)

Come Practice with us At St Ignatius Retreat House
Interfaith Room
251 Searingtown Road Manhasset, NY 11030
free will donation for use of St Ignatius Retreat HouseSangha
Dana (generosity) Donations for Hungry Children in VietNam and
Blue Cliff Monastery Joyfully Welcomed

Early August 2009 Schedule

2009-07-27T22:59:00.000-04:00

Green Island Sangha

Special Early August Offerings

Friday July 31st to Sunday August 2nd

Sangha Service Community Work Day

Blue Cliff Monastery

Friday July 31st: Arrival Day
Saturday August 1st: Sangha Service
Sunday August 2nd: Half Day of Mindfulness

please see the following web site for more information
http://www.bluecliffmonastery.org/
or email the Green Island Sangha Grnislandsangha@aol.com

Sunday August 9th 9:00am to 4:30pm

Day of Mindfulness Fundraiser for Blue Cliff Monastery
with Thich Nhat Hanh
at Blue Cliff Monastery
please see the following web site for more information
http://www.bluecliffmonastery.org/

August 11th through the 16th

Thich Nhat Hanh Retreat
Stonehill College, Easton MA.
please see the following web site for more information
http://tnhtour.org/

We will be posting our 2nd half of August dates for our regularly scheduled gatherings at The St. Ignatius Retreat House soon...

check this blog for updates or email Green Island Sangha at: Grnislandsangha@aol.com

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh 2009 American Tour

2009-07-15T07:36:00.000-04:00

August 9th:
Fundraising Day of Mindfulness at Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush, NY.

August 11th - 16th:
Retreat at Stonehill College, Easton, MA.

August 21st - 26th:
Retreat at the YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO.

August 29th:
Public talk at Buell Theater at Denver, CO.

September 6th:
Day of Mindfulness at Deer Park Monastery

September 8th - 13th:
English Retreat at Deer Park Monastery

September 19th:
Public talk at Pasadena Civic Auditorium

September 20th:
Day of Mindfulness at Deer Park Monastery

September 23rd - 27th
Vietnamese Retreat at Deer Park Monastery

October 2nd - 6th:
Retreat at Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush, NY.

October 9th:
Public talk at Beacon Theater, New York City, NY.

October 10th:
Day of Mindfulness in New York City, NY.

2009-07-07T17:28:00.000-04:00

Green Island Sangha

July Schedule

Sunday July 5th Interdependence Day Practice2:45-5:00 PM

We will begin in the Zendo at 2:45 and then 3 PM will do silent walking for sitting under the big Weeping Beech Tree in the Field behind the Retreat House5 Mindfulness Trainings Recitation (please bring Chanting Book)

Sunday July 12th 2:15 to 2:45

New Beginners Mind Meeting 2:15 to 2:45 PM Our New Once a Month Pre Sit Intro Meeting for Those new to Mindfulness or New to the Tradiion of Thich Nhat Hanh

Sunday July 12th2:45-5 PM

Peace is Every Step Reading (please bring your copy w you)

Sunday July 26th

New Date New Time 2 to 5 PM Half Day of Mindfulness

DVD Dharma Talk by Thay, 5 Touchings of the Earth, Outdoor Walking Practice, Dharma Sharing

Green Island Sangha

February 2012

January 2012 Schedule

Dec 17 Cookie Baking Meditation Dec 18 sit at St Ignatius

December 2011 Schedule

November Schedule

Thay at Blue Cliff Monastery

October Schedule

September Schedule

Cancellation

August Schedule

July Schedule

Cancellation

June Schedule

May Schedule

A Special Offering in

Celebration ofMotherhood

A ROSE FORYOUR POCKET

Mothers Day

Sunday May 8th

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Cedarmere Park225 Bryant Avenue, Roslyn, NY

(just north of Northern Boulevard)

map & directions

Weather Permitting

Watch this Website for Weather Updates

A Special Offering in

Celebration ofVESAK

Sunday May 29th

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Cedarmere Park225 Bryant Avenue, Roslyn, NY

(just north of Northern Boulevard)

map & directions

Weather Permitting

Watch this Website for Weather Updates

April Schedule

Thich Nhat Hanh: Message to Friends in Japan

March 2011 Schedule

Lamp Transmission!

2011 Feb 21-Lamp transmission -Plum Village

St Ignatius Closed

Stony Brook Sangha

February 2011 Schedule

A Special Offering

Cheri Maples in NY

A Day of Mindfulness

January 2011 Schedule

Winter Retreat Talks On Line

December Schedule

November Schedule

New Addition! Wed. Evenings

Public Tak from Penahg 2010

Happy Continuation Day

New Wednesday Evening Sit

October Schedule

Lazy Monk Festival

Nalanda Buddhist Society: 13 September 2010 - Welcoming Reception for Thich ...

Lang Mai - Thich Nhat Hanh

Bon Appetit!

September Schedule

New Videos Posted

Blue Cliff Day of Mindfulness

The 4 fold Sangha Arrives Via The Internet

August Schedule

A Mindfulness Retreat led by the Monks/Nuns of Blue Cliff & Deer Park Monastery

We Will Not Be Meeting July 4th

July Schedule

Thich Nhat Hanh in Shambhala Sun

June Schedule

MAY SCHEDULE

Buddhist Films in NYC

April Schedule

Partial March/April Schedule

Help Relocate Bat Nha Monastics

Thich Nhat Hanh on Mindful Eating Oprah.com

Spring Forward with Mindfulness!

National Day of Unpluging

March Schedule

New Video

March Schedule

Celebration of

Motherhood

A ROSE FOR

YOUR POCKET

Cedarmere Park

225 Bryant Avenue, Roslyn, NY

Celebration of

VESAK

Cedarmere Park

225 Bryant Avenue, Roslyn, NY