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 Open Heart now offers a weekly Meditation practice and monthly group discussion (Wednesday 7:oo pm to 8:30 pm) through an online platform. You may register for the online meditation practice by sending an e-mail with the following information to openheartzen@gmail.com
Your first and last name, Member states - New, regular/active or non-active  We will view a 21 minutes video "Oprah Winfrey talks with Thich Nhat Hanh Excerpt" (click to view), on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 @ 7:00 pm. Thích Nhất Hạnh; born on 11 October 1926, is a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk.One of the best known and most respected Zen masters in the world today, poet, and peace and human rights activist and founder of the Plum Village Tradition. Click here to view an article about Thich Nhat Hanh from "Time" -
"The Monk Who Taught the World Mindfulness Awaits the End of This Life" , published on Jan 24, 2019. Excerpts from the Time article: In the West, Nhat Hanh is sometimes called the father of mindfulness. Nhat Hanh taught that you don’t have to spend years on a mountaintop to benefit from Buddhist wisdom. Instead, he says, just become aware of your breath, and through that come into the present moment, where everyday activities can take on a joyful, miraculous quality. If you are mindful, or fully present in the here and now, anxiety disappears and a sense of timelessness takes hold, allowing your highest qualities, such as kindness and compassion, to emerge. An entire mindfulness movement sprang up in the wake of this dharma superstar. Among his students was the American doctor Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course that is now offered at hospitals and medical centers worldwide.  You are invited to join a half day retreat Saturday, May 15, 2021, from 9 am till 12 pm.
To register for the retreat, please send an e-mail to openheartzen@gmail.com including: First name, Last Name, Part time or Full time, Participation Time frame (if you are a part time participant). Looking forward to seeing you at the retreat.  The group will view this 18 minutes video Stoicism as a philosophy for an ordinary life - Massimo Pigliuccci – TEDxAthens (Click to view), on Wed, March 31, 2021 @ 7 PM
How to change your life for the better by practicing ancient Greco-Roman philosophy as a way of life. Massimo Pigliucci has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee.  We will view a 13 minutes video "12 principles of forgiveness" by Jack Kornfield, (Click to View) Jack Kornfield is an author, Buddhist practitioner, Spirit Rock Meditation Center founding teacher, and one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West.  You are invited to join a half day retreat Saturday, March 20, 2021, from 9 am till 12 pm. To register for the retreat, please send
an e-mail to openheartzen@gmail.com including: First name, Last Name, Part time or Full time, Participation Time frame (if you are a part time participant). Looking forward to seeing you at the retreat.  Here is a 22 minutes video the group will view on the upcoming group discussion Wednesday, Jan 27, 2021, 7:00 PM.
The Power of Forgiveness by Gelong Thubten (click to view). Gelong Thubten is a Buddhist monk, meditation trainer and author. In 1993, at the age of 21, he was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk at Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland. He has spent over six years in intensive meditation retreats, the longest of which was 4 years. It's an appropriate topic as we try to heal in our own lives and as a nation. Thubten radiates kindness and compassion; it feels healing just to listen to him.
 The group will view a 12 minutes video
"Tara Talks – Listening with Ears of the Heart", (click to view) followed by group discussion. When we really listen to another, they sense a space where they can speak authentically. Tara explores the three steps of deep listening and how this deliberate practice can help us connect more intimately with others as we learn to listen with 'ears of the heart.'  The group will view an eighteen minutes TED Talk video "How Mindfulness changes the emotional life of our brains - with Richards Davidson".
Richard J. Davidson is professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as well as founder and chair of the Center for Healthy Minds. |
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