Magnolia Sangha A Mindfulness Practice Community Facilitated by Leonard West

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Tibetan Yoga is being taught at 3PM on Sunday's here at Dragon Seat by Chuck Sullivan a local acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist who has worked with opening energy pathways in the body for many years. This is open to all regardless of physical condition and is done in a chair. There is a meditation and contemplative component to the yoga.

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Magnolia Sangha
A Mindfulness Practice Community

Meeting At Quan Am Monastery
3500 South Goodlett
Memphis, TN
(Just North of Winchester and East of Lamar) MAP

All are welcome to attend. Classes held in English

We start sitting at 7PM so we can have the full time for meditation and the talk.

7:00 - 7:40 Meditation
7:45 - 9:00 Talk/Close

Mindfulness is one of the treasures of human nature. Everyone has a natural capacity to be mindful, which means to be present in the here and now, to be truly present without wanting anything else. It is only because of countless habits of thought and action which we have acquired during our life as well as inherited from our forebears that we find it difficult to be present.

6:30 PM On the 1st Friday of each month, all are invited for a social gathering for great food and company. All are invited to join the monthly dinner get together.
July 65, 2007 at 6:30PM please join us at:
Mayuri, an Indian restaurant at
6524 Quince Memphis, TN
Phone number 753-8755.
Mayuri Indian Cuisine
(901) 753-8755
www.mayuriindiancuisine.com
6524 Quince Rd
Memphis, TN 38119

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Hope to see you all there!!!

NEWS: March 2006 Magnolia Sangha launches a new website [ click here ]

NEWS: Leonard West received transmission of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings was ordained into the Order of Interbeing as “True Great Field” (Courageous Connection of the Art) at Deer Park Monastery, Sept 15, 2005.
(see photos from event)

NEWS: On the 1st Monday each month all are invited to attend the Magnolia Sangha at Quan Am for a DVD viewing of Thich Nhat Hahn's Dharma talks. Meeting time is at 7:00pm, and we hope to see you there!

NEWS: Every 2nd Monday each month, all are invited to attend the Magnolia Sangha at Quan Am for recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings.

1st Friday of each month at 6:30pm
Fridays Please join Sangha Magnolia, Dragon Seat and all Dharma Memphis folks for a monthly dinner!
On the first Friday of each month, all are invited to join us.

WATCH DHARMA MEMPHIS AND YAHOO MAIL FOR LOCATION AS THEY CHANGE MONTHLY! If you would like more info please contact Leonard (901-458-3900 or email: westartmemphis@bellsouth.net)

at 6:30pm for dinner and socializing, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Facilitated by Leonard West
For more information call 901-458-3900 or email Leonard at: westartmemphis@bellsouth.net

Leonard West, is a Memphis based artist and Zen practitioner, ordained at Deer Park Monastery by Dhyana Master Thich Nhat Hanh into the Order of InterBeing is a Memphis artist who shares some of his life as follows:

"I am of African and Native American heritage, born in Chickasha, Oklahoma ....grew up in Los Angeles, California in the 40’s ...was a bohemian-beatnik of the 50’s ..lived seven years in rural Nara, Japan among the people. ...study and practice Zen Buddhism ...proudly served twenty years in my beloved U.S. Marines Corps … was a passionate "servant to the people" in the 60’s Black Panther Party of Los Angeles-Stockwell … was a graphics cameraman in advertising for a Memphis-based international corporation. I approach my art of thirty-plus years, playfully, I seek to reflect the joy and wonder of "little people" (i.e. children) and my enduring faith in the power of spiritual evolution to transform humanity."

One of the key elements to success in leading a more mindful life is to practice mindfulness. Practice is a word that suggests activity. The activities which produce mindful awareness are practiced through relationships. Relationships with yourself, your loved ones, your community, and the world. A practice center offers people a community of like-intentioned friends to come together with to deepen their understanding. In this type of community the art of mindful living is explored through shared insights, study and practice.

Magnolia Sangha Retreat at Quan Am
November 2004
with Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe Ward
The Lotus Institute