July 2002 Events

All Events at MEETINGBROOK are free, open & informal

Note:Consult “Today at Meetingbrook” for any changes in schedule.

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

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

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

Maybe Zen, Maybe Not, 5:30pm-6:30pm A Practice/Study. Reading For a Future To Be Possible, by Thich Nhat Hahn

WEDNESDAY EVENING CONVERSATIONS: 5:30pm. -6:30pm  These conversations are free, open, informal.  We’ll read then converse a chapter per week. Each Wednesday is a distinct conversation.

	Wed. 3July02- Pondering Meister Eckhart’s words, “I put disinterest higher than love…Disinterest brings God to me…” (in Zen and the Brain, by James H. Austin, M.D.)
	Wed. 10July02- Designing an Experiment in Contemplation, Toward the Turiya of Advaita of Vedanta,  (from Lex Hixon’s, Coming Home – The Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Tradition (1978)
	Wed. 17July02- Open Circle Open Conversation – A summer’s evening pot luck of passing topics
	Wed. 24 July02 – Open Circle Open Conversation - A summer’s evening pot luck of passing topics
	Wed. 31 July02 – Open Circle Open Conversation - A summer’s evening pot luck of passing topics

THURSDAY EVENING CHRISTIAN CONTEMPLATION STUDIES:
5:30pm-6:30pm. We read aloud for 25 minutes, and then converse. Reading (beginning) The Hidden Gospel: Decoding the Spiritual Message of the Aramaic by Neil Douglas-Klotz. We pick up wherever we left off. No need to read outside the hour.

FRIDAY EVENING OPEN POETRY READING,
4:30pm - 5:30pm Open reading gathering invites anyone to bring poetry to read, whether your own or others’. Invited under “poetry” are Poems, Letters & Pieces of Journals. In addition, we read from David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea, Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity.

FRIDAY EVENING LOVINGKINDNESS PRACTIC STUDY:
6:00-7:30pm (Sitting, Reading, Conversing, Sitting.) An hour and half of practice & study. Currently reading Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, by Sharon Salzberg. (fac: Susan Smith-Hudson.)

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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