We have three online meditations a week, on Wednesday morning, Thursday evening, and Saturday morning. The Zoom links for those meetings can be found on the Events Calendar and you will also find more detailed information below. You’re welcome to join us online for any of the 3 meetings each week. In addition to our… Continue reading Meeting News
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Updated Resources For Meditation And Support
If you don’t have either of the books recommended above, here are a couple of good sources on equanimity available online.Shaila Catherine has a good description of equanimity and some suggestions on how to practice it that you can find here: Equanimity: Our Greatest Friend The following article on equanimity by Gary Gach was written… Continue reading Updated Resources For Meditation And Support
Quote For The Week
“The term upekkha [usually translated as equanimity] literally means ‘balance.’ Equanimity can be understood as evenmindedness, the ability to be present as fully as possible with all experiences – whether we are focused primarily on our internal world or on the external world – with an open heart and clear seeing, without reactivity.” ~ Donald Rothberg, The Engaged… Continue reading Quote For The Week
Talk & Meditation With Dori Langevin
Please join us Friday evening, August 20th, as we welcome Dori Langevin a meditation teacher from Spokane, WA. The evening will be from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm and will include meditation, a talk and time for Q&A. Dori’s talk will be on “The Blessing of Equanimity” which is also the topic for her day… Continue reading Talk & Meditation With Dori Langevin
Meeting News
The retreat with Dori Langevin is approaching and there is still time to register. She will present an online talk and meditation on equanimity on Friday, August 20 from 7:30-9:00. The online retreat will be the next day, Saturday, August 21, 2021. Please go to the Events Calendar for more details. We have three online… Continue reading Meeting News
Updated Resources For Meditation And Support
Here you will find additional resources to explore compassion and kindness, the topic of our Engaged Spiritual Practice series:Sharon Salzberg talked with Krista Tippett last year about a range of topics related to compassion and kindness. She speaks with Tippett about how to care for the world while also learning kindness towards ourselves. You can… Continue reading Updated Resources For Meditation And Support
Quote for the week
“Working with our suffering grants us three great gifts: The gift of compassion, the gift of understanding, and the gift of safety, of not passing on our pain to ourselves and to others. These gifts are central to our skillful action in the world.” – Donald Rothberg, The Engaged Spiritual Life
Atomic Cities Peace Memorial Tue. Aug 10th
The 39th annual Atomic Cities Peace Memorial ceremony, commemorating the Nagasaki atomic bombing and sponsored by World Citizens for Peace, will be held on Tuesday, August 10, 8:00 p.m., in the Activity Room of the Richland Community Center at 500 Amon Park Drive. The one-hour program of song, speech and prayer will remember the past… Continue reading Atomic Cities Peace Memorial Tue. Aug 10th
Updated Resources for Meditation and Support in Challenging Times
The following resources may be helpful in responding to personal loss and grief as well as the loss and grief associated with social and environmental grief. This article, Grief and Love: a Buddhist Understanding of Loss , touches on the meaning of personal loss and grief and provides some suggestions for responding to it, including… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support in Challenging Times
Quote for the week
Feeling the pain of the world is not a weakness. This is God-given or, put another way, an aspect of our Buddha nature. This openness of heart that characterizes the caring individual is a function of maturity. Don’t ever apologize for the tears you shed on behalf of other beings. This is, in its essence,… Continue reading Quote for the week