Dear Thay, dear Sangha,

Please join us this Sunday from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., either in person or by Zoom (link available on request. We’ll be meeting at the Albuquerque Zen Center, 2300 Garfield Ave. SE.

In honor of Earth Day, please bring something to share – a short writing, poem, song, artwork etc.

Upcoming Events:

1. Desert Rain Sangha in Santa Fe invites you to join them for a Day of Mindfulness with Diane Little Eagle – an Indigenous elder and dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition. Friday eve, April 28 6:30 pm -8:30 pm plus Saturday, April 29, 9 am-4:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church Santa Fe, 107 W Barcelona Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505. Also available by Zoom. For additional info you can contact Sue Rempel, email sue.suerempel at gmail dot com.
2. Jim Redel, a longtime member of the Albuquerque Zen Center, will be offering a workshop there on “Demystifying Zen” from 1:00-2:30 p.m. on Sunday April 23. Suggested donation $15.

For Quiet Mind Sangha meetings, to maintain an atmosphere of reverence and tranquility in the Zendo we’ll be observing 10 minutes of Noble Silence before each meeting.

Dana (generosity) is one of the virtues cultivated in Buddhism. It is customary to offer Dana in appreciation for the benefits received and to support the Sangha. Dana can be financial and it can also be in other forms such as helping with setup or breakdown of meetings and days of mindfulness.

With metta,
🙏🏼

Dear Thay, dear Sangha,

Please join us this Sunday from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., either in person or by Zoom. We’ll be meeting at the Albuquerque Zen Center, 2300 Garfield Ave. SE. 

This Sunday the topic will be “What is Zen?” We’ll be reading excerpts from Thay’s book Zen Keys as well as from some other well-known books on Zen. 

The handout we’ll be reading as a group is attached (it will be distributed in print to in-person attendees). 

If you’ll be attending by Zoom you may wish to download it and have it handy for reading during the meeting. 

This message, and the handout, will also be posted on our website www.quietmindsangha.org. 

To maintain an atmosphere of reverence and tranquility in the Zendo we’ll be observing 10 minutes of Noble Silence before each meeting.

Dana (generosity) is one of the virtues cultivated in Buddhism. It is customary to offer Dana in appreciation for the benefits received and to support the Sangha. Dana can be financial and it can also be in other forms such as helping with setup or breakdown of meetings and days of mindfulness. 

If you’d like to be removed from this email list just let me know. 

With metta,

🙏🏼

May you be peaceful

May you be happy

May you be safe

May you live with ease

Dear Thay, dear Sangha,

Please join us this Sunday from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., either in person or by Zoom. We’ll be meeting at the Albuquerque Zen Center, 2300 Garfield Ave. SE. 

Bee will be giving us an overview of the talks given by our Dharma teacher Terry Cortes-Vega at the retreat this past weekend. The theme was Deep Listening: A Path to Compassion and she talked about how to listen to ourselves, to difficult people, and to others in general, and the fact that deep healing that can come from such listening. We can bear in mind Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, who listens to the suffering of the world. 

For security, Zoom links are not posted on the website, but are available on request.

To maintain an atmosphere of reverence and tranquility in the Zendo we’ll be observing 10 minutes of Noble Silence before each meeting.

Dana (generosity) is one of the virtues cultivated in Buddhism. It is customary to offer Dana in appreciation for the benefits received and to support the Sangha. Dana can be financial and it can also be in other forms such as helping with setup or breakdown of meetings and days of mindfulness. 

Dear Thay, dear Sangha,

Because of the retreat this weekend, there won’t be a regular meeting of the Quiet Mind Sangha this Sunday. 

More information on the retreat is available on this website.

Please join us the following Sunday, April 9, when Bee will be leading the recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings. 

With metta,

🙏🏼

May you be peaceful

May you be happy

May you be safe

May you live with ease

Dear Thay, dear Sangha,

Please join us this Sunday from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., either in person or by Zoom. We’ll be meeting at the Albuquerque Zen Center, 2300 Garfield Ave. SE. 

Thay’s book “Happiness—Essential Mindful Practices” is a real treasure. It’s like a little handbook you can keep by your side so you can explore the 50 practices that Thay outlines for us. It gives us 50 practices to help us maintain and return to mindfulness throughout the day. Take a look at the introduction and the first few chapters—essential teachings for moving through this world mindfully. Explore some of the other chapters— amazing practices we can use wherever we are, no matter what we are doing. There are so many distractions trying to keep us from our mindfulness but this amazing book holds the key to help liberate us from anxiety, fear and anger and return to the present moment. 

For security, Zoom links are not posted on the website, but are available on request.

The weekly email announcements are now being sent out in smaller batches, in hopes that recipients will have less difficulty receiving them. 

For now the weekly announcements are also being posted on this website. 

To maintain an atmosphere of reverence and tranquility in the Zendo we’ll be observing 10 minutes of Noble Silence before each meeting.

Dana (generosity) is one of the virtues cultivated in Buddhism. It is customary to offer Dana in appreciation for the benefits received and to support the Sangha. Dana can be financial and it can also be in other forms such as helping with setup or breakdown of meetings and days of mindfulness. 

If you’d like to be removed from this email list just let me know. 

With metta,

🙏🏼