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B LUE  I RIS  S ANGHA


NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
USA
[Recitations] [Bell]

BLUE IRIS SANGHA, NEW ORLEANS  DISSOLVED NOVEMBER 25 2012

 

 

Blue Iris Zen Sangha in New Orleans was a fellowship for the practice of mindfulness that was founded in 1993 by Dewain Belgard, Art Samuels, Leslie Tremaine, and Shawn Nguyen.  Except for the interruption of several months when Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans in 2005, the group met Monday evenings for sitting and walking meditation, dharma discussion, and reciting of the precepts until late November 2012.

 

Though Blue Iris Sangha, Inc has dissolved, there is  a group still meeting in New Orleans that uses the practice forms and recitations for the Refuges and Precepts as they appear on this site.  You can contact Louie by email for more information. (See email address below.)

 

If anyone browsing this site lives in the Brenham-Giddings-LaGrange area of central Texas and is interested in organizing a new Central Texas chapter of Blue Iris Sangha, please email Dewain.  (See email address below.) 

 

If anyone living any where else is organizing (or has organized) a group that uses the practice forms and materials available on this website, please email Dewain if you want an email link listed here-- or a link to your own website. 

 

Email Addresses

 

These email addresses use the word at with a space before and after in place of the @ symbol to foil the more simple minded of the spam bots. Please substitute the symbol @ or the address will not work.

 

Louie (for the New Orleans Group): lhsummerlin3 at hotmail.com

Dewain (for Central Texas): dewain.belgard at gmail.com

 

 


May all beings be happy and safe!


 
 

Recitations

The following links are to several of the recitations used by Blue Iris Sangha. Anyone who wishes may copy them, distribute them, and use them.

Each formal practice  session begins with the Threefold Refuge and concludes with the excerpt from the Metta Sutta. The Five Precepts are also recited together weekly.

Meditation Manual

Starting in 2008, participants in Blue Iris practice were given a copy of this manual on their second visit.  It's also available in paperback from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local bookseller.  It's available for download to Kindle from Amazon.Com.  Click HERE for the Kirkus review,

CLICK IMAGE ABOVE TO READ EXERCPTS FROM  "BREATH-CENTERED CONSCIOUSNESS:

THE WAY OF EQUANIMITY"

 AT AMAZON.COM

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Bell of Mindfulness

The bell in this site is a .wav recording of the Blue Iris Sangha bell.

Bell Gatha
(Adapted from Plum Village Chanting Book)


 

This site was last updated January 24. 2013

 

 

 
 

 

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