Mindfulness Practice Community of Toronto invites you to :
A Day of Mindfulness (in person)
with Dharma Teacher Tuyen Nguyen – Chan Hao
(Dharma Teacher in the Plum Village Tradition)
Saturday, April 11, 9:30 to 3:30
at Roncesvalles United Church
(214 Wright Avenue, the corner of Roncesvalles and Wright – entrance door is off the parking lot).
Refreshing our Hearts and Minds
The day will include sitting and walking meditation, a dharma talk, deep relaxation, and dharma sharing.
We will enjoy a pot-luck lunch together, so please bring a vegan dish to share, along with your own dish and cutlery (the church does not have many dishes available). If you have special dietary needs, please bring what you need to eat for yourself.
You may also like to bring your own cushion for our practice together, to help your spine to sit beautifully (although we do have chairs), and a wrap and mat for total relaxation, anything that will make your day as comfortable as possible.
There is a recommended minimum donation of $25 for the day, to cover the cost of the room and expenses. Any further dana is welcome for the Plum Village community that so lovingly supports us, a gift from the heart for the teachings to make a good future more possible for all.
We look forward to practicing together, to generating the energy of peace, healing, and happiness as together, as we dwell in each precious moment.
We welcome and are happy to practice with all sangha friends and hope to see many new friends there!
Tuyen and Linda
May we open ourselves to enjoy our participation in impermanence and be grateful to it. Impermanence makes anything possible.
We give to ourselves and offer to the world what we have carried: peace, happiness, ease, worries, sorrow, anger, hatred….
We may carry inside ourselves some memories, images, thoughts, that cramp and cloud our happiness and vital energy.
As Thay said: “People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer any more.”
May we learn to look at our wounds, weaknesses, and strengths in the light of impermanence, of inter-condition so that our practice of reconciliation can bring deep transformation and peace.
Mindfulness Practice Community of Toronto 