The Spirit Room will hold a day-long meditation retreat called a nyinthun on Sunday, January 20th. The day begins at 9:30 am and continues through tea at 4:00. This meditation retreat will be held every other month.

A retreat involves removing oneself from the business of the usual day, relaxing and reflecting inwardly through meditation practice. Three styles of meditation will be taught and practiced: shamata, tonglen and walking meditation.

Lunch will be served with recipes from the “Greens Cookbook,” written by the founding chef of the San Francisco Zen Center.

Two video dharma talks entitled, A video, “Good Medicine, How to Turn Pain into Compassion with Tonglen Meditation” with Pema Chodron, will be shown during the day.

Meditation cushions will be provided and instruction will be given. Registration is required so that lunch can be planned. Please call 237-0230.

The cost of the day-long retreat is $25. Half-day without lunch $10. Half-day with lunch $15.

The Great Winter Crow Show at the Spirit Room, held in alternate years, is a non-
competitive festive exhibition free of entry fees. It is intended to be a mad combining of energies and visual ingredients. The theme is the crow, the blackbird, and all their marvelous and malevolent associations. The crows and ravens keep us company in the wintertime and continue to remind us with their squawks and pacing that they keep a close eye on our behaviors and movements.

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Victoria Nelson

A Postcool Everywoman

Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 pm
The Spirit Room
111 Broadway, Fargo

Mindfulness In Plain English

The Venerable Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

November 1 & 2, 2006
Fargo-Moorhead

Buddhist teacher, Bhante Henopola Gunaratana, respected teacher and author, will visit Fargo Moorhead in early November.  Born in a small village in Sri Lanka in 1927, Bhante received his basic education and was ordained.  Followed by many years in missionary service in India and Malaysia, Bhante came to the United States in 1968, earning a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D in Philosophy from the American University.  He has taught courses on Buddhism at the American University, Georgetown University, and the University of Maryland. Bhante is currently president of the Bhavana Society and abbot of a monastery in West Virginia.  He comes to Fargo Moorhead to visit friends and family and to share his teachings with our community.

Wednesday, November 1    7:00 to 8:30 P.M.  Spirit Room
             Meditation Instruction and talk about the practice of Insight
             Meditation  Reception to follow.  Seating suggested by 6:45. 
             A free will offering to the teachers is suggested.  

Thursday, November 2   9:00 to 10:30 A.M. Century Theater
                   Student Union, NDSU
                   Title of talk: “Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation:
                                          Myths, Realities and Benefits”
 
Thursday, November 2    3:30 to 5:30 P.M.  MSUM King Biology
                   Hall  Auditorium
                   Titles of Talks: “ Teachings of the Buddha”
                                               Venerable  Wimalasara                                              

                                              “Vipasanna Meditation”
                                                Venerable Gunaratana