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Thursday Evening Meditation & Talk: Over the next couple of months we’ll explore several mental and emotional habits that can interfere with meditation and mindfulness in daily life. They include greed, aversion, sloth, anxiousness and worry, and doubt. These hindrances can make life and meditation difficult. We’ll take a look at ways to work with… Continue reading

Thursday Evening Meditation & Talk: Over the next couple of months we’ll explore several mental and emotional habits that can interfere with meditation and mindfulness in daily life. They include greed, aversion, sloth, anxiousness and worry, and doubt. These hindrances can make life and meditation difficult. We’ll take a look at ways to work with… Continue reading

Thursday Evening Meditation & Talk: Over the next couple of months we’ll explore five faculties that the Buddha suggested would help us to better understand the distress we sometimes encounter in life and to explore ways in which we can decrease it. They include confidence, energy, mindfulness, gathering the mind, and wisdom. These faculties support… Continue reading

Thursday Evening Meditation & Talk: Over the next couple of months we’ll explore five faculties that the Buddha suggested would help us to better understand the distress we sometimes encounter in life and to explore ways in which we can decrease it. They include confidence, energy, mindfulness, gathering the mind, and wisdom. These faculties support… Continue reading

Thursday Evening Meditation & Talk: Over the next couple of months we’ll explore five faculties that the Buddha suggested would help us to better understand the distress we sometimes encounter in life and to explore ways in which we can decrease it. They include confidence, energy, mindfulness, gathering the mind, and wisdom. These faculties support… Continue reading

Introducing a new teacher for Insight Meditation of the Mid-Columbia The upcoming meditation class series will be taught by Chris Murray and Fabiola Robinson. Fabiola will be helping lead the meditation group now. I (Chris) was diagnosed with leukemia five years ago, and recently found I need to start treatment in mid-January. I feel fortunate… Continue reading Sangha News 1/13/26

Thursday Evening Meditation & Talk: Over the next couple of months we’ll explore five faculties that the Buddha suggested would help us to better understand the distress we sometimes encounter in life and to explore ways in which we can decrease it. They include confidence, energy, mindfulness, gathering the mind, and wisdom. These faculties support… Continue reading

Thursday Evening Meditation & Talk: Over the next month or so we’ll explore the Buddha’s teachings on three different ways of perceiving the nature of everything we experience in life. These ways of perceiving are to notice the impermanence of everything, its impersonal nature, and its unreliability as a source of long term happiness. Go… Continue reading

Thursday Evening Meditation & Talk: Over the next month or so we’ll explore the Buddha’s teachings on three different ways of perceiving the nature of everything we experience in life. These ways of perceiving are to notice the impermanence of everything, its impersonal nature, and its unreliability as a source of long term happiness. We’ll… Continue reading

Thursday Evening Meditation & Talk: Over the next month or so we’ll explore the Buddha’s teachings on four qualities of the heart that support us in our lives and practice, and can help us to cultivate an open heart. These four qualities, lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, are usually known as the Brahmaviharas or the… Continue reading