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Mindful Peacebuilding Sangha: EMPOWERMENT WEEKEND AUG 29-30, 2020


INFO/ZOOM LINKS:   mindfulpeacebuilding@gmail.com
WEB:  www.mindfulpeacebuilding.org

Sat Morning, Aug 29–11am-12:30pm PST (ZOOM)
Kazu Haga
Author, Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm (published by: Parallax Press)
Founder of the East Point Peace Academy
Trainings in Kingian Non-Violence


Sat Afternoon, Aug 29–2:30pm-4pm PST (ZOOM)
Encampment for Citizenship Youth Leadership Program
Margot Gibney, E.D.
Florencia Ramirez, Author–Eat Less Water
Two Youth Interns

Sun Aug 30–2:30pm-3:30pm PST (ZOOM)
Summer Healing Concert
with Destiny Muhammad, Harpist from the H O O D
w/ spoken word poetry
>> Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me By My True Names
>>Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, In This Place (An American Lyric)
>>Gracias A La Vida (adapted)

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Online Sutra Study: Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness

Heart Sangha of Santa Cruz and Mindful Peacebuilding

ARE SPONSORING

AWAKENING OF THE HEART
COURSES IN THE ESSENTIAL BUDDHIST SUTRAS

COURSE TWO
THE SUTRA ON THE FOUR ESTABLISHMENTS OF MINDFULNESS

Beginning September 2, 2020
7:00 – 8:30 pm
ON ZOOM

with Dharma Teacher Jim Scott-Behrends
and co-host Birgitte Moyer-Vinding, OI

Weekly reminders will be sent starting September 1st. For more information,  jsbehrends@aol.com

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Sunday June 28: Sit. Walk. Listen. Because Black Lives Matter

Sit. Walk. Listen in San Francisco has drawn 75-150 people for each of the past 3 weekends.

Dear friends,

This Sunday June 28 from 10:30am – 1pm, friends from the Bay Area mindfulness communities will be gathering at the “Remember Them” monument in Oakland (Henry J. Kaiser Memorial Park, at 19th & Telegraph) to honor and support black lives. You are invited to join us.

Facebook link:https://www.facebook.com/events/642088523062713
Indybay link:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/22/18834485.php

Dear siblings, these times are a great call for change.

As mindfulness practitioners, we can breathe for others who cannot.  Let’s bring the practice of peaceful compassionate nonviolence to the streets; to listen, to follow, and support black people. 

As Thich Nhat Hanh once said: “Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.”

Together we can walk in peace, love, compassion, and awareness.

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