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Community Retreat
Classes with Mark Hart
Gratitude: A course on meditation and awareness
Tuesday Evenings, 7:30-9:00PM
June 1-22
The Cadigan Center, Amherst College (Directions)
Suggested Donation: $50
Register now.
Gratitude is a wonderful antidote for the culture of fear around us. It promotes a relaxed and open awareness that responds generously to life. This 4-week class will augment the cultivation of meditative awareness with exercises in gratitude. We will also look at how to receive with a welcoming spirit the challenges life offers. 30-40 minutes of each class will be devoted to meditation and meditation instruction will be given. .
Sundays and Sittings
Dharma Inquiry
Group:
2nd and 4th Sundays,
June 13- Sept 26
7:00- 9:00 p.m., Leverett
Suggested Donation: $100
The inquiry group is for those who wish to explore within a group what is true and what liberates. Each member takes responsibility for discovering his or her own real questions about the Dharma and sharing that inquiry with the group. We aim to talk about what is most alive and energizing in each person’s practice as well as what is stuck and difficult. We also read a book in conjunction with this exploration. This summer we will be reading Charlotte Joko Beck's Everyday Zen. Members must have an established Buddhist meditation practice for at least two years and registration is limited to 12. Priority is given to prior members.
Sunday Morning Sitting
Group
Sundays 10-11:30AM
Each group includes 45 minutes of sitting and 45 minutes of conversation in which we share, in a context of spiritual friendship, our own exploration of truth and freedom in our lives. Not a teacher-led group. Sundays 10:00-11:30 a.m.
7/11 Irene--with a potluck brunch following--25 Stowell Road, Shutesbury; 256-2153
7/18 Irene--25 Stowell Road, Shutesbury
7/25 Jo--16 Hunt Road, New Salem; 978 544-1183
8/1 Jane Costello--160 Pratt Corner Road in Shutesbury
8/8 Sharon--145 Baker Road, Shutesbury; 259-1748
8/15 Irene at the new house, 102 Dudleyville Rd, about a mile from the Village Coop in Leverett
8/22 Sharon
8/29 Jo
9/5 Laurene
If you are interested in coming, lease email Mark at harts@crocker.com or call 259-2145 to be added to our email list for this group to be notified of any changes.
Adyashanti Gathering
First Friday of each month, 7PM
Hadley
This group, for all who are interested in the teaching of Adyashanti, includes meditation, a CD or DVD teaching by Adyashanti, and a discussion. It is held on the first Friday of each month at 7 PM in Hadley. Contact Mark Lange at lange.mark@charter.net or at 413-549-1002 for information.
Movie Night
Bodhisara sponsors a movie night about 4 times per year of some movie of relevance to Buddhism or the Dharma. The evening includes a potluck supper at 6:30 and the movie begins at 8 PM. These are normally held at the home of Olivia Bernard in Leverett.
The next movie night is July 23rd. We'll be viewing "Amongst White Clouds" about Buddhist hermits in China.
Community Retreat
This year we will be having a non-residential Community Retreat the weekend of June 11-13 at the home of Jo Boskind bordering the Quabbin. This is a change from the previously advertised date of June 4-6. It will begin Friday evening and go through Sunday noon, with teaching my myself and community circles speaking from silence in the style of the Sunday Morning Sitting Group. The registration is $45-75 sliding scale (plus dana for teaching) and you can send a check payable to "Bodhisara" to me at 28 Autumn Lane, Amherst,MA 01002 to register. Space is limited, so pre-registration is advised.
Non-Bodhisara Teachings by Mark Hart
At Insight Meditation Community of Martha’s Vineyard
Day-long retreat May 1, 10-4:30 at the Unitarian Church, 238 Main Street, Vineyard Haven, $25 plus teacher dana
At Northampton Insight Meditation Community (in the Karuna Center:
- Dharma Talks on various Sunday evenings 7-9 PM, at the Karuna Center, Northampton, dana; for an up-to-date schedule, go to http://buddhabrarian.org/nimc/
About the teacher
Mark Hart has practiced Insight Meditation since 1981, studying primarily at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. Since 2000 has also studied with teachers of non-dual awareness, including Adyashanti, and has incorporated that into his teaching. He is guiding teacher of the Bodhisara Dharma Community in Amherst, Massachusetts, on the teacher’s council at Insight Pioneer Valley in Easthampton, and adjunct religious advisor to Buddhist students at Amherst College. He holds a Ph.D in theology from Boston College, an MA in Counseling from Seattle University, and has a private practice of psychotherapy in Amherst.
Directions to the Cadigan Center for Religious Studies, Amherst College
For those of you who'd like to mapquest, the address is 38 Woodside Avenue, Amherst. The Cadigan Center is not on the main part of the campus but west of Route 116/South Pleasant Street by one block. Starting from the traffic light at the intersection of Route 9 and South Pleasant street by the Amherst Common, go west on Route 9 (toward Hadley and Northampton) and take the first left. Go down to the end of the block and the Cadigan Center is on your left just before you come to the intersection with Walnut Street. Coming from Hadley on Route 9 go past the Amherst College fields coming up the hill toward the common. Woodside is the right turn after Orchard St. and the last right before the traffic light.
There is no parking on Woodside until you drive past the intersection with Walnut street. So don't park on the street in front of Cadigan. Keep going to park on the street. You may park at the Cadigan Center off the street, either in the circular driveway or on the side. Parking will take a little getting used to but there is plenty. It is also a brief walk from downtown.
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