Fall Meditation Retreat Recap

We just completed our fall meditation retreat at Penuel Ridge, and our focus on impermanence couldn’t have been more evident in nature over the weekend. It went from sunny and warm, to overcast, to heavy rains and cold, then back to perfectly clear and crisp on Sunday morning. We even enjoyed an incredible rushing waterfall [...]

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Upcoming Event

Embodying the Four Immeasurables: A Biocognitive Approach to Spiritual Practice
Luminous Mind and the Institute of Biocognitive Psychology present a workshop with Dr. Mario Martinez in a cutting-edge fusion of Buddhist psychology and western mind-body science.
Friday, October 9th, 2009 , 7 pm to 9 pm
Belle Meade Executive Suites, 4525 Harding Road, Second floor conference [...]

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One Dharma Fall Meditation Retreat

This World of Shadows and Echoes: Working with Impermanence
October 29-November 1, 2009 (Halloween weekend) Penuel Ridge Retreat Center
Led by Lisa Ernst and Tom Neilson
I beg you to just see all existent phenomena as empty and to beware of taking as real all that is nonexistent.  Take care of yourself in this world of shadows and [...]

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Self, Meditating

By Robert Wright
This Friday I’m heading up to rural Massachusetts in hopes of getting born again — again.
Six years ago, in the same locale, I attended my first and only silent meditation retreat. It was just about the most amazing experience of my life. Certainly it seemed more dramatic than my very first born-again experience [...]

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Upcoming Event at 12South Dharma Center

Dharma Talk by Sanchi Reta Lawler
Coming Full Circle, a Contemplative Approach to Death and Dying
Wednesday, August 12, 7pm
Our culture offers very little effective guidance to the Dying Time, and we are often caught unaware, uneducated, and un-practiced as to the terrain of this most poignant Initiation.  As with all passages, whether it be [...]

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Reading for Monday July 6

The One Who is Not too Busy
By Norman Fischer
You keep a to-do list, but you can’t get through it by the end of the day, and you’re frustrated because you feel like you haven’t been able to get enough done. You find that things take longer than you thought they would. And when people ask [...]

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Monday Meditation, Retreat Recap

For those who have asked, yes, we will be meeting for meditation this Monday, Memorial Day. We will have an abbreviated sit and discussion, starting at 7 p.m. and completing at 8 p.m. Please join us if you can!
We completed our Spring Mediation Retreat at Penuel Ridge last Sunday morning and it turned out to [...]

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Practice Opportunities This Week

Our Yahoo newsgroup is not functioning properly and this post is to confirm this week’s practice opportunities. We will have our regular Monday night meditation tonight at 7, as well as our Thursday practice night starting at 6:30. Our Saturday study group meets on May 23 at 10 a.m. with a continuation of Pema Chodron’s [...]

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Nashville Meditation Retreat, May 14 – 17

Deepening Your Practice
One Dharma Nashville and Nashville Insight are partnering to offer a spring meditation retreat at Penuel Ridge Retreat Center.  The focus of this retreat is “deepening you practice” and is designed for those who wish to participate in the full 3 ½ days of the retreat, arriving between 6:30 and 7:30 the evening [...]

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Reminder

The One Dharma study-discussion group will meet tomorrow morning, February 28, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

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