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.