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Dharma Event Announcement
Dear Friends,
Please join us for our next Compassion in Action before the summer officially ends! We will be combining a Go Green and Animal Liberation event at the beach.
Help clean the beach with NYC H2O to care for our environment. After lunch, we will bless the creatures in the sea who will benefit temporally and ultimately from our assistance, following Lama Zopa Rinpcohe's advice for benefiting animals.
All are welcome to attend the beach cleanup and/or sea blessing!
If you have any questions about these events, please contact us.
Love,
Your Friends at Shantideva Meditation Center
Compassion in Action, Go Green, and Animal Liberation
Saturday, September 19 (Rain Date: Sunday, September 20)
at Plumb Beach
9am-12pm: Beach cleanup with NYC H2O (Go Green)
12pm-1:00pm: Brown bag lunch
1pm-2pm: Sea creatures blessing (Animal Liberation)
About the Compassion in Action & Go Green Event
Compassion in Action offers opportunities for Shantideva Meditation students to volunteer for social service organizations as a group. Through hands-on, shared experiences in helping, we seek to develop our capacity for compassion and generosity.
Go Green extends the compassionate activities of Shantideva Meditation Center through social activism and other activities benefiting nature and the planet. By promoting environmental health, education, and sustainability we explore the ways we can preserve and tend the world in which we live, for the benefit of all beings.
Volunteers are needed for our next Compassion in Action/Go Green project. We will assist NYC H2O in a cleanup of Plumb Beach.
NYC H2O's mission is to educate and inspire New York's citizenry about its incredible water system. NYC H20 wants to create a generation of concerned, educated New Yorkers who conserve and advocate for natural resources as part of their daily lives.
Times: 
9am-12pm: Beach cleanup with NYC H2O
12pm-1:00pm: Brown bag lunch
Location:
Plumb Beach
Belt Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11235
Transportation:
Bus transportation leaving from Union Square at 8am is available to and from the beach by purchasing tickets ($6.24 round trip) when registering. For those taking the bus: we will meet at the south end of Union Square in front of the George Washington statue at 7:40am. Please contact us to let us know whether you will be joining us on the bus, going to and/or returning from the beach.
Those staying for the sea blessing will return by subway. The nearest stops are the B and Q trains at Sheepshead Bay. It's about a ten-minute walk from the beach.
Registration:
Volunteers must register with NYC H20 to participate in this event. To register, click here. Bus transportation is limited, so please register no later than September 12.
About the Animal Liberation: Blessing the Creatures in the Sea
Blessing animals helps move them toward enlightenment by creating positive imprints on their mindstreams. Animal liberation not only benefits animals, but the merit generated through this compassionate practice helps to create the causes of long life for ourselves, our loved ones, our teachers, and our community.
We will bless all the creatures in the Atlantic Ocean by reciting mantras over the water and submerging mantras in the sea. This beautiful ceremony also benefits the pretas (hungry ghosts), helping to stop hunger and thirst, purifying negative karma, and giving a good rebirth.
Animal liberation practices were particularly recommended for Shantideva Meditation Center by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Time:
1pm-2pm: Sea Creatures Blessing
Location: Plumb Beach
Transportation: Those staying for the sea blessing will return by subway. The nearest stops are the B and Q trains at Sheepshead Bay. It's about a ten-minute walk from the beach. | 
