Sacred Ground: A Weekend of Mindfulness Practice with Dharmateachers Fern Dorresteyn & Michael Ciborski & members of MorningSun Mindfulness Community for Ourselves, Our Families and Our Earth, March 24-25, 2012

Sacred Ground: A Weekend of Mindfulness Practice  with Dharmateachers Fern Dorresteyn & Michael Ciborski & members of MorningSun Mindfulness Community for Ourselves, Our Families and Our Earth

Saturday and/or Sunday

March 24 - 25 2012

Join us at the beautiful Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, NY

Please RSVP to grnislandsangha@gmail.com

Free Will Donation

This two day offering by Michael and Fern offers practicing with Mother Earth on Saturday for families and children (and the child in ourselves) and on Sunday for young adults  and adults. Come for one or both days and enjoy the beauty of the Arboretum, the practice of mindfulness, lovely teachers and community.

Saturday March 24^th 10am – 4pm : A Day for Families and Children Celebrating the Two Promises: Cultivating Understanding and Compassion   

 

The day’s program will combine meaningful activities for  families with a fun filled creative program for children and teens, and meditation, teachings, and discussion for parents/adults.  Juice, tea and snacks provided. Please bring a vegetarian lunch for your family.

It will be an opportunity for parents and children to learn basic life skills not taught in schools, such as:

·         how to breathe and be centered

·         find nourishment in the beauty and simplicity of life

·         embrace anger and other strong emotions with acceptance, calm, and ease

·         learn from our four legged friends in an nearby meadow (horse & dog activities by the Kaeli Kramer Foundation)

·         have lots of fun!

 

Sunday March 25^th  10am – 4:30 pm: Mindfulness Practice as a Base for Sustainable and Regenerative Living: Breathing with the Earth  

This one day retreat will offer us the opportunity to train in mindfulness, to rest in our breathing, and to connect with our vast and wonderful Dharma body – the body of the Earth and Cosmos.   During this Day of Mindfulness, through sitting meditation, walking meditation, singing, chanting, teachings, discussion, and a special Land-based practice of Touching the Earth, we will find fulfillment in simple things and in each other.  It is a time to let the miracle of life be our primary source of nourishment.

Tea  provided. Please bring a vegetarian lunch for yourself.

 

Dharmateachers Fern Dorresteyn and Michael Ciborski and members of MorningSun Mindfulness Community in New Hampshire will guide the weekend. Fern and Michael are beloved friends and teachers, who met as Waldorf students, lived as Buddhist monk and nun for 7 years with Dhyana Master Thich Nhat Hanh in Plum Village, France and trained and worked intimately with Thich Nhat Hanh and the monastic community to organize, support, and offer meditation retreats around the world.  Many of these retreats were for families and children of all ages from many countries.  In 2003, Michael and Fern departed Plum Village and returned to lay life.  Now married, with three children, they have founded MorningSun, a spiritual community and education center based on the practice of mindfulness.    

Driving Directions please see http://www.plantingfields.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=63

Train Oyster Bay is the last stop on the Oyster Bay line of the Long Island Railroad from Penn Station. Planting Fields is approximately 1 ½ miles west. Sangha Transport from the train station to Planting Fields is available by reservation please send request to grnislandsangha@gmail.com

This Weekend of Mindfulness is cosponsored by the Community of Mindful Living Long Island: Green Island Sangha http://greenislandsangha.blogspot.com, The Kaeli Kramer Foundationhttp://kaelikramerfoundation.org  The MorningSun Community www.morningsuncommunity.org, Community of Mindfulness NY Metro http://www.communityofmindfulnessnewyorkmetro.blogspot.com

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The Morningstar Sangha is happy to announce that Dharma Teacher David Flint will join us Sunday February 26, 4-6:30pm.

The Morningstar Sangha is happy to announce that David Flint will join us Sunday February 26, 4-6:30pm.  

David will give a Dharma Talk and respond to our questions and concerns in our mindfulness practice.  David was ordained as a Dharma Teacher, by Thich Nhat Hanh. at Plum Village one year ago,** and is a Co-founder of the Community of Mindfulness New York Metro.

Please Note we begin at 4pm and not 4:30pm.

Schedule: 4pm-4:45: Sitting and Walking Meditation.

                 4:50-6pm: Talk/Questions and Response

                 6:10-6:30: Sit/Close

WHERE WE MEET

 48-19 44th Street, 2nd floor, Sunnyside, Queens

HOW TO GET THERE

Please take the #7 train to the 46th St./Bliss stop

Exit the station on the west stairway (stairway closest to Manhattan)

Walk two blocks west (toward Manhattan) on Queens Blvd.

You will come to 44th St.  Turn left (south) onto 44th St. and continue for two blocks

After one block you will come to a six-way intersection of Greenpoint Ave. 47th Ave. & 44th St.

After two blocks you will arrive at 48th Ave.  You will see a small church.

Continue past the church on 44th St.

48-19 will be the second house on the left after the church.

Please RSVP to WLLFH@AOL.COM

Take care,

Walter

**Dennis Bohn, Jeanne Anselmo, Marjorie Markus and David were ordained together.

Who are We? A Day of Mindfulness February 18 at Riverside Church

Who  Are  We ? 

are we our perceptions? are we our skin color? are we our parents and ancestors? are we our livelihood or lack of livelihood? 

Please join us for a Day of Mindfulness on February 18, 10 am - 4:30 pm at Riverside Church, Room 411 MLK,  91 Claremont Avenue, north of 120th Street, Manhattan. 

We will explore touching our true identity/ finding our true voice through the practice of sitting and walking meditations, total relaxation, dharma sharing, and singing. We will also watch an interview with Sister Dang Nghiem from Colors of Compassion, a film of Thich Nhat Hanh's first People of Color Retreat at Deer Park Monastery in 2004. Sister Dang Nghiem (adornment with nondiscrimination) was ordained as a nun in the Plum Village tradition in 2000; she is also the author of the book, Healing, a woman's journey from doctor to nun. 

All are welcome to join us for any part of the day. No experience necessary. Please arrive before 9:50 if you intend to start the day with us. 

Chairs and cushions will be available. Please bring a vegetarian lunch. Our practice of mindful eating will take place between 12:30 and 1:30 pm. 

We will enjoy a fragrance-free, smoke-free, and alcohol-free environment. 

The Day will be facilitated by Nina Teng and Marjorie Markus of the Riverside Sangha.

" Wherever we stand, wherever we sit, we are the true person. We are masters of ourselves and wherever we are, we are ourselves ......... Our true person is truly without sign, without basis or foundation, and is not created by causes and conditions. But our true person is very alive. Right in this moment that person is present and we have to be able to recognize that person" 

- Thich Nhat Hanh, Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go

"To love is first of all to accept yourself as you actually are. 'Knowing thyself' is the first practice of love."

- Thich Nhat Hanh, Teachings on Love

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