Many people have found that interacting with Fred in a small group setting has been of great benefit for themselves and for others on the call. This FCM Member Forum is an opportunity to ask Fred questions and receive guidance for your practice in the group setting. Please plan to meditate online with the broader Sangha from 7:00-8:00 am, just prior to the Forum, if possible. There will be room for approximately 20 people on this call. If you have any questions please contact Betsy at barizu@yahoo.com. A Zoom Link for the call will be sent next week after registration is complete.

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Monthly Orientation

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Weekly mindfulness meditation and teachings.  Please visit Naples Sangha for more information.

Yoga House Studio is located at Peacock Court, 6200 Trail Blvd., Naples, Florida 34108. Peacock Court is across U.S. 41 from Barnes & Noble. Wheelchair access is available.

Welcome to our Everyday Simple Vegan Cooking classes. We are so glad you will be joining us in our kitchens to share easy vegan recipes. 

The classes are scheduled for three Thursdays in June. We will start promptly at 10:00 and finish at 11:00 a.m. Please plan to arrive at least 5 minutes early so you will be ready for our starting bell and gatha. 

Mark your calendars for Thursday, June 4, 18, and 25.

Our menu for each cooking class is listed below:

• Evelyn Haseman’s kitchen on Thursday, June 4, Vegan BBQ Black Bean Sandwich with Coleslaw
• Rosy Sedhain’s kitchen on Thursday, June 18, Red Lentil Dahl, Tomato Achar Salsa, Napali Potato Salad
• Brandy Kidd’s kitchen on Thursday, June 25, Tacos and Gazpacho Soup

We will be sending you reminders for each class which will include the Zoom information and the vegan recipes we will be using. Please contact Evelyn Haseman at evelynhaseman@gmail.com with any questions.

We look forward to sharing these simple vegan dishes with you.

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Weekly mindfulness meditation and teachings.  Please visit Naples Sangha for more information.

Yoga House Studio is located at Peacock Court, 6200 Trail Blvd., Naples, Florida 34108. Peacock Court is across U.S. 41 from Barnes & Noble. Wheelchair access is available.

A Five-Day Online Wisdom Path Retreat for FCM Members

Tuesday, June 9, 7:00 PM 

through

Sunday, June 14, 12:00 PM

Since the time of the Buddha, countless teachers have pointed out the innate simplicity and spontaneous wisdom of our true mind. Unfettered by conditioning and emotional reactivity, this mind has the capacity to guide and support us spontaneously in living an awakened life. Using meditative texts, poems, and songs from the Zen, Chan, and Great Perfections traditions, Fred will guide participants into the world of the Buddha Mind and show how to integrate this understanding in all circumstances of daily life. 

This retreat is appropriate for those FCM members who have previously participated in a Wisdom Path Intensive or retreat, or for those who are walking the Dharma Path and feel ready for a deeper exploration of the nature of mind through meditation.   For more information on our Three Paths of Practice (Mindful Living, Dharma and Wisdom Paths) see our website.  

The retreat registration fee is $125. The fee covers administrative, facility and incidental expenses connected to the retreat, but does not include any offerings to the teacher. Participants will have an opportunity to make an offering for the teachings at the conclusion of the retreat. Retreat Scholarships are available. Please click here  to see FCM’s Retreat Scholarship Policy and for an Application, which needs to be submitted prior to the registration deadline for this retreat.

The retreat begins on Tuesday evening, June 9 at 7:00 pm and ends on Sunday, June, 14 at noon.  We ask that participants plan to participate in the entire retreat, and to do so with the same energy of commitment and dedication as one would bring to an in-person residential retreat. We will be sending you a retreat schedule to follow and practice guidelines to help you create conditions in your home to support your retreat. 

The retreat will include  3-4 Practice Sessions for meditation daily, Dharma talks and instruction, meetings with Fred, and group sharing, along with "off line" time for meals & rest, out door walking, personal practice, and time to take care of essential household tasks and responsibilities. If you cannot be fully present for all of the days of the retreat, within the flexibility of the schedule as described above, please do not register.

The last day to register for the retreat is May 15.

Please note that your registration does not guarantee acceptance into the retreat. Once registration has closed, all who registered will be considered for acceptance into the retreat. You will be notified if you have been accepted into the retreat within a few days of the closing of registration.

The retreat registrar will be sending additional information to accepted registrants before the retreat including daily schedules, Zoom instructions and suggestions to help prepare you for a meaningful retreat experience from your home.

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Weekly mindfulness meditation and teachings.  Please visit Naples Sangha for more information.

Yoga House Studio is located at Peacock Court, 6200 Trail Blvd., Naples, Florida 34108. Peacock Court is across U.S. 41 from Barnes & Noble. Wheelchair access is available.

Awareness of death and its inevitability is a key part of our Buddhist practice and yet the awareness often fades into the background with our busy lives. Death Cafes for FCM members via Zoom are monthly drop-in opportunities to talk with other FCM members about death and dying. They will be held on the third Monday of each month from 12:00-1:30 pm Eastern time via Zoom teleconference. The link for the Zoom line is located on our website in "Resources>Member Resources and Directory>Death Café." Click here to access this page. Remember you must be logged-in in order to view this page.

Participating in Death Cafes will help members deepen their personal awareness of death, normalize conversations about death within our community, and make it easier to talk with our families and friends about this “elephant in the living room” fact of life. Through deep sharing and listening and open ended discussion, we will be able to reflect on the subjects of impermanence and death, and talk about whatever is on our minds, including our concerns, fears, questions and insights surrounding the topic of end of life.

Death Cafes have become a widespread phenomena in Europe, America and Australia. Based on the work of  Bernard Crettaz, a Swiss sociologist and anthropologist, and championed by Jon Underwood in England, the basic idea of Death Cafes is that it is extremely valuable to simply talk about death.

You can drop-in to a Death Café for a one time experience or plan to come each month to talk about the important topic of death and dying. Please note that the group gatherings are intended as discussion groups rather than as grief support or counseling sessions. Please join us!

If you have any questions, please contact the facilitator, Carol Meyer at revcarol1@earthlink.net.

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Please join us for an FCM Member Forum with Bill MacMillen on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 pm at Inner Light Center, 4810 Hickory Wood Dr, Naples, FL 34119.

The morning will include meditation and an extended period to ask Bill questions regarding personal practice, mindfulness practice, the new Practice Center in Tampa, or other questions dealing with Mindful Living. Questions may be asked spontaneously during the forum or placed in the bell to be read aloud.

If you have your own cushion, please bring it with you. Some additional cushions, as well as chairs will be available for those who need them.

For more information you can contact - Anthony Pollitt, fanthonypollitt@gmail.com

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Weekly mindfulness meditation and teachings.  Please visit Naples Sangha for more information.

Yoga House Studio is located at Peacock Court, 6200 Trail Blvd., Naples, Florida 34108. Peacock Court is across U.S. 41 from Barnes & Noble. Wheelchair access is available.

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Monthly Orientation

CANCELLED AT THIS TIME

Weekly mindfulness meditation and teachings.  Please visit Naples Sangha for more information.

Yoga House Studio is located at Peacock Court, 6200 Trail Blvd., Naples, Florida 34108. Peacock Court is across U.S. 41 from Barnes & Noble. Wheelchair access is available.

Weekly mindfulness meditation and teachings.  Please visit Naples Sangha for more information.

Yoga House Studio is located at Peacock Court, 6200 Trail Blvd., Naples, Florida 34108. Peacock Court is across U.S. 41 from Barnes & Noble. Wheelchair access is available.

July 6 - August 31, 2020

Our year-long intensive with the practices of Shantideva’s The Bodhicaryavatara continues. Desiring to live a life informed by the desire for liberation from an existence of narrow self-centeredness, constricted emotionality, and underlying dissatisfaction in order to better connect to, understand, love, and bring only goodness to our fellow beings, we practice together with this wonderful text as our guide, carrying forward on this path of the bodhisattva or the ‘path of the awakened and compassionate warrior’.

This Intensive is open to FCM members who participated in the Winter/Spring Living Intensive, The Path of the Enlightened Being, although members with previous experience in studying with this text in FCM may join with Fred’s approval. 

Over the summer we will be studying and practicing with Chapter 6, Patience. Additionally, this will be an opportunity for self-guided study: for each of us as individuals to look back to the previous chapters, and pick one or two practices for self- exploration and study each week. 

We will continue to utilize assigned readings in The Bodhicaryavatara and in recommended commentarial texts.  Bi-weekly group mentoring video-conference calls on Zoom will provide individual guidance and support. These mentor calls will alternate between being led by Diane Powell and Ken Lenington, both senior students of Fred. Three Dharma talks (possibly more) given by Fred will be offered to participants via Zoom. 

Participant Commitments

• A minimum of one-hour of daily formal meditative and/or other practices related to this intensive.
• Reading the Dharma texts that will be assigned to participants.
• Participation in bi-weekly Mentoring Group Zoom calls with Diane and Ken during the intensive.
• Being present for the Zoom Dharma Talks with Fred. 
• Attending all the practice periods of your Sangha during the Intensive, as possible.

Mentoring

As in the Winter/Spring intensive, each Mentoring Group will meet every two weeks, alternating between Diane and Ken as mentors.  The Mentoring Mentor Group composition and schedule will continue as they have been during the Winter/Spring intensive. If you need to change the group you are in, are new to this intensive, or if you have questions about the mentoring groups, please contact Diane at 813- 334-8888.

Registration will close on June 5. Out of consideration for our intensive organizers, and to ensure your acceptance into the intensive, please register immediately or mark the registration closing date in your calendar now.

If you have any questions about this intensive, please contact Ken or Diane. Contact information:

• Ken: kenlen108@gmail.com   828-768-1143
• Diane: diane.powell2010@gmail.com   813-334-8888

In our modern age, many of us find ourselves suffering in various ways due to our relationship and involvement with digital media. Now, with COVID-19, quarantines, and stay-at-home orders in place, constant digital media stimulation, endless screen time, and over-consumption of information has become the new norm for many. With so much screen time, sufferings such as burn-out, anxiety, and feeling imbalanced have become even more prevalent in our lives. From his very first Dharma talk on the Four Noble Truths, The Buddha taught that if we truly want to free ourselves from our suffering, we must first look deeply in order to understand the nature and the causes of that suffering. Only then can we skillfully create changes which will remove the suffering and bring about well being.

In this online workshop, we will look deeply in order to understand what is really going on in our relationship with digital media and the suffering that arises from it. Bryan will offer reflections and guided meditations to help us look into our own experience in order to see how the use of this technology is conditioning our minds and to uncover the underlying, and often unconscious motivations and misperceptions which drive and motivate our behavior. Bryan will also offer teachings and practices from the Buddhist tradition which will strengthen our ability to keep our minds nourished and fresh throughout the day, strengthen awareness of our behavior and motivations, and empower us to transform our conditioning around technology.

Bryan Hindert has been following the Buddhist path since 2008, when a strong desire to make changes in his life and to develop a better relationship with his mind drew him to the Florida Community of Mindfulness. This path has helped Bryan to transform his life in profound ways and continues to be a source of guidance, support, and joy in all of his endeavors. In addition to helping to develop and lead Wake Up Tampa Bay, a mindfulness and meditation group for people in their 20s and 30s, Bryan has served by teaching classes and presenting on mindfulness and on Buddhism, leading intensive practice periods, and serving as the Assistant to the Teacher.

Weekly mindfulness meditation and teachings.  Please visit Naples Sangha for more information.

Yoga House Studio is located at Peacock Court, 6200 Trail Blvd., Naples, Florida 34108. Peacock Court is across U.S. 41 from Barnes & Noble. Wheelchair access is available.

Weekly mindfulness meditation and teachings.  Please visit Naples Sangha for more information.

Yoga House Studio is located at Peacock Court, 6200 Trail Blvd., Naples, Florida 34108. Peacock Court is across U.S. 41 from Barnes & Noble. Wheelchair access is available.

Awareness of death and its inevitability is a key part of our Buddhist practice and yet the awareness often fades into the background with our busy lives. Death Cafes for FCM members via Zoom are monthly drop-in opportunities to talk with other FCM members about death and dying. They will be held on the third Monday of each month from 12:00-1:30 pm Eastern time via Zoom teleconference. The link for the Zoom line is located on our website in "Resources>Member Resources and Directory>Death Café." Click here to access this page. Remember you must be logged-in in order to view this page.

Participating in Death Cafes will help members deepen their personal awareness of death, normalize conversations about death within our community, and make it easier to talk with our families and friends about this “elephant in the living room” fact of life. Through deep sharing and listening and open ended discussion, we will be able to reflect on the subjects of impermanence and death, and talk about whatever is on our minds, including our concerns, fears, questions and insights surrounding the topic of end of life.

Death Cafes have become a widespread phenomena in Europe, America and Australia. Based on the work of  Bernard Crettaz, a Swiss sociologist and anthropologist, and championed by Jon Underwood in England, the basic idea of Death Cafes is that it is extremely valuable to simply talk about death.

You can drop-in to a Death Café for a one time experience or plan to come each month to talk about the important topic of death and dying. Please note that the group gatherings are intended as discussion groups rather than as grief support or counseling sessions. Please join us!

If you have any questions, please contact the facilitator, Carol Meyer at revcarol1@earthlink.net.

Monthly Orientation

Weekly mindfulness meditation and teachings.  Please visit Naples Sangha for more information.

Yoga House Studio is located at Peacock Court, 6200 Trail Blvd., Naples, Florida 34108. Peacock Court is across U.S. 41 from Barnes & Noble. Wheelchair access is available.

Weekly mindfulness meditation and teachings.  Please visit Naples Sangha for more information.

Yoga House Studio is located at Peacock Court, 6200 Trail Blvd., Naples, Florida 34108. Peacock Court is across U.S. 41 from Barnes & Noble. Wheelchair access is available.