Tri-Cities Cancer Center Meditation Support Group Meets April 17th

We’ll continue our monthly mindfulness meditation support group meeting at the Tri-Cities Cancer Center in May. The Cancer Center is located at 7350 West Deschutes Avenue, Kennewick and the next meeting will be Thursday,4/17 /2025. 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… Continue reading

Tri-Cities Cancer Center Meditation Support Group Meets April 17th

Sangha News 4/1/25

Newsletter Pause: This will be the only Insight Meditation newsletter for April, the next newsletter is currently planned for May 6, 2025. If you use the newsletter for the Zoom links to the online sessions, you’ll want to keep track of this email. Another way to find the Zoom link for an online session is… Continue reading

Sangha News 4/1/25

Updated Resources for Meditation and Support

Gil Fronsdal provides an excellent introduction to the four positive qualities of the heart known as the Brahmaviharas. The four qualities, lovingkindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity are also known as the four immeasurables, because they can be extended to all beings without measure. The article includes a brief discussion of the use of meditation… Continue reading

Updated Resources for Meditation and Support

Quote for the Week

We all have the potential to abide in loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity. When we know how to do this, these capacities become an inner wealth, more valuable than any outer riches. To tap into this wealth, Buddhism teaches practices for developing each of the four Brahmaviharas. Love doesn’t have to be dependent on… Continue reading

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Sangha News 3/18/25

Thursday evening Info: Over the next couple of months we’ll explore the Buddha’s teachings on the Eightfold path that leads to the end of stress and suffering. A resource that we’ll draw on for the talks and discussion is the book Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness by Bhante Gunaratna. We’ll also provide links to resources… Continue reading

Sangha News 3/18/25

Quote for the Week

So it’s important to question our perception of concentration, and our attitude towards getting it. The ‘getting it’ approach doesn’t work in terms of appreciation of the present – but the present is all that we can directly be aware of. We’re directly aware of the present moment through feeling it and being affected by it – and… Continue reading

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Tri-Cities Cancer Center Meditation Support Group Meets March 20th

We’ll continue our monthly mindfulness meditation support group meeting at the Tri-Cities Cancer Center in May. The Cancer Center is located at 7350 West Deschutes Avenue, Kennewick and the next meeting will be Thursday, 3/20/2025. 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… Continue reading

Tri-Cities Cancer Center Meditation Support Group Meets March 20th

Sangha News 3/4/25

Thursday evening Info: Over the next couple of months we’ll explore the Buddha’s teachings on the Eightfold path that leads to the end of stress and suffering. A resource that we’ll draw on for the talks and discussion is the book Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness by Bhante Gunaratna. We’ll also provide links to resources… Continue reading

Sangha News 3/4/25

Updated Resources for Meditation and Support

Phillip Moffitt discusses mindfulness and how the practice of mindfulness is related to the Buddha’s teaching on liberation from stress and suffering. You can find his article here: What is the Mindfulness of the Buddha? Also on the Spirit Rock website, Sean Oakes gives an introduction to mindfulness that includes a brief introduction to the… Continue reading

Updated Resources for Meditation and Support