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Noon to 4pm, Sunday, August 26, 2007
In the Chapel at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 2 Westford Street, Chelmsford
Doreen Schweizer, Guiding Teacher of Valley Insight Meditation Society in Lebanon, New Hampshire, has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1969 and teaching in a variety of settings and formats since 1987. She has been a student of [...]

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August Events

** UPDATED 8/16/07 ** 
August looks to be a very busy month, with all sorts of events coming up:
AUGUST 4, Saturday – The Insight Meditation Center of Newburyport is hosting a half-day (9am-12:30pm) retreat with Chas DeCapua. The focus will be on working with difficult emotions. Chas is a senior student of Jack Kornfield and is [...]

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Buddhist scholar/teacher Joanna Macy will be holding a pair of workshops at the Rowe Center in May.
The first is a weekend workshop (May 4-6) “Taking Heart in Tough Times;” the second is a week-long (May 6-11) retreat entitled “World as Lover, World as Self.”
The Buddhist Peace Fellowship also has an audio archive of an excellent [...]

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Just a reminder for those who are interested that the MFA will be showing multiple screenings of the stunning Yatra Trilogy, which explores Buddhism in its various contexts across Asia.

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Where Elephants Weep

While Carrie and I were attending a performance of Syncopation at the MRT a couple of weekends ago, we learned about a very special upcoming professional production at Lowell High School’s Cyrus W. Irish Theater:
Where Elephants Weep, a bilingual (Khmer/English) contemporary opera in the style of Rent, is a love story about a Cambodian refugee [...]

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