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Calendar and Newsletter Please attend an orientation (see dates below or check the Monthly Orientation webpage) before attending other activities. If you cannot make it to an orientation, call the Priory at 541-344-7377 to make an appointment for meditation instruction at another time.
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As summer begins, we both relax and do more, trying to make good use of the longer days. Meditators can make good use of this change in rhythm by putting some extra effort into every-minute meditation, as well as being mindful to meditate in informal settings. The challenges and difficulties of life do not arrive according to a schedule or calendar, so increasing our skill at taking refuge in the Three Treasures in all circumstances is invaluable. We will start workdays again on the guest residence in June. We still have the trim on the back side to paint, as well as to paint the porch and breezeway. Once that’s done, our contractors can work on the gutters. The multi-purpose room and the storeroom also need some work. In June, workdays on Saturdays will begin at the usual time, 10:30am, after meditation and morning service. In mid-July, we’ll shift to 8:30am and end around 1:00pm with lunch. Two monastic guests will visit in June. Rev. Master Mugo, our Order’s lay minister advisor, will possibly be here the first weekend, and Rev. Berwyn, from Throssel Hole Abbey in England, who is also our Journal editor, will be here the following weekend. We hope they’ll be able to offer Dharma talks on the Sundays they’re here—8th and 15th. Our joint picnic with the Portland Priory congregation will be Saturday, July 26th, at Silver Falls State Park east of Salem. This is always a fun time to be with other Buddhists, enjoy a picnic, and explore the many hiking trails around the park. Tentatively, we’ll celebrate in July the Kshtigarbha (Jizo) Festival, when the children of the temple help with the ceremony. We’ll be in touch with parents and see what we can work out with their summer schedules.
Change of email address: Please change your email address book
for the Priory to: (* Eugene Buddhist Priory uses a convention to protect email addresses from web crawlers that generate email spam by rendering them in the following way: name@organization.org is written: name at organization dot org. When your email program opens you will need to replace 'at' with @ and replace 'dot' with a period) In gratitude: Thank you to everyone for the Wesak gifts of the framing of the hell scroll, the book on Jizo, and the chair for the prior’s study. Your generosity is always appreciated. Alms Bowl: We could use help with several things around the temple if anyone wishes to offer: 1) updating our website (we have a new interface with our server which makes it easy); composting (in summer, about ½ hour each week); and running errands in town (any help appreciated). Please take good care, and best wishes in the Dharma,
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