[FCM-news] upcoming Days of Mindfulness and Retreat

[Fred Eppsteiner]

Dear friends,

There will be a Day of Mindfulness in Naples on February 17th   and one in
the Tampa area on March 10th.  Lasting from 9 in the morning until 4 in the
afternoon, we will have an opportunity to practice sitting and outdoors
walking meditation together, listen to a Dharma talk, practice mindful
eating, enjoy quiet natural surroundings, and experience guided meditations.
In other words, an opportunity to refresh and renew ourselves, and deepen
our meditation and mindfulness practice together.  For more information
about either of these events, please go to our website,
http://www.floridamindfulness.org <http://www.floridamindfulness.org/> .  To
register for the Naples Day of Mindfulness, please contact Beth Schroeder at
awakenedart at comcast.net or for the Tampa area Day of Mindfulness, contact
Angie Parrish at angie_parrish at aon.com .

Since setting aside time for a week long retreat often takes advance
planning, I wanted to let you know about a retreat I will be leading at
Southern Dharma Retreat Center in North Carolina in June.  It's a wonderful
place to practice meditation and those of us who've retreated at Southern
Dharma in the past can attest to the joy and depth we've experienced there.
For more information, contact them at www.southerndharma.org
<http://www.southerndharma.org/> . 

In the Dharma, Fred

The following is taken from their website:

Lighting the Lamp of Enlightenment 
June 2-9
7 nights   $420 ($210 deposit)   Dana 

The Buddha's teachings provide a clear, psychologically sophisticated, and
eminently practical guide for the remediation of self-induced suffering.
Rather than continuing to endure a life characterized by dissatisfaction,
internal conflict, and emotional turmoil (delusion), we are offered an
opportunity to awaken to all the positive possibilities and potentials that
are readily available within our own mind.  Learning to recognize,
cultivate, and manifest within ourselves these seeds of wisdom, wholeness,
openheartedness, and well-being is the practice of the Buddha's Way
(enlightenment). 

During the course of this silent retreat, participants will be led on a
journey that encompasses the key teachings and meditation practices that
Buddha developed to facilitate the self-healing and conscious transformation
that we seek.  In a step-by-step approach, we will learn to look clearly and
compassionately at our current situation and life condition, and then apply
many of the Buddha's meditation practices, conceptual and analytical, as
well as non-conceptual and intuitive, to facilitate  healing and liberation.
The retreat will draw on Fred's meditative experience in the Zen, Dzogchen
(Great Perfection), and mindfulness-based traditions, as well as his many
years as a professional psychotherapist.  

During the retreat, we will participate in formal periods of sitting and
walking mindfulness meditation, guided meditations, daily Dharma talks,
private interviews with Fred, and opportunities for solitary practice and
enjoyment of the natural beauty and peacefulness of Southern Dharma. 

Fred Eppsteiner, MSW, has been a psychotherapist for more than twenty-five
years.  A practicing Buddhist for thirty-five years, Fred has trained in
both Zen and Vajrayana/Dzogchen lineages. He received Dharma Transmission
from Thich Nhat Hanh in 1994 and is the Dharma Teacher of the Florida
Community of Mindfulness in Florida, with students in FL and NC. He is the
editor of two books: The Path of Compassion and Interbeing. 

  _____  


Here is the daily schedule of the Fred Eppsteiner 2006 Southern Dharma
retreat. The 2007 schedule may be different. 

  6:00    Wake-Up
  6:30    Meditation
  8:00    Breakfast

  8:45    Work Period
  9:45     Clean-Up
10:00    Dharma Talk
11:45    Outdoor Walking Meditation
12:30    Lunch

  2:00    Meditation (Guided)
  3:00    Solitary Practice
  4:00    Mindful Movements
  5:00    Deep Listening/Deep Sharing
  5:45    Meditation
  6:15    Dinner

  7:30    Meditation
  9:30    Noble Silence 

 

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