Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sunday, 06 April 2025

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

The source of our unease is the unfulfillable longing for a lasting certainty and security, for something solid to hold on to.

Pema Chödrön   [source: Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears]

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

Vince, who will be our host, chose the topic.

All welcome.

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sunday, 16 February 2025

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Attributed to Winston Churchill ( 1874 – 1965)   [source: As quoted in “Words to Live By : 365 A Wise thought for every day” by Helen Exley]

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‘.

Janet, who will be our host, chose the topic.

All welcome.

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sunday, 09 February 2025

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

There is no satisfying the senses,
not even with a shower of money.
“The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering.”
When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, 

as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven.
Instead, he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

Buddha   [source: Dhammapada (186-187)]

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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Jessica, who will be our host, chose the topic.

All welcome.

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sunday, 02 February 2025

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


…though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing…

Galway Kinnell   [source: Saint Francis and the Sow (poem)]

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Catherine, who will be our host, chose the topic.

All welcome.

BRN Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Puzzlement and doubt… are the beginnings of mental freedom.

Joost Meerloo   [source: The Rape of the Mind (PDF)]

Wednesday, 29 January 2025
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, 30 January 2025
8:30 am ICT (eg Bangkok)
9:30 am AWST (eg Perth)
10:30 am JST (eg Tokyo)
12:30 pm AEDT (eg Sydney)
2:30 pm NZDT (eg Auckland)

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’.

https://buddhistrecovery.org/recover/brn-online-meetings

Gary, who will be our host, chose the topic.

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sunday, 26 January 2025

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


Those who deem the worthless as valuable,
And see the valuable as worthless:
They do not attain the valuable;
They roam in the field of wrong thought.

Buddha   [source: Dhammapada 1.11]

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Vince, who will be our host, chose the topic.

All welcome.

BRN Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Suffering, then, is the initial movement of the recognition of false boundaries… It points beyond boundaries altogether.

Ken Wilber [source: No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth]

Wednesday, 15 January 2025
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, 16 January 2025
8:30 am ICT (eg Bangkok)
9:30 am AWST (eg Perth)
10:30 am JST (eg Tokyo)
12:30 pm AEDT (eg Sydney)
2:30 pm NZDT (eg Auckland)

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’.

https://buddhistrecovery.org/recover/brn-online-meetings

Gary, who will be our host, chose the topic.

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sunday, 12 January 2025

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

You have nothing to prove to anyone, no quota to meet, and no responsibility towards being what others think you should be. However, you do have a responsibility to yourself, to be yourself.

Dr BethAnne Kapansky Wright   [source: Small Pearls Big Wisdom: 365 Reflections on the Heart of Being Human]

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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Shaku, who will be our host, chose the topic.

All welcome.

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sunday, 05 January 2025

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


In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you learn to let go?

Jack Kornfield   [source: Buddha’s Little Instruction Book]

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

Janet, who will be our host, chose the topic.

All welcome.