Colors of Compassion Retreat at Deer Park (9/14-9/18)

BUDDHAFUL PEOPLE---let's make the effort to be at this retreat!!!
isanghamahal...isang pamilya...see you...

for more info: http://deerparkmonastery.org/US_Tour_2005/Colorsofcompassion.htm
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Subject: Thich Nhat Hanh retreat for People of Color Sept 14-18,
2005 at Deer Park Monastery

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY

Dear friends, warm greetings from Deer Park! We hope to see you again at
our second retreat for People of Color with Thich Nhat Hanh this
September 14-18, 2005.

Retreat cost is on sliding scale. Attached is a registration form and
scholarship application.

Please forward this information widely. We hope to see you this fall!

Sending you the fragrance of sage from the mountains of Deer Park,

Sr. Jewel (Chau Nghiem)

Colors of Compassion:
Healing Our Families, Building True Community

A Retreat for People of Color
September 14-18, 2005
Deer Park Monastery, Escondido, CA

Offered by Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh and the monks, nuns, and dedicated
friends of the international Plum Village community

After the wonderful success of our first retreat for People of Color in
2004, we are very happy to invite you to join our second retreat for
People of Color. Come and be a part of this five-day retreat, to learn
and enjoy the art of mindful and peaceful living. In light of our world
situation today, this retreat will help us learn to find peace within
ourselves. It will give us new ways to relate to our world, and realize
harmony, compassion and reconciliation. Through the practice of
mindfulness we will learn how to develop clarity, good communication and
serenity in every moment of our life.

In this retreat Thich Nhat Hanh* will give daily Dharma Talks, and
everyday we will practice sitting meditation and outdoor walking
meditation in order to develop our calm, stability, peace and joy. We
will have time to enjoy our meals in silence, taking time to contemplate
the food and the presence of other practitioners around us. We will meet
together in small groups to share our experience of the teachings and
practice of mindfulness. We will learn how to rest and relax our bodies
and our minds in the practice of Total Relaxation. In retreats at Deer
Park we all share in daily working meditation periods, learning to work
together in harmony and with ease to help the retreat run smoothly. This
could include helping with food preparation or clean up, keeping common
areas clean or working in the garden. There will be a period of Noble
Silence each day to help us cultivate our inner wisdom, and we will enjoy
periods of personal time to reflect, absorb the beauty of the mountains
and connect with other retreatants. On Saturday evening, we will share
songs, stories and skits to remember and honor our blood ancestors.

All these practices, experienced in the presence of a supportive
community of monastic and lay retreatants, will help us to transform our
pain and anger and cultivate the seeds of compassion and peace in our
everyday lives, as individuals, families, communities, and as a society.
Being firmly grounded in the practices of mindfulness is the foundation
for compassionate action.

Family Retreat at Deer Park Monastery (July 1-4, 2005)

HOPE TO SEE YOU THIS SUMMER AT DEER PARK!
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Inter-Dependence Day � Family Retreat 2005

A New Look, A New Face for the �Family'
July 1 st to 4 th , 2005
For children and their parents

This is our annual retreat for the family to be together and enjoy the practice of mindful living and to benefit from the natural beauty of Deer Park Monastery. It is a time to take refuge in our spiritual family and to come back and restore ourselves. During the retreat, there will be activities for parents and the children separately, and together. We will explore and examine the activity of raising a family as an act of building �Sangha' and how to do it happily and joyfully. We will look at the concept of �family' in the light of meditation, that is to look deeply at our perceptions, our ideas, our habits and roles surrounding family. We will learn to recognize the parent seeds and child seeds in all of us and how to handle them with mindfulness as they manifests and not as habitual reactions. (Other activities: bonfire, mountain hike & picnic, movie night).

http://deerparkmonastery.org/Registration/retreat_family2005.htm

mahal, isangmahal, isanghamahal

inthelight asks me about my thoughts on the tagalog word "mahal"...

isangmahal i feel comes from the filipino american
poet-warrior-lover-saints' efforts to express the
beauty of feeling true connection, harmony and
community, to express kasama (brotherhood and sisterhood), power and healing
through love, friendship and a sense of oneness with
all.

mahal is the root word for love in tagalog
sister auspicious carries the dharma of
seeing the connections through all things
so in response to your request, this mayB auspicious
because this morning, i bought a book on mantras and
am currently reading and listening to one of them
as i write this to you, i re-read the section where each
of the seed-syllables of the mantras is explained in
depth.

in the sanskrit tradition:
"MAHA" - as in mahabodhisattva, mahayana, etc.
a salutation that means both "great" and "heart centered"

mahal.
isangmahal.
isanghamahal.

the four noble truths

1) Life entails suffering.
2) The suffering in life is connected to causes and conditions.
3) There is a Path leading away from this suffering.
4) Praktis the Path
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the unexamined life is not worth living . . . Socrates

the examined life is painful . . . Malcolm X

there are two kinds of pain: one leads to more pain, the other leads towards the end of pain . . .
Ajaan Chah

My call for a spiritual revolution is thus not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that is somehow other-worldly, still less to something magical or mysterious. Rather, it is a call for a radical re-orientation away from our habitual preoccupation with self towards concern for the wider community of beings with whom we are connected, and for conduct which recognizes others' interests alongside our own. His Holiness the Dalai Lama

source of quotes: www.manzanitavillage.org

B buddhaful, B yourself

Colors of Compassion:
Healing our Families, Building True Community

September 14-18, 2005
A Retreat for People of Color
Deer Park Monastery, Escondido , CA

Offered by Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh and the monks, nuns, and dedicated friends of the international Plum Village community

Colors of Compassion retreat for people of color at Deer Park Monastery is coming around the corner just right after the summer. I hope you will be able to attend, all or even part of the gathering. For more information, please visit:
http://deerparkmonastery.org/US_Tour_2005/Colorsofcompassion.htm

Be buddhaful, be beautifly, be yourself.

This has been one of the greatest gifts that the praktis has given to me. Coming home to myself, returning to myself, remembering my breath and my body, remembering all the conditions which have brought about my existence. The praktis is not outside of how my spirit works. Harmonious, peaceful, light-filled, open, powerful, determined, focus, connected. See you at the next Colors of Compassion gathering---if not sooner!

A small prayer sending and supporting Brother David who has travelled across the shore...I bow with happiness in your journey.

Summer 2005
B-yeeeaaaahhhhhhhh
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