No In-Person Sangha on Dec. 25, 2023

 

There will be no in-person sangha meeting on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2023. Still Water Sangha will meet as usual in person on New Years Day, Jan. 1, 2024. 

The zoom sangha will follow the same schedule-no meeting on Dec. 25, but meeting again on Jan. 1.

Happy Holidays to all!

Falling Back in Love with Mother Earth

 

This article is an interview with Thich Nhat Hạnh on how we can practice with, and relate to, insights arising from contemplating the Earth as our Mother. The article, which appeared in The Mindfulness Bell on Nov. 10 2023, is about an earlier interview. It contains guidance and understanding that may be helpful in this difficult time. 

Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address

The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address is an ancient message of peace and appreciation of Mother Earth and her inhabitants. The children learn that, according to Native American tradition, people everywhere are embraced as family. Our diversity, like all wonders of Nature, is truly a gift for which we are thankful. 

When one recites the Thanksgiving Address the Natural World is thanked, and in thanking each life-sustaining force, one becomes spiritually tied to each of the forces of the Natural and Spiritual World. The Thanksgiving Address teaches mutual respect, conservation, love, generosity, and the responsibility to understand that what is done to one part of the Web of Life, we do to ourselves. 

To read the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address, please visit the Wabanaki REACH website, from which the above paragraphs are taken.

Happy Thanksgiving!