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 12/27/21
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Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Gil Fronsdal has an article on the Eightfold Path that does a good job of defining the importance of Wise View in setting out on the path to freedom. You can find that article here: “The Buddha’s Eightfold Path” Gina Sharpe, a teacher at New York Insight Meditation Center, provides a brief discussion of Wise… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Quote For The Week
“A calmer mind is more able to see past the urgency of immediate pain or pleasure, to apprehend causes and effects more clearly. Release and relief also build confidence in our own innate wisdom. This is not confidence that we are right, but confidence that supports asking questions like, “What is going on right now?”… Continue reading Quote For The Week
Beginning Meditation Classes
Our Beginning Meditation classes are presented in a four-part series, and will be conducted online via zoom. The classes are intended to work together to provide an introduction to meditation or serve as a useful “touchstone” for more experienced practitioners. You are welcome to attend any or all of the classes. Each class can be… Continue reading Beginning Meditation Classes
Meeting News 12/13/21
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 12/13/21
Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Here’s a brief introduction to the Buddha’s Eightfold Path: What is the Eightfold Path? A more detailed approach to the path can be found on Rick Hanson’s site at the following link: The Noble Eigthfold Path
Quote for the Week
“Buddhadasa, a beloved twentieth-century Thai Buddhist teacher, expressed the relationship of personal meditation to our interpersonal lives: “If we are learning anything from our personal meditation practice, then it reveals itself in our relationships with other people.” Gregory Kramer, “Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom”
Meeting News 11/29/21
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 11/29/21
Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Here’s an article about waking up in difficult times by an English Insight Meditation teacher, Ajahn Sucitto. He points to the importance of meditation in ending stress and suffering, but also the importance of being engaged, and of being in touch with each other, and with nature. He says that reducing our own stress and suffering is… Continue reading Updated Resources for Meditation and Support
Quote For The Week
“We do not usually think of happiness in terms of something ending but rather in terms of good things happening or getting things we want. However, if we observe our lives and think carefully about what we see, it becomes clear that the longings, urgings, wishes, and desires we carry are making us pretty tense –… Continue reading Quote For The Week