Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Thursday, 15 February 2024

12 pm (US Pacific)
8 pm (UK/Ireland)

To cultivate right speech, listen, as you talk so that you hear with your own ears exactly what you say, and how you say it. The practice of right speech is speaking in attention.

~ Ken McLeod   [source: Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention]

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually, with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic was chosen by Gary, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Monday, 12 February 2024

12 pm (US Pacific)
8 pm (UK/Ireland)

Our language has wisely sensed … two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. 

~ Paul Tillich   [source: The Eternal Now – page 5]

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually, with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic was chosen by Gary, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sunday, 11 February 2024

10 am (US Pacific)
6 pm (UK/Ireland)

To live a life pervaded by bitterness and hatred is like being locked in a burning house – and then remember that you hold the key to the door in your own hand.

~ Christina Feldman [source: Compassion: Listening to the Cries of the World]

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic was chosen by Janet who will be our host.

All welcome.

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Thursday, 08 February 2024

12 pm (US Pacific)
8 pm (UK/Ireland)

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

~ Buddha   [source: Dhammapada – Verse 42]

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually, with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic was chosen by Claudia, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sunday, 04 February 2024

10 am (US Pacific)
6 pm (UK/Ireland)

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. … It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

~ Carl Jung   [source: Collected Works]

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic was chosen by Janet who will be our host.

All welcome.

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Thursday, 01 February 2024

12 pm (US Pacific)
8 pm (UK/Ireland)

In an age where there is much talk about “being yourself” I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anyone else. Rather it seems to me that when one is too intent on “being himself” he runs the risk of impersonating a shadow.

~ Thomas Merton   [source: Day of a Stranger]

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually, with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic was chosen by Patrick, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All are welcome.


BRN Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Our language has wisely sensed … two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. 

~ Paul Tillich [source: The Eternal Now – page 5]

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6794136360

or manually enter meeting ID 679 413 6360 and passcode ‘brn’.

Wednesday
3:30 pm HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
5:30 pm PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
6:30 pm MST (eg Denver)
7:30 pm CST (eg Chicago)
8:30 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
Thursday
8:30 am ICT (eg Bangkok)
12:30 pm AEDT (eg Sydney)
2:30 pm NZDT (eg Auckland)

The topic was chosen by Gary who will be our host.

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Monday, 29 January 2024

12 pm (US Pacific)
8 pm (UK/Ireland)

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.   [source: “The Most Durable Power” Excerpt from Sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church on 6 November 1956]

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually, with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic was chosen by Shaku, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sunday, 28 January 2024

10 am (US Pacific)
6 pm (UK/Ireland)

Expectations are resentments and disappointments waiting to happen.

– Adapted from Anne Lamott quote. [source: As quoted by Brené Brown in her book ‘Rising Strong]

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic was chosen by Vince who will be our host.

All welcome.

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Thursday, 25 January 2024

12 pm (US Pacific)
8 pm (UK/Ireland)

Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless.
Heedlessness is the path to death.
The heedful do not die.
The heedless are as if already dead. 

~ Buddha [source: Dhammapada verse 21]

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually, with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic was chosen by Patrick, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All are welcome.