[Antiracism] BPF Prison Program Event- reminder

[jesse maceo vega-frey]

This is just a reminder for tonight¹s event.
Hope to see folks there!



Hi all,

I'd like to invite all the members, friends, and allies of the Pioneer
Valley Buddhist Peace Fellowship to come meet two visiting members of
The BPF Prison Program on Monday evening, February 20th.

Hong Chingkuang and Michael Callahan will be sharing with us their
Vision for the Coming Home Initiative- an innovative new re-entry program
for
people coming out of incarceration.

The coming home initiative can roughly be described as a transformative
collaboration b/w the larger Buddhist community and prisoners coming
home.

The three components are:

1) preparing the ground - a 6-month pre-release training on leadership,
capacity building, mentorship and engaged education (i.e.,
decarceration of mind & body)

2) entering the stream - individuals will come to the Coming Home Center
(a residence & community-based entrepreneurship) where they will be
supported in their commitment to practice right awareness, right
Livelihood and right action.

3) turning it over & returning - the giving of oneself back to the
Community by actively creating peace, liberation and sustainability through
Community organizing, advocacy, & policy change.

Michael and Hong are really looking forward to sharing their vision and
hearing ideas, comments, and suggestions from like-minded allies. They
Would also love to be connected with any resources/expertise that would them
Put together the initiative as well as help thinking through fundraising
strategies and being connected individual donors who would be excited
About the project.

Please join us for an rich discussion with good company.

Monday, February 20th 7pm
The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
199 Main St. Northampton, MA
413.563.5642 for directions or more info.

Please forward this to other's you might think are interested.

And please send me an email if you think you might attend.

jesse at stonecircles.org

Thanks!





-- 
It is forbidden to refuse the illusory in a world that has based reality on
illusion, concreteness on the unreal.

-Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy


So you should view all of the fleeting worlds:
A star at dawn, a bubble in the stream;
A flash of lightening in a summer cloud;
A flickering lamp, a phantom, a dream.

-The Buddha, The Diamond Sutra





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