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<p><span style="font-size:11pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Thank you! Please follow the prompts to register online.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Thank You for Registering. You'll receive a confirmation email shortly.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><img alt="a pair of flying piping plovers " src="https://aryaloka.org/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/ima…; style="width: 800px; height: 533px;" /></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">On Two Wings</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Holding Love and Concern for the Earth</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Holding both great love and great concern is a path that can lead us to wisdom and to joy. We can strengthen these two wings with awareness in nature. Nature is always with us, just as the Buddha and the possibility of awakening are always with us. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">This spring retreat, coinciding with Earth Day, continues our series on Dharmic responses to environmental crises. We will cultivate our depth of heart to experience </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">upekkha,</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> or the </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Brahmavihara</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> of equanimity. We will also practice two joys: the joy of our experience in connection to nature and the joy of liberation that comes with honest awareness of reality. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Our online retreat will include </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Brahmavihara</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> meditations tailored to our experience of nature; a panel and group conversation on the joy of facing nature, even in its distress; a break for getting outdoors guided through recordings to take with you; and resources on ways to practice and learn and explore the nature/Dharma connection further.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Schedule: (all times ET)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Friday April 23, 7-8:30pm</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">: Introduction and Opening Ritual</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Saturday April 24, 10am-3pm</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> (includes a long break for personal practice)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Sunday April 25, 10am-3pm</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> (includes a long break for personal practice)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Our retreat is inspired by the poem, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#313131"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Birdwings, by Rumi </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#313131"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">(translated version by Coleman Barks)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.2"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.2"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">up to where you're bravely working.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.2"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.2"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">here's the joyful face you've been wanting to see.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.2"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.2"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">If it were always a fist or always stretched open,</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.2"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">you would be paralyzed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.2"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Your deepest presence</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.2"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">is in every small contracting and expanding,</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.2"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.2"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">as birdwings.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">The retreat team: </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Gunopeta</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> has been for 40 years a homesteader, poet, and conservationist in Downeast Maine, where he continues to explore connections between environmental awareness and Buddhist practice.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Amala</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">, co-chair of Aryaloka, has been delving into the ecological history of New England, American views about Nature, and training in permaculture and the Dharma path of joy in the face of it all. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:16px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Viriyalila</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> is an artist who enthusiastically applies creativity in her Dharma pursuits. She is passionate about learning how to be a better human in an ever-changing world.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.295; margin-bottom:16px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Sravaniya</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> is a musician, dharma-farer and teacher with a wide spectrum of interests. Sravaniya’s energies lie in the simple pursuit of trying to create a more beautiful and sustainable world for all living beings. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.284; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Shraddhavani</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> is a lifelong student of change (i.e., a historian) and a relative newcomer to the Dharma, tries to live and exemplify the wisdom in the adage "better late than never."</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.284; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Aryaloka</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> continues to run all events online and by donation – your generosity is making it possible for Aryaloka to stay afloat while we wait for regular programming to resume. Please give what you can, though if you can't afford to make a donation, do let us know and we'll sign you up for free. If you'd prefer not to book online you may email info@aryaloka.org to make other arrangements. You'll receive a Zoom link a few days before the retreat.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.284; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><em>The image is of piping plovers, a New England bird that is threatened.</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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