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
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Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Gil Fronsdal has a discussion on his website of greed and sensual desire as one of the most common of the hindrances we can experience in meditation. He looks at some of the causes of greed and discusses several ways of working with it. You can find his article here: Sensual Desire as a Hindrance
Quote for the Week
Desire is ubiquitous in human life. Living without wants, wishes, motivations, and aspirations is inconceivable. Some desires are quite healthy, useful, and appropriate; some are not. One function of mindfulness practice is to help us distinguish between these. Sensual Desire as a Hindrance ~ Gil Fronsdal
Tri-Cities Cancer Center Meditation Support Group Meets March19th
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 3/19/2026. 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
Sangha News 3/10/26
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
Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Gil Fronsdal provides an introduction to the hindrances, which are several difficult states of mind that can obstruct our ability to see clearly in meditation and daily life. He gives several ways to relate to them that are helpful, and makes clear the importance of learning from them. You can find his article here: Hindrances… Continue reading
Quote for the Week
Anyone who practices mindfulness knows that there are forces in the mind that can make it difficult to be mindful. Rather than reacting to these difficulties as somehow being “bad” or as “distractions,” it is important to investigate them. It is easier to find freedom from something when we know it thoroughly. Hindrances to Clear… Continue reading
Sangha News 2/26/26
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
Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Sean Oakes describes the spiritual qualities known as the five faculties or five powers that are especially helpful in meditation. In describing them, he lays out the way in which practicing each of the faculties in meditation encourages the development of the next faculty. He also provides a helpful description of the way in which… Continue reading
Quote for the Week
One of the elegant aspects of the list of the five spiritual faculties is its internal symmetry. With mindfulness as a fulcrum in the center, the rest of the set can be seen as two pairs: faith balancing wisdom, and energy balancing concentration. In this way the whole list becomes an expression of the middle… Continue reading