tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10617796708711919092024-03-05T02:56:25.103-05:00Events at Meetingbrookmeetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-22682258299047299992023-11-11T07:54:00.005-05:002023-11-11T14:16:13.359-05:00the event is one’s own life in concert with one-another<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It’s only a matter of time</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkiatKUM5GlgMRYi9S4PWsAdn3_b32cgKMNILOfb5c0RWLdGNp8TwMtgQ1XqC3XM-5K7wM5c1msK28VhQvagid3kT3htSJ5VMcMdWS8t4J5dZNCFX7PnFJiojykI7APqmB70k6ztcy_3xgZVCoNaGluBtAkOey7UpsLdIbAT9EZO6Kdh-ycaBjbE9iljod/s4032/IMG_0280.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkiatKUM5GlgMRYi9S4PWsAdn3_b32cgKMNILOfb5c0RWLdGNp8TwMtgQ1XqC3XM-5K7wM5c1msK28VhQvagid3kT3htSJ5VMcMdWS8t4J5dZNCFX7PnFJiojykI7APqmB70k6ztcy_3xgZVCoNaGluBtAkOey7UpsLdIbAT9EZO6Kdh-ycaBjbE9iljod/s320/IMG_0280.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>We will grasp<p></p><p>What is being</p><p>Offered <br /></p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-54896023013828499062022-10-08T07:16:00.002-04:002022-10-08T07:20:04.100-04:00notice: no artifice, nothing to see here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtI5-7LE6RFI-nD5m8yh50InarLcLI5OWZ3AOXsDoTwGVsTXtnmEngWHTUK0IDwzIZGoMIGl8U8PQ9JvFo5RH8ZiTnYARmYUFqkIjMhxFfPcd5dQXNzWeOnLUeA26liiEsdwVtuwYnFo8K6Fy8FU9a7HffHZbkbgYzZ0WTLmH-IxuZu27T3soxK8ttbg/s3264/61462354-49A0-4BC4-800F-794EFCFCECFC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtI5-7LE6RFI-nD5m8yh50InarLcLI5OWZ3AOXsDoTwGVsTXtnmEngWHTUK0IDwzIZGoMIGl8U8PQ9JvFo5RH8ZiTnYARmYUFqkIjMhxFfPcd5dQXNzWeOnLUeA26liiEsdwVtuwYnFo8K6Fy8FU9a7HffHZbkbgYzZ0WTLmH-IxuZu27T3soxK8ttbg/s320/61462354-49A0-4BC4-800F-794EFCFCECFC.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.399999618530273px;">meetingbrook has gone</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-760355857641809993" itemprop="description articleBody" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 500px;"><p>idiorhythmic — each is</p><p>on their own unique</p><p>schedule — there is no practice</p><p>but haphazard quiet joy</p></div>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-72697951844567651272022-08-30T15:54:00.003-04:002022-08-30T16:24:21.865-04:00as summer packs to leave, late august 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There are no events</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">only one continuous </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">unveiling instant</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUoBiiX3KYZ9oSpTMuQENl-zyhx6oI7b88Kw1u_I4ULp47w4-qiIZtr5hkU9LGKuyYHsBnaIGJQY4l5kOBDbBZ-8t9btDNaUh0FEiDipb2B8IMx4Nv--mRcvnegGp8W3ElsVrarDL29408EMcQnuCF1xfoUqQATsOsdv2Jhend5m11E3tfEQ/s1440/FC90B5B3-D6EB-4936-A35F-F40D663D2AC2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1440" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUoBiiX3KYZ9oSpTMuQENl-zyhx6oI7b88Kw1u_I4ULp47w4-qiIZtr5hkU9LGKuyYHsBnaIGJQY4l5kOBDbBZ-8t9btDNaUh0FEiDipb2B8IMx4Nv--mRcvnegGp8W3ElsVrarDL29408EMcQnuCF1xfoUqQATsOsdv2Jhend5m11E3tfEQ/s320/FC90B5B3-D6EB-4936-A35F-F40D663D2AC2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Right there, where you are</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">bow reverently, stay home</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">your own holy place</div>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-66668278359810085142022-03-20T08:06:00.001-04:002022-03-20T08:06:15.390-04:00Events spring 2022<p> Spring arrives in three and a half hours. It will ask what we are doing.</p><p>Our gate, though broken, reaches across driveway with green mesh fence and red reflectors with looping dock line steadying ragtag cloister for dog from Barnestown cars and trucks.</p><p>Birds at feeder know dregs of fifty pound bag will give until no more.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgO-lsmwFGkTuyHzsHc-2YtBq_YhEzUz-KqQvk__WDiZvwL2Ayi74PfRcEA07A0vJGplNBEfcEPEpuHUoxGlmzVEr8hJTEYyGktwHhUSIARwjW0jpAA6oMBJ5b2Ub6OnpRJBbvZF0KfZmtNJlrVawv30hW_MXS_NJyp-npMLfWPByfab3OwqH_wGVc4Bw=s3264" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgO-lsmwFGkTuyHzsHc-2YtBq_YhEzUz-KqQvk__WDiZvwL2Ayi74PfRcEA07A0vJGplNBEfcEPEpuHUoxGlmzVEr8hJTEYyGktwHhUSIARwjW0jpAA6oMBJ5b2Ub6OnpRJBbvZF0KfZmtNJlrVawv30hW_MXS_NJyp-npMLfWPByfab3OwqH_wGVc4Bw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>We zoom on Tuesday evening, Friday evening, and Sunday evening. Drop an email if you’d like the link.<p></p><p>The hermitage remains cloistered. </p><p>My your events provide quiet joy and inner peace!</p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-24285511305213797162022-01-01T08:11:00.006-05:002022-01-01T08:30:28.362-05:00Winter 2022: and so it is new year’s<p> We continue zoom practice conversations on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday evenings.</p><p>Coffee or tea in the morning, well-water at night.</p><p>Moments of meditation, zazen, contemplative sauntering, soul-friend conversation.</p><p>If you’d like, try it at home.</p><p>Like the final line of an old poem on cedar shake:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><i>I am</i></p><p><i>Waiting for</i></p><p><i>You</i></p><p><i>To answer</i></p><p><i>Me</i></p></blockquote><p> And so, it is New Year’s Day.</p><p>Let us know, by whispers in the still-dark of intimate dawns, the events of your life, the thinks in your many lives that draw you closer to yourself, that call to oneself, saying “I am here!”</p><p></p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-40496093586007614812020-12-30T15:10:00.005-05:002020-12-30T15:30:19.080-05:00Winter, 2021. meetingbrook conversation/practice times<p><span style="font-family: times;">It's been a while. We've been holding zoom meetingbrook conversation/practice times since May 2020. That fact never made it to this Events page.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Should anyone be interested in attending, please email and we'll send ID# and password.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">meetingbrook@me.com</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">... ... ...</span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Greetings,</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Here is updated invitation to meetingbrook conversation/practice from 1jan21 to spring equinox 21mar21</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Please note: </span></p>
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<li style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>There is only one meeting ID and password for all occurrences — Sun. Tue. Fri.</span></li>
<li style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>The beginning time says 6:00pm, but that only applies to Fridays. Sunday practice begins at 7:00pm, open private sitting begins at 6:30pm. Tuesdays remain beginning at 7:00pm.</span></li>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Do feel free to share this invitation.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Best,</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> Bill</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">... ... ...</span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Hi there, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">William Halpin is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Topic: meetingbrook conversation/practice </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Time: Jan 1, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Every week on Sun, Tue, Fri, until Mar 21, 2021, 35 occurrence(s)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 1, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 3, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 5, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 8, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 10, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 12, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 15, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 17, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 19, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 22, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 24, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 26, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 29, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Jan 31, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 2, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 5, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 7, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 9, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 12, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 14, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 16, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 19, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 21, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 23, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 26, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Feb 28, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Mar 2, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Mar 5, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Mar 7, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Mar 9, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Mar 12, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Mar 14, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Mar 16, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Mar 19, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Mar 21, 2021 06:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> ... ... ...</span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">Schedule:</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">1. Sunday Evening Practice: One hour, 7:00pm—8:00pm (plus prior optional 30 min private silence, during which Zoom will be open, mute.)</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Format: (approximate times)</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">7:00pm — 7:10pm, join with 10 minutes silence</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">7:10pm — 7:25pm, reading(s) followed by brief silence</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">7:25pm — 7:50pm, open reflections</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">7:50pm — 8:00pm, brief silence, final circle </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">8:00pm — ending bell</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">2. Tuesday Evening Meetingbrook Conversation: One hour. 7pm—8pm </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Format: (approximate times)</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">7:00pm — 7:05pm, join with 5 minutes silence</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">7:05pm — 7:20pm, reading(s) followed by brief silence</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">7:20pm — 7:50pm, open conversation</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">7:50pm — 8:00pm, brief silence, final circle </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">8:00pm — ending bell</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">3. Friday Evening Meetingbrook Conversation: Two hours. 6pm—8pm</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Format: Open conversation, as usual, free-form.</span></p>
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<ul style="list-style-type: disc;">
<li style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span> 6:00pm, begin</span></li>
<li style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span> 8:00pm, end</span></li>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">We continue to hold all our brothers and sisters in heart and mind, and pray for your well-being and health as this time unfolds.</span></p></div>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-65586153910153610112020-09-27T11:42:00.001-04:002020-09-27T11:42:09.737-04:00a workshop to ponder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4cLo68s4mYUBnRB50YSW0gXmuA_gVaL_lbwFdSXTY-B5FrQyJuoxtdVphU8-lgSvZdRI2dCOnRLy8hGEGK8jHfIAD6A9lZnrKXA7nHGBycsJTpGYLOiTBxaX6itlQmN1Tq_txMfxCSMb2/s792/B2EDD6CA-5580-44F2-91DB-E13D67C40F42.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="612" height="675" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4cLo68s4mYUBnRB50YSW0gXmuA_gVaL_lbwFdSXTY-B5FrQyJuoxtdVphU8-lgSvZdRI2dCOnRLy8hGEGK8jHfIAD6A9lZnrKXA7nHGBycsJTpGYLOiTBxaX6itlQmN1Tq_txMfxCSMb2/w464-h675/B2EDD6CA-5580-44F2-91DB-E13D67C40F42.jpeg" width="464" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-60950502747423245442020-05-28T11:42:00.002-04:002020-12-30T15:11:36.546-05:00see hermitage update for<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
additional conversations in this time of coved-19.</div>
meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-91987288388396329612020-03-15T14:05:00.001-04:002020-03-15T14:05:37.843-04:00Notice: We are suspending public practice until it is resumed.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Hello friends,</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">(As an eremite, this decision has dancing feet. Whereas Saskia, more cenobitic, is less thrilled. She'll probably bake five deserts to exercise her disappointment.) </span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">May you be happy, safe, free, and rest easy in your (true) home!</span></div>
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meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-37546860759731589712019-10-27T16:16:00.001-04:002019-10-27T16:16:31.042-04:00no Sunday evening practice tonight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />Sit well.<br /><br />Pray for one another.<br /><br />Good health!</div>
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No practice gatherings will be held this weekend.</div>
meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-71833457895107805492019-02-11T07:10:00.003-05:002019-02-11T07:23:00.213-05:00you are silent; no one hears you<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If you want to learn,<br />
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read, listen.<br />
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think.<br />
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Simplicity.<br />
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All is well.</div>
meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-35592424112347148342019-02-10T12:54:00.001-05:002019-02-10T12:54:06.947-05:00Note: No Sunday Evening Practice on 10feb19 & 17feb19<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Also, we will be away next weekend. Hence no practice the 17th.</div>
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<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">All are welcome. All events at meetingbrook are free, open, and informal. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Each conversation, each practice stands by itself. You’ve missed nothing. Just stop by and join the sitting practice or the conversation. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Each silent sitting is just that, nothing more. </span>Each event and conversation begins with a space of silence. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Residents of meetingbrook include a Border Collie (Rokpa) and two cats (Panta and Chitta).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The hermitage seems to be becoming more eremitic. [</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">From </span><span class="etyl" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin" style="background-image: none; color: #663366; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Late Latin">Late Latin</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><i class="Latn mention" lang="la" style="color: #222222;" xml:lang="la"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eremus#Latin" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="eremus">erēmus</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><span class="etyl" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" style="background-image: none; color: #663366; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span class="polytonic mention" lang="grc" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" xml:lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%90%CF%81%E1%BF%86%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ἐρῆμος">ἐρῆμος</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(</span><span class="mention-tr tr Latn" lang="grc-Latn" style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;" xml:lang="grc-Latn">erêmos</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">/</span><a class="new" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E1%BC%94%CF%81%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="ἔρημος (page does not exist)">ἔρημος</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (lonely, solitary, desert, waste).]</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">individual learning understanding conversation together</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(<i>ilu coto</i> translates as: the illusion of barrier, opening beyond preserve/reserve)</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We volunteer: at Maine State Prison (Buddhist Group and Meetingbrook Conversations); at Quarry Hill Assisted Living (poetry group); at Pen Bay Medical Center (patient visiting); at Coastal Family Hospice (visits & vigils); at Sussman House (end of life transitioning). It is with gratefulness, humility, and quiet joy we experience the invitation to participate in the lives and transitions in these places</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Meetingbrook Hermitage is a place of collation and recollection between </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We practice, with simplicity, between traditions. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As Buddhists we are in the tradition of Dogen Zenji. As Christians we are in the tradition of Francis of Assisi. The Dalai Lama and Thomas Merton inspire us.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We cultivate our promises of <i>contemplation, conversation, and correspondence</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is attempted in the spirit of deep listening and loving speech. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Stop by any time to visit meditation cabin or bookshed.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The yurt is used for solitary retreats. Inquire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hiking trails of both mountains abound.</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All are welcome. All events at meetingbrook are free, open, and informal. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each conversation, each practice stands by itself. You’ve missed nothing. Just stop by and join the sitting practice or the conversation. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Each silent sitting is just that, nothing more. </span>Each event and conversation begins with a space of silence. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Residents of meetingbrook include a Border Collie (Rokpa) and two cats (Panta and Chitta).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The hermitage seems to be becoming more eremitic. [</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">From </span><span class="etyl" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #663366; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Late Latin">Late Latin</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><i class="Latn mention" lang="la" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" xml:lang="la"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eremus#Latin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="eremus">erēmus</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, </span><span class="etyl" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #663366; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="polytonic mention" lang="grc" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" xml:lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%90%CF%81%E1%BF%86%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ἐρῆμος">ἐρῆμος</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(</span><span class="mention-tr tr Latn" lang="grc-Latn" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;" xml:lang="grc-Latn">erêmos</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">/</span><a class="new" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E1%BC%94%CF%81%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; color: #a55858; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="ἔρημος (page does not exist)">ἔρημος</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (lonely, solitary, desert, waste).]</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">individual learning understanding conversation together</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<i>ilu coto</i> translates as: the illusion of barrier, opening beyond preserve/reserve)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">1x1 conversation, contemplative, meditative, corresponding <i> </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>ilu coto </i>is the invitation to converse with one another about things that open us to what is present, and what is beyond our ordinary awareness. </span></blockquote>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Quarry Hill</span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Extended Care Facility): </span><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">Poetry, Tea, and Thee,</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (1st and 3rd Fridays, 3pm-4pm) open to all visitor poetry lovers. Bring one of your own, or from a book.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Saturday Morning Meditation Practice</i>, 7:30am--8:45am, Buddhist/Meditative Focus. Format: 30min silent sitting, chant, reading, circle reflection, <i>metta</i>, (Coffee, tea, toast after available).</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Sunday Morning Collation, </i> 9:00am - 10:00am. An Interreligious Centering Prayer/Lectio Divina (focusing on <i>contemplation, conversation, correspondence</i>), Format: A silent period (15mins), followed by reading from particular scriptures of two traditions, then reflective conversation, round-table.</span></li>
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<li>We volunteer: at Maine State Prison (Buddhist Group and Meetingbrook Conversations); at Quarry Hill Assisted Living (poetry group); at Pen Bay Medical Center (patient visiting); at Coastal Family Hospice (vigils); at Sussman House (end of life transitioning). It is with gratefulness, humility, and quiet joy we experience the invitation to participate in the lives and transitions in these places</li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meetingbrook Hermitage is a place of collation and recollection between </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We practice, with simplicity, between traditions. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As Buddhists we are in the tradition of Dogen Zenji. As Christians we are in the tradition of Francis of Assisi. The Dalai Lama and Thomas Merton inspire us.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We cultivate our promises of <i>contemplation, conversation, and correspondence</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is attempted in the spirit of deep listening and loving speech. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stop by any time to visit meditation cabin or bookshed.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The yurt is used for solitary retreats. Inquire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hiking trails of both mountains abound.</span><br />
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There will be no formal practice at the hermitage this weekend.<br />
The meditation cabin remains available for your use.<br />
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving from Cape Breton!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Prelude:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Despite what the website says, we no longer have the intown bookshop/bakery. (It ran for 13 years at the harbor and folded back into hermitage at Ragged and Bald Mountains in 2009). We haven’t figured out how to get into that original site to change the text. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ILU COTO, (i.e Individual Learning Understanding Conversation Together) are soul-friend conversations held both at the hermitage and at Maine State Prison. Upon request, an hour’s length, conversing about anything the individual wishes to converse about.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">See website, Today at Meetingbrook, </span><a href="http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/</a><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"> for any change/elaboration of schedule </span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Prologue, </b>A word about Meetingbrook Hermitage Events:</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All are welcome. All events at meetingbrook are free, open, and informal. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each conversation, each practice stands by itself. You’ve missed nothing. Just stop by and join the sitting practice or the conversation. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Each silent sitting is just that, nothing more. </span>Each event and conversation begins with a space of silence. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Residents of meetingbrook include a Border Collie (Rokpa) and two cats (Panta and Chitta). </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>0. Anytime: </b></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12px;">ILU COTO</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">individual learning understanding conversation together</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<i>ilu coto</i> translates as: the illusion of barrier, opening beyond preserve)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">1x1 conversation, contemplative & meditative, corresponding </span></blockquote>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maine State Prison: (8am- 2:30pm) (only open to prison volunteers)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Buddhist Meditation Group; </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Meetingbrook Conversation; </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>ILU COTO </i>(individual learning understanding, conversations together) sessions for individuals from general prison population.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Quarry Hill<b> </b>(Extended Care Facility): <i>Poetry, Tea, and Thee,</i> (1st and 3rd Fridays, 3pm-4pm) open to all visitor poetry lovers. Bring one of your own, or from a book.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Saturday Morning Meditation Practice</i>, 7:30am--8:45am, Buddhist/Meditative Focus. Format: 30min silent sitting, chant, reading, circle reflection, <i>metta</i>, (Coffee, tea, toast after available).</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Sunday Morning Collation, </i> 9:00am - 10:00am. An Interreligious Centering Prayer/Lectio Divina (focusing on <i>contemplation, conversation, correspondence</i>), Format: A silent period (15mins), followed by reading from particular scriptures of two traditions, then reflective conversation, round-table.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: -72px;"><i>Sunday Evening Practice,</i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-indent: -72px;"> (Practicing Between Contemplative/Meditative Traditions), 6:00pm--8:00pm. Format: 40min silent sitting; 5min mindful walking; Heart Sutra chant; 15min table reading; 10min silent eating; 15min open conversation; final circle</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; text-indent: -72px;">.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meetingbrook Hermitage is a place of collation and recollection between </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ragged and Bald Mountains. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We practice, with simplicity, between traditions. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As Buddhists we are in the tradition of Dogen Zenji. As Christians we are in the tradition of Francis of Assisi. The Dalai Lama and Thomas Merton inspire us.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We cultivate our promises of <i>contemplation, conversation, and correspondence</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is attempted in the spirit of deep listening and loving speech. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stop by any time to visit meditation cabin or bookshed.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The yurt is used for solitary retreats. Inquire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hiking trails of both mountains abound.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="Normal"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Meetingbrook </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Dogen & Francis</span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Hermitage</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:Meetingbrook" datetime="2004-01-08T21:40">,</del></span> is a <i>Schola Gratiae et Contemplationis</i>, i.e., a School of Gratefulness and Contemplation. Begun in 1994, it was formed as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization in 1998 for the purpose of serving as a place of collation and recollection for the side-by-side practice and study of Buddhist Zen Meditation, Christian Contemplative Prayer, and the Engaged Service flowing from each.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Central to Meetingbrook is its <i>Schola </i>dedicated to <i>Interreligious Dialogue—Unveiling and Practicing Peace Between Ways.</i> Donations are always gratefully accepted for the continuance and deepening of Meetingbrook. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are grateful for any efforts that encourage<br />an ongoing creation rooted in prayer, meditation, study, and service. </span></div>
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meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-52987440609891686562016-07-07T17:39:00.001-04:002016-07-12T08:26:16.069-04:00Summer 2016, Hermitage Ongoing Events<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Despite what the website says, we no longer have the intown bookshop/bakery. (It ran for 13 years at the harbor and folded back into hermitage at Ragged and Bald Mountains in 2009). We haven’t figured out how to get into that original site to change the text. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ILU COTO, (i.e Individual Learning Understanding Conversation Together) are soul-friend conversations held both at the hermitage and at Maine State Prison. Upon request, an hour’s length, conversing about anything the individual wishes to converse about.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">See website, Today at Meetingbrook, </span><a href="http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/</a><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"> for any change/elaboration of schedule </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All are welcome. All events at meetingbrook are free, open, and informal. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each conversation, each practice stands by itself. You’ve missed nothing. Just stop by and join the sitting practice or the conversation. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Each silent sitting is just that, nothing more. </span>Each event and conversation begins with a space of silence. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Residents of meetingbrook include a Border Collie (Rokpa) and two cats (Panta and Chitta). </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">individual learning understanding conversation together</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maine State Prison: (8am- 2:30pm) (only open to prison volunteers)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Buddhist Meditation Group; </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Meetingbrook Conversation; </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Special Management Unit </i>(UMA/URock college course); for a resident of segregation unit;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>ILU COTO </i>(individual learning understanding, conversations together) sessions for individuals from general prison population.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Quarry Hill<b> </b>(Extended Care Facility): <i>Poetry, Tea, and Thee,</i> (1st and 3rd Fridays, 3pm-4pm) open to all visitor poetry lovers. Bring one of your own, or from a book.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Saturday Morning Meditation Practice</i>, 7:30am--8:45am, Buddhist/Meditative Focus. Format: 30min silent sitting, chant, reading, circle reflection, <i>metta</i>, (Coffee, tea, toast after available).</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> 3. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b> Sunday</b></span><b>:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Sunday Morning Collation, </i> 9:00am - 10:00am. An Interreligious Centering Prayer/Lectio Divina (focusing on <i>contemplation, conversation, correspondence</i>), Format: A silent period (15mins), followed by reading from particular scriptures of two traditions, then reflective conversation, round-table.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meetingbrook Hermitage is a place of collation and recollection between </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We practice, with simplicity, between traditions. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We cultivate our promises of <i>contemplation, conversation, and correspondence</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is attempted in the spirit of deep listening and loving speech. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stop by any time to visit meditation cabin or bookshed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hiking trails of both mountains abound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> Prelude:</b></span><br>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Despite what the website says, we no longer have the intown bookshop/bakery. (It ran for 13 years at the harbor and folded back into hermitage at Ragged and Bald Mountains in 2009). We haven’t figured out how to get into that original site to change the text. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">All winter silent sittings and meditation practice takes place in our Thomas Merton Bookshed. Conversations take place in the main house Raimon Panikkar Wohnkuche (kitchen living space)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Weekend focus: For the winter, our events are gathered into Friday, Saturday, & Sunday.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">See website, Today at Meetingbrook, </span><a href="http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/</a><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"> for any change/elaboration of schedule </span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> Prologue, </b>A word about Meetingbrook Hermitage Events:</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">All are welcome. All events at meetingbrook are free, open, and informal. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Each conversation, each practice stands by itself. You’ve missed nothing. Just stop by and join the sitting practice or the conversation. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Each silent sitting is just that, nothing more. </span>Each event and conversation begins with a space of silence. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Residents of meetingbrook include a Border Collie (Rokpa) and two cats (Panta and Chitta). </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>EVENTS:</b></span><br>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br></b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> 1.</b> <b><u>Friday: </u></b></span><br>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Maine State Prison: (8am- 2:30pm) (only open to prison volunteers)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Buddhist Meditation Group; </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Meetingbrook Conversation; </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Special Management Unit </i>(UMA/URock college course); for a resident of segregation unit;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>ILU COTO </i>(individual learning understanding, conversations together) sessions for individuals from general prison population. [This might be held on Thursday mornings.]</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Quarry Hill<b> </b>(Extended Care Facility): <i>Poetry, Tea, and Thee,</i> (1st and 3rd Fridays, 3pm-4pm) open to all visitor poetry lovers. Bring one of your own, or from a book.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hermitage,<b> </b><i>Friday Evening Conversation</i>: 5:30pm-7:00pm </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Current default book: <i>The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love</i>, 2013, <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); color: #101010;">by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ilia-Delio/e/B001JS2T2E/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 102, 192); color: #0066c0;">Ilia Delio</span></a></span> The award-winning author of Christ in Evolution and The Emergent Christ breaks new ground with this capstone in a trilogy that opens our eyes to the everywhere active, all powerful, all intelligent Love that guides and directs our new awareness of interrelatedness and interbeing. She writes: We all have a part to play in this unfolding Love; we are wholes within wholes; persons within persons; religions within religions. We are one body and we seek one mind and heart so that the whole may become more whole, more personal and unified in love. This is our Christian vocation, to live in the Christ who is rising up from the ashes of death to become for us the God of the future. </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> 2.<u> Saturday</u></b><b>: </b></span><br>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Saturday Morning Meditation Practice</i>, 7:30am--8:45am, Buddhist/Meditative Focus. Format: 30min silent sitting, chant, reading, circle reflection, <i>metta</i>, (Coffee, tea, toast after available).</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> 3. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b> Sunday</b></span><b>:</b></span><br>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Sunday Morning Collation, </i> 9:00am - 10:00am. An Interreligious Centering Prayer/Lectio Divina (focusing on <i>contemplation, conversation, correspondence</i>), Format: A silent period (15mins), followed by reading from particular scriptures of two traditions, then reflective conversation, round-table.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Meetingbrook Hermitage is a place of collation and recollection between </span><br>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ragged and Bald Mountains. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We practice, with simplicity, between traditions. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We cultivate our promises of <i>contemplation, conversation, and correspondence</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is attempted in the spirit of deep listening and loving speech. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Stop by any time to visit meditation cabin or bookshed.</span><br>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The yurt is used for solitary retreats. Inquire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hiking trails of both mountains abound.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Central to Meetingbrook is its <i>Schola </i>dedicated to <i>Interreligious Dialogue—Unveiling and Practicing Peace Between Ways.</i> Donations are always gratefully accepted for the continuance and deepening of Meetingbrook. </span></span></td></tr>
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meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-661526487008463132015-10-10T07:11:00.001-04:002015-10-10T07:14:43.141-04:00Please noteAs it is, there will be no formal Saturday Morning or Sunday.Evening Practice this weekend (10-11Oct).<div>The chapel/zendo and bookshed remain available for your use.</div><div>Keep us in mind.</div>meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-69811766789660936092015-06-22T16:30:00.002-04:002015-06-22T17:04:24.374-04:00Summer 2015, Events at Meetingbrook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Note: </b>All silent sittings and meditation practice takes place in our chapel/zendo meditation cabin. Conversations take place in the main house Raimon Panikkar Wohnkuche (kitchen living space)</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All are welcome. All events at meetingbrook are free, open, and informal. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Each conversation, each night, each practice stands by itself. You’ve missed nothing. Just stop by and join the sitting practice or the conversation. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Each silent sitting is just that, nothing more. </span>Each event and conversation begins with a space of silence. </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>1.</b> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Monday</b></span><b>:</b> No events. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Current default book: <i>Mother of the Buddhas: Meditations on the Prajnaparamita Sutra</i>, 1993, by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lex-Hixon/e/B000APCITG/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 102, 192); color: #0066c0;">Lex Hixon</span></a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 13px;">Lex Hixon's "contemplative expansion" of forty passages from the </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 13px;">Prajnaparamita Sutra</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 13px;">, the basic scripture of all schools of Mahayana Buddhism, yields a text of devotional beauty that is at once dramatic and uplifting. The text sets forth the Bodhisattva path to enlightenment. Features a foreword by renowned American Buddhist scholar Dr. Robert A. Thurman.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>3.</b> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Wednesday</b></span>: Meetingbrook Mornings at Maine State Prison -- Independent Studies. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a) <b>Morning Hospitality</b>, 9:00AM - 11AM (coffee, tea, toast, muffins or eggs) </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday</span><b> Evening Conversation</b>, 5:30pm-6:30pm. Western </span>Traditions focus <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>(Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Non-theism, current philosophical thought)</i>. Format: </span>brief silent sitting (5mins), followed by circle reading, open reflection conversation, final circle. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Current default book: <span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3 !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><i>The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love</i></span><span class="a-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">,</span><span class="a-size-medium a-color-secondary a-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85, 85, 85) !important; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.255 !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> 2013, </span><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 19px;">by </span><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; line-height: 19px;"><span class="a-declarative" data-a-popover="{"position":"triggerBottom","name":"contributor-info-B001JS2T2E","allowLinkDefault":"true"}" data-action="a-popover" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="a-link-normal contributorNameID" data-asin="B001JS2T2E" href="http://www.amazon.com/Ilia-Delio/e/B001JS2T2E/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c0; text-decoration: none;">Ilia Delio</a></span></span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The award-winning author of Christ in Evolution and The Emergent Christ breaks new ground with this capstone in a trilogy that opens our eyes to the everywhere active, all powerful, all intelligent Love that guides and directs our new awareness of interrelatedness and interbeing. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #323333; font-family: Arial;">She writes: We all have a part to play in this unfolding Love; we are wholes within wholes; persons within persons; religions within religions. We are one body and we seek one mind and heart so that the whole may become more whole, more personal and unified in love. This is our Christian vocation, to live in the Christ who is rising up from the ashes of death to become for us the God of the future.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>a) Meetingbrook Mornings at Maine State Prison</b>, Warren ME. (7:30am--11:00am). Silent Sitting, Walking Practice, Conversation, Final Circle. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">b)<b> Poetry, Tea, and Thee, </b>at Quarry Hill<b> </b>(Retirement/Assisted Living Facility, Camden ME) 1st and 3rd Fridays, (3-4pm) </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Saturday Morning Meditation Practice</b>, 7:30am--8:45am, Buddhist/Meditative Focus. Format: 30min silent sitting, chant, reading, circle reflection, <i>metta</i>, (Coffee, tea, toast after available).</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a) <u style="font-weight: bold;">Sunday Morning Collation, </u>An Interreligious Centering Prayer/Lectio Divina (focusing on <i>contemplation, conversation, correspondence</i>), 9:00-10:00am. Format: A silent period (10mins), followed by reading from particular scriptures of two traditions, then reflective conversation, round-table.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">b) <u><b>Sunday</b> <b>Evening Practice,</b></u> (Practicing Between Contemplative/Meditative Traditions), 6:00pm--8:00pm. Format: 40min silent sitting; 5min mindful walking; Heart Sutra chant; 15min table reading; 10min silent eating; 15min open conversation; final circle.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meetingbrook Hermitage is a place of collation and recollection between </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We practice, with simplicity, between traditions. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We cultivate our promises of <i>contemplation, conversation, and correspondence</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is attempted in the spirit of deep listening and loving speech. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stop by any time to visit meditation cabin or bookshed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hiking trails of both mountains abound.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="Normal"> <b><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;">Meetingbrook </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Brush Script MT'; font-size: 10pt;">Dogen & Francis</span><b><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;"> Hermitage</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:Meetingbrook" datetime="2004-01-08T21:40">,</del></span> is a <i>Schola Gratiae et Contemplationis</i>, i.e., a School of Gratefulness and Contemplation. Begun in 1994, it was formed as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization in 1998 for the purpose of serving as a place of collation and recollection for the side-by-side practice and study of Buddhist Zen Meditation, Christian Contemplative Prayer, and the Engaged Service flowing from each.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;">Central to Meetingbrook is its <i>Schola </i>dedicated to <i>Interreligious Dialogue—Unveiling and Practicing Peace Between Ways.</i> Donations are always gratefully accepted for the continuance and deepening of Meetingbrook. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Each conversation, each night, each practice stands by itself. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>a) Meetingbrook Conversation at Maine State Prison</b>, (Only Bill, Saskia, Rokpa currently going in.) Warren ME. (7:30am--11:00am). </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b)<b> Poetry, Tea, and Thee, </b>at Quarry Hill<b> </b>(Retirement/Assisted Living Facility, Camden ME) 1st, 3rd Fridays, (3-4pm) </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>c) </b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Friday Evening Conversation</span><u style="font-weight: bold;"> </u>at Hermitage, 5:30pm--6:45pm. Format: Conversation focusing on <i>Current Issues</i>, <i>Mystics, Poets, Philosophers, Non-traditional and Various Other Thinkers. </i>Reading, or video, from various traditions, conversation, Soul-friend sharing.</span> <b>Currently </b>open to whatever is suggested by whoever attends.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>6. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Saturday</b>:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Saturday Morning Meditation Practice</b>, 7:30am--8:45am, Buddhist/Meditative Focus. Format: 30min silent sitting, chant, reading, circle reflection, <i>metta</i>, (Coffee, tea, toast after available).</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>7.</b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b> Sunday</b></span><b>:</b></span></div>
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a) <u style="font-weight: bold;">Sunday Morning Collation, </u>An Interreligious Centering Prayer/Lectio Divina (focusing on <i>contemplation, conversation, correspondence</i>), 9:00-10:00am. Format: A silent period (10mins), followed by reading from particular scriptures of two traditions, then reflective conversation round-table.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b)<b> <u>Morning Hospitality</u></b> 10:00am-noon. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b) <u><b>Sunday</b> <b>Evening Practice,</b></u> (Practicing Between Contemplative/Meditative Traditions), 6:00pm--8:00pm. Format: 40min silent sitting; 5min mindful walking; Heart Sutra chant; 15min table reading; 10min silent eating; 15min open conversation; final circle.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Note:</b> See website, Today at Meetingbrook,<a href="http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/">http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/</a> for any change/elaboration of schedule </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Epilogue:</b> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meetingbrook Hermitage is a place of collation and recollection between </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ragged and Bald Mountains. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We practice, with simplicity, between traditions. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We cultivate our promises of <i>contemplation, conversation, and correspondence</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is attempted in the spirit of deep listening and loving speech. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stop by any time to visit cabin, bookshed, or yurt. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hiking trails of both mountains abound.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="Normal"> <b><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;">Meetingbrook </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Brush Script MT'; font-size: 10pt;">Dogen & Francis</span><b><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;"> Hermitage</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:Meetingbrook" datetime="2004-01-08T21:40">,</del></span> is a <i>Schola Gratiae et Contemplationis</i>, i.e., a School of Gratefulness and Contemplation. It was formed as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization in 1998 for the purpose of serving as a place of collation and recollection for the side-by-side practice and study of Buddhist Zen Meditation & Christian Contemplative Prayer, and the Engaged Service flowing from each.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;">Central to Meetingbrook is its <i>Schola </i>dedicated to <i>Interreligious Dialogue—Unveiling and Practicing Peace Between Ways.</i> Donations are always gratefully accepted for the continuance and deepening of Meetingbrook. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;">Saskia Huising & Bill Halpin, co-founders &</span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;">m.o.n.o.s</span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;">(</span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;">monastics of no other,<i> silencio)</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt;">We are grateful for any assistance<br />in the ongoing creation </span></div>
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meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-59828709838246530872014-11-02T13:03:00.001-05:002015-01-15T12:34:44.286-05:00Late Autumn thru Winter 2014/15 Events at Meetingbrook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Snow arrives on All Souls Day, 2Nov2014. Five inches so far. Birds are mobbing the feeders.</b></span></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Note: </b>All silent sittings and meditation practice takes place in Merton Bookshed/Winter Zendo. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Morning Call Yurt by brook is available for times of solitude.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Prologue: A word about Meetingbrook Hermitage Events</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>All are welcome. All events at meetingbrook are free, open, and informal. Each conversation, each night, each practice stands by itself. Each silent sitting is just that, nothing more. Each event and conversation begins with a space of silence and ends with a final circle. Residents along with Bill and Saskia are two dogs (Rokpa and Cody) and two cats (Panta and Chitta). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NOTE: <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Chapel/Zendo or Thomas Merton Bookshed Retreat are available for sitting, reading, prayer, or merely visiting at any time of day. Just pull in, park, and make use. If gate is closed, open it. It is just a protection for the dogs from going to road. The Morning Call Yurt by the brook is available for times of solitude.<span class="Apple-tab-span"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Morning weekday practice is idiorrhythmic.* We try to find our places by 6:45am. You, yours, anytime. (* Idiorrhythmic, an individualized form of monastic life. The term <i>idiorrhythmia</i> (ἰδιο〈ρ〉ρυθμία), meaning, on one's own, either alone or in a small group.) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>1.</b> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Monday</b></span><b>:</b> No events. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>2. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Tuesday </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>--Tuesday Evening Conversation</b> Practice, 5:30-6:30pm. <b>Eastern</b><i> (Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta)</i><b> Traditions</b> focus: 15mins silent sitting, followed by circle reading, and reflection conversation.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>3.</b> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Wednesday</b></span>: No events</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>4.</b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b> Thursday</b></span><b>:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a) <b>Morning Hospitality</b>, 8:30 - 11AM (coffee, tea, toast, muffins or eggs) </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday</span><b> Evening Conversation</b> Practice, 5:30pm-6:30pm. <b>Western </b><i>(Judaism, Christianity, Islam)</i><b> Traditions</b> focus. 15mins silent sitting, followed by circle reading, and reflection conversation.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>5. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Friday</b></span><b>:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>a) Meetingbrook Conversation at Maine State Prison</b>, (Only Bill, Saskia, Rokpa currently going in.) Warren ME. (7:30am--11:00am). </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b)<b> Poetry, Tea, and Thee, </b>at Quarry Hill<b> </b>(Retirement/Assisted Living Facility, Camden ME) 1st, 3rd Fridays, (3-4pm) </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>c) </b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Friday Evening Conversation</span><u style="font-weight: bold;"> </u>at Hermitage, 5:30pm--6:45pm. Theme, <i><b>Creativity and Peace:</b></i> <i>Mystics, Poets, Philosophers, Non-traditional, and Various Other Thinkers. </i>Reading, or video, from various traditions, conversation, Soul-friend sharing.</span> <b>Currently </b>open to whatever is suggested by whoever attends.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>6. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Saturday</b>:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Saturday Morning Meditation Practice</b>, 7:30am--8:45am, Buddhist/Meditative Focus: 30min silent sitting, chant, reading, circle reflection, <i>metta</i>, (Coffee, tea, toast after available).</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>7.</b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b> Sunday</b></span><b>:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a) <b>Quaker Meeting</b>, Oct thru May, 9AM --10AM in Merton Bookshed Retreat</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b)<b> Hospitality</b> 10:15am-noon. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b) <u><b>Sunday</b> <b>Evening Practice,</b></u> (Practicing Between Contemplative/Meditative Traditions), 6:00pm--8:00pm, 40min silent sitting, mindful walking, chant; table reading, 10min silent eating, open conversation.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Note:</b> See website, Today at Meetingbrook,<a href="http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/">http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/</a> for any change/elaboration of schedule </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Epilogue:</b> Meetingbrook Hermitage is a place of collation and recollection between Ragged and Bald Mountains where we practice with simplicity between traditions cultivating our promises of contemplation, conversation, and correspondence, in the spirit of deep listening and loving speech. Stop by any time to visit cabin, bookshed, or yurt. Hiking trails of Ragged Mountain abound.</span></div>
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meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-81656561848065911462014-06-27T17:52:00.001-04:002014-06-27T17:52:17.137-04:00summer 2014, events at meetingbrook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>It is summer! It hasn't snowed in weeks. But we're keeping our snowshoes by the door. It confounds the resident barn-skunk.</b></span></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Note: </b>All silent sittings and meditation practice takes place in Merton Bookshed/Winter Zendo. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Morning Call Yurt by brook is available for times of solitude.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Prologue: A word about Meetingbrook Hermitage Events</b>:</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>All are welcome; All events at meetingbrook are free, open, and informal; Each conversation, each night, each practice stands by itself. Each silent sitting is just that, nothing more. Each event and conversation begins with a space of silence. Residents along with Bill and Saskia are two dogs (Rokpa and Cody) and two cats (Panta and Chitta). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 18px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NOTE: <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Chapel/Zendo or Thomas Merton Bookshed Retreat are available for sitting, reading, prayer, or merely visiting at any time of day. Just pull in, park, and make use. If gate is closed, open it. It is just a protection for the dogs from going to road. The Morning Call Yurt by the brook is available for times of solitude.<span class="Apple-tab-span"></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 18px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Morning weekday practice is idiorrhythmic.* We try to find our places by 6:45am. You, yours, anytime. (* Idiorrhythmic, an individualized form of monastic life. The term <i>idiorrhythmia</i> (ἰδιο〈ρ〉ρυθμία), meaning, on one's own, either alone or in a small group.) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>1.</b> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Monday</b></span><b>:</b> No events. Currently mornings at Maine State Prison, independent study: <i>"What the Words Say -- Narrative, Philosophy, and Poetics of Biblical Literature."</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>2. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Tuesday </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>--Tuesday Evening Conversation</b> Practice, 5:30-6:30pm. <b>Eastern</b><i> (Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta)</i><b> Traditions</b> focus: 15mins silent sitting, followed by circle reading, and reflection conversation.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>3.</b> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Wednesday</b></span>: No events</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>4.</b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b> Thursday</b></span><b>:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a) <b>Morning Hospitality</b>, 8:30 - 11AM (coffee, tea, toast, muffins or eggs) </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday</span><b> Evening Conversation</b> Practice, 5:30pm-6:30pm. <b>Western </b><i>(Judaism, Christianity, Islam)</i><b> Traditions</b> focus. 15mins silent sitting, followed by circle reading, and reflection conversation.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>5. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Friday</b></span><b>:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>a) Meetingbrook Conversation at Maine State Prison</b>, (Only Bill, Saskia, Rokpa currently going in.) Warren ME. (7:30am--11:00am). </span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b)<b> Poetry, Tea, and Thee, </b>at Quarry Hill<b> </b>(Retirement/Assisted Living Facility, Camden ME) 1st, 3rd Fridays, (3-4pm) </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>c) </b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Friday Evening Conversation</span><u style="font-weight: bold;"> </u>at Hermitage, 5:30pm--6:45pm. Theme, <i><b>Creativity and Peace:</b></i> <i>Mystics, Poets, Philosophers, Non-traditional, and Various Other Thinkers. </i>Reading, or video, from various traditions, conversation, Soul-friend sharing.</span> <b>Currently </b>open to whatever is suggested by whoever attends.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>6. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Saturday</b>:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>--Saturday Morning Meditation Practice</b>, 7:30am--8:45am, Buddhist/Meditative Focus: 30min silent sitting, chant, reading, circle reflection, <i>metta</i>, (Coffee, tea, toast after available).</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>7.</b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b> Sunday</b></span><b>:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a) <b>Hospitality</b> 10:15am-noon. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b) <u><b>Sunday</b> <b>Evening Practice,</b></u> (Practicing Between Contemplative/Meditative Traditions), 6:00pm--8:00pm, 40min silent sitting, mindful walking, chant; table reading, 10min silent eating, open conversation.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">..........</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Note:</b> See website, Today at Meetingbrook,<a href="http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/">http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/</a> for any change/elaboration of schedule </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Epilogue:</b> Meetingbrook Hermitage is a place of collation and recollection between Ragged and Bald Mountains where we practice with simplicity between traditions cultivating our promises of contemplation, conversation, and correspondence, in the spirit of deep listening and loving speech. Stop by any time to visit cabin, bookshed, or yurt. Hiking trails of Ragged Mountain abound.</span></div>
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meetingbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08469061614861754704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061779670871191909.post-11607817987194909002014-02-01T12:07:00.002-05:002014-02-01T15:18:23.886-05:00events at meetingbrook, 2014 winter/spring, jan/june<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Note: </b>All silent sittings and meditation practice takes place in Merton Bookshed/Winter Zendo. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Morning Call Yurt by brook is available for times of solitude.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Prologue: A word about Meetingbrook Hermitage Events</b>:</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>All are welcome; All events at meetingbrook are free, open, and informal; Each conversation, each night, each practice stands by itself. Each silent sitting is just that, nothing more. Each event and conversation begins with a space of silence. Residents along with Bill and Saskia are two dogs (Rokpa and Cody) and two cats (Panta and Chitta). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NOTE: <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Chapel/Zendo or Thomas Merton Bookshed Retreat are available for sitting, reading, prayer, or merely visiting at any time of day. Just pull in, park, and make use. If gate is closed, open it. It is just a protection for the dogs from going to road. The Morning Call Yurt by the brook is available for times of solitude.<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Morning weekday practice is idiorrhythmic.* We try to find our places by 6:45am. You, yours, anytime. (* Idiorrhythmic, an individualized form of monastic life. The term <i>idiorrhythmia</i> (ἰδιο〈ρ〉ρυθμία), meaning, on one's own, either alone or in a small group.) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>1.</b> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Monday</b></span><b>:</b> No events</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>--Tuesday Evening Conversation</b> Practice, 5:30-6:30pm. <b>Eastern</b><i> (Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta)</i><b> Traditions</b> focus: 15mins silent sitting, followed by circle reading, and reflection conversation.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>4.</b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b> Thursday</b></span><b>:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a) <b>Morning Hospitality</b>, 8:30 - 11AM (coffee, tea, toast, muffins or eggs) </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday</span><b> Evening Conversation</b> Practice, 5:30pm-6:30pm. <b>Western </b><i>(Judaism, Christianity, Islam)</i><b> Traditions</b> focus. 15mins silent sitting, followed by circle reading, and reflection conversation.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>5. </b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Friday</b></span><b>:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>a) Conversations at Maine State Prison</b>, (Only Bill, Saskia, Rokpa currently going in.) Warren ME. (7:30am--11:00am). </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b)<b> Poetry, Tea, and Thee, </b>at Quarry Hill<b> </b>(Retirement/Assisted Living Facility, Camden ME) 1st, 3rd Fridays, (3-4pm) </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>c) </b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Friday Evening Conversation</span><u style="font-weight: bold;"> </u>at Hermitage, 6:00pm--8:00pm. Theme, <i><b>Creativity and Peace:</b></i> <i>Mystics, Poets, Philosophers, Non-traditional, and Various Other Thinkers. </i>Reading, or video, from various traditions, conversation, Soul-friend sharing.</span> <b>Currently</b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> focusing on Existentialism, Heidegger, Kyoto School, and Nothingness. At other times, such as Rupert Spira, TED Talks, Creation Eco-spirituality: David Abram, Thomas Berry, John O'Donohue, Ilia Delio, Care and Creation, Franciscan Spirituality; Pagan, Agnostic, Atheism, New Scientific thinking.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>--Saturday Morning Meditation Practice</b>, 7:30am--8:45am, Buddhist/Meditative Focus: 30min silent sitting, chant, reading, circle reflection, <i>metta</i>, (Coffee, tea, toast after available).</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a)<b> Quaker Meeting, </b>9:00am-10am. Megunticook Worship Group, Oct-May, Merton Bookshed/Retreat. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>c)</b> <u><b>Sunday</b> <b>Evening Practice,</b></u> (Practicing Between Contemplative/Meditative Traditions), 6:00pm--8:00pm, 40min silent sitting, mindful walking, chant; table reading, 10min silent eating, open conversation.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Note:</b> See website, Today at Meetingbrook,<a href="http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/">http://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/</a> for any change/elaboration of schedule </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Epilogue:</b> Meetingbrook Hermitage is a place of collation and recollection between Ragged and Bald Mountains where we practice with simplicity between traditions cultivating our promises of contemplation, conversation, and correspondence, in the spirit of deep listening and loving speech. Stop by any time to visit cabin, bookshed, or yurt. Hiking trails of Ragged Mountain abound.</span></div>
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