Wild Rose Sangha

🕊️ Invitation to "Being Peace" from Hiroshima to the world (live event)

We extend a heartfelt invitation to friends from around the globe to join us in Hiroshima for a special session of peace.

As Plum Village Monastics visit Hiroshima for the first time, we unite in walking meditation and chanting, offering prayers for peace in our world.

Some sessions will be live-streamed on YouTube for those unable to attend in person, ensuring that everyone can participate in this collective journey of peace, both near and far.

We invite you to practice “Being Peace” together, now. Your presence, whether in person or virtually, is a powerful step towards building a more peaceful tomorrow.

- 16th March 2024 17:00 (Japan time) / 9:00 am (CET) / 12:00 am (PST)
- It will be live-streamed on youtube.com/.
- For more details, please visit plumvillage.org/live

Dear friends,

Do you want to make some changes in March? Do you want to start your day with a clear mind and happy mood?

The Wildrose Sangha’s morning online practice probably can help you to achieve this.

WHAT IT IS
Morning practice is 30 minutes long. The session begins with audio muted as we listen or sing in our own space the morning chant. We then move directly into a silent sit. Three bells bring us back to the room and to the active listening of a poem, prayer or short reading from the facilitator.

HOW TO JOIN
Enrol through our list-serve on our website to get the zoom link.
https://wildrosesangha.ca/practice

Let us know if you have any questions. Everyone is welcome to attend. Even your animal friends, like Oscar.

Dear Community Members,

We will have an outdoor walking meditation at the beautiful Confederation Park in NW Calgary from 12 noon to1:00ish pm MST, 24/2/2024 Saturday. Everyone is welcome to join (no registration is required). Please bring shoes and clothing appropriate to the weather.
**We will meet at the Rosemont Community Association parking lot, adjacent to the park. We'll all form a group so it shouldn't be too hard to spot the sangha.

We will also have an online practice of the 14 Mindfulness Trainings, specifically #5: Compassionate, Healthy Living at 9 am on Saturday, 24/2/2024. For this 1-hour session, we will sit in meditation, read the training, and reflect through writing/drawing and group sharing.

If you would like to join, please enrol through our list-serve on our website to get the zoom link.
https://wildrosesangha.ca/practice

Dear Respected Thay and Noble Sangha,

Please join us online tonight for a special Monday practice as we gather to commemorate the transition of Thich Nhat Hanh to an ancestor.

As you may have seen, the official ceremony to mark Thay, our dear teacher, as an ancestor in his root lineage and in the Plum Village sangha took place last night in Hue, Vietnam.

Tonight, through singing, meditation, readings and group sharings we will reflect on how we are a continuation of Thay—and many ancestors, blood, land, spiritual.

HOW TO JOIN
Join our list-serve through our following website
https://wildrosesangha.ca/practice

The Wildrose Sangha gathered yesterday to honour Thầy's Transition to Ancestor.

We are the lay disciples and children of Thầy!

We hear Thầy from his poem: A Teacher Looking for His Disciple. https://www.parallax.org/mindfulnessbell/article/poem-a-teacher-looking-for-his-disciple/

We want Thầy to hear us from the song too: The Sound of the Rising Tide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CSkKrNYb54

Thầy, we vow to live mindfully, so we are still meeting you every minute and every second in our mindful breathing and mindful walking as you shared in many Dharma Talks.

The Sound of the Rising Tide

Thich Nhat Hanh mentioned in the New York Times

The New York Times includes Thay among the notable artists who died in 2022.

Thich Nhat Hanh
Monk and author, born 1926
“Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.”

The full article is available by subscription at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/arts/artists-who-died-2022.html

Blessings to Sister Chan Khong

Your Birthday is a Continuation Day | Thich Nhat Hanh, 2014 06 13, New Hamlet, Plum Village Are you sure you were born on your birthday? Are you sure you are not yet dying? Thich Nhat Hanh explains his insights into Buddhist teachings on being born ...

"People live as if they are dead. But if they know how to breathe mindfully and walk mindfully, they are resurrected. Resurrection is a practice. If Jesus Christ could do it, then we human beings like him can also do it. Jesus is the son of God and also the son of men and a child of the Earth. We are also the sons and daughters of men and children of God. We can always come back to life by practicing awakening, mindfulness.

From a state of forgetfulness you pass into a state of mindfulness in just a few seconds by making a mindful step or taking one mindful in-breath. Then the miracle of resurrection happens. Resurrection is not a belief or a dogma; it is a practice. Learning how to breathe mindfully, walk mindfully, eat mindfully, drive mindfully; we become awakened people, alive people, and we have the chance to live deeply every moment that is given us in our daily life. We do not live as dead people anymore."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Read more here: https://plumvillage.org/articles/resurrection-as-a-practice/

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Oneness

The disciples of Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) often create songs out of his beautiful poetry. Here is a new song based on Thay's poem Oneness, sung by Sister Chanh Niem, with guitar by Sister Luc Nghiem and cello by Brother Phap Linh. A touching moment during Thay's Memorial Week.

Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mINKCPWpgds&t=2445s

Dear Beloved friends, a day has come and gone now since learning the news about the passing of Thich Nhat Hanh, beloved spiritual teacher to many. Practitioners from all over the world are turning their love and attention to remember how his teachings touched our hearts. He changed the world by being lovingly present, wholeheartedly, and inclusively. If his teachings watered seeds of joy, peace and happiness in you, please take a moment to breathe, recollect them and turn towards your next steps in peace. The Wild Rose Sangha, will be offering meditation practice and remembrances of his life on Monday at 7pm at our usual zoom meeting link. Please message us if you need that link. Peace and Blessings to all.

Dear Friends, Take refuge in friends, community and practice as we take time to contemplate our beloved teacher. There are services available on-line through the monasteries. As well, we can create practices and ceremonies of our own at home. Please join us on Monday at 7pm (Mountain)- wildrosesangha.ca Breathe and heal. Blessings and bows https://plumvillage.org/memorial/
https://plumvillage.org/memorial-practice-resources/

Breathe, my dear friends

The International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism announces that our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away peacefully at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, on 22nd January, 2022, at the age of 95. We invite our global spiritual family to take a few moments to be still, to come back to our mindful breathing, as we together hold Thay in our hearts in peace and loving gratitude for all he has offered the world.

More official news will be coming shortly.

Please sign up for email updates here: https://bit.ly/3fJx7pd

“This Christmas, if you buy and bring home a Christmas tree to decorate, remember that your ‘true home’ is not found outside yourself, but it is right in your own heart. We do not need to bring home anything for us to feel fulfilled. We have everything we need right in our heart. We do not need to practice for many years or to travel far to arrive at our true home. If we know how to generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration, then with each breath, with each step, we arrive at our true home. Our true home is not a place far removed from us in space and time. It is not something that we can buy. Our true home is present right in the here and now; if only we know how to return and to be truly present to it.

The other day, Thay was reflecting on what message to send to his friends and students abroad so that they can practice, so that they can be like Jesus or be like the Buddha. Thay then wrote this calligraphy: ‘There is no way home, Home is the way.’

The means and the ends are not two separate things. There is no way to return to our home. Our home is the way. Once we take a step on that path home, we are home right in that moment. This is true to the practice of Plum Village. There is no way to happiness, Happiness is the way. Recently, Thay also shared in his Dharma talk that, ‘There is no way to nirvana, Nirvana is the way.’ Every breath and every step has the capacity to bring us right back to our true home, right in the here and now. This is the fundamental practice of Plum Village. This is the message that Thay wants to send to his friends and students during this Christmas season. If you want to send a holiday greeting to your friends and loved ones, you can also send this message. If you can practice it truly, then sending it will have a deep meaning; but if you do not practice it, then the message will have little substance.

Let us all enjoy our practice of coming home this holiday season. Let us truly be at home within, and so become a home for our loved ones and all our friends.”

Thich Nhat Hanh, Christmas 2012

Read the full message: https://www.mindfulnessbell.org/archive/2012/12/home-is-the-way-a-christmas-message-from-thay

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A gatha when you brush your teeth in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

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Gathas are short verses that we can recite during daily activities to help us return to the present moment and dwell in mindfulness. Using a gatha doesn’t require any special knowledge or religious practice. Some people like to memorize a favorite verse that they enjoy coming back to again and again. Others like to write the verse down in a place they are likely to see it often. Further, those who are inspired to do so are invited to create their own gathas to support their practice in specific situations.

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Fall Meditation Retreat

Save the Date: November 12th-14th 2021

The Wild Rose Sangha will be holding our annual Fall Meditation Retreat online November 12th-14th 2021. All are welcome to join.
https://wildrosesangha.ca/spacious-as-the-clear-blue-sky/

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(We can do this anywhere at any time throughout our day.)

On being at peace...
- Thich Nhat Hanh

On a lasting relationship…
― Thich Nhat Hanh wrote in "How to Love"