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Video Sangha: Sharing Thay's Dharma Talks On the Web

It's getting easier to keep in touch with our teacher between retreats.  We have discovered many dharma talks by Thich Nhat Hanh on the web.  We watch a video periodically during our days of mindfulness or days off at home.  Just watching Thich Nhat Hanh is a teaching.  Note how he walks, how he erases the board during this video "Throwing Away", a dharma talk from the Breath of the Buddha retreat in 2006.  He shares how attachment to views, even ones such as impermanence, can trap us and that we must throw away these attachments.

In the 2005 dharma talk "To Touch Life, Come Home to Yourself", Thay shares the practice of taking refuge in the island of self.  We don't need faith or a creed.  When we practice mindfulness, our lives become a teaching.

We hope you will watch these videos and comment below, thus creating a video sangha!

Love and smiles,

David and Bethany

Road Trip! Day of Mindfulness Near Omaha November 8th

Anyone interested in carpooling to Honey Locust Sangha's Day of Mindfulness, please email us.  We will leave at 6 am sharp Saturday, November 8th.

New Day for Joyful Steps Walking Meditation Group

Sometimes when things change we get frustrated, angry and upset. We don't want it to be different, or the change isn't the type of change we wanted. But change and impermanence is inevitable. How can WE change our relationship with impermanence and accept change with grace and peace?
 
The Joyful Steps Walking Meditation Group will begin meeting the FIRST Saturday of the month on November 1, in Classroom C.
 
The turning of the seasons is just one manifestation of the change that is always happening around us. On November 1, 2008, impermanence will be the focus of our practice. Weather permitting, we will be enjoying outdoor walking meditation for most of our time together.

Retreat Photos!

 We were all so nourished by our retreat Breath of Earth, Breath of Life! last weekend at the Marillac Center in Leavenworth, KS.  Please enjoy the photos!

Do you have photos of our retreat?  Please email them to us!

Please mark your calendars for the upcoming Days of Mindfulness, Saturday, January 17, 2009 and Saturday June 20, 2009 at Unity Temple on the Plaza, Classroom C, 9am - 4 pm.  Also, please join us on Monday nights at Unity, Classroom C from 7 - 9 pm for our weekly Sangha gatherings.

Stay tuned right here for news on our next weekend retreat.