Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, December 8th, at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Five Awarenesses together, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue a dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hahn on the Five Mindfulness Trainings.

If you would like to join us, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoom link details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday ❤️

Love, Steve 

Dear Friends, 

This coming Sunday, December 1st, you’ll be able to join the WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled. The monks at the Vihara have asked us to dress modestly, so please only wear long pants or skirts, and no low cut blouses or tank tops. 🙏

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about or in-person practice or format, please respond to this email.

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If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Five Mindfulness Trainings, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue watching this dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hahn, on the Five Mindfulness Trainings:

The Five Mindfulness Trainings for Educators

plumvillage.org

If you would like to join us online, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you the Zoom login details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you on Sunday  ❤️

Love,

Steve

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, November 24 at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read Beginning Anew, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll start a dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hahn

If you would like to join us this Sunday, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you the Zoom link details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday ❤️

Love, Steve 

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, November 17, you’ll be able to join the WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled. The monks at the Vihara have asked us to dress modestly, so please only wear long pants or skirts, and no low cut blouses or tank tops.

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about or in-person practice or format, please respond to this email.

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If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Refuge Chant, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll watch the final section of this video dharma talk from Brother Phap Linh (Br. Spirit):

When Your Worldview Starts to Crumble: a Chance to Wake Up | Br. Phap Linh (Br. Spirit)

youtu.be

If you would like to join us by Zoom, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com, and we’ll send you the zoom link details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday  

Love,

Steve

WMC Evening of Remembrance

On Sunday, November 10th on Zoom at the special start time of 6:15 PM eastern standard time, the Washington Mindfulness Community will conduct An Evening of Remembrance.

Join the meeting by the same link as always:                                                                                https://zoom.us/j/225148471?pwd=eU9IcWZON3p3eStnMUcvN2JIdnQzUT09

Settle in early at 6:15 p.m. to establish a solid foundation for this memorable evening.

Meditation will begin at the usual time of 6:30 p.m.

Time for sharing may be extended, if needed, to as late as 8:00 p.m.

After sitting meditation we will have a time for remembrances and deep listening honoring loved ones who have continued beyond their human (or animal) manifestation.

You are invited to bring a photo, memento, story, song, poem, thought, insight, etc. to share with the community.  Most importantly, bring your open heart and deep listening.

This is designed to be a candle light ceremony.  Kindly arrange yourself with a few unlit candles, i.e. tea candles, electric candles, and a way to light them, or another form of very low level lighting. 

With love,

Beth, Irene, Jude, Nigel, Patti

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, November 3rd, you’ll be able to join the WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice. Two parallel but intertwined meetings.

First, our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. Please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled. The monks have asked that we dress appropriately for their residence (no short pants or skirts, no tank tops or low cut tops please).

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation of Five Mindfulness Trainings

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish..

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Second, if you wish to join us via Zoom that evening instead, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll have our monthly recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week, we’ll continue watching the dharma talk from Brother Pham Linh (Brother Spirit) that we have been following for the last few weeks:

https://youtu.be/8exs11Mrl94?si=5d1Ep99D6dVwpN8Q

If you would like to join us online, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We hope we’ll see you this Sunday.

With love

Steve

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, October 27th at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read Beginning Anew, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue this video dharma talk, with Brother Pham Linh, Brother Spirit.

If you’d like to join us online this Sunday, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoom login details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday

Love

Steve ❤️

Dear Friends, 

 This Sunday, October 20th, we will experiment with an additional opportunity to join WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice.

 We are still cautiously adjusting the changes we made to our weekly Sunday evening meetings due to the covid health crisis. As you know if you’ve been coming for a while, our weekly meetings before the pandemic all took place in person at the Vihara. During the pandemic, we shifted to meeting entirely online each Sunday. Now, we have been meeting in person at the Vihara on the first Sunday of every month, while also continuing to meet online, each and every Sunday. So on the first Sunday of the month, we have been holding two concurrent but separate meetings. 

 This coming Sunday, after many requests, we want to test the appetite for an additional in-person meeting at the Vihara, alongside the separate online sit. To make this work, we need a few people to come early to help set up the room, plus a few people to help tidy the room after the meeting. Let’s see together how the experiment goes!

 Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. Please arrive early if you can to help set up the room, and if you can’t manage that, please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled. The monks have asked that we dress appropriately for their residence (no short pants or skirts, no tank tops or low cut tops please).

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation of Five Mindfulness Trainings

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish..

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If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening instead, you can join for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll have our monthly recitation of the Refuge Chant, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week, we’ll continue watching the dharma talk from Brother Pham Linh (Brother Spirit) that we have been following for the last few weeks:

https://youtu.be/8exs11Mrl94?si=5d1Ep99D6dVwpN8Q

If you’d like to join us online, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com, and we’ll send you the Zoom log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We hope we’ll see you this Sunday, either online or in person! 

With love,

Nigel & Steve

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, Octobber 13th at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Five Awarenesses, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue watching this video dharma talk:

When Your Worldview Starts to Crumble: a Chance to Wake Up | Br. Phap Linh (Br. Spirit)

youtu.be

If you would like to join us, please write to wmcsangha@gmail.com, and we’ll send you the Zoom link.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday

Love,

Steve 

On this coming Sunday October 6th, we will have a special evening focused on bell inviting. We will be meeting both in person at the Vihara and online - two separate but parallel meetings, with us all focused together on bell inviting technique and its deeper meaning.

It may be that you come because you are interested in inviting the large bell at the Vihara for our meetings there. Or you may be interested in inviting the bell for our online meetings. Or you may want to enhance your individual bell practice at home.

Bells are used in the Plum Village tradition to remind us to return home to our body and our breathing. When we invite the bell, it’s a means to call the joy in us, the tranquility in us, so that we can awaken the Buddha in us. There is a baby Buddha in each of us, and we have to be aware of it. When we invite the bell to sound, we have a chance to touch the Buddha in us, we have a chance to call the nature of Buddha in us, so it can manifest itself.

When we are inviting the bell for others at a meditation, it is much more than a signal to start or conclude meditation. The bell - small or large - acts like a bodhisattva, gently calling us back to awareness of the present moment.

We hope you can join us, and look forward to our time together. If you are joining the online meeting and have a bell at home, please bring it with you to the meeting. If you don’t yet have a bell, don’t worry - simply bring yourself and your desire to deepen your practice.

With love

Steve

Dear Friends

Please join us this coming Sunday, September 29th, at 6:30pm ET for a special evening focused on the Five Mindfulness Trainings. We will meet together via Zoom.

After sitting meditation, Jeanine will lead a panel reflecting on the Five Mindfulness Trainings and what they have meant to WMC sangha members who have taken them, whether that was at a ceremony last year or 30 years ago.

All are welcome to WMC, whether you come to the Sunday sit every week, or perhaps only once a month or so. But after a while, many sangha members choose to make a firmer commitment to this practice, another step on the path, and decide that they will formally take the Five Mindfulness Trainings of the Plum Village tradition.  The Trainings are one of the most concrete ways to bring mindfulness into every area of life. Rather than serving as hard and fast rules, they provide an aspirational framework to reflect on our actions, speech and thinking, so we can create more happiness for ourself and for the world around us.

The next ceremony presenting an opportunity to take the Trainings will be on January 4. Classes will be offered over the coming months by our friends at the Mindfulness Practice Center of Fairfax to help interested members of DC area sanghas prepare for the ceremony.

If you would like to join us this Sunday evening, please write to wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you the zoom link.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you on Sunday ❤️

Love

Nigel & Steve 

This week, our online sangha gathering will explore what Engaged Mindfulness means and how we can use the lessons we learn to bring more justice, generosity, compassion and awakening to our world. We are very lucky to have a guest facilitator, Marisela Gomez from the Baltimore and Beyond sangha; she will be accompanied by WMC’s beloved friend Annie Mahon from the Opening Heart Mindfulness Community.

Dr. Marisela Gomez is one of the organizers of the Village of Love and Resistance (VOLAR), a Dharma teacher and follower of Thay’s teaching for the last twenty years, and has first-hand knowledge of how territorial injustices have affected East Baltimore residents. While acquiring her MD, PhD and MPH at John Hopkins University, she did extensive research in the area surrounding John Hopkins Hospital, one of the poorest in Baltimore. 

After our initial meditation period together, we will hear more about the engaged mindfulness projects of VOLAR and have time to ask Marisela questions on the practice of love and resistance and VOLAR. Some questions you might reflect on for Monday:

• What does engaged mindfulness mean to you? 

• How do you practice engaged mindfulness when you leave your meditation cushion and go out into the world? How else might you like to practice? 

• Is there a need to build villages of love and resistance?

• How are you challenged by engaged mindfulness? 

If you would like to join this online event, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com, and we will send you the Zoom link.

With love

Jeanine, Joann, Jude, Nigel, Pat

WMC Practice Council

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, September 15th at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Refuge Chant, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue this video dharma talk:

When Your Worldview Starts to Crumble: a Chance to Wake Up | Br. Phap Linh (Br. Spirit)

youtu.be

If you would like to join us, please write to wmcsangha@gmail.com, and we’ll send you the Zoom link.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday

Love, Steve 

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, September 8th at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Five Awarenesses, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue this video dharma talk:

When Your Worldview Starts to Crumble: a Chance to Wake Up | Br. Phap Linh (Br. Spirit)

youtu.be

If you would like to join us, please write to wmcsangha@gmail.com, and we’ll send you the Zoom link.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday

Love, Steve 

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, September 1st, you’ll be able to join the WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice.

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. Please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled. The monks have asked that we dress appropriately for their residence (no short pants or skirts, no tank tops or low cut tops please).

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation of Five Mindfulness Trainings

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish..

———————————————-

If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening instead, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll have our monthly recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week, we’ll continue watching the dharma talk from Brother Pham Line (Brother Spirit) that we have been following for the last few weeks:

https://youtu.be/8exs11Mrl94?si=5d1Ep99D6dVwpN8Q

If you would like to join us online, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We hope we’ll see you this Sunday.

With love

Steve

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, August 25 at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read Beginning Anew, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week, we’ll continue this dharma talk by Brother Pham Linh (Brother Spirit) exploring responses when your worldview starts to crumble:

https://youtu.be/8exs11Mrl94?si=h9N13t-2m81rlLB0

If you would like to join us, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you the zoom link.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday ❤️

Love,

Steve 

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, August 18 at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Refuge Chant, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week, we’ll continue this dharma talk by Brother Pham Linh (Brother Spirit) where he is exploring responses when your worldview starts to crumble:

https://youtu.be/8exs11Mrl94?si=h9N13t-2m81rlLB0

If you would like to join us, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you the zoom link.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday ❤️

Love,

Steve 

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, August 11 at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Five Awarenesses, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week, we’ll continue this dharma talk by Brother Pham Linh (Brother Spirit) exploring responses when your worldview starts to crumble:

https://youtu.be/8exs11Mrl94?si=h9N13t-2m81rlLB0

If you would like to join us, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you the zoom link.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday ❤️

Love,

Steve 

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, August 4th, you’ll be able to join the WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice.

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. Please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled. The monks have asked that we dress appropriately for their residence (no short pants or skirts, no tank tops or low cut tops please).

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation of Five Mindfulness Trainings

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish..

———————————————-

If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening instead, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll have our monthly recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

If you would like to join us online, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We hope we’ll see you this Sunday.

With love

Steve

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, June 30, at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read Nourishing Happiness, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week, we’ll continue watching the dharma talk we started a few weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWsYHA7upP0

It's a talk given jointly - consecutively - by Sister Hoa Nghiem and then by Mitchell Ratner. The theme is the Art of Happiness. We are now enjoying the section by Mitchell, with a focus on engaged Buddhism. Their talk was given at the OI retreat Blue Cliff monastery two months ago.

If you would like to join us, please write to wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you the Zoom link.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled on the giving page of this website.

We’ll see you this Sunday

Love,

Steve

Five DC/Baltimore area mindfulness communities, practicing in the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, are organizing a silent, meditative walk for peace at 3PM on Sunday, June 23, in Washington DC. We will meet outside the Smithsonian metro north exit in front of the Smithsonian castle and then walk along the mall to the west lawn of the Capitol, finishing at the Peace Monument. Our walk will happen on the same day as similar peace walks organized in London, New York, and other cities. We will walk rain or shine.

We will be walking for peace because of our reverence for life and our belief that every human being is sacred and worthy of protection. Our hearts are shattered by the horrific loss of lives and the destruction of families and communities caused by armed conflicts in Israel and Palestine, Haiti, Somalia, Sudan, Ukraine, and elsewhere. We walk to end all violence and killing.

The event will open with prayer. Then we will begin a silent, slow, and meditative walk. Our walk will remain peaceful and non-confrontational at all times, without any intent of threatening or disrupting others.

We encourage walkers to wear cultural mourning clothing to acknowledge the huge loss of lives and wide-spread trauma caused by armed conflicts. We ask that participants not bring banners, placards, or flags.

We urge citizens and world leaders to support non-violence, reconciliation, and negotiations leading to a just peace for all.

We hope you will join us.

Updated information will be available here. If you have any questions about the walk, you can write to us at Walking4Peace2Freedom@gmail.com.

The June 23rd Peace Walk Planning Team

Sponsoring Communities: Baltimore and Beyond Mindfulness Community, Mindfulness Practice Center of Fairfax, Opening Heart Mindfulness Community, Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center, Washington Mindfulness Community.

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, June 16, at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Refuge Chant, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week, we’ll continue watching the dharma talk we started three weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWsYHA7upP0

It's a talk given jointly - consecutively - by Sister Hoa Nghiem and then by Mitchell Ratner. The theme is the Art of Happiness. We are now enjoying the section by Mitchell, with a focus on engaged Buddhism. Their talk was given at the OI retreat Blue Cliff monastery two months ago.

If you would like to join us, please write to wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you the Zoom link.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled on the giving page of this website.

We’ll see you this Sunday

Love,

Steve

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, June 9, at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Five Awarenesses, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week, we’ll continue watching the dharma talk we started three weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWsYHA7upP0

It's a talk given jointly - consecutively - by Sister Hoa Nghiem and then by Mitchell Ratner. The theme is the Art of Happiness. We have now begun the section by Mitchell, with a focus on engaged Buddhism. Their talk was given at the OI retreat Blue Cliff monastery two months ago.

If you would like to join us, please write to wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you the Zoom link.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled on the giving page of this website.

We’ll see you this Sunday

Love,

Steve