La Crosse area Friends: Wednesday meditation & Dhamma inquiry
January 2018 at Wesley UMC
January 3rd -- Wesley UMC at King & 8th (see important details below)
For New Meditators! Let us know in advance and Santikaro can arrange to meet at 6:00 pm to give basic meditation instructions. Follow up instruction can also be arranged. Just reply to this email.
In the original presentation, the path is a harmonious weaving of 8 strands of Rightness, Intelligence, and Skill that culminates in True-Right Knowing and Liberation.
Location information -- Important! The church doors are usually locked. The evening's hosts will arrive early to set up and meet you at the door. Please use the 721 King Street entrance, where one of us will be waiting to greet you. Knock loudly if you don't see anyone. There will be plenty of parking on the street. The church also has parking space off of 8th St.
Meditation starts at 6:30 pm. Please arrive 5-10 minutes before then. The "Lounge" where we will be meeting has many chairs. If you prefer to sit on the floor, please bring your own mat and cushion. In winter, bring a blankie.
Dāna (donations, gifts, free-will offerings) to sustain Liberation Park and support our work are most welcome. Santikaro and Liberation Park depend on donations as sole means of support. Liberation Park in turn makes donations to Wesley UMC for kindly hosting us.
A sampler of Santikaro's talks from La Crosse and elsewhere are posted at http://liberationpark.org/
Next sessions: 17th and 31st
We begin our 2018 encounters together on Wednesday, January 3, with the "law of nature," idappaccayata (conditionality). Everything depends.
All happening are related to other happenings. First a talk by Ajahn
Buddhadasa on this fundamental insight at the heart of Buddha-Dhamma.
Then a couple sessions with
Santikaro relating practice with the dependent co-arising of dukkha,
distress, and suffering. As always, there will be silent meditation and inquiring conversation connected with these themes this Wednesday.
What are the implications of the radicalness that everything depends?
Please
reflect on significant examples from your own life of how everything
that happens is connected with lots of other happenings. In each case
what are the significant co-happenings?
On the other hand, all endings come about with other related things ending --
can you find examples of that in your personal experience?
can you find examples of that in your personal experience?
For New Meditators! Let us know in advance and Santikaro can arrange to meet at 6:00 pm to give basic meditation instructions. Follow up instruction can also be arranged. Just reply to this email.
These teachings fall within the framework of the noble eightfold path and middle way.
We regularly ask how the path can ground and guide us midst the
challenges, storms, and provocations swirling around us and inside us.
What are the realities of being mindful, kind, responsive, undistracted,
and imperturbable midst the sorrows and the joys of this life we are
given each day?
In the original presentation, the path is a harmonious weaving of 8 strands of Rightness, Intelligence, and Skill that culminates in True-Right Knowing and Liberation.
Location information -- Important! The church doors are usually locked. The evening's hosts will arrive early to set up and meet you at the door. Please use the 721 King Street entrance, where one of us will be waiting to greet you. Knock loudly if you don't see anyone. There will be plenty of parking on the street. The church also has parking space off of 8th St.
Meditation starts at 6:30 pm. Please arrive 5-10 minutes before then. The "Lounge" where we will be meeting has many chairs. If you prefer to sit on the floor, please bring your own mat and cushion. In winter, bring a blankie.
Dāna (donations, gifts, free-will offerings) to sustain Liberation Park and support our work are most welcome. Santikaro and Liberation Park depend on donations as sole means of support. Liberation Park in turn makes donations to Wesley UMC for kindly hosting us.
A sampler of Santikaro's talks from La Crosse and elsewhere are posted at http://liberationpark.org/
Next sessions: 17th and 31st
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