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An Art Of Small Resurrections: Surviving the Living From The Center: Mindfulness


Meditation and Centering for Friends #407 Valerie Brown, Quakers are advised to begin worship by "centering down." This is the first step in a Friend's intention to wait in "holy expectancy," to be drawn by the Light into communion with God. Centering prayer is also a practice used by Christian mystics to prepare for contemplation, and "centering" describes the meditation of a Buddhist in pursuit of that deep awareness called "mindfulness." Valerie Brown is an explorer and teacher of centering practices, a Buddhist, and an active Friend. Drawing upon her own experiences and wide studies, she describes for Friends how these various traditions can offer us a better understanding and preparedness for our precious, elusive, mysterious, and simple practice of centering into worship. Discussion questions included. About the Author Valerie Brown is a member of Solebury Monthly Meeting (PA) and a popular Pendle Hill workshop leader. She was ordained as a lay member of the Tien Hiep Order in 2003 by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and is a founding member of Old Path Sangha, a Buddhist community in New Hope, PA. Trained at the Center for Courage and Renewal with Parker J. Palmer, she has studied mindfulness and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction with Jon Kabat‐Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society. She is a certified Kundalini yoga teacher. Her writings on spirituality have been widely published and include Pendle Hill Pamphlet 386, The Mindful Quaker: A Brief Introduction to Buddhist Wisdom for Friends.


Texas Death Chamber # 408 Walter Long Jesus taught his followers to love their enemies and to forgive. How can these messages of compassion be reconciled with a policy of putting to death those whom we have judged to be wrongdoers against society? Walter Long, a defense attorney for Texas death row inmates, says that they cannot. He wrestles with the apparent contradiction between the teachings of Jesus and widespread tolerance for government violence in a state where most citizens identify themselves as Christian. He explores the impact of a particular execution of great renownthe crucifixion of Jesus of Nazarethand looks for his own understanding of that event, of the man and his message, and of the followers who formed the church after his death. In a provocative essay, he returns to the basics of how Jesus taught us to live and how those instructions may encourage us to be actively faithful in our world today. Discussion questions included. About the Author Walter Long is a member of the Friends Meeting of Austin, which he has attended since the mid‐1980s when the meet‐ ing declared itself a sanctuary for Central American refugees. The meeting has a lengthy history of advocating for mat‐ ters of conscience and human rights, and it currently has a very active death penalty committee. As a criminal defense attorney, Walter has represented Texas death row inmates in state and federal habeas corpus appeals. He also founded the Texas After Violence Project (www.texasafterviolence.org), an independent oral history and human rights project designed to listen empathetically, carefully, and without judgment to people directly touched by serious violence, the criminal jus‐ tice system, incarceration, and executions in Texas. The project films and transcribes their stories and then archives the stories in the University of Texas Libraries and makes them available to the public. The project seeks to foster deep listening and exchange among all Texans affected by violence so that they collaboratively may find the means to build a less violent and more just community.


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