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Guest Dharma teachers Valerie Brown from ARISE Sangha,
and Mitchell Ratner from Still Water Mindfulness Practice Community will facilitate.
On Monday evening we will offer a ceremony of prayer and healing energy to our community and beyond. Within our sangha and worldwide, many are suffering. In the Plum Village tradition, we offer this ceremony to acknowledge the suffering of all beings and offer peace, compassion, understanding, and love for ourselves and for those who suffer. The essence of the ceremony is to transform suffering into compassion, peace and joy.
We welcome two guests, Dharma teachers, Valerie Brown from ARISE Sangha, and Mitchell Ratner from Still Water Mindfulness Practice Community to facilitate this ceremony. We aspire to bring love, compassion, and kindness to those who are suffering and to release their suffering toward great love.
Please enjoy this quote from our teacher Thay from his book "The energy of Prayer":
When we sit down to practice unifying our body and our mind, and we bring our energy of love to our grandmother, to an elder sister, or a younger brother, then we are producing a new energy. That energy immediately opens our heart. When we have the nectar of compassion and have established communication between the one who is praying and the one being prayed to, then the distance between Plum Village and Hanoi does not have any meaning. This connection can’t be estimated or described in words; time and space cannot present any obstacles.
— From The Energy of Prayer by Thich Nhat Hanh
We look forward to sharing this beautiful practice with you on Monday night.
much love,
Camille