Edward Pierce   914-805-3284	Carolyn Cronin   845-561-4123
Russ Karp(Treasurer), 914-474-9726	Jamie Rusek   914-474-0430
	Jennifer Lim   845-549-2235

Sittings and Sacred Dialogs

- Sitting and walking meditations,
- Dharma readings by Thay and discussion

 

Mondays in October

Sittings every Monday at Union in Newburgh( 7:15 - 8:45pm )

 

October 1   ~ David facilitating

 

October 8   ~ Silent sitting and  walking

           

October 15  ~ Rich facilitating  

                    

October 22 ~ Ed facilitating

(14 Mindfulness Trainings)

 

October 29 ~ Mick facilitating

           

 

 

     

    

   

October 5 -     

October 12 - Linda L. facilitating  

October 19 -

October 26- Maureen facilitating

 

 

 

 

Day of Mindfulness Saturday - October 20

10:00 a.m. ~ 2:00 p.m. @

Russ and Jamie's 

in Poughkeepsie

 

 

Sangha Talk & Dates to Reserve

Please send any updates to Jennifer at: bodhicitta6(at)yahoo.com

 

Budding Flower Sangha celebrated New Year's Eve with mindful dancing and sitting around midnight.
Everyone also took turns inviting bells starting at midnight for 108 times.
Thanks to Sheila, we had flowers and candles in the center to brighten the room.
To see the photographs...press...

 

The following is a link to the Dharma Talk by Thay

 

Spring 2009 - Thursday, May 21st, 2009

TNH Dharma Talk in English - part 1 of 2 (24.85 MB)

take a look at and listen to Thay's "Being Peace" excerpt so beautifully presented by Beliefnet.
You can see it HERE
 

 

 

 You can support our Sangha poetry (song) page and share more of yourself with your Sangha family.

So please start writing and sharing !! The Sangha poetry starts HERE.
The latest poems added are from Diane, and they can be seen HERE.

Please send along your poems, songs, Sangha notices, humor and anything else of relevance

that you want "published" (no 'commercials' please). That's to: bodhicitta6(at)yahoo.com

 

 

 

UNION CHURCH / New Paltz Reformed Church Ed Building
We meet most Monday nights at Union Church on Balmville Road with its lovely garden for walking meditation.

We meet most Friday mornings at New Paltz Reformed Church Ed Building.

We put out a basket and request that a three dollar donation be offered to cover our expenses/contribution to the churches.

For directions click here

 

For  the latest available details on all of Thay's schedules,

Dharma talk transcripts .....and a lot more, please check the Web site at
PLUM VILLAGE

 

 

 

MINDFULNESS BELL, the journal of the art of mindful living is a wonderful source for practice

and always has a Dharma talk by Thay as well as articles by lay and monastic practitioners.

It is 18 dollars a year : CML Deer Park, 2496 Melru Lane, Escondido CA 92026

 

 

Guest Corner

In this passing moment by Shodo Harada Roshi (1940 - )

 

"In the presence of Sangha, in the light of Dharma,  

in oneness with Buddha -- may my path

to complete enlightenment benefit everyone!"

 

In this passing moment karma ripens 

and all things come to be. 

I vow to choose what is:

If there is cost, I choose to pay.

If there is need, I choose to give.

If there is pain, I choose to feel. 

If there is sorrow, I choose to grieve.

When burning -- I choose heat.

When calm -- I choose peace.

When starving -- I choose hunger.

When happy -- I choose joy.

Whom I encounter, I choose to meet.

What I shoulder, I choose to bear.

When it is my death, I choose to die.

Where this takes me, I choose to go.

Being with what is -- I respond to what is.

 

This life is as real as a dream; 

the one who knows it can not be found; 

and, truth is not a thing -- Therefore I vow 

to choose THIS dharma entrance gate!

May all Buddhas and Wise Ones 

help me live this vow.

 

 

The Mind Can Go in a Thousand of Direction

Lyrics: Joseph Emet

Sung here by Brother Phap Khoi

The mind can go in a thousand direction
but on this lovely path I walk in peace
with each step a gentle wind blows
with each step a flower blooms

http://www.plumvillage.org/songs-for-the-practice.html

 

 

 

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Poetry by Thay

Please pray for the 376 monks and nuns from Prajna Monastery to have peace and solidity. Please do not let hatred and despair awaken in us because of the violence that has taken place at Prajna Monastery. We would like you to enjoy a poem written by Thich Nhat Hanh "Recommendation". Written in 1965 for the young people in the School of Youth for Social Service who risked their lives every day during the war, recommending them to prepare to die without hatred.

 

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam 2007, second visit (mettabebe)

 

Promise me,
promise me this day,
promise me now,
while the sun is overhead
exactly at the zenith,
promise me:

Even as they
strike you down
with a mountain of hatred and violence;
even as they step on you and crush you
like a worm,
even as they dismember and disembowel you,
remember, brother,
remember:
man is not our enemy.

   

 

We hear from Dan Sedia in Albany of the Community of Mindful Living of the Capital District. Their initial Homepage can be seen by clicking HERE

Quiet Mountain Sangha. is a women's Sangha in lower Westchester County. they would like to invite new members to join them at their monthly gatherings, and practice in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hahn. For more information, please visit their page HERE.

Judy Myerson updatess us news of the Gentle Mountain Sangha which meets at her home in Nanuet (Rockland County).

Sangha Name: Gentle Mountian Sangha

Address: At the home of Judy Myerson

City: Nanuet (Rockland County)

Zip: 10954

Contact names: Debbie, Susan, Judy

Email: prplwolf2@aol.com

Phone: 845.356.3613, 845.627.1575

Meeting: Every Sunday, 9:30 - 11:30 AM

The Community of Mindfulness/NY Metro has a beautiful Homepage, you can access it at http://www.communityofmindfulnessnewyorkmetro.blogspot.com/ I have also included below links to some of their other wonderful Dharma pages. A deep bow to you all for a lovely job.

Tuesday evenings : Riverside Church sittings. Contact Marjorie Markus 212-787-1473 or David Flint 917-543-6485
Peace Walk every third Sunday of the month in Central Park. Contact Marjorie Markus.

Catskill Mountain Sangha meets every Thursday. For info please contact Roberta Wall:
Robertaindia(at)yahoo.com or 845-246-5935/845-853-4788 (C)

Kingfisher Sangha gathers to practice together on Tuesday Evenings in Greenwich, 7 to 8 and Sunday Afternoons, 4:30 to 6 in Schenectady
More information may be found at www.kingfishersangha.com