Greetings! The Tuesday night meditation group will meet tomorrow from 7:30pm to 9:30pm using the Zoom conferencing platform. Kent is scheduled to be this week’s facilitator. ** Please be sure to use the Zoom meeting link noted below. **
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In order to join our virtual sangha tomorrow, please follow these setup instructions:
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82602804477?pwd=ZFVtNWlUWks3Vnc2ZHVaT2VuRTNrQT09
Meeting ID: 826 0280 4477
Password: 1122
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There are a few events coming up this weekend.
On Saturday, May 18, Chris Crotty will offer a day-long in-person workshop on “Pariyatti Workshop: Integrating Practice and Study” at the Center for Mindfulness and Insight Meditation in Wenham:
“Pariyatti (Pali) means to study or learn. In this workshop led by CfMIM guiding-teacher, Chris Crotty, students will have an opportunity to begin exploring ways to integrate Buddhist teachings into the path of meditative development. First, we will consider how study offers both context and practical instructions for meditation. Second, we will examine how meditation practice tests, clarifies, and confirms the Buddha’s teachings, helping to render them personally relevant and meaningful. Through the integration of practice and study, the dhamma is said to unfold naturally.
“As a foundational program which introduces the Pali canon and covers basic concepts related to studying suttas and commentaries, it is encouraged for anyone who is curious about study or who wants to attend future PariyattiWorkshops at CfMIM. Beginning later this year a series of Pariyatti workshops will be offered and this workshop is the introduction for those programs, and is therefore highly recommended though not required. (This foundation PariyattiWorkshop was offered initially in 2023 and is being offered again for those who could not attend. For those who attended in 2023 and wish to register again, this 2024 May workshop will feature new material and all the contemplation exercises will be based on new teachings).”
To learn more, please visit https://wenham.cfmim.org/calendar/pariyatti-workshop-integrating-practice-study-with-chris-crotty-5-18-2024/
Also on Saturday Narayan Helen Liebenson and Stephanie Morgan will join up to offer “Engaging Darkness and Light” as a day-long hybrid workshop to benefit CIMC:
“Life is vast and powerful, at times wondrous, and at times, acutely painful. Yet only when we engage life as it is – in all its dimensions of darkness and light – are we fully alive. We might know this truth intellectually, yet opening our hearts and minds to engage when things are hard feels too risky, too steep, too unbearable. Our habit is to turn away, shut down, to try to manage by disengaging.
“Practice helps us find our footing and maintain our balance as we open our hearts and minds more deeply to the joyful and sorrowful realities of this life. To strengthen our capacity for living fully we need to nurture ourselves with the ever-present ballast of wholesomeness and light. It is essential that we learn to access the joy and wonder available to us.
“The path of practice enables and challenges us to cultivate the inner resources to engage our lives more deeply and with intimacy. With practice we may become fully alive.”
For additional information please visit https://cambridgeinsight.org/product/engaging-darkness-and-light-a-cimc-benefit-workshop-hybrid-online/
Then on the evening of Sunday, May 19, IMS will host a virtual celebration in honor of Joseph Goldstein’s 80th birthday:
“Join us in celebrating 80 years of Joseph Goldstein on planet Earth! The Insight Meditation Society is hosting a virtual birthday party for our beloved co-founder and guiding teacher. The evening features a lively conversation about teaching with Joseph and Sharon Salzberg, and 10% Happier Podcast host Dan Harris interviewing Joseph about aging gracefully. Dharma friends will also be sharing poetry, stories, photos, music, and more. Join us virtually on zoom to be part of a delightful evening sharing our appreciation for someone who has impacted all our lives for the better.”
To register please visit https://ims.dharma.org/courses/joseph-goldstein-80
Finally, Spirit Rock’s Sean Oakes will guide a virtual Vesak celebration:
“Vesak (Pāli: Visākha Pūjā) is the Buddhist holiday honoring the birth, awakening, and death of the Buddha. Held on the midsummer full moon, it is a beloved festival day throughout the Buddhist world. Celebrating the Buddhist holidays can help us deepen in faith, confidence in the path, inspiration, and gratitude for the gift of the Dharma in our lives.
“To honor Vesak 2024 (year 2568 in the Buddhist calendar), we will share simple chants from the Forest Saṅgha and Mahāyāna traditions, learn a meditation on the qualities of the Buddha called Buddhānussati, and celebrate the presence of the Dharma in our lives and in the world. All are welcome.”
For this week’s sharing, I’d like to pass along the links to an update on the new sala project at the Jetavana Forest Monastery in Temple, NH, as well as to a talk given by Ajahn Jayanto at Stanford University about 6 years ago (60 min.):
Sadly we just missed a visit to
Jetavana by Luang Por Jayasaro….
That’s all for now.… I look forward to to seeing everyone tomorrow evening, and thank you all for your continued presence and practice.
Metta,
Tim
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