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March 2002 Events

All Events at MEETINGBROOK are free, open & informal


Note:Consult “Today at Meetingbrook” for any changes in schedule.

Special Events:

Video Series in Rockland, A new Eckhart Tolle Video Series begins again Friday Feb 22 at 6:30pm in the Community Room of the Rockland Public Library. Open to all, free of charge, the series is being sponsored by The Rockland Public Library, the Center for Health and Healing, and Meetingbrook Bookshop & Bakery. Eckhart Tolle is author of The Power of Now. (FMI, 594-0310)  (Note: Because of these Friday videos, the time of Meetingbrook’s Friday Evening Open Poetry Readings will continue to be from 4:30-5:30pm)

Regular Events At the Hermitage
(64 Barnestown Road, Camden, just beyond Snow Bowl, white picket gate)

SATURDAY MORNING PRACTICE AT THE HERMITAGE
Weekly Lectio Divina
: Sat, 6:45am-8:00am
Monthly Retreat 7 hrs, 16Mar. 6am-1pm, (Buddhist focus this month)

SUNDAY EVENING PRACTICE AT THE HERMITAGE Each Sunday evening, 6:00pm-8:00pm. Practice Silent Sitting, Walking, Listening, Eating, Conversing, Chanting. .
(3,17,31Mar. Buddhist focus; 10, 24Mar: Christian focus)
All welcome. Bring nothing but willingness to practice with others.

 MORNING PRACTICE AT THE HERMITAGE. (6:05am-6:35am) Silent Sitting - 30 minutes, daily; then, (6:40am-7:00am) Chanting & Mindfulness Walking (MWF Christian; TTh Buddhist). Whatever your tradition or practice come sit together in silence. Simply enter, sit, and leave in silence.

Regular Events At the Bookshop/Bakery
(the Cape, 50 Bayview Street, across from Waterfront Restaurant)

TUESDAY EVENING BUDDHIST MEDITATION STUDIES
    (facilitated by Susan Smith-Hudson.)
Zen Practice/Studies, 5:30pm-6: 30pm Reading For a Future To Be Possible, by Thich Nhat Hanh,
Maybe Zen, Maybe Not, 6:45pm-7: 45pm Metta (Compassion) Practice/Study. Reading Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, by Sharon Salzberg

WEDNESDAY EVENING CONVERSATIONS: 5:30pm. -6:30pm.
     These conversations are free, open, informal.

Wed. 6Mar02- No Conversation

Wed. 13Mar02-Topic: Reading Tolle -- A circle reading/reflection from Practicing the Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle

Wed. 20Mar02- Topic: Reading "Still" - A poem by A.R.Ammons, in The Selected Poems 1951-1977: "I said I will find what is lowly / and put the roots of my identity / down there:"

Wed. 27Mar02-Topic: Reading Ramesh - A circle reading/reflection from A Net of Jewels, by Ramesh Balsekar

THURSDAY EVENING CHRISTIAN CONTEMPLATION STUDIES:
5:30pm-6:30pm.
We read aloud for 25 minutes, and then converse. Reading Putting On the Mind of Christ – The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality by Jim Marion. Each week we pick up wherever we left off. No need to read outside the hour.

FRIDAY EVENING OPEN POETRY READING,
Note change: 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Open reading gathering invites anyone to bring poetry to read, whether your own or others’. Invited under “poetry” are Poems, Letters & Pieces of Journals. We read around the circle at least twice, followed by a brief silence, then discussion. . In addition, we read from  David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea, Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity.

MUSIC REHEARSAL,
An
opportunity to rehearse individually in ease in a public place, anytime, call or just show up. Also, each Wednesday & Sunday afternoon 1-3:30pm, group playing, join in.

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Closed Mondays, Tuesdays in March, Open 5days by 11:30am to 7:00pm
Let us order your books and music! Thanks!

e-mail mono@meetingbrook.org Visit our web site www.meetingbrook.org

      Bookshop/Bakery, 50 Bayview Street, Camden, Maine 04843
      Dogen & Francis Hermitage
64 Barnestown Rd, Camden, Maine 04843

(1-800) 510 MEET or, (207) 236-6808 (Call for any announcements or events at shop or hermitage.)

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Meetingbrook Hermitage
64 Barnstown Rd.,
Camden, Maine USA 04843
Meetingbrook Bookshop & Bakery
50 Bayview St. (Cape on the harbor)
Camden, Maine USA 04843
207-236-6808
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