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Change Your
Mind Day
Saturday, June
4 2005
11 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Lowry Park,
Tampa
RAIN
or SHINE
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Buddhists and non-Buddhists
alike are invited to share in this day of
meditation, movement, poetry, chanting, music and
children's activities.
CYMD began in New York's Central
Park in 1993 and is now celebrated in over 40
cities nationwide. This is the second year that the
event will be held in the Tampa Bay area.
Click
here for photos from the
2004 CYMD in St Petersburg.
Teachings will be offered by
local Buddhist groups representing a variety of
traditions (Mahayana, Theravada, Tibetan and Zen).
As in the time of the Buddha, the teachings will be
presented out-of-doors in a relaxed, informal
environment.
The Tampa Bay area has an exceptionally wide
variety of Buddhist groups. They include temples
that serve a number of Asian-American communities;
groups that represent at least five Tibetan
lineages; and groups that practice styles of
meditation such as Mindfulness, Nichiren, Vipassana
and Zen. Change Your Mind Day provides an
opportunity for members of these many groups to
come together, and a chance for interested
non-Buddhists to sample many types of practices in
a relaxed, informal environment.
Local Buddhist groups scheduled
to participate include Bodhi Tree Dhamma Center,
Clear Water Zen Group, Dhamma Wheel Meditation
Society, Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association,
Florida Buddhist Vihara, Flowing Dharma, Nichiren
Shu, North Tampa Dzogchen, Shambhala Meditation
Center, Tampa Karma Thegsum Chöling,
Unitarian-Universalist Buddhist Fellowship, and Wat
Mongkolratanaram.
Schedule of presentations:
11:00: Opening gongs
11:05: Bodhi Tree Dhamma
Center
11:35: Buddhist Peace
Fellowship
12:05: Flowing Dharma
12:35: music &
misc
12:55: UU Buddhist
Fellowship
1:25: North Tampa
Dzogchen
1:55: Nichiren Shu
2:25: Tampa Karma Thegsum
Choling
2:55: Dharma Drum Mountain
Buddhist Association
3:25: Florida Buddhist
Vihara/Wat Mongkolratanaram
3:55: Shambhala Meditation
Center
4:25: Clear Water Zen
Group
4:55: Closing gongs
Please join us near the Hillsborough river at the
north end of Tampa's Lowry Park:
Directions: Take exit 48 of
I-275 (Sligh Avenue), head West for about 0.8 miles
on Sligh to the traffic light at North Boulevard,
turn right on North Boulevard, and then take the
3rd right after 0.3 miles by the bus stop and
"Public Parking" sign; follow the small road 0.1
miles to the parking lot next to the event
site.
Yellow direction
signs with the above logo will be
posted.
Map
to CYMD location on North Boulevard at Lowry Park,
Tampa, Florida
Arrive at anytime. If you come
early, consider bringing a picnic lunch for some
mindful eating (water, shade, friendly folks and
mental stimulation provided). A chair or sitting
cushion will probably be helpful.
No experience necessary. No
charge or obligation. The Buddha taught that each
person must discover the truth of his teachings for
themselves. Come and see.
This free event is sponsored by the Tampa Bay
Chapter of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
For more information, visit
www.bpf-tampabay.org,
call (727) 392-7698 or (813) 238-9713,
or e-mail info@bpf-tampabay.org
The Buddha taught that we
cultivate peace and happiness by
changing our minds from confusion to wisdom