Dear Friends,
Please join us this coming Sunday from 5:00-6:30 p.m. at the Albuquerque Zen Center (AZC), 2300 Garfield Ave. SE. At each weekly meeting, you’re welcome to come early and join us for some herbal tea and socializing starting at 4:30 p.m.
Thay has said in his calligraphy “I am in love with Mother Earth”
Thay’s Mindfulness Trainings remind us to do our part in reducing unnecessary consumption and reversing the process of global warming.
Continue readingDear Friends,
Please join us on Nov 10 from 5-6:30 pm at the Albuquerque Zen Center to recite the wonderful 5 Mindfulness Trainings. These are our good friends on the path.
Two thousand six hundred years ago, the Buddha offerred certain guidelines to his lay students to help them live peaceful, wholesome and happy lives. They are the 5 Wonderful Mindfulness Trainings. With mindfulness as our foundation, we can become aware of what is going on in our bodies, our feelings, our minds, and in the world.
Continue readingPlease join us this Sunday at the Albuquerque Zen Center, 2300 Garfield SE. If you would enjoy visiting over a cup of tea, please come at 4:30. Sangha formally begins at 5 pm.
Our sangha is beginning a two part discussion of breathing. This coming Sunday we will consider how we can use our breath and how to practice breathing meditation. In December we will explore Buddha’s Anapanasati Sutra, the Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing.
When we breathe mindfully, our breath connects us to our bodies; it becomes a refuge and returns us to the present moment. As Thich Nhat Hanh writes,
“Breathing in, I know I am breathing in.
Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.
Breathing in, I calm my body.
Breathing out, I smile.
Dwelling in the present moment,
I know this is the only moment.”
In our daily lives when we find ourselves feeling tense, angry or defensive, we can practice taking three mindful breaths:
With the first breath, we pause.
With the second breath, we reconnect our mind
and body in the present.
With the third breath, we relax and smile.
Enjoy your breathing.
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After dharma sharing, we will have a brief organizational meeting to think about topics for our 2020 Sangha meetings as well as goals for our sangha. We also have an upcoming holiday potluck (December 8th) and a springtime Day of Mindfulness planned.
Hello, Rainbow Friends,
When we think about the climate crisis, we know that we as individuals need to do as much as possible to reduce our our carbon footprint, our consumption of energy from fossil fuel. “Your carbon footprint is the sum of all emissions of CO2 (carbon dioxide), which were induced by your activities in a given time frame.” from https://timeforchange.org/what-is-a-carbon-footprint-definition/ You can learn your own carbon footprint here: https://www.terrapass.com/carbon-footprint-calculator
Home energy use and transportation energy use are the major contributors to our carbon footprint. Today, I focus on HOME ENERGY USE:
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Please come join us for a peaceful and uplifting meeting!
The Rainbow Sangha has recently changed our meeting location to the Albuquerque Zen Center (AZC) located at 2300 Garfield Ave. SE in Albuquerque. It’s on the south side of Garfield, a couple of doors east of Yale Blvd. This is about four long blocks south of the University of New Mexico. We are renting meeting space from AZC, which is a community zen center. It has a wonderful, peaceful atmosphere.
We meet from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. on Sunday evenings in the Zendo. The Zendo has recently been renovated with fresh plaster and floor sealant. It will be available again for our meetings starting Nov. 3, 2019.
We are fortunate on Nov. 3 to have Bee leading us on the Sutra of the Full Awareness of Breathing.
Quiet Mind Sangha Albuquerque 