Marathon Monks of Mt. Hiei, Nov. 1, 2008

You are invited to join us to watch The Marathon Monks of Mt. Hiei on Saturday November 1.

Sunday Nov. 2nd is the NY Marathon and I thought it would be great to see how these monks train to walk a marathon ever day for 1,000 days. If they can complete this and the ceremonies at the end of the walking they are considered living Buddha's.

What better way to celebrate the NY Marathon weekend?

The author of the book that the film is based on was written by my friend and aikido teacher John Stevens. It will be great to share his experience of writing the book and I will have photo's of calligraphy done by two of the monks who have completed the training.

I think it will be an interesting evening inviting some good discussion and fun.

We hope to see you there.
John & Suzanne


John & Suzanne's
1136 Wolf Avenue
North Valley Stream NY 11580
UnityLongIsland@gmail.com
John's cell 516-238-5461
www.unityli.com

Movie Night Saturday May 26th

Suzanne & I will be watching the Celestine Prophecy Saturday Night and you are invited to join us.

This book was a big hit in the 90's and I've been told it was pretty good even though the book is always better than the movie.

We hope you can join us.

John & Suzanne

1136 Wolf Avenue
North Valey Stream NY 11580
unitylongisland@gmail.com

Here's a blurb from Netflix

When disillusioned history teacher John Woodsen (Matthew Settle) gets laid off from his job, he finds himself bored and rudderless until on impulse he hops on a plane and flies to Peru to meet an old friend who's searching for some ancient scrolls. To his surprise, Woodsen finds a lot more than sacred texts on this journey of spiritual awakening based on James Redfield's best-selling book. Hector Elizondo and Annabeth Gish co-star.