5:00 to 6:30 PM Sunday, May 5th, 2013 at the Mindful Heart Buddha Sangha
Please join us at the Sangha for a special celebration. If you haven’t made it here recently, try to join us this day.

Honoring Teacher and Sangha Founder Mary MacGregor

• Mary is continuing in the Sangha, but her time as a teacher is coming to an end. Join us in honoring her service.
• Know more about our teachers who are receiving the torch from Mary.
• Mary is not asking for gifts; however, if you personally would like to contribute to a gift fund please do it early. There will be a collection box at the Sangha specifically for gift donations, or you may mail to the Sangha: Mindful Heart Buddha Sangha, Bradford Park Office Complex, 600 N. Weinbach, Suite 960, Evansville, IN 47711]

Buddha’s Birthday

• Our Sangha is celebrating Buddha’s Birthday on this day. If anyone would like to consider taking the Precepts please contact Mary as soon as possible so she may plan.
• The actual calendar date of the birthday and the celebrations vary with calendar year, tradition and country. Look up Buddha’s Birthday on Wikipedia to see more information.
• Watch for an upcoming announcement of another special Buddha Birthday event we are organizing for late May.

6:30 PM at the Sangha

Open House and Pot Luck
• Come and chat, share a dish, dessert or drink and enjoy some interesting food.
• This is informal, you may show up during the Open House, even if you didn’t choose to attend the earlier events.
• Please RSVP soon for the Pot Luck just so we know how much space to prepare. RSVP to mindfulheart@gmail.com

Hope you can make it!

Four days ago Bhante G was walking and began experiencing major heart pain.   He went to John Hopkins where he had triple bi-pass surgery and is currently doing well.   He is 87 years old.  He has been a meditator for 77 years and a vegetarian but still the body does what the body does.

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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.

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 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

From Lydia Johnson:

Good afternoon Peace Build supporters:

Thank you all for everything you did to make the Peace Build a huge success. Because of you, Michelle Farmer and her daughter will soon have a safe, affordable home to call their own.

I wanted to let you know that we have posted pictures of the build and dedication on our web site. You may view them by following the link below.

http://www.evansvillehabitat.org/photogallery/index.php

Thank you again.

Lydia Johnson

Community Relations Director

Habitat for Humanity of Evansville, Inc.

A Memorial Observance is planned for Sunday December 4.   As a sangha we will remember Chris Fuchs and Russ Davis, two of our members, and Ginny Morgan, a teacher and friend to the Sangha, who died this past year.

Marcia Ballard’s father has recently died  and also Mary Lee McManus’ husband, Frank.   If there are other losses of which I am not aware, please contact me before the service.

The Mindful Heart Buddha Sangha is hosting a retreat with Annie Nugent at Kordes Retreat Center beginning Saturday May 19th

Annie will be teaching on 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 are 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 all aspects of our lives are opportunities to develop a clear and direct understanding of the Truth.

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

Sign-in begins at 9:00 a.m. with retreat starting at 10:00 a.m. Saturday May 19. Retreat ends after the noon meal on Thursday May 24.
Weekend option: ends Sunday after the evening meal, May 20th.

Prices: Entire retreat $660.00 single occupancy/$510.00 double occupancy. $300.00 deposit.
Weekend option: $200.00 single/$175.00 double. $100.00 deposit.

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. Please register soon!

Click this to print retreat registration form

Bodhi Tree Sangha is pleased to announce the return to Evansville of the Tashi Kyil Tibetan monks from India.  From November 12-16, 2011, the monks will be in Evansville to raise funds for their monastery. Along withBodyworks Massage Institute, Bodhi Tree Sangha will host and sponsor the monks’ activities.

Please contact info@bodhitreesangha.org,   812.602.3369    for more information

Upcoming Schedule of Events

Ginny Morgan, one of our beloved Vipassana teachers, died last night at her home in Columbia, Missouri.    Ginny had been battling cancer for 12 years but her teaching voice never wavered.

In the last weeks she contined to mentor students from her bed using the telephone and computer.   Ginny liked to laugh and usually had a joke to tell or a story.   She had been practicing since the 70’s.

In late fall the sangha is planning to have a memorial service to celebrate all those loved ones who have died recently.   We will include Ginny.

Metta

On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, fellow sangha participant Ralph Russell Davis died. A memorial service is scheduled at 3:00 on Monday, August 8th, 2011 at Zion United Church in Henderson. The sangha has been invited to participate in a memorial service for Russ in the fall.

Russell was the first chairman of the board of Mindful Heart Buddha Sangha. He was a retired postman from Henderson, Kentucky, and an Air Force veteran from the Viet Nam war. An avid fan of Civil War history and a fierce competitor in duplicate bridge, his daily life embodied generosity and a sense of humor about life. As he had recently suffered from several strokes, he had been less able to participate with the sangha in Evansville. There is a gap in our lives without his presence.

His obituary is listed in the August 5, 2011 issue of The Gleaner. His family has asked that expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to Mindful Heart Buddha Sangha, Bradford Park Office Complex, 600 N. Weinbach Ave., Suite 960, Evansville, IN 47711.