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KAILUA SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER HOSTS FIRST OPEN HOUSE

(Jan. 20, 2005) - Beginning with Sunday, February 6, the Kailua Shambhala Meditation Center
will host an open house the first Sunday of each month.

The Center, which has only been open for eight months, has continued to see growing numbers of
people coming to the Center to explore meditation practice and other contemplative arts offered.
According to the Center's Coordinator Ka'ohulani Mc Guire, “the realization of this piko (Hawaiian
word for center) has been eight years in the making and it is our intention to continue to reach out
and invite people from any spiritual tradition who would like to learn about the everyday benefits of
meditation.”

In addition to the Sunday, February 6 meditation period, the center will host the regular Sunday
dharma talk followed by a potluck gathering. Guided meditation instruction is available for
newcomers to the practice.

A special feature of the Sunday, February 6 session will be an authentic Japanese Tea Ceremony
presented by Cathy L. Wood in conjunction with a dharma talk by Shambhala senior teacher,
Jaynine Nelson. For this special event, guests wear clean white socks or tabi in the tea room to
represent cleanliness and a separation from outdoor footwear, including bare feet. All attendees
are asked to bring white socks to change into right before entering the tea room.

In connecting the tea ceremony with meditation, Jaynine Nelson says “dharma art is art that arises
from a meditative state of mind. The "artist" creates without an attitude of being self-conscious but
within pure genuineness. The main point of dharma art is not having a special talent or original
idea. It is a discipline to awaken and open the mind/heart.”

Shambhala founder and world-renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche referred
to art as "extending the mind through the sense perceptions.”

The Kailua Shambhala Meditation Center is part of the international Shambhala community of
urban meditation and rural retreat centers and is dedicated to the teaching of meditation, nonsectarian
Tibetan Buddhism and other traditions grounded in mindful living.

Please visit our website at www.ksbcenter.org for more information about the Kailua Shambhala
Meditation Center, Shambhala and the ongoing events at the Center.

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FEBRUARY OPEN HOUSE
Sunday Open House Schedule: February 6, 2005
9 a.m. –12 noon Meditation (Shamatha Vipashyana )All welcome; instruction offered for
newcomers
9–9:15 a.m.Opening Chants (optional)
9:15–11 a.m. Sitting/walking meditation
11–12 noon Tea Ceremony with Cathy L. Wood; Dharma Talk by Jaynine Nelson
12 noon: Potluck gathering at the Center immediately following

Location:
Kailua Shambhala Meditation Center is located upstairs in Kailua’s Aikahi Park Shopping Center
25 Kaneohe Bay Drive, Suite #205 (upstairs next to Aikahi Theater box office). For directions visit
www.ksbcenter.org or call 808-262-8352.
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CALENDAR LISTING
WHO: Kailua Shambhala Meditation Center
WHEN: Sun, February 6
WHAT: Open House first Sundays of the month). Tea Ceremony featured Sun, Feb 6 (please bring
clean white socks for tea service)
WHERE: Upstairs in Kailua’s Aikahi Park Shopping Center 25 Kaneohe Bay Drive, Suite #205
(upstairs next to Aikahi Theater box office).
WHY: Experience mindful living. Meditation is proven to support wellbeing in health, mind, body
and spirit
COST: Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO: For information visit www.ksbcenter.org or call 808-262-8352