Florida Community of Mindfulness

10/05/2025

"Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."



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09/29/2025

Guo Gu, founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center returned to FCM and lead a four-day in-person and online retreat on the Faith in Mind verses of Sengcan September 25-28 at the Tampa Center.

The Supreme Way is not difficult, if only you do not pick and choose.
- Translation by Master Sheng Yen

So begins "Faith in Mind," a seminal poem in the Chan tradition attributed to the Third Patriarch, Sengcan. This succinct text presents a complete view of the Chan path—one that points beyond dualities, conceptual frameworks, and goal-oriented striving.

09/10/2025

Our teacher Fred and Dharma Programs Leader Angie Parrish lead a half-day workshop Saturday, September 6 on "Relationship As a Spiritual Path."

In our modern times, creating and maintaining harmonious, emotionally stable and loving relationships seems to be consistently a challenge for many. Whether these relationships are intimate, familial or societal, establishing rewarding and meaningful relationships seems to be an endeavor that for many demands never ending "work".

Relationships will be shown to be a remarkably effective path for developing all the wholesome emotional and mental states that spiritual and meditative practice promise. Relationships are perhaps the most direct and experiential means for developing a truly wholesome and selfless life.

09/04/2025

"The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided." — Thomas Moore

08/16/2025

Half-Day of Mindfulness With Marilyn Warlick
Meditation practice sitting and walking. Dharma talk given by Marilyn reminding us of our capacity for inner refuge, being heroes for ourselves. The 3 jewels gives us the strength to realize and embody this.

08/05/2025

Showing the way fearlessly and compassionately,

the stream of all our Ancestral Teachers,

to whom we bow in gratitude. 🙇🙏

08/03/2025

Imagine Museum: Contemporary Glass Art:
Buddhist and Asian Art Exhibit
1901 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33713

07/23/2025

07/19/2025

Day of Mindfulness with Fred Eppsteiner

"Taking Adverse Conditions as the Path of Awakening" Saturday, July 19th

The focus of the day was Taking Adverse Conditions as the Path of Awakening. Fred guided us in teachings and practices to help us learn how to transform our conditioned patterns to challenging circumstances. While we may often react to unwanted external conditions with resistance, frustration, or any number of emotionally afflictive mind-states, Buddhist teachings show us that there is another way. Even if we are unable to change what is occurring on the outside, internally, we can utilize the very circumstances we are resisting to help us cultivate patience, compassion, wisdom, and a host of positive mind-states. These in turn, can aid us in more skillfully navigating the circumstances in which we find ourselves and the world..

07/18/2025

Big thank you to FOX 13's Jennifer Epstein for getting the word out to the community.

FOX 13's Jen Epstein continues her Wellness Week special reports. Today she talks about mindfulness and meditation.