Charlotte Community of Mindfulness

Charlotte Community of Mindfulness

In the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

Newcomers are welcome. No experience needed. Please wear comfortable clothing. The floor is carpeted. We have a few extra meditation cushions and benches, as well as chairs.

We meet Sunday mornings and Thursday evenings in Room 27 at Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. The church is located at 1931 Selwyn Avenue, directly across Selwyn Avenue from Queens University. Parking is available on street and in the church parking lots.

Here are two sets of directions to the room once you arrive at the church. On Thursday nights, particularly during the summer when much of the church is locked, you may find it easier to enter through the Cornwell Center doors.

Sunday mornings and School Year Thursdays: The Education Building sits immediately behind the church sanctuary. Our room is in the basement. Enter through the doors facing the back of the sanctuary. Go to your right, where you will find an elevator or stairs. Go down one flight to the basement. If using the elevator, turn right when you get off and go to the end of the hall. If using the stairs, make a left-hand u-turn out of the stairwell and go to the end of the hall. Room 27 is marked with its number and a sign that says, “Meditation.”

Summer Thursday evenings: Park in the Cornwell Center  lot across from Queens. Enter the lobby through the main doors of the Cornwell Center. Go down the first hall to the left. Follow the hall until it ends. You will be in the Education building lobby. Continue to the left until the lobby ends and look for the stairwell. Go downstairs. Once at the basement level take a left and then an immediate left down that hall. Go straight. You will reach the Meditation Room before the next bend.

Practice Schedule 2008-2009

Regular Gatherings:

Sunday:

8:30-9:30 am (period one):
25 minutes sitting meditation,
20 minutes walking meditation
Reading
Dharma Sharing

9:45-10:45  am (period two):
Study and practice according to the schedule below.

Thursday:

6:00-7:00 PM
20 minutes sitting meditation
10 minutes walking meditation
Reading and Discussion

The last Sunday of each month and the following Thursday, we enjoy a Mindfulness Trainings Recitation Ceremony.

January 2009 Schedule

NO GATHERING ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2009

Sunday, January 4/Thursday, January 8

v   Extended Meditation

Sunday, January 11

v   DVD of Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, followed by discussion

Sunday, January 18

v   Continue DVD of Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, followed by discussion

Sunday, January 25/Thursday, January 29

v   Mindfulness Training Recitation Ceremony: reciting the Five & Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings

February 2009

Sunday, February 1

v   Planning Meeting for March-June 2009

Sunday, February 8

v   Tea Ceremony

Sunday, February 15

v   Chanting Practice

Sunday, February 22/Thursday, February 26

v   Mindfulness Training Recitation Ceremony: reciting the Five & Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings

March-June 2009 Schedule will be posted after planning session.