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SUMMARY:Lama Sundays – Calm Abiding Meditation
DESCRIPTION:This meditation is common to many traditions of Buddhism. In this practice\, we rest our attention on a simple meditative support\, such as the breath. Instead of following thoughts and emotions as we usually do\, we release them and maintain our connection to the support. \n“From this practice\, we can experience a stable and calm mind. We learn to maintain and return to a sense of stillness\, no matter what our outer circumstances. The mind is relaxed\, alert and aware. The results of this practice are serenity\, freedom in the face of circumstances\, and ultimately Buddhahood.” From Meditation for Beginners\, by Bokar Rinpoche \nJoin in-person or via Zoom (hybrid). Please contact the office to receive our monthly emails and the Zoom link for this practice: OFFICE@KSCASHLAND.ORG \nHeld 9 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday\, Feb. 4\, March 10\, and April 7.
URL:https://ashlandnews.projectahost.com/event/lama-sundays-calm-abiding-meditation/2024-04-07/
LOCATION:Kagyu Sukha Choling\, 109 Clear Creek Drive\, Ashland\, 97520
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SUMMARY:Sunday Service: Our Commitment to Transformation
DESCRIPTION:When the Article II process began\, one of the things that many people hoped would become explicit is our willingness to be changed by being in community. \nThe Commission was determined to go beyond agreement with ideas to commitment to values that we knew would challenge us to grow\, change\, and become more willing to embody in the world. What transformations does Unitarian Universalism invite us to engage? \n“Change is inevitable\, but transformation is a choice. ” – Heather Ash Amara \nAttend in person or watch live or recorded on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@roguevalleyunitarianuniver8871
URL:https://ashlandnews.projectahost.com/event/sunday-service-our-commitment-to-transformation/
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 87 4th Street\, Ashland\, 87 4th Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520
CATEGORIES:Faith
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SUMMARY:From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace with author Mitzi Asai Loftus
DESCRIPTION:“Mitsuko “Mitzi” Asai was not yet ten years old in the spring of 1942 when President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 sent 120\,000 people of Japanese ancestry–about two-thirds of them US citizens–from their homes on the West Coast to inland prison camps. \nThey included Mitzi and most of her family\, who operated a fruit orchard in Hood River\, Oregon. The Asais spent much of World War II in the camps while two of the older sons served in the Pacific in the U.S. Army. Three years later\, when the camps began to close\, the family returned to Hood River to find an altered community. Shop owners refused to serve neighbors they had known for decades; racism and hostility were open and largely unchecked. Humiliation and shame drove teenaged Mitzi to reject her Japanese heritage\, including her birth name. More than a decade later\, her life took another turn when a Fulbright grant sent her to teach in Japan\, where she reconnected with her roots. In “From Thorns to Blossoms\,” Mitzi recounts her rich and varied life\, from a childhood surrounded by barbed wire and hatred to a successful career as a high school English teacher and college instructor in English as a Second Language. Today\, Asai descendants continue to tend the Hood River farm while the town confronts its shameful history. It’s the remarkable story of a transformation from thorns into blossoms\, pain into healing. \nBorn on a fruit orchard in Hood River\, Oregon\, in 1932\, Mitzi Asai Loftus spent three years of her childhood in government incarceration camps in California and Wyoming. For more than seventy years\, she has given public talks about her family’s experience to audiences of all ages. Having lived much of her adult life in Eugene and Coos Bay\, she now resides in Ashland.
URL:https://ashlandnews.projectahost.com/event/from-thorns-to-blossoms-a-japanese-american-family-in-war-and-peace-with-author-mitzi-asai-loftus/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books\, 290 E. Main St.\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books
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