Morning, dear Sangha. Today is a Friday, September 30th, year of 2011.
And we are on the third day of our retreat, with the theme of cultivating the mind of love,
at the Magnolia Grove Meditation Practice Centre.
Our practice is in France. French Plum Village has many monks and nuns and
lay practitioners living together. And we help organise many retreats in Europe;
in England, in Germany, in Switzerland, in Italy etc. There is a place very close
to Rome, Italy, called Castelfusano. We used to go and organise a retreat of
mindfulness there. About 900 to 1000 Italian speaking people attend the retreat
and among them about 100 children. And they