Dear friends,
With great joy we are announcing a visit from Blue Cliff Monastery monastics to Boston-area Sanghas on Sept 18-20.
During their visit, the monastics will spend a special evening of dinner (7pm at Life Alive Central Square) and practice (8:15pm at Cambridge Zen Center, Central Square) with Wake Up Boston on Wednesday, Sept 18! Please RSVP to join us: https://forms.gle/xoNoEipBhaVkGC7L8
Please see the message below for the full schedule of events from Sept 18-20, including a Duck Tour and MahaSangha potluck and practice session on Thursday! This is a wonderful opportunity to get to know monastics in the Plum Village tradition as well as Plum Village Sanghas in the Boston area. Anyone is welcome regardless of experience with Plum Village or local Boston Sanghas. We hope you can make time to come to any or all of the scheduled events, and bring your friends! 😊
With joy,
Wake Up Boston Care Taking Team 💖
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Bringing Good News and asking for your support
Dear Friends, thank you for your patience while we finished plans. We joyfully write to share plans to host our monastic friends. Please know that they rely on lay friends to support them. We’re asking for any donation you might make. In that way you will help pay for their lodging, meals, gas and transportation. We are grateful for each donation of any amount of dana. Venmo: peacefulgardensangha with note “Monastic Tour.”
The monastics will stay at the Cambridge Zen Center in Central Square.
Please join us on:
Wednesday September 18, dinner at 7 pm, followed by practice evening with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) and Wake Up (18-35 years) sanghas at the Zen Center. Your friends are welcome to attend. More details in RSVP: https://forms.gle/5REnUFGX5NH46sie7
Thursday morning, September 19, 10:00 Duck Tour. If you’d like to join us for a joyful tour of Boston, PLEASE RSVP to Andi Sabaroff asabarof@hsph.harvard.edu. If you’ve never done a duck tour, this is an excellent time to do so. They’re hugely entertaining and interesting.
Thursday evening at United Parish Church, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline. Parking on
side streets/C line to Coolidge Corner/ Bus 66. Open to all Boston area sangha
friends:
Pot Luck dinner: 6 pm. More details in RSVP Introductions and Dharma sharing: about 7:30. You are welcome to join us at any time. Closing 8:45
PLEASE RSVP here: https://forms.gle/maeSDA4VMRcAKzo76
Please plan to bring your own bowl, beverage and cutlery. Out of love for the environment and response to the climate crisis, please consider not using single use plastic water bottles so we can try for a zero-waste gathering.
Joyfully and with palms together, the Planning Team
Linda Corinne, Janey Gilman, Don Leka, Anh Nguyen, Kfoo, Frances Bigda-Peyton and Andi Sabaroff