Mindful Heart Buddha Sangha

Remember the Buddha’s Birthday is being celebrated with a pot luck supper  Sunday June 3.   Also Dana wants to take a picture of the sangha that night so look pretty and handsome (or pretty handsome.)   You will have the opportunity to renew your precepts and there are those who will be taking them for the first time.   Meet at the regular time of 6:00 pm.

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We will be celebrating the Buddha’s Birthday on Sunday June 3rd, 2012 at 6:00 pm. There will be a potluck so please bring something to share and flowers, if you have them, to add to the festivities.

There will be

* The story of the Buddha’s Life

* Taking Refuge in Three Jewels of Buddhism

* The 5 Precepts Ceremony (if you would like to take them for the first time, please contact the Sangha for more information).

Metta

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Below is a message sent to our Sangha from Habitat for Humanity of Evansville.

Habitat for Humanity of Evansville Women Build, in partnership with Lowe’s®, is offering FREE construction training clinics for area women. No registration is required and all experience levels are welcome to attend. Participants will also have the opportunity to learn about Habitat’s local Women Build project which will begin in the Glenwood Neighborhood on July 7, 2012.  Lunch will be available in the parking lot after each clinic at a cost of $5.00 to support Habitat’s Women Build program.   Lowe’s® West will offer training Saturday, April 28, 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. in hand and power tools, framing walls and roofs, exterior siding-roofing shingles, mold safe practices and installing locks with a kit.  Lowe’s® East will offer training Saturday, May 5, 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. in wood stripping and refinishing, interior painting, mold safe practices, insulation and drywall/drywall repair, and safe use of hand and power tools.  For more information, call 812-423-5623.

Gratefully,

Jane Michele

Sr. Jane Michele McClure, OSB
Major Gifts Officer
Habitat for Humanity of Evansville
1401 N. Fares Avenue
Evansville, IN 47711

Phone:  812-423-5623, Ext. 26
Cell:  812-430-2159
Fax:  812-423-3362
jmcclure@evansvillehabitat.org
www.evansvillehabitat.org

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We have invited Ananda Baltrunas to our Sangha Day-which is this Sunday at 6:00 pm.   Our sangha first met him when he wrote to us from Branchville Correctional facility in Tell City, Indiana.   He asked for help in creating a sangha at Branchville.   Our sangha under the guidance of Lee Buchtman responded to that request for seven years.   Lee will be present this Sunday also.

Ananda became a Theravada monk in 1971 and was ordained at Branchville in the Vietnamese tradition of Truc Lam in 1997.   Since then he has been ordained in the Jodo, Soto and Tandai traditions.   He is married and lives in Chicago.

We will have drinks and cookies following the sitting and the talk/discussion.   We will be finished by 8:00 pm.

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On Sunday March 25th at 6pm we will celebrate Sangha Day.  Teacher and ex-Sangha member Ananda Baltrunas will be teaching.  We will start with a regular sitting followed by a special teaching and end with cookies and tea.  Please join us.

Metta

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Kordes Retreat Center is giving us a discount.  So there is a new price for the retreat.  The charge for single occupancy has been waived.  All rooms will now be single occupancy and will cost $175 for the weekend option and $510 for the full retreat.  However we ask that you supply your own towel and washcloth for the retreat.  We will have a few towels and washcloths for your use if you forget to bring them.

Metta.

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The Mindful Heart Buddha Sangha is hosting a retreat with Annie Nugent on Saturday May 19th

Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. and the retreat starts at 10:00 a.m. Retreat ends after the noon meal on Thurs. May 24. Weekend option: ends Sunday after the evening meal, May 20th.

Prices: Entire retreat $510.00 single occupancy $300.00 deposit.  Weekend option: $175.00 single occupancy $100.00 deposit.  There is no double occupancy.

We request that you please bring your own towel and washcloth as this allows us to receive a discount that is being passed on to you.

Please click the link below to print the form and mail the completed form with your deposit to:

Annie Nugent Retreat
c/o Mindful Heart Buddha Sangha
Bradford Park Office Complex
600 N. Weinbach Suite 960
Evansville, IN 47711

Deposits must be received by March 31, 2012. No refunds after this date of the deposit amount. The remaining amount will be accepted at the registration table upon arrival or you may pay in full at any time.

Kordes Retreat Center is on the beautiful grounds of the Monastery Immaculate Conception, a Benedictine Convent in Ferdinand, IN. Known to the locals as “the castle on the hill”

TOPIC: Living the Buddha’s Teachings A certain joy comes into our lives when we realize the scope of the Buddha’s teachings – they don’t narrow or limit our lives, rather they bring a growing ease of mind and an expansiveness into life. This retreat is an invitation to explore the depth of the teachings as wisdom and compassion is cultivated in the midst of the fullness and vibrancy of daily life.

Annie Nugent has practiced in the Theravada and Tibetan traditions since 1979 under the guidance of a range of teachers including Sayadaw U Pandita, Tulku Akong Rinpoche and various western teachers. She was the resident teacher at the Insight Meditation Society from 1999-2003 and has since been teaching elsewhere in America, including the annual IMS 3 month retreat and The Forest Refuge. Her teaching style aims to reveal how our all aspects of our lives are opportunities to develop a clear and direct understanding of the Truth.

Click this to print retreat registration form

For more information , call 812-434-6643 or E-mail mindfulheart@gmail.com

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Dear Sangha Patricipants,

On Sunday, February 19, the board will host our annual State of the Sanga annual meeting at 6:00.

We will update everyone who can attend on the financial, practical, and retreat news.

Afterward, no later than 6:30, we will have our regular sit.

You may stay for tea and cookies after the sit. (Feel free to bring cookies or sweets. We will provide the tea.)

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