We are very excited to announce that a group of 8 monastic students from Thich Nhat Hanh will be visiting us on Sunday June 11th, offering a way of transforming climate anxiety as well as hosting a workshop on healthy climate activism. We are so grateful for this opportunity!
For tickets and more information, please visit www.wakeuplondon.org/climateanxiety…
You are warmly invited to join a group of Plum Village Monastics for a weekend retreat, learning how to connect to and nourish our spiritual roots, living simply and celebrating diversity, new communities blossom.…
Dear community,
As you may have heard, Josh from ConsciousFilmCo will be doing some filming tomorrow at our Wake Up session for the Being Peace centre fundraising video. …
You’re invited to join us on a special monastic-led spring retreat on the theme “Nurturing ourselves in Nature”. We’ll enjoy sinking deeper into the present moment, connecting deeply with ourselves and each other.
Hosted by the Wake Up Community of young adults, this special retreat is opportunity to practice mindfulness in the Plum Village tradition in the beautiful gardens and woods of Kentwell, a peaceful and expansive countryside venue in Suffolk.…
We are delighted to announce that Plum Village monastics led by brothers Bao Tich and Phap Lai will be joining us for a series of events in May.
See below for further details on the event schedule and to purchase tickets. http://www.londonmindfulnesshub.org/
Schedule:
FRI 11 May: 7.30 – 10pm Bring a Friend to an Evening of Practice
Have you friends interested in mindfulness but haven’t tried it? Or who’ve tried Headspace and are interested in going further? This evening’s for you to bring them along to hear the Plum Village monastics share introductory teachings on mindfulness, meditation and a happy life.
Also suitable for newcomers on their own. Or for regulars who’d like to review the basics.
Westminster Quaker Meeting House
52 St Martins Lane WC2N 4EA
(entry via 8 Hop Gardens)
£5 /£7 /£10 per person according to your means
Info and booking here and facebook event here.
SUN 13 May: 10am – 5.30pm A Day of Mindfulness
For all with some experience of meditation you are warmly invited to join us for this day of mindfulness. We’ll come together to hear a talk, and to practice sitting and walking meditation, mindful eating, smiling and breathing together. Please bring vegetarian food to share for lunch.
The Core, 161 Northwold Road, Upper Clapton E5 8RL
£15 / £22 / £30 according to your means.
Info and booking here and facebook event here.
MON 14 May: 5 – 6.40pm Walk With Me
The recent film about Plum Village monastery — followed by Q&A with the monks. An insightful rumination on the pursuit of happiness, living in the present and our attachment to material things. Followed by thirty minute walking meditation on Regent Street
Regent Street Cinema
309 Regent Street, Marylebone W1B 2UW
£11 conc / £12 adult
Info and booking here and facebook event here.
FRI 18 May: 7.30 – 10pm Deepening Your Practice
How to come to our true home. Featuring a talk, touching the earth and other practices. For those already having some experience of Thich Nhat Hanh’s or similar traditions
The practice of Touching the Earth, also known as bowing deeply or prostrating, helps us return to the Earth and to our roots, and to recognize that we are not alone but connected to a whole stream of spiritual and blood ancestors. We touch the Earth to let go of the idea that we are separate and to remind us that we are the Earth and part of Life.
Westminster Quaker Meeting House
52 St Martins Lane WC2N 4EA
(entry via 8 Hop Gardens)
£5 /£7 /£10 according to your means
Info and booking here and facebook event here.
SAT 19 May: Afternoon of Mindfulness 2.15pm – 5.30pm & ‘Wake Up to the joy of togetherness’ Be In 6pm – 9pm
An Afternoon of Mindfulness with our monastics, schedule:
2:30pm Singing and guided meditation
3pm Dharma talk
3.45pm Dharma sharing in small groups
5pm Walking meditation
5.30pm Break time, please bring vegan/vegetarian food to share 🙂
6-9pm Be-In celebration with the first half of the evening led by the monastics. We will enjoy tea and cookies in mindful silence then there will be sharing, songs, live music, poems and other offerings. Please if inspired do bring your instruments and other creative offering to share at this celebration, you can let a member of the hub team know on the day.
Suggested donation of £7, according to your means.
Westminster Quaker Meeting House
52 St Martins Lane WC2N 4EA
(entry via 8 Hop Gardens)
Facebook event here.
SUN 20 May: Peace Walk – A Walking Meditation in Victoria Park 11.30am – 1.30pm
Offering Peace for Ourselves, the City and the World
Walking meditation and mindful picnic in Victoria Park. Please bring an individual packed lunch for a mindful picnic afterwards.
Meet at Bonner Gate (junction of Sewardstone Rd / Approach Rd) E2 9JW. Please arrive in plenty of time.
Facebook event here.
For all these we have kept prices as low as possible. Please just pay what you can. Where you can afford the upper rate however that would be helpful.
We are delighted to announce that between 5 – 13 September a group of Plum Village Monastics will be establishing a pop-up Mindfulness Hub in Newspeak House at the top of Brick Lane, 133 Bethnal Green Road E2 7DG. Read more here.
Join Monastic Brother Pháp Dung from Plum Village for a series of exciting new Dharma webinars this Spring!
These “on-line on-life” sharings will be streamed live to the young people of the International Wake Up Movement. Combining fresh teachings and interactive Q&A, we will explore how we can deepen our practice and nurture a collective awakening.
How can we balance social actions for change with the personal practice of inner transformation and contemplation, especially in our time of heightened human and planetary tension? How can we become more engaged? How can we find an alternative for a healthier, sane, and compassionate lifestyle? How can we re-envision our place and purpose in this life?
Date: March 6th, 2016
Time: 7am PST / 10am EST / 4pm CET / 11pm Hong Kong (To check the start time in your time zone, click here)
Duration: 30-minute Dharma talk, 15-minute Q&A
Where: Webinar link to be announced shortly
To receive announcements about this webinar, please sign up here
A young man asks Thich Nhat Hanh a question on young people following their dreams during the Questions and Answers session of a retreat at Deer Park Monastery, California in September 2011.…
Wake Up London members are organizing a Meditation Gathering for Climate Action in Hyde Park before joining the People’s March on Sunday 29th November. All are welcome!
A few other recent links for inspiration on climate action:
With peaceful steps on the Earth,
Wake Up UK friends
http://plumvillage.org/buddhist-insights-climate-quotes/
On 29th October, Thich Nhat Hanh, together with fourteen other most senior Buddhist leaders including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, have issued a landmark international Buddhist Statement on Climate Change announced to world leaders. The statement calls upon these leaders to adopt an effective climate change agreement at the upcoming UN negotiations in Paris (COP21) starting 30 November. This is the first time so many Buddhist luminaries have come together on any global issue to speak with one voice.
Read the statement here where you are also invited to add you name to endorse it. Read the news article coming from the Plum Village website.
Please also see the ‘Time to Act is Now: A Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change’ which the GBCCC statement endorses as well.
Wake Up London is a community of individuals practicing together to promote peace and reconciliation within ourselves and for our planet. We’d love to highlight what’s happening within our community, and how the practice is positively impacting our society.
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