Please join us in FCM's virtual meditation hall for Morning Meditation, offered Monday through Friday from 7:00 to 8:00 am. All meditation includes some guidance by our teacher Fred or one of his senior students. Links to join Morning Meditation, plus any announcements of cancellations due to retreats or other events, are found on our home page at floridamindfulness.org.

Our schedule for Morning Meditation is as follows.

6:45 - 7:00 am Opening Zoom and settling into seat
7:00 - 7:25 am Sitting meditation (25 minutes)
7:25 - 7:35 am Walking meditation (10 minutes)
7:35 - 7:55 am Sitting meditation (20 minutes)
7:55 - 8:00 am Setting intentions for the day

Fred will be offering personal interviews via Zoom on the following days for members:

• Tuesday, January 19 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
• Thursday, January 21 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Personal interviews are a time to receive teacher support and guidance for practice.

If you are interested in having an interview with Fred next week on either of these days, please register by Thursday, January 14.  If you can only meet in the first hour or second hour, or on one day or the other, please indicate that in your registration.

Once all the requests are in, we will create the schedule and you will be notified of your interview time.

If there isn’t room available on either of the days, you will be placed on a waiting list, and we will let you know if something opens up or if other times are available.

If you have any questions, please contact Betsy Arizu at barizu@yahoo.com

Developing concentration is essential for cultivating a mind that is stable, present and at ease. We use a variety of concentration practices and objects (e.g. the breath, the body, sound, and pebbles) to train the mind to stay in the present moment rather than be carried away by discursive thinking, both in formal meditation and in our daily lives. Leader: Angie Parrish

All of our Weekday evening Virtual Meditations are on Zoom, Monday through Thursday from 7:30-8:45 pm. The Zoom link is on our home page. Everyone is welcome. 

We look forward to sharing these evenings with you! And we appreciate your feedback and ideas.

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

The center piece for meditation and discussion on Monday night will be the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings. We will offer a formal recitation ceremony once a month, and on alternate Mondays meditate and explore together how we can act ethically, wisely and with ease in this turbulent world of ours. Leaders: Bill Mac Millen and Marilyn Warlick

All of our Weekday evening Virtual Meditations are on Zoom, Monday through Thursday from 7:30-8:45 pm. The Zoom link is on our home page. Everyone is welcome. 

We look forward to sharing these evenings with you! And we appreciate your feedback and ideas.

Fred will be offering personal interviews via Zoom on the following days for members:

• Tuesday, January 26 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
• Saturday, January 30 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 am

Personal interviews are a time to receive teacher support and guidance for practice.

If you are interested in having an interview with Fred next week on either of these days, please register by Thursday, January 21.  If you can only meet in the first hour or second hour, or on one day or the other, please indicate that in your registration.

Once all the requests are in, we will create the schedule and you will be notified of your interview time.

If there isn’t room available on either of the days, you will be placed on a waiting list, and we will let you know if something opens up or if other times are available.

If you have any questions, please contact Betsy Arizu at barizu@yahoo.com

This weekly meditation group will be held Tuesdays on Zoom and is open to everyone in recovery: AA, NA, Alanon, and other programs. It is also for those trying to spend less time on the internet, Facebook, TV, shopping, etc. Please join us to learn more about the 11th Step (Prayer and Meditation) and how to make it part of your daily life. Meditation is easy to learn and will help you cultivate a rich and rewarding spiritual practice, one that will support you in realizing the promises.

People who practice meditation report reduced stress, greater peace, more clarity and happiness in their lives. They sleep better and have an increased ability to concentrate. These are some of the benefits of adding meditation to your recovery program.

Everybody is welcome, whether you are just starting out or have been meditating for a while. The evenings will be led by teachers with a foundation in both meditation and recovery.

ZOOM: Please join us online five minutes before the start at 6:30 pm.

Video Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86074740220

or

Dial-In #: 1-646-558-8656

Meeting ID #: 860 747 40220

If you have any questions please contact Eleanor at ececil1@verizon.net 

Join our teacher Fred for meditation and practices for generating an open heart. Traditional practices for cultivating loving kindness and compassion are offered in the context of bringing this open heart into our daily lives.

All of our Weekday evening Virtual Meditations are on Zoom, Monday through Thursday from 7:30-8:45 pm. The Zoom link is on our home page. Everyone is welcome. 

We look forward to sharing these evenings with you! And we appreciate your feedback and ideas.

Developing concentration is essential for cultivating a mind that is stable, present and at ease. We use a variety of concentration practices and objects (e.g. the breath, the body, sound, and pebbles) to train the mind to stay in the present moment rather than be carried away by discursive thinking, both in formal meditation and in our daily lives. Leader: Angie Parrish

All of our Weekday evening Virtual Meditations are on Zoom, Monday through Thursday from 7:30-8:45 pm. The Zoom link is on our home page. Everyone is welcome. 

We look forward to sharing these evenings with you! And we appreciate your feedback and ideas.

In this online session for FCM members, we will be using our minds, senses and art supplies to do simple projects that deepen our mindfulness. We also will be sharing deeply with others the thoughts, feelings and insights that arise. Each class will begin with an exercise to help us to become centered and then move on to an art activity that will help us to develop the qualities of the awakened heart.

The intention of this offering is to allow people to experience practice in a different way. All sessions will be grounded in mindfulness. These classes do not attempt to teach techniques making art but do use art as a conduit to practice.

Instructions and supplies on how to prepare will be in your confirmation email. Because participants are sequestering at home, materials will be those commonly found around your house. Please join the Zoom call with everything you need 10 minutes before the class so that you have time to settle before we begin.

Beth Schroeder, founder of CAWM, is a lifelong artist and former Arts in Healing coordinator for Naples Healthcare System. She has been practicing Buddhism since 1997, when she took the 5 Precepts with Thich Nhat Hanh at the Omega Institute. She has been a student of Fred and member of the Florida Community of Mindfulness since 2003.  

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

SAVE THE DATE

Members and friends of the Florida Community of Mindfulness are invited to join in an online community update and installation of sangha leaders. The event will take place at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, January 31. 

Although the pandemic of 2020 brought about many challenges, our teacher and sangha leaders responded with an expanded menu of online meditations, classes, retreats and more. Our foundation of selfless service has allowed FCM to remain strong and vital while supporting many people in their practice throughout this past year. 

This update is intended to highlight and celebrate these shared benefits and to offer a look ahead as envisioned by our teacher, leadership council and board of directors. Those serving on the leadership council and the board will also be installed as part of the program.

Video Link -  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3296243465?pwd=bUo1aFVQblhhbUFpZmZTci9EK0daZz09

Dial-In # 1-646-558-8656
Meeting ID # 329 624 3465

If you have not previously practiced online with FCM, please click here to review Zoom Tips and Etiquette.

Please join us in FCM's virtual meditation hall for Morning Meditation, offered Monday through Friday from 7:00 to 8:00 am. All meditation includes some guidance by our teacher Fred or one of his senior students. Links to join Morning Meditation, plus any announcements of cancellations due to retreats or other events, are found on our home page at floridamindfulness.org.

Our schedule for Morning Meditation is as follows.

6:45 - 7:00 am Opening Zoom and settling into seat
7:00 - 7:25 am Sitting meditation (25 minutes)
7:25 - 7:35 am Walking meditation (10 minutes)
7:35 - 7:55 am Sitting meditation (20 minutes)
7:55 - 8:00 am Setting intentions for the day

Beginning the week of February 1, Fred will offer a four-week on-line class to FCM members on The Profound Psychology of Yogacara. Many consider Yogacara to be the pinnacle in the development of Buddhist philosophical and psychological thought in India and is the basis of the Mahayana Buddhist meditative traditions, and the teachings on karma, consciousness and liberation. It posits that it is our mind or consciousness that constructs our reality, and not the events of the ‘external world’. Although the meaning we give to events and our emotional responses to life are all arising in our minds, we mistakenly believe that our thoughts and beliefs about life are the same as life itself.

The depth psychology of Yogacara is based on viewing the mind as having eight levels. It clearly portrays the inner processes that lead to our fundamental misperception of the true reality of life and explains why the sense of a separate self constantly contaminates our life experience. It shows why through ignorance we continually water unwholesome historical seeds of suffering in our storehouse consciousness, and teaches us the way to transform our lives at the base.

In this four-week on-line class, Fred will offer teachings and analytical meditations to help participants understand Yogacarin psychology of mind and to apply it to their own experience. Transformation and freedom are the heart of Yogacara. This class will meet the needs for both laypeople and professionals to deepen their understanding of the basic tenets of Buddhist psychology.

The class will meet on zoom twice weekly, Mondays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 pm for four weeks. During each class, Fred will be primarily providing direct teachings explaining the core tenets of Yogacara to help participants understand and integrate what is being read in the assigned readings. There will also be an open forum with Fred each week on Saturday morning from 8-9 am, which is recommended but not required, and will be an opportunity for participants to ask questions about the text and practices recommended within it.

The only required reading will be Living Yogacara by Tagawa Shun'ei. In addition, there are several no-cost translations of Yogacara texts to be found online, as well as several commentaries by modern Buddhist teachers. Thich Nhat Hanh’s, Understanding Our Mind, is his commentary on the great Indian Yogararin Vasubandhu’s Thirty Verses.

The fee for this four-week class is $40 and teacher Dana is at the discretion of each student.

Workshop Instructor

Fred Eppsteiner has been a student of the psychology of Buddhist meditation for over 40 years, and was a psychotherapist for more than 30 years. He has trained extensively in the Buddhist meditative traditions the U.S. and Asia. He received permission to teach from Thich Nhat Hanh in 1994 and is the editor of two books: The Path of Compassion and Interbeing.

Classes:  5:30-6:30 pm

Week 1:   February 1 and 4

Week 2:   February 8 and 11

Week 3.   February 15 and 18

Week 4:   February 22 and 25

Forums:  8:00-9:00 am

Week 1:   February 6

Week 2:   February 13

Week 3:   February 20

Week 4:   February 27

* Florida Community of Mindfulness, Inc. is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling to provide continuing education credits through CE Provider # 50-14766. Total in-class time is 8 hours.

Mindfulness Institute Grievance Procedure

Mail a statement describing your complaint to: Director of Continuing Education, 6501 N. Nebraska Avenue, Tampa, FL 33604.

Questions? E-mail us at info@floridamindfulness.org or call 813-237-0746.

The center piece for meditation and discussion on Monday night will be the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings. We will offer a formal recitation ceremony once a month, and on alternate Mondays meditate and explore together how we can act ethically, wisely and with ease in this turbulent world of ours. Leaders: Bill Mac Millen and Marilyn Warlick

All of our Weekday evening Virtual Meditations are on Zoom, Monday through Thursday from 7:30-8:45 pm. The Zoom link is on our home page. Everyone is welcome. 

We look forward to sharing these evenings with you! And we appreciate your feedback and ideas.

This weekly meditation group will be held Tuesdays on Zoom and is open to everyone in recovery: AA, NA, Alanon, and other programs. It is also for those trying to spend less time on the internet, Facebook, TV, shopping, etc. Please join us to learn more about the 11th Step (Prayer and Meditation) and how to make it part of your daily life. Meditation is easy to learn and will help you cultivate a rich and rewarding spiritual practice, one that will support you in realizing the promises.

People who practice meditation report reduced stress, greater peace, more clarity and happiness in their lives. They sleep better and have an increased ability to concentrate. These are some of the benefits of adding meditation to your recovery program.

Everybody is welcome, whether you are just starting out or have been meditating for a while. The evenings will be led by teachers with a foundation in both meditation and recovery.

ZOOM: Please join us online five minutes before the start at 6:30 pm.

Video Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86074740220

or

Dial-In #: 1-646-558-8656

Meeting ID #: 860 747 40220

If you have any questions please contact Eleanor at ececil1@verizon.net 

Join our teacher Fred for meditation and practices for generating an open heart. Traditional practices for cultivating loving kindness and compassion are offered in the context of bringing this open heart into our daily lives.

All of our Weekday evening Virtual Meditations are on Zoom, Monday through Thursday from 7:30-8:45 pm. The Zoom link is on our home page. Everyone is welcome. 

We look forward to sharing these evenings with you! And we appreciate your feedback and ideas.

Please note: FCM Members can access the Death Cafe web page and the Zoom links by clicking here.

Developing concentration is essential for cultivating a mind that is stable, present and at ease. We use a variety of concentration practices and objects (e.g. the breath, the body, sound, and pebbles) to train the mind to stay in the present moment rather than be carried away by discursive thinking, both in formal meditation and in our daily lives. Leader: Angie Parrish

All of our Weekday evening Virtual Meditations are on Zoom, Monday through Thursday from 7:30-8:45 pm. The Zoom link is on our home page. Everyone is welcome. 

We look forward to sharing these evenings with you! And we appreciate your feedback and ideas.