In the heart of western North Carolina's Appalachian mountains a group of fifteen European Americans meets five times a week at the Black Mountain Wellness Center to practice Buddhism in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh's Order of Interbeing (Tiep Hien). This group offers beginner's meditation instruction each Wednesday at 5:45pm, and the rest of the community gathers Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, when there is an informal tea after the service. Those regular sessions include a variety of practices--seated meditation, walking meditation, chanting, prostrations, and dharma discussions. 

Cloud Cottage Sangha, which formed in 1998,  is guided by Judith Toy, who received the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings from Nhat Hanh, and her husband, Philip Toy, who received the Five Mindfulness Trainings from Lyn Fine, a teacher from the Order of Interbeing. 
 

TT and JW