Meditation for Everyone

Thursdays,  6:30 – 8:30pm

This class welcomes the absolute beginner as well as the seasoned meditation practitioner.

SPECIAL FILM SCREENING:

Movie running time 74mins, followed by 15 min Q&A and short meditation

This is a potluck, please feel free to bring food; popcorn will be provided.

The Dhamma Brothers:
East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison—the end of the line in Alabama’s correctional system—is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence dwells a host of convicts locked away from the outside world for life. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting ten days. THE DHAMMA BROTHERS tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates at Donaldson Correction Facility who enter into this arduous and intensive program. This film, with the power to dismantle stereotypes about men behind prison bars also, in the words of Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking), “gives you hope for the human race.”

Instructor: Sarah McLaughlin