Milarepa Center - Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Center

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We had a sublime weekend in May with Jan Willis as we joined together
to read Master Shantideva's The Way of the Bodhisattva.
It had been a longtime since Jan visited Milarepa Center and her visit
was a wonderful way to start off our summer season.

We look forward to making Jan's visit an annual event.
(Photo above: Jan's group)

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The weekend following Jan's visit we hosted a fantastic
work party (see photos below) and accomplished
the following projects:

Thoroughly cleaned and reorganized the kitchen
(as we welcome Roseanne Hebert to our work study as our cook
for at least the month of June);

Established a raised bed organic garden due to the major
hard work of past Milarepa Director, Martha Tack and Larry Howe
along with a number of work party members;

Greatly initiated the clean-up of the front of our property severely
damaged in the wind storm in 2007;

Cleaned up and burned about 30 pickup truck loads of scrap wood
with the great help of Aris Nogueron, another new work study participant;

Transformed our New England cellar into a clean, well organized space;

Had a great time and dedicated the merit to our swift enlightenment!

Scenes from the Work Party

(from top):

- Eryn Bordes, Roseanne Hebert
and Linda Wheatley transform the
    kitchen;

- Martha Tack tackles a tire as the
    garden begins to take shape;

- Brothers Geoff Lunde and Ron
    Boslun play "George of the Jungle"
    while handling a massive tree
    clean-up;

- Linda Cole is forever sporting a
   smile even with a broom in hand.

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In addition, this past April, Jeff Garnette and Amy Miller attended
the CPMT (Council for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition)
Meeting at sister center Institut Vajra Yogini outside of Toulouse, France.

It was the largest meeting ever held in the Meeting's 30-year history
with nearly 200 people in attendance representing about 75, or more
than half of the centers and projects in the FPMT.

The meeting was incredibly inspiring as the theme was to demonstrate
the wealth of service in the FPMT. Therefore, presentations took place
on hospices that have been developed, an eye clinic in eastern Tibet,
the beginnings of an animal sanctuary in Nepal, the thousands
of monks being fed with funding of FPMT Director,
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche at the monasteries in south India
and the vast service aspects of all of the centers.

It was staggering and extremely meaningful, and certainly lent
a renewed sense of support for both Jeff and Amy in the work
they are doing at Milarepa Center.

Thanks for "listening" and we hope to see you soon at Milarepa!