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