Dear Friends, 

This coming Sunday, February 1, you’ll be able to join the WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please respond to this email.

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If you wish to join us via Zoom on Sunday instead, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll recite the Five Mindfulness Trainings, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll also start a dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hanh called The Silence of Life.

If you’d like to join us online but don’t have the Zoom log-in information yet, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you on Sunday!  🙏🪷

Love, Steve

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, January 25th, please join WMC for our evening of online mindfulness practice.

After sitting meditation we’ll read Beginning Anew, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll watch the final section of this wonderful dharma talk about responding to the suffering in and around us.

If you’d like to join us this Sunday evening but don’t have the Zoom log-in details yet, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday  

🙏🪷

Love, Steve

Dear Friends, 

This evening, Sunday, January 18th, you’ll be able to join the WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please respond to this email.

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If you wish to join us via Zoom this evening instead, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Refuge Chant, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This evening, we’ll reach the concluding sections of this wonderful dharma talk about responding to the suffering in and around us

If you’d like to join us and haven’t before, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoom log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this evening  🙏🪷

Love, Steve

Dear Friends, 

Please join us tomorrow evening, Sunday January 11,  at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Five Awarenesses, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue watching this wonderful dharma talk about responding to the suffering in and around us. We are getting close to the conclusion of their teaching.

If you haven’t joined us online before and don’t know the log-in address, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com for the details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website.

We’ll see you tomorrow, Sunday! ❤️

Your Practice Council

Dear Friends, 

WMC has been running a special series of classes, reflecting on the Five Mindfulness Trainings and their significance in our daily lives. This coming Sunday evening, December 14, we will hold the final online class in this series, focused on the Fifth Mindfulness Training, Nourishment and Healing. 

The series has been in preparation for the beautiful transmission ceremony of the Trainings, which will take place on Saturday January 3rd, 2026, together with other sanghas from the region.

This Sunday, we will begin with a sitting meditation as usual. Then Jude and Nigel will lead us in a session of contemplation on the fifth training. After their introduction and reflections, we will open up for dharma sharing on issues related to this training and consumption in all its forms.

If you would like to join us and it will be your first time, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we will send you the Zoom log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you on Sunday

❤️

Love, Steve

Dear Friends, 

This coming Sunday evening, December 7th, you’ll be able to join WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please respond to this email.

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If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll recite the five Mindfulness Trainings, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue watching this wonderful dharma talk about responding to the suffering in and around us.

This Sunday evening you can log in to the WMC Zoom meeting at this link:

https://zoom.us/j/225148471?pwd=eU9IcWZON3p3eStnMUcvN2JIdnQzUT09

(This same link will remain in effect for all WMC Sunday Zoom gatherings until further notice - please be sure to update your device to the most current version of Zoom in order to use the link above)

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website’s giving page.

Dear friends,

This is a warm invitation for young adults aged 18-35 (at heart) to join the newly organized Wake Up DC Sangha's first practice session on Saturday, December 6th, 2025 from 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM.

Practice will be held at Opening Heart Mindfulness Community (Studio 3):

3812 Northampton St NW

Washington, D.C. 20015

Program of events:

2:15 - 2:30: Arrival

2:30 - 2:40: Introduction to practice

2:40 - 3:00: Guided sitting meditation

3:00 - 3:20: Walking meditation

3:20 - 3:40: Dharma talk (short video or reading)

3:40 - 4:30 Dharma Sharing

No prior meditation experience necessary! Friends are asked to arrive prior to the start of seated meditation. Cushions will be provided.

For any questions, please contact wakeupdc@googlegroups.com

Dear Friends,

Please join us this coming Sunday evening, November 30, at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read Nourishing Happiness, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue watching this wonderful dharma talk about responding to the suffering in and around us.

If you’d like to join us, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoom log-in information.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website.

We’ll see you on Sunday! ❤️

Love, Steve 

Dear friends,

During this time that has been especially trying for our community, three DC-area sanghas are joining together to hold a Community Peace Meditation.

Please join us for this in-person event, a collaboration of the Opening Heart Mindfulness Community, the Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center, and the Washington Mindfulness Community. This will be an opportunity to build community and to bring peace to each other, the region, and the world.

This will take place on Sunday November 23, from 2-5pm, at Seekers' Church in Takoma Park, home to many of our joint events over the years. Open this link to find out more and - most importantly - to register.

With a smile 

Eric

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this coming Sunday, November 23rd at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read Beginning Anew, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue watching this wonderful dharma talk by Brothers Phap Huu, and Phap Linh, as well as Sister Dedication, in the form of a panel, discussing active responses to suffering. If you'd like to join us, please write to wmcsangha@gmail.com and we'll send you the Zoom link details. 

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere). One-off dana as well as monthly scheduled donations can be scheduled at our website.

We’ll see you on Sunday! ❤️

Love, Steve 

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, November 16th, you’ll be able to join WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please respond to this email.

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If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Refuge Chant, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll contine watching this wonderful dharma talk about responding to the suffering in and around us.

If you’d like to join us, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday  🙏🪷

Love, Steve

Dear Friends

The WMC Book Club will meet again this coming Tuesday, November 11, at 7pm, for an hour. We are reading the Miracle of Mindfulness, slowly (mindfully!), each time reading a small section and then discussing it together. You don’t need to have read the book before, you really don’t even need to have a copy, you just need to show up.

Here is the link to join us on Tuesday evening at 7pm. We hope to see you!

Patti

Dear Friends, 

Please join us on Sunday, November 9 at 6:30pm ET for our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

This will be the second special online evening in our series of teachings and reflections on the Five Mindfulness Trainings. It is in preparation for the beautiful transmission ceremony of the Trainings, which will take place on Saturday, January 3rd, 2026.

We will begin as usual with a sitting meditation. Then Eric and Sharlene will lead us in this second session, focused on the third and fourth Mindfulness Trainings: True Love, and Loving Speech and Deep Listening.

If you’d like to join us, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoom log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you on Sunday 

❤️

Love, Steve

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, November 2nd, you’ll be able to join WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com

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If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll have our monthly recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue watching this wonderful talk about responding to the suffering in and around us.

If you’d like to join us online but don’t know how, write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the log-in information.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you Sunday! ❤️

Love, Steve

The Washington Mindfulness Community’s annual Evening of Remembrance is a special evening that allows sangha members to reflect on and honor the lives of our deceased loved ones. You are invited to bring a photo, memento, story, song or poem to share with the sangha as you speak about your loved one. This is always a beautiful and moving evening, and we very much hope you can attend.

We will open the Zoom room at 6:15 pm ET with music, and begin our sitting meditation at 6:30 pm ET. We ask you to join with your camera on and your audio off; we ask you to sit in dimly lit rooms and use candles for light. The evening will end by 8pm.

You can log in via our regular link. If you haven’t joined us by Zoom before, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the log-in details.

Warm smiles,

WMC Practice Council

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, October 19th, you’ll be able to join WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

*since the weather is still (slightly!) warm, the monks have requested that we refrain from wearing short pants/dresses, or low cut/sleeveless tops in the Dharma Hall. 🙏

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please respond to this email.

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If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Refuge Chant, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll contine watching this wonderful dharma talk about responding to the suffering in and around us.

If you’d like to join us online, please write to wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you login details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday  🙏🪷

Love, Steve

Dear Friends

This coming Sunday, October 12, we will have a special online evening, beginning a series of teaching and focused reflections on the Five Mindfulness Trainings. This is in preparation for the beautiful transmission ceremony of the Trainings, which will take place on January 6.

We will begin the evening as usual with a sitting meditation. Jeanine and Shelagh will then lead us in this first session of reflection, focused on the first and second Mindfulness Trainings, Reverence for Life and True Happiness. You may want to have a copy of the Trainings with you.

The second session of reflection will be on November 9, focused on the third and fourth Mindfulness Trainings, True Love and Loving Speech and Deep Listening. The third session will be on December 14, reflecting on the fifth Mindfulness Training, Nourishment and Healing.

These three preparatory evenings are an opportunity for all of us. They are particularly relevant for anyone who is planning to receive the Mindfulness Trainings at the January 6 transmission ceremony; those who are interested should contact us here, and we will offer guidance on the registration process.

The Five Mindfulness Trainings remind us of our deep aspiration to live each day with a calm mind and an open heart. They provide invaluable guidelines for mindful living, acting as guardrails on the path of mindfulness that preserve and encourage our practice. Our commitment to the trainings deepens when we receive them formally in a Five Mindfulness Trainings transmission ceremony. This transmission publicly joins us with the tradition of mindfulness practice passed from teacher to student in an unbroken line from the Buddha, through many generations of Indian, Chinese and Vietnamese teachers, through Thich Nhat Hanh, to us.

As in past years, the Washington Mindfulness Community will join with the Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center, the Opening Heart Mindfulness Community and the Mindfulness Practice Center of Fairfax for the joyous transmission ceremony. This will take place online and in-person (at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Oakton, Virginia) on Saturday, January 6th, 2026, beginning at 9:00 am (Eastern time).

Warm wishes

WMC Practice Council (currently Jeanine, Joann, Jude, Nigel, Pat)

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, October 5th, you’ll be able to join WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

Note: Since we’re still having warmer weather, the monks have asked that we please refrain from wearing short pants or low cut, sleeveless tops at the Vihara. 🙏

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com

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Alternatively, if you’d like to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll have our monthly recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll begin watching this wonderful talk about responding to the suffering in and around us.

If you’d like to join us online this Sunday, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website.

We’ll see you Sunday! ❤️

Love, Steve

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this evening, Sunday September 28,  at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read Beginning Anew, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue watching this wonderful dharma talk by Kaira Jewel.

If you’d like to join us, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday ❤️

Love,

Steve 

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, September 21, you’ll be able to join the WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

*the weather is still warm: the monks have requested that we refrain from wearing short pants/dresses, or low cut/sleeveless tops in the Dharma Hall. 🙏

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please respond to this email.

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If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for the separate but parallel mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Refuge Chant, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue with Kaira Jewel’s inspiring dharma talk, made for these times.

If you would like to join us online, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com, and we’ll send you the zoom log-in information.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday  🙏🪷

Love, Steve

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, September 14th at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Five Awarenesses, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue the Kaira Jewel dharma talk we’ve been watching.

If you’d like to join us, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoom log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you Sunday

Love,

Steve ❤️

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, September 7th, you’ll be able to join the WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

Note: it’s still warmer weather, and the monks have asked that we please refrain from wearing short pants or low cut, sleeveless tops at the Vihara. 🙏

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please respond to this email.

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If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll have our monthly recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. This week we’ll continue watching Kaira Jewel’s powerful talk.

If this is your first time to join us via Zoom, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website.

See you on Sunday!

Love

Steve ❤️

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, August 31st at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read Nourishing Happiness, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue watching this wonderful dharma talk by Kaira Jewel. If you’d like to join us, please write to wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the zoom log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website.

We’ll see you this Sunday

❤️

Love, Steve 

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, August 17th, you’ll be able to join WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

Note: now that we’re into (much!) warmer weather, the monks have asked that we please refrain from wearing short pants or low cut, sleeveless tops at the Vihara. 🙏

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com

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If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After a 20 minute sitting meditation we’ll read the Refuge Chant together, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue watching Kaira Jewel’s beautiful talk from the OI retreat this past April.

If you would like to join us online, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoom log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday  🙏🪷

Love, Steve

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, August 10th at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read the Five Awarenesses, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

The dharma talk will be the next section of the dharma talk we have been following that Kaira Jewel Lingo gave at the OI retreat earlier this year. If you like, you can watch it in advance or afterwards, here.

If you would like to join us this Sunday, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoon log-in info.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday ❤️

Love, Steve 

Dear Friends, 

This Sunday, August 3rd, you’ll be able to join WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

Note: now that we’re into warmer weather, the monks have asked that we please refrain from wearing short pants or low cut, sleeveless tops at the Vihara. 🙏

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com

———————————————-

If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After a 20 minute sitting meditation we’ll have our monthly recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

This week we’ll continue watching Kaira Jewel’s beautiful talk from this past April.

If you would like to join us online, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoom log-in details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday  🙏🪷

Love, Steve

Dear Friends, 

Please join us this Sunday, July 27th at 6:30pm ET as we hold our weekly WMC mindfulness practice via Zoom meeting. 

After sitting meditation we’ll read Beginning Anew, watch a portion of a video dharma talk, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

The dharma talk will be the first section of a powerful talk that Kaira Jewel Lingo gave at the OI retreat earlier this year. If you like, you can watch it in advance or afterwards, here.

If you would like to join us this Sunday, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoon log-in info.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you this Sunday ❤️

Love, Steve 



Dear Friends, 

Please join us on Sunday, July 20th at 6:30pm ET when you’ll be able to join the WMC either in-person or online for our evening of mindfulness practice!

Our in-person program will take place at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, located at 5017 16th St NW DC. If you’re able to come 20 minutes early and help set up, please do, otherwise please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm to get settled.

Note: now that we’re seriously into warmer weather, the monks have asked that we please refrain from wearing short pants or low cut, sleeveless tops at the Vihara. 🙏

Here’s the evening’s format:

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-25 min sit

-Walking meditation

-Greeting and transition

-Recitation/Reading

-Listening to a Dharma talk

-Dharma sharing 

Our program will officially end at 8:30pm but you’ll have the option to come downstairs for social time together until 9pm if you wish.

If you have any questions about our in-person practice or format, please write to us at wmcsangha@gmail.com

———————————————-

If you wish to join us via Zoom that evening, you can join us for mindfulness meditation and practice beginning at 6:30pm. 

After sitting meditation we’ll recite the Five Awarenessess, watch a portion of a video dharma talk given by Thich Nhant Hanh, and have an opportunity to practice dharma sharing. The entire program will run about 60 minutes total. 

If you’d like to join the online sit, please write to us, again at wmcsangha@gmail.com, and we’ll send you the login details.

Our Sangha is supported by dana - donations given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports the Vihara, WMC expenses, the library, and your own practice. Part of your tax deductible donation also goes to help the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation (which helps support our monks and nuns in monasteries around the world and also helps continue to spread Thay’s teachings everywhere) and automatic monthly donations can be scheduled at our website:

https://www.mindfulnessdc.org/giving

We’ll see you Sunday  🙏🪷

Love, Steve