The Five Mindfulness Trainings represent the vision of all our spiritual ancestors for a global spirituality and ethic. They are a concrete expression of a path of wisdom and true love, leading to healing, transformation, and happiness for ourselves and for the world. To practice the Five Mindfulness Trainings is to cultivate a way of life which can remove all discrimination, intolerance, anger, fear, and despair. Following this way of life, we are not lost in confusion about our life in the present or in fears about the future.

In January each year, we are fortunate in this region to be able to participate in a transmission ceremony for the Five Mindfulness Trainings. Together we recite the five Mindfulness Trainings and transmit them to any sangha members who wish to receive them. The ceremony is held at the Mindfulness Practice Center of Fairfax with Anh Huong and Thu Nguyen and other dharma teachers from the region. It is a regional gathering of all sanghas in DC/MD/VA/PA, and sometimes other areas too; it is a beautiful morning together. If you have already studied and practiced the Five Mindfulness Trainings, please come and share with us the fruits as well as challenges of your practice in light of these trainings. 

You can take all five at once or any of them individually at the ceremony. You can read the full text of the Trainings here: http://mpcf.org/r_5MT.html. The ceremony will be held on Saturday morning, January 4th, 2020.