Cortnee Mendoza is member of Magnolia Sangha, and author of a new book! The Ivory Tower: Within and Outside is a collection of poems that stand firmly in realism while looking ambitiously toward surrealism. It is a volume coming from a perspective that speaks of that which is beyond the material. It tells of the hidden qualities of things with a voice that is simple while speaking of subjects that are involved and delving. The reasons behind choice, the voice of the sun, the changes of grass, and the bounce of a basketball all have their unexamined qualities revealed in this work. These poems span from the ethereal to the mundane, while taking the reader from the confines of the tower, through the door, and outside, where all that was learned can now be used in encounters made in the exterior world. (see book cover) Available in your local bookstore now.
Cortnee Mendoza, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, graduated from the University of Memphis in 2003. Cortnee has been published in the anthologies Carvings in Stone and A Celebration of Appalachia’s Young Poets 1998. He placed in the NAACP ACT-SO playwriting competition and was a recipient of the Elizabeth C. Phillips Scholarship. 

Deer Park Monastery North American Tour 2005: Their Fall Tour 2005 with Thich Nhat Hanh and the monastics of Plum Village, Green Mountain Dharma Center and Deer Park Monastery, begins with a 6 day retreat, August 11th - 16th , at Stonehill College outside Boston.  It ends with a Peace Walk, "Peace Is Every Step" in Los Angeles on October 8th.  In between these two dates we have five more retreats, three of which will be in our Deer Park Monastery in California, one in the Rocky Mountains and one in Canada.  See their website at: http://www.deerparkmonastery.org/US_Tour_2005.htm. for more information. There will also be four public talks and several Days of Mindfulness.

Audio Insight Meditation Instruction by Venerable Pannyavaro, includes The Art of Attention, The Technique of Mental Noting, Keeping the Balance in Meditation, The Sitting Posture in Meditation, Instruction for Sitting Meditation and Technique in Walking Meditation. Download these MP3 files and listen while you practice.
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A new Dharma Memphis page gives you international Buddhist news, updated daily. It called Buddhist News, click here!

The Dharma Memphis bookstore is growing! More books, audio, etc. now divided into authors and topics. click here!

The Mystical Arts of Tibet website has information about a a group of monks, from The Drepung Loseling Institute in Atlanta, who tour the world performing. This troupe of Buddhist monks from Tibet, robed in magnificent, colorful costumes are world renowned for their multiphonic singing and exquisite dancing, playing traditional long horns, trumpets, drums and bells to promote world healing through ancient music, song and dance. You can check their schedule here to see upcoming  performances in Alabama and Louisiana. We are looking into inviting them to Memphis in the future!

Buddhist Concept of Friendship By Sita Arunthavanathan is posted on Dharma Memphis, and is a lovely article.

Travel as Meditation is an article, reprinted here, by Katherine Robertson. She says "Travel can become a meditation when you use its gifts to become more present - with yourself, your life and your world." click here!

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