WAKE UP FLORIDA! RETREAT for COLLEGE STUDENTS & YOUNG ADULTS - MARCH 13-15

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WAKE UP FLORIDA!

INVITES YOU TO THE FOURTH ANNUAL WAKE UP RETREAT FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA WITH THE MONKS AND NUNS FROM PLUM VILLAGE 2015

(Friday, March 13-Sunday, March 15, 2015)

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RETREAT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

• Sitting meditation

• Lectures on mindfulness

• Walking and eating meditation

• Workshops

• Singing and games

• Be-in (Zen Party)

• Sports

RETREAT GOALS INCLUDE:

• Create an opportunity for young people to learn Buddhist-based mindfulness practices that can help us in our daily life, including school, career, and relationships.

• Learn practices that can help us touch happiness and well-being, right in the present moment, and to heal and transform suffering and difficulties.

• Provide an opportunity for young people to reconnect with our spiritual and cultural heritage and help create a happy, healthy, and compassionate society.

Although led by Plum Village Buddhist monastics, these events are non-sectarian and non-religious. We hope to offer simple useful practices that can help young people live a more sane and healthy life as they balance career, family, relationships and life in general

This Retreat is for college students and young adults between the ages of 18 & 34.

The retreat starts Friday morning with an orientation and mindfulness activities provided by the monks and nuns from Plum village and ends Sunday afternoon

Open to Buddhist and non-Buddhist young practitioners of all levels of experience

THIS EVENT SUBJECT TO CHANGE, PLEASE CHECK THIS SITE REGULARLY AND PROVIDE US WITH YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION WHEN REGISTERING

In order to help defray the costs associated with this retreat, the minimum donation requested to attend this event is:

• COLLEGE STUDENTS: $50.00

• ALL OTHER YOUNG ADULTS: $80.00 (TENT or COMMUTER)

• Cash, checks or money orders only, please.

• To offer your financial support for the retreat, please mail donations to Truong Ty 6451 Stirling Road, Davie, Florida, 33314 & make checks payable to Vietnamese Buddhist Center.

:-) Some scholarships are available for college students and young adults in financial need (Please let us know if you need one when you RSVP). :-0 Also, volunteers may be able to help with transportation to and from the retreat location if you need it ;-)

To be FULLY REGISTERED, you must R.S.V.P. here, answer ALL questions listed, AND mail your registration check payable to "Vietnamese Buddhist Center" to: Broward Lotus Sangha, P.O. Box 245124, Pembroke Pines, FL 33024.

(If instead you bring cash or check to one of the Sangha meetings before this event, please make sure we know what it's for!).

Delicious Vegan meals will be provided to all fully registered participants during the retreat

Please register as soon as possible space is VERY limited.
Detailed instructions will be sent to FULLY registered participants.

NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO AIR CONDITIONING OR HEATING IN THE TENTS (you may wish to bring a fan, sleeping bag, blanket, etc.)

MINDFULNESS MATERIALS such as BOOKS, CDs AND DVDs will be available during the retreat.

Wake Up - Young Buddhists and non-Buddhists for a Healthy and Compassionate Society, is a world-wide network of young people practicing the living art of mindfulness. We share a determination to live in an awakened way, taking a 21st Century version of the 5 Mindfulness Trainings (http://www.wkup.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=156%3Athe-five-mindfulness-trainings&catid=56%3Afive-mindfulness-trainings&Itemid=121&lang=en) as our path and guiding light.

The Wake Up network has grown out of the Plum Village Meditation Center.

Venerable Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village has been offering retreats to young people for over two decades, and the Wake Up movement was formally launched in Summer 2008.

Young monks, nuns and young lay people of many different nationalities help co-ordinate groups and events from Plum Village practice centers all over the world.

We are of all nationalities and of all faiths - or none. We don't 'believe' blindly in the Buddha's teachings on mindfulness; we each experience that they just work. When we practice mindful walking, breathing, smiling, sitting, eating, talking, listening and hanging-out together, we experience happiness and peace - a kind of oasis of relief from the mess of life. At last we have a chance to live more deeply, happily and meaningfully. There is joy, relief and healing.

We know that by getting together for an evening, weekend or short retreat, we can create a strong collective energy of mindfulness that can nourish our joy, heal our pains, and develop our understanding and love.

BE BEAUTIFUL, BE YOURSELF

To learn more about the Broward Lotus Sangha, click here http://www.BrowardLotusSangha.org

To learn more about Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and his tradition, click here http://www.plumvillage.org

To learn more about WAKE UP, click here (http://us.wkup.org/) and here (http://www.wkup.org/)

Smiling,

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@WkUpFlorida

Broward Lotus Sangha

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In the Tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

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