Escape to Plum Village
Arriving from Edinburgh in Bordeaux in July warmed my heart even more than it warmed my skin, and I felt like every part of my body was smiling. Here I was just a bus journey and a train ride away from being met on the platform by the comforting sight of the brown robes of the monastics of Plum Village.
Plum Village is where Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh resides in a community of monastics and lay people living a very simple yet amazingly beautiful life in true Mindfulness.
Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay as he’s affectionately known by his students, which simply means Teacher in Vietnamese) was fi rst introduced to me 6 years previous in the form of a book called “The Heart of Buddha’s Teachings”, a book and a man which would change my life forever.
It felt a little surreal that I was now actually going to the place I had read about so much in so many of his books and heard him talk about on audio books and at his retreat in Nottingham in Summer 2010.
Being in the presence of Thay is not something I can explain in words, but it always makes me feel like I am in the presence of one of our great ascended masters, he is a true living and breathing Buddha.
It’s NOW Mindfulness and Meditation Group is based on the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh and is the Offi cial Community of Interbeing Renfrewshire Sangha.
www.itsnowrenfrewshire.wordpress.com
To fi nd out more about Thay go to
www.plumvillage.org WIGS WANTED
For Canvass Hair’s event in December. Do you have a wig in your cupboard that you could donate to this event? The wigs will be cut and styled for the event so new wigs would be too expensive to use. Please contact Nicky at Canvass if you can help.
Art/ Knitwear Show
Sat 29th Oct, Community Centre, Kilmacolm. Back due to popular demand - Artist Pamela Randal will be showing her all-original fi ne art paintings, along with Glasgow knitwear designer Sheila Duggie. Open from 10am to 4pm, entry free. (Supporting Cancer Research UK.)
The Haven Christmas Fair
Sa 26th Nov - 10am - 2pm in Kilmacolm’s New Community Centre. Stalls include - Handmade crafts, gift cards, bargain gifts, plants, shea butter soaps, homemade cakes & biscuits, café. Proceeds to The Haven.
Macmillan Art Show
Mon 14th to Sat 26th Nov. Mon - Sat, 10am- 5pm; Sun 11am-5pm, M&Co Caledonia House. 5, Inchinnan Drive, Inchinnan, Renfrew. PA4 9AF. (from junction 29 on the M8 take the A726 Inchinnan Road along the boundary of Glasgow Airport). Free Parking. Coffees, teas and lunches are available on weekdays. Admission FREE. For more information on the Art Show visit
www.macmillanglasgow84.org. uk or contact Carlin Murray, e-mail: greer@
thehirsel.co.uk, phone: 01292 441202
Mo’s mo-ment of the Month HAPPINESS is not something YOU postpone for the future,
IT is something you design FOR the PRESENT. Mo Ferrington MNCH (Reg) HPD Dip. (CAH) GQHP.
EFT.NLP. Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist.
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