Ozarks Dharma Community

Please don't forget our first Ozarks Dharma Community Picnic in the pavilion at Fassnight Park on Sunday, Sept. 9th from 11:30am-2:30pm. If you'd like to come, please bring a dish to share.  Drinks will be provided.  We will be serving veggie burgers. Please tell us if you'd like one so we know how many we will need. There will be a table with free Dhamma books to share with each other and interested folks, so if you have any books that you would like to donate, bring them to the studio beforehand or to the park on the day of the picnic.  There will be a mini meditation workshop to anyone who shows up and is interested in learning how to meditate, as well as an introduction to chanting. We will be putting up flyers around to invite everyone who is interested to attend. Of course, this is a family-friendly event, so bring the kids! There is a nice playground for them to play on. You can download a print quality pdf (1.78 MB) of the flyer...

1. Ozarks Dharma Community Picnic, September 9 We will be having our first Ozarks Dharma Community Picnic in the pavilion at Fassnight Park on Sunday, Sept. 9th from 11:30am-2:30pm. If you'd like to come, please bring a dish to share.  Drinks will be provided.  We will be serving veggie burgers. Please tell us if you'd like one so we know how many we will need.   There will be a table with free Dhamma books to share with each other and interested folks, so if you have any books that you would like to donate, bring them to the studio beforehand or to the park on the day of the picnic.  I will give a mini meditation workshop to anyone who shows up and is interested in learning how to meditate.  We will be putting up flyers around to invite everyone who is interested to attend. Of course, this is a family-friendly event, so bring the kids! There is a nice playground for them to play on. 2. Celebration at the Dinh Quang Buddhist T...

Dear Friends, You have an opportunity to attend a retreat with Shaila Catherine in St. Louis Aug 22-26. Even though I prefer to recommend dana retreats it might be that a fee based retreat is within your means. I am just passing this on and have no connection with this retreat. Please see details below. With friendliness, Sister Dipa ****************************** Shaila Catherine will lead a residential Insight Meditation retreat August 22-26, 2012 in St. Louis, MO, offered by Mid America Dharma. The theme is "Awakening With Insight - Cultivating Concentration and Mindfulness". We welcome your attending, but registration closes August 8, 2012. You must register before then to be assured a place. For complete information, and to register online, please go to:  www.retreat1208.homestead.com .  For a complete listing of all retreats currently planned by Mid America Dharma, go to:  www.midamericadharma.org/retreats.html  

I visited Dinh Quang Buddhsit Temple this morning, and had a nice chat with Thay and the others. He is planning a big celebration on Sept. 22nd and 23rd to commemorate Quan The Am (Quan Yin), as well as to have a dedication of the statue and the new temple. He is interested in getting performers to come and share their talents, so if any of you are singers or musicians and would be interested in helping out, please let me know. He needs to know soon so that he can put out a flyer with a schedule of events. This will be a way of attracting the general public to come and donate to the temple. They will also need help starting September 1st to clean and move things around in anticipation of the festivities on the 22nd and 23rd. I would like to schedule a time for those of us in our group to go out there and help. If you're interested, let me know, as well as when you'd be available. Thay said that we could come anytime those first two weeks of September, daytime or ...

This is our last week to collect donations from the Dinh Quang Buddhist Temple. Thanks to everyone for their generosity! ************** We have decided to offer a donation from our group to Thay, the monk at Dinh Quang Buddhist Temple, to help with expenses for the building of their new temple. We will give all donations during the month of July to the temple and also match the amount, up to $100, from our account. If you would like to give towards this, please place your donation in the basket at meditation, or  contact us  and I will give you the address so that you can mail your check. This is a good opportunity to express our support to the Vietnamese Buddhist community for the building of their temple, as well as a way to show our appreciation for their kind offer of the use of the temple for our group when it is fully completed next year. You can learn more about the temple at KY3 (" New Buddhist temple in Springfield includes 12-ton statue ") or the Springf...

Here are some of the resources we discussed last evening. If we've missed something you'd like to add, please let us know. :) In This Very Life  by Sayādaw U Pandita, chapter 3, "The Ten Armies of Māra" Dhamma Lists  from Insight Meditation Center The Cow in the Parking Lot   by Leonard Scheff and Susan Edmiston " Social Rejection is a REAL Pain ," a summary article about the research at the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at UCLA Finally, you can find the quote from Jon Kabat-Zinn comparing mindful living to a sailor making the best use of the wind at this link to the book  Full Catastrophe Living   (page 3, beginning at "There is an art to facing difficulties...") . 

Show Me Dharma is offering a non-residential retreat, September 14-16. Annie Nugent  will be teaching on  The Five Spiritual Faculties.  Keep reading for more information, or click on the photo to download the flyer .  **REGISTER NOW** NON-RESIDENTIAL INSIGHT MEDITATION RETREAT The Five Spiritual Faculties  taught by ANNIE NUGENT These five “spiritual friends” - confidence, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom are naturally brought to life as we undertake the practice of insight meditation.  Working together, they allow for a constancy and staying power to develop in our practice. This retreat will focus on how to balance and strengthen these qualities on our path to awakening, especially in the busyness of our daily lives. Public Talk:    Friday September 14, 7:00 pm at Show Me Dharma Retreat:           Saturday September 15, 9:00 am-5:00 pm  ...