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Welcome dear yogis! Following is the upcoming Spring listing of events: ** WITH THE SIMULTANEOUS AND FULL EMBRACE OF “ANNICCA”, THE BUDDHIST DOCTRINE ACKNOWLEDGING THE ETERNALLY SHIFTING AND UNFORESEEABLE FACTORS OF LIFE ON EARTH. Registration is required. You may register anytime, friends…though my response may be somewhat delayed… Friends, I suggest that you don’t wait too long to register for any of these offerings…They seem...

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Dharma Days are a one-day opportunity, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., to take a personal tour in the Theravadan Vipassana meditation traditional practices of sitting, walking, eating and loving-kindness/metta. It’s a great chance for beginning meditators to get their feet wet, and for oldies to refresh their practice. We also do a mild 50-minute stretching/yoga/or creative movement session. An organic vegetarian lunch will be served. No charge...

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Wednesday, April 22, (Earth Day) 10 a.m. til noon Nature Day with our expert nature guide, Joe Neal… This is an annual springtime tradition now, and folks from all over the Ozarks show up…we’ll meet (9 am) at the top of the Wattle Hollow driveway on Hwy 170, and stroll slowly down-hill. (People will share their binoculars if you don’t have any). Then, we’ll share a pot-luck lunch overlooking the pond and mountains, (where Joe and...

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Saturday, April 25, 2025 (10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) Rescheduled from April 5! We will be practicing the various forms of Vipassana Buddhist meditation:** Sitting (no sessions more than 30-40 minutes), various types of practices.** Walking (both indoor and outdoor)** An hour-long movement/yoga session** Eating (lunchtime will be silent, with special focus on the food)** Metta/Lovingkindness practice The practice of Noble Silence will...

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May 1 – 3, 20266 p.m. Friday – 4 p.m. Sunday Here’s another opportunity to experience a conjunction ofcreativity, kindness, gourmet food, with the best possible guides onour musical journey: Donna and Kelly Mulholland, Jack Smith. Contact Judy Smith for information and registration:judysmith221gmail.com All Wattle Hollow retreats (except Songwriters’ weekend) areoffered by donation…e.g. no one is turned away for lack of...

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Saturday, MAY 23, 2026 – 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. We will be practicing the various forms of Vipassana Buddhist meditation:** Sitting (no sessions more than 30-40 minutes), various types of practices.** Walking (both indoor and outdoor)** An hour-long movement/yoga session** Eating (lunchtime will be silent, with special focus on the food)** Metta/Lovingkindness practice The practice of Noble Silence will be observed all day, except for...

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Saturday, June 20, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. This retreat will have a special focus on nature. (See above for fuller description of Dharma Day.) All Dharma Days are suitable for oldies and for newcomers…since we all need to arrive with “beginner’s mind,” anyhow. No charge for this day, in the ancient Buddhist tradition. Dana/donations are accepted, however. Friends, I suggest that you don’t wait too long to register for any of...

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Saturday, July 18, 2026 (10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) We will be practicing the various forms of Vipassana Buddhist meditation:** Sitting (no sessions more than 30-40 minutes), various types of practices.** Walking (both indoor and outdoor)** An hour-long movement/yoga session**Eating (lunchtime will be `silent, with special focus on the food)** Metta/Lovingkindness practice The practice of Noble Silence will be observed all day, except...

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Greetings from Battambong, Cambodia, dears. My balcony looks down on Klong 2.0, here in the marketplace. Life happens three stories down below. It’s relatively quiet and breezy up here. And why are the monks carrying umbrellas, you may wonder? Temperatures are often in the high 90’s, approaching 100 degrees. My shoulders, knees and midriff remain covered, however, like the local Khmer women, when I’m out in public. In my sixty years...

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Read about Food, Farms, Lessons from the River…and getting both Joy AND her computer across the border to Cambodia…. View/Download Tales # 10 pdf Click Here

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Read about Pa Joy’s MONTH-LONG MAECHEE CHALLENGE, update on Nawg Joy, TWO Confessions from Joy, and a look at her 6 foot neighbor…. View/Download Newsletter # 9 Click Here

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This newsletter from Joy comes after several days at the south campus of SDS, a three-hour drive from Bangkok. To Read/Download the full newsletter #8 (pdf) Click Here hanging out with my tribe of Karin teenagers, the fifteen local village kids who chose to come live here several years ago When I indicated that I wanted to help plant the cosmos, for example, they quickly: *dug the holes *piled up dirt all around the holes *placed the...

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