Thursday evening Info: After the 7:00 pm online meditation on Thursday, 4/18/24, Chris will give a second talk on the Buddha’s teachings on awakening. We’ll look at other practices that can help us to learn to weaken the sense of self-centeredness and to let go of some of the ways in which we experience clinging… Continue reading Sangha News 4/16/24
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Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Nikki Mirghafori gave a talk on the relationship of emptiness and compassion that has the engaging title: “Dreaming Together – In the theater of life, emptiness and compassion go hand in hand.” In her talk, she looks at ways in which we can explore letting go of our self-centeredness and how that supports and is… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Quote for the Week
When we look with kindness and benevolence at ourselves, others, and the world; when we cultivate the way of seeing that is metta, love with no strings attached, we loosen the sense of self and tune our ability to see its fabricated nature. The arrows of love and emptiness fly both ways. Dreaming Together ~… Continue reading Quote for the Week
Meditation Support Group Meets at the Tri-Cities Cancer Center 4/18
We’ll continue our monthly mindfulness meditation support group meeting at the Tri-Cities Cancer Center, 7350 West Deschutes Avenue, Kennewick. The meeting will be Thursday, 4/18/2024. The sessions, which are held on the third Thursday of each month, are meant for cancer patients, cancer survivors, and their caregivers. The session will begin at 12:00 pm at the Cancer Center in the Fireside Room. If you have a serious… Continue reading Meditation Support Group Meets at the Tri-Cities Cancer Center 4/18
Meditation Retreat on Saturday, April 20, 2024
Genjo Marinello Roshi, abbot of Choboji Zen Center in Seattle, will lead a full day meditation retreat at Vista Hermosa (Prescott, WA) from 9:00 am-4:00 pm. The Heart Sutra, an essential Zen teaching, will be explored. The title of the retreat is: “What do all those “NOs” mean? How is it that there is no eye, ear, nose, no… Continue reading Meditation Retreat on Saturday, April 20, 2024
Sangha News 4/2/24
Thursday evening Info: After the 7:00 pm online meditation on Thursday, 4/4/24, Chris will give a talk on the Buddha’s teachings on awakening. We’ll look at attitudes and practices that can help us to learn to weaken the sense of self-centeredness and to let go of some of the ways in which we experience clinging… Continue reading Sangha News 4/2/24
Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Gil Fronsdal wrote an article on the path to awakening that is very helpful. It lays out the way in which the qualities that arise as one practices naturally lead to awakening. This teaching of the Buddha is known as Liberative Dependent Origination or Transcendental Dependent Origination because it undoes the normal process of Dependent… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Quote for the Week
The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. ~ Li Po Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
Sangha News 3/19/24
Thursday evening Info: After the 7:00 pm online meditation on Thursday, 3/21/24, Chris will give a talk on the Buddha’s teachings on karma, which follow from dependent origination, the way that everything depends on causes and conditions. Karma can be seen as the causes and conditions that influence our lives, and also as the intentions… Continue reading Sangha News 3/19/24
Proposed Sutta Study Group with Vas Bhardwaj
Hello! One of the exhortations of the Buddha to the Sangha was to discuss the Dhamma amongst themselves. And so, I (Vas) am looking for a few like-minded Sangha members to start a Sutta Study Group. I have a study structure in mind, but exactly how we do it is completely negotiable. I will initially… Continue reading Proposed Sutta Study Group with Vas Bhardwaj