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October2001 Events

All Events at MEETINGBROOK are free, open & informal

Special Events:

Thursday, 1Nov01 6:30-8:00pm Jean Picker Room, Camden Library,
Conversations in The Thin Place...
Topic: A More Difficult Peace - The Inner View ,
Facilitated by Hugh Curran, of Peace Studies Program UMS, and Morgan Bay Zendo

Regular Events At the Hermitage
(64 Barnestown Road, Camden, just beyond Snow Bowl, white picket gate)

SATURDAY MORNING PRACTICE AT THE HERMITAGE
Weekly Lectio Divina
: Sat, 6:45am-8:00am
Monthly Retreat 7 hrs, 20Oct, 6am-1pm, (Christian focus this month)

SUNDAY EVENING PRACTICE AT THE HERMITAGE Each Sunday evening, 6:00pm-8:00pm. Practice Silent Sitting, Walking, Listening, Eating, Conversing, Chanting. (Christian focus 7, 21Oct; Buddhist 14, 28Oct)

All welcome. Bring nothing but willingness to practice with others.

 MORNING PRACTICE AT THE HERMITAGE. (6:05am-6:35am) Silent Sitting - 30 minutes, daily; then, (6:40am-7:00am) Chanting & Mindfulness Walking (MWF Christian; TTh Buddhist). Whatever your tradition or practice come sit together in silence. Simply enter, sit, and leave in silence.

Regular Events At the Bookshop/Bakery
(the Cape, 50 Bayview Street, across from Waterfront Restaurant)

TUESDAY EVENING BUDDHIST MEDITATION STUDIES (Led by Susan Smith-Hudson.)

  1. Zen Practice/Studies, 5:30pm-6: 30pm Reading For a Future To Be Possible, by Thich Nhat Hanh,
  2. Maybe Zen, Maybe Not, 6:45pm-7: 45pm Metta (Compassion) Practice/Study. Reading Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, by Sharon Salzberg

WEDNESDAY EVENING CONVERSATIONS: 5:30pm. -6:30pm. These conversations are free, open, informal.

Wed. 3Oct01--Topic: Francis of Assisi, A Revolutionary Life - Facilitated by Liv Kristin Robinson
Wed. 10Oct01-Topic: Reading Ramesh - A circle reading/reflection from Ramesh Balsekar's A Net of Jewels
Wed. 17Oct01- Topic: Helping Meetingbrook think of itself - Part 3, a conversation about community
Wed. 24Oct01-Topic: A Conversation with a Muslim Woman about Islam
Wed. 31Oct01- Topic: Reading Galway Kinnell: from The Book of Nightmares and The Poetics of the Physical World - An Alternative 31st of poetry & poetics on death, life, light, and love

THURSDAY EVENING CHRISTIAN CONTEMPLATION STUDIES: 5:30pm-6:30pm. We read aloud for 25 minutes, and then converse. Reading Putting On the Mind of Christ – The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality by Jim Marion. Each week we pick up wherever we left off. No need to read outside the hour.

FRIDAY EVENING OPEN POETRY READING, 5:30p.m. - 6:30p.m Open reading gathering invites anyone to bring poetry to read, whether your own or others’. Invited under “poetry” are Poems, Letters & Pieces of Journals. We read around the circle at least twice, followed by a brief silence, then discussion. . In addition, we read from  David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea, Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity.

MUSIC REHEARSAL, An opportunity to rehearse individually in ease in a public place, anytime, call or just show up. Also, each Wednesday & Sunday afternoon 1-3:30pm, group playing, join in.

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Closed Mondays, Open 6days by 10:30am to 7:30pm
Let us order your books and music! Thanks!

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      Bookshop/Bakery, 50 Bayview Street, Camden, Maine 04843
      Dogen & Francis Hermitage
64 Barnestown Rd, Camden, Maine 04843

(1-800) 510 MEET or, (207) 236-6808 (Call for any announcements or events at shop or hermitage.)

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Meetingbrook Hermitage
64 Barnstown Rd.,
Camden, Maine USA 04843
Meetingbrook Bookshop & Bakery
50 Bayview St. (Cape on the harbor)
Camden, Maine USA 04843
207-236-6808
e-mail: mono@meetingbrook.org

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