Summer Retreats at Plum Village
One of the most wonderful ways to deepen one's mindfulness practice is to attend a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh at Plum Village in southwestern France. Hearing Thay speak anywhere is nice, but the resonance is especially powerful at Plum Village, where the physical surroundings and each aspect of the daily program have been tuned over the past 25 years to nourish mindfulness.
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Welcome to the Community
of
Mindfulness/NY Metro

The Community of Mindfulness/NY Metro [CMNY] is inspired by the teachings and practice of Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh. The CMNY is part of a network of national and international sanghas [communities]: a “fourfold community” of laywomen and laymen, nuns and monks. Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic training and retreat centers are Plum Village, France, The Green Mountain Dharma Center/Maple Forest Monastery, Vermont and the Deer Park Dharma Center, Escondido, California.

To practice in community is a great gift. As a community of mindfulness we support each other in cultivating mindfulness and the capacity to embody and offer love in our daily lives: for ourselves, our families, friends and co-workers, and for the well-being of our society and our planet. Our practice includes weekly and biweekly meditation groups, days of mindfulness and weekend retreats, affinity groups for people with common interests, study groups, community sings, socially engaged practice and the practice of organizing and making decisions in a mindful and harmonious way. All of our activities and gatherings are grounded in the practices of conscious breathing and silent sitting and walking meditation. Beginners are welcome.

We have incorporated as a religious non-profit corporation in the State of New York, and are pursuing 501c-3 status. We have a Board of Directors. Our community planning meetings are the primary way of making important decisions and discussing community issues. We currently are committed to the practice of consensus in our decision-making processes.

CMNY co-founder Lyn Fine is a Dharma Teacher, or Dharmacarya, ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh in 1994 and has offered spiritual guidance to individuals and to the community. She is empowered to transmit the Five Wonderful Mindfulness Trainings and the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings of the Order of Interbeing in a formal ceremony. [The Mindfulness Trainings are Thich Nhat Hanh’s contemporary version of the original Mindfulness Trainings offered by the Buddha, and are guidelines for living.] In August/2000 Lyn completed a move to Berkeley. She remains a living presence in our sangha and we anticipate that she will continue to return several times a year. In January 2002, Patricia Hunt-Perry, of Newburgh, NY, was ordained as a Dharma Teacher.

CMNY affinity groups have included the Being with Children Group, Touching Our Root Traditions, Being With Illness and Healing, and Socially Engaged Practice. Individuals have offered mindfulness practice with women and staff of an alternative to incarceration program, at a program for people suffering from mental illness, at centers for homeless people, at workplaces, schools, at the Open Center, at Columbia University and through the arts.

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Zen master, poet, peace activist, and the author of many books.Thich Nhat Hanh "embodies the art of mindful living".He was born in Vietnam in 1926, and left home as a teen of 16 to become a Zen monk. He founded the School of Youth for Social Services, Van Hanh Buddhist University and the Tiep Hien Order (Order of Interbeing), in Vietnam. He has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University and the Sorbonne, was Chair of the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks, and was nominated by Martin Luther King Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was exiled from Vietnam in 1966 and lives in a monastic community in southwestern France called Plum Village, where he teaches, writes, gardens, and works to help refugees worldwide.

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Waking up this morning, I smile
Twenty-four brand new hours are before me,
I vow to live fully in each moment
and to look at all being with eyes of compassion.

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Thich Nhat Hanh Returns toVietnam
Jan 12 to April 11, 2005

I have arrived, I am home     In the here, and in the now     I am solid, I am free     In the ultimarte I dwell     I have arrived, I am home     In the here, and in the now     I am solid, I am free     In the ultimate I dwell     I have arrived, I am home     In the here, and in the now     I am solid, I am free     In the ultimarte I dwell     I have arrived, I am home     In the here, and in the now     I am solid, I am free     In the ultimarte I dwell

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CALENDAR 2006

Practicing together in Sangha - a community of practice - nourishes the energy of mindfulness, concentration and peace.
Below are many opportunities to practice together.

CMNY PRACTICE GROUPS
 

MANHATTAN

MANHATTAN DAY OF MINDFULNESS, Jan 21,2006
The Third Saturday of each month, 10am-4: 30pm. At the Wellness Center in Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue, Room 19T, between 120-122 St., one block west of Broadway. Come for any amount of time. Please bring vegetarian bag lunch, drink and cushion. Chairs Available. Please do not wear fragrances.
Contact persons for Days of Mindfulness: Marjorie, 212-787-1473, David, 212-666-4104.

Manhattan: Monthly Peace-Walk:
3rd Sunday of each month, 1-2 pm, Imagine Circle in Central Park, 72nd St./Central Park West. For more Info. Marjoriem4@juno.com Or www.Buddhist Peace Fellowship

Manhattan; Five Mindfulness Trainings Recitation and Discussion,
meets monthly:, contact David at 212-666-4104, or davidrflint@gmail.com for address and information. If you are looking for gifts just head to personalizedbykate.com

Manhattan; Tuesday Night Meditation: at Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue, 18T,
7-9:30pm. David-212-666-4104. or Marjorie-212-787-1473

Manhattan: Thursday Morning Meditation: 11:30-1:00, home of David Flint.
call 212-666-4104. davidrflint@gmail.com. arrive on time between 11:15-11:30

BROOKLYN

Rock Blossom Sangha: We meet in PARK SLOPE, at the Church of Gethsemane.
1012 Eighth Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Sundays.
New website www.rockblossom.org
Contacts: Adam, taniadam@earthlink.net Allison, alliesen@yahoo.com

QUEENS & LONG iSLAND

Port Washington/Huntington/Garden City/ Bayshore: Green Lotus Sangha :Karen-516-484-7344.

Garden City: Adelphi University Tuesday Afternoons: Dennis at dbohn@pipeline.com

UPSTATE N.Y. & WESTCHESTER

Newburgh- New Paltz- Poughkeepsie: Budding Flower Sangha:
www.buddingflower.org/ or call Ed at 845-496-8309

Piermont:"Sangha on the Hudson" , hspitzer8890@netscape.net 845-365-3778.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 236 S. Bedford Road (Route 172), Mt. Kisco NY, 10549
Mindfulness Meditation in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh--we meet the second and fourth Sunday of each month, 8:30-10 am. Contact Jan Weiss, janweiss@optonline.net, or 914-763-2015. We meet every second and fourth Sunday at 8:30 AM and end at about 10:00.”

Nanuet, NY: The Rockland Sangha: We meet Sundays 9:30-11:30.AM At the home of Judy Myerson,
4 Birchwood Terrace, 10954.
For schedule, call Susan 845-356-3613 or email Debbie prplwolf2@aol.com .
Sitting and walking meditation and Dharma discussion.

Larchmont, N.Y.: Quiet Mountain Sangha (women's sangha):
(just north of N.Y.C.), meets on Fridays at 7:30.m.
Meryl Bovard (914-834-0624) or Merylbovard@aol.com;
Barbara Lewin (914-966-3627) or BarbaraLewin@aol.com.

White Plains: Sara,lukose@earthlink.net or Bernadette, bpye88@aol.com.

Bronxville: George Chen: 914-779-2892, NBDTC@aol.com;

NEW JERSEY

Neptune, NJ.: Mindfulness by the Shore: At the Unity Church by the Shore, 3508 Asbury Ave.
We meet the 2nd and 4th Tuesday evenings of the month, 7:00-9:00pm, for sitting and walking meditation . We regularily discuss one of Thich Nhat Hanh's books and once a month recite the 5 Mindfulness Trainings . All are welcome. Contact person: Judy jsweave9@aol.com

Annandale, N.J.: Hunterdon Meditation Circle: meets Monday evenings 7:45 - 9 PM, at Allerton United Methodist Church, corner Allerton Road, Route 31 South contact info: (908) 832- 9334 or (908) 236-2184

Franklin Lakes, N.J.: Jack Lohr, 730 Franklin Lake Road, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 (201)891-0511; http:/www.pcfl.org/medit.htm

AFFINITY GROUPS:

Socially Engaged Practice and Buddhist Peace Fellowship: Marjorie-212-787-1473, Marjoriem4@juno.com

For more information call David Flint,212-666-4104,
or email, davidrflint@gmail.com

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