Dharma Friends Prison Outreach Project
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Just As The Breeze Blows Through Moonlight
Anna to be honored by Arkansas WAND as Peacemaker of the Year at annual Peace Luncheon on May 9
Here is how to get tickets....
Dharma Friends Prison Outreach Project offers to prisoners...
* Free Dharma Friends newsletters - Offering commentaries, meditations, teachings in physical, emotional, ethical, and spiritual growth that can be applied to everyday life and which strengthen the practice of each individual's own religion.
* Free donated books
* Support and counsel
* A caring community
* Guidance during life transitions for those leaving prison and for those going to their executiions.
We offer to the community...
* Dharma Friends newsletter free by EMAIL if you give a $30 or more donation, or by subscription ($30 per year) for hard copy
We want especially for those connected to people in prison to know we are here to support them too. Compassion Works for All is a welcoming community and we know how hard it is to deal with a society that is disenfranchising and unaccepting of your loved one.
* Two books written by Anna Cox - all profits financially support COMPASSION WORKS FOR ALL which sponsors
Dharma Friends Prison Outreach Project:
Just As The Breeze Blows Through Moonlight,
a Buddhist story of life transformation: $23;
and Dharma Friends: No One Abandoned, No One Forgotten, No One Discarded, life stories of healing in prisons along with Anna Cox's commentaries on healing those who have been lost to society: $23
* Educational talks and workshops that bring awareness to the community that education, healing and emotional support can help solve the issues of violence and crime in our country.
Prison Outreach Project
+ new DNA evidence to exonerate the West Memphis 3 - download petition to sign
And our friends in Healing - a link to The Mindfulness Center
It is understandable that a project to help prisoners is at first ignored! Why is this? We all despair at the toll that crime and violence has taken on our lives and on our society. It is hard to feel compassion towards those who commit such horrible deeds, much less want to suport the possibility of their transformation.
Yet - something must be done or most of those violent men will be back on our streets. There are virtually no rehabilitation rograms in our prisons, so we at Dharma Friends Prison Outreach Project are doing something. We have life story after life story where change is happening to our Dharma Friends newsletter readers. And, each individual who becomes more peaceful and kind becomes a change agent and a force in the healing of others in his or her prison. Each inmate who becomes more peaceful and kind will walk out of prison with the potential to be a good citizen rather than more violent and equipped with a PhD in hate.
We receive letters every day from prisoners thanking us for Dharma Friends, free books, and our support. They say that they look for the newsletter each month and read it cover to cover. Some say it keeps them alive - literally. Healing is happening to our 1200+ recipients. We get new requests for our newsletter and for books every week and we need your help to continue to fill these requests and we need your compassion in serving each other.
Dharma Friends Prison Outreach Project by mail:
Compassion Works for All, Anna Cox,
PO Box 7708, Little Rock, Ar. 72217-7708
