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ONE DHARMA NASHVILLE
One Dharma Nashville reflects an emerging Western Buddhism that maintains an allegiance to a very basic question: "What works to free the mind from suffering and awaken the heart to compassion?" Although Buddhism has evolved differently in different times and places, the essential dharma remains the same. One Dharma Nashville aims to take what is useful and beneficial from different traditions to enhance and deepen the practice experience. For more information about One Dharma, please visit www.onedharmanashville.com
Monday Meditation
Every Monday Night, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Our main meditation night, with an emphasis on mindfulness, metta (loving kindness), and multi traditional foundational practices of Buddhism. We start with a guided metta meditation, followed by sitting and walking practice. We complete the session with a dharma talk and discussion, led by dharma teachers Lisa Ernst and Tom Neilson or advanced practitioner Kurt Brobeck. This is an opportunity to learn more about the teachings and practical application of practice in everyday life. People of all levels of experience are welcome, from beginners to experienced meditators. For your first time meditating with us, please arrive 15 minutes early for orientation. For more information, email onedharmainfo@gmail.com
Thursday Awakening True Nature
First and Third Thursdays each month, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Emphasis is on the integration of Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, and on innovative approaches to teaching the dharma. Includes teachings on emptiness, direct realization and the integration of Buddhist and Western psychology. Usually led by dharma teachers Lisa Ernst or Tom Neilson. This group is appropriate for people with all levels of experience, although it is especially focused on those with existing meditation experience. For your first time meditating with us, please arrive 15 minutes early for orientation. This is an open group and everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, email onedharmainfo@gmail.com.
Basics of Mindfulness Meditation
Second and Fourth Saturdays each month, 10:30 a.m. -11:45 a.m.
This twice monthly meeting offers an introduction to creating and incorporating an effective and ongoing mindfulness meditation practice. You will learn the basics of insight meditation, and will discover how meditation reduces stress and increases well being, while also creating a healthier relationship with thoughts and emotions. Appropriate to beginning and newer meditators as well as those who wish to refresh the basics of mindfulness practice. Although optional, we recommend a classic guide to mindfulness meditation, “Breath by Breath” by Larry Rosenberg. We have several new and used copies available for purchase at the Center. This class is offered on a donation basis. For more information, contact rana_mukherji@yahoo.com.
A DAY OF MINDFULNESS RETREAT
Opening the Heart of Mindfulness
Saturday, March 3, 10:00 a.m - 3:30 p.m.
Led by Lisa Ernst
“Ultimately, I see mindfulness as a love affair--with life,
with reality and imagination, with the beauty of your own being,
with your heart and body and mind, and with the world. “
--Jon Kabat-Zinn
Please join us at the 12South Dharma Center for a day of sitting and walking meditation. This daylong retreat will focus on mindfulness meditation. We will train our minds in present time awareness by bringing attention to the breath and sensations in the body, finding refuge in moment to moment wakefulness. Through this practice we gradually understand the truth of the constantly changing nature of all things, and we learn to meet our lives with an open and compassionate heart.
Led by meditation teacher Lisa Ernst, the retreat is suitable for both beginning and experienced meditators; it will include sitting and walking meditation, practice instructions, optional private interview and a dharma talk. Please bring a sack lunch. Tea is available at the center and refreshments will be offered after the retreat. The center has plenty of mediation cushions, but feel free to bring your own if you prefer. Chairs are also available.
Cost: $35, plus dana (donation) to the teacher. Reservation deadline is Monday, February 27. Contact onedharmaretreat@gmail.com to reserve your space or for questions. Please mail a deposit of $35, made out to One Dharma Nashville, to: 12South Dharma Center c/o One Dharma Nashville, 2301 12th Ave. South, Suite 202, Nashville, TN 37204. Be sure to include your email address; additional retreat information will be emailed to you prior to the retreat.