Community of Mindfulness
N.Y. Metro

Inspired by the Teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh

For current information and events please go to. www.communityofmindfulnessnewyorkmetro.blogspot.com
and also enjoy the teachings and links on this site.

Welcome CMNY
Current Information and Events
Calendar and Practice Groups
TNH in Vietnam
Mindfulness Trainings and Practices
TNH Practice Centers
Poems
Email Network
Links

"Breathing In I calm
Breathing Out I smile
Dwelling in the present moment
I know it is a wonderful moment"

"We must be aware of the real problems of the world.
Then, with mindfulness, we will know what to do and what not to do."
Thich Nhat Hanh

Summer Retreats at Plum Village
One of the most wonderful ways to deepen one's mindfulness practice is to attend a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh at Plum Village in southwestern France. Hearing Thay speak anywhere is nice, but the resonance is especially powerful at Plum Village, where the physical surroundings and each aspect of the daily program have been tuned over the past 25 years to nourish mindfulness.
Click here for info.

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Welcome to the Community
of
Mindfulness/NY Metro

The Community of Mindfulness/NY Metro [CMNY] is inspired by the teachings and practice of Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh. The CMNY is part of a network of national and international sanghas [communities]: a “fourfold community” of laywomen and laymen, nuns and monks. Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic training and retreat centers are Plum Village, France, The Green Mountain Dharma Center/Maple Forest Monastery, Vermont and the Deer Park Dharma Center, Escondido, California.

To practice in community is a great gift. As a community of mindfulness we support each other in cultivating mindfulness and the capacity to embody and offer love in our daily lives: for ourselves, our families, friends and co-workers, and for the well-being of our society and our planet. Our practice includes weekly and biweekly meditation groups, days of mindfulness and weekend retreats, affinity groups for people with common interests, study groups, community sings, socially engaged practice and the practice of organizing and making decisions in a mindful and harmonious way. All of our activities and gatherings are grounded in the practices of conscious breathing and silent sitting and walking meditation. Beginners are welcome.

We have incorporated as a religious non-profit corporation in the State of New York, and are pursuing 501c-3 status. We have a Board of Directors. Our community planning meetings are the primary way of making important decisions and discussing community issues. We currently are committed to the practice of consensus in our decision-making processes.

CMNY co-founder Lyn Fine is a Dharma Teacher, or Dharmacarya, ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh in 1994 and has offered spiritual guidance to individuals and to the community. She is empowered to transmit the Five Wonderful Mindfulness Trainings and the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings of the Order of Interbeing in a formal ceremony. [The Mindfulness Trainings are Thich Nhat Hanh’s contemporary version of the original Mindfulness Trainings offered by the Buddha, and are guidelines for living.] In August/2000 Lyn completed a move to Berkeley. She remains a living presence in our sangha and we anticipate that she will continue to return several times a year. In January 2002, Patricia Hunt-Perry, of Newburgh, NY, was ordained as a Dharma Teacher.

CMNY affinity groups have included the Being with Children Group, Touching Our Root Traditions, Being With Illness and Healing, and Socially Engaged Practice. Individuals have offered mindfulness practice with women and staff of an alternative to incarceration program, at a program for people suffering from mental illness, at centers for homeless people, at workplaces, schools, at the Open Center, at Columbia University and through the arts.

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Zen master, poet, peace activist, and the author of many books.Thich Nhat Hanh "embodies the art of mindful living".He was born in Vietnam in 1926, and left home as a teen of 16 to become a Zen monk. He founded the School of Youth for Social Services, Van Hanh Buddhist University and the Tiep Hien Order (Order of Interbeing), in Vietnam. He has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University and the Sorbonne, was Chair of the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks, and was nominated by Martin Luther King Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was exiled from Vietnam in 1966 and lives in a monastic community in southwestern France called Plum Village, where he teaches, writes, gardens, and works to help refugees worldwide.

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Waking up this morning, I smile
Twenty-four brand new hours are before me,
I vow to live fully in each moment
and to look at all being with eyes of compassion.

Invite the Mindfulness Bell to Sound

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The Mindfulness Bell
Is a journal of the art of mindful living. To be mindful means to dwell deeply in the present moment, to be aware of what is going on within and around us. Practicing mindfulness cultivates understanding, love, compassion, and joy. This practice helps us to take care of and transform suffering in our lives and in our society.
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Please Call Me By My True Names
A Poem By Thich Nhat Hanh

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.

Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
in order to fear and to hope,
the rhythm of my heart is the birth and
death of all that are alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the
surface of the river,
and I am the bird which, when spring comes,
arrives in time to eat the mayfly.

I am the frog swimming happily in the
clear water of a pond,
and I am also the grass-snake who,
approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly
weapons to Uganda.

For a written commentary about this poem
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Click Here

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LINKS
To learn more about the teachings and practice of
Thich Nhat Hanh
and
The Community of Mindful Living.
Click On To These LINKS

www.iamhome.org
www.plumvillage.org
www.greenmountaincenter.org
www.deerparkmonastery.org
www.buddingflower.org
View Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace Video
Being Peace Audio meditations
www.Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Five Mindfulness Trainings
Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings
Daily Mindfulness Practice
Sitting Meditation
Walking Meditation
Froglessness
The Heart of the Prajnaparamita
The Three Refuges
Gathas
Dharma Talk and Songs By Betsy Rose
Diversity Precepts,
Peace Haggadah
Thanksgiving Readings From Lyn Fine
Meditations for Hanukkah
Watering Our Good Seeds
San Francisco Bay Area Aspirant Website

If you have any questions or coments about this website you may email us at
sue@mindfulnessnyc.org

The day is now ended. Our lives are now shorter. Now we look carefully. What have we done? Noble Sangha, with all our heart, let us be diligent, engaging in the practice. Let us live deeply, free from our afflictions, aware of impermanence so that life does not drift away without meaning.

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