Category: Sit-and-Share Topic

The work of practice begins by allowing ourselves to face fully our own sadness, fear, anxiety, desperation – to die to our limited ideas about how things should be and to love and accept the truth of things as they are.

~ Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield [source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, p. 211]

Sunday, November 05, 2023

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 above topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Janet, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Artist Link: Elyana Shamselangeroodi/artpal.com

All are welcome.

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No one enjoys being wrong, but I do enjoy having been wrong, because it means I am now less wrong than I was before.

~ Daniel Kahneman [source: Thinking, Fast and Slow]

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2023

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 is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

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

Image Link:  KamranAydinov/Freepik/Wrong

All are welcome.

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Few men have the capacity fully to realise suffering as one of the great structural lines of human life. 

~ JWN Sullivan [source: Beethoven, His Spiritual Development (1927)]

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023

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 above topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Cathryn, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Links:  PxHere/Suffering

All are welcome.

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Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation — some fact of my life — unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

~ Paul O. [source: Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book, (personal stories, “Acceptance Was the Answer) p. 417, 4th Ed.]

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023

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 is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Nicole, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link:  momsieblog/acceptance

All are welcome.

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The truth is that our suffering is optional. In life, pain and pleasure are given, but we create suffering for ourselves through our clinging to pleasure and aversion to pain.

~ Noah Levine [source: Against the Stream – A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries]

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2023

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 is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

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

All are welcome.

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Image Credit:  Noah Levine – Instagram

No one saves us but ourselves,
No one can and no one may,
We ourselves must walk the path,
Buddhas merely teach the way.

~ Paul Carus [source: Karma: A Story of Buddhist Ethics, p. 40 ]

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023

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 above topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

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

Image Links:  PublicDomainArchive/Pixabay/feet on gravel

All are welcome.

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Let’s start where we are. What happens if you know beyond any shadow of doubt that there is nothing you can do to be better?

~ Alan Watts [source: “Self Improvement” from YouTube talk “The Power of Controlling Your Mind,” Interval: 39:35-45]

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023

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 is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Nicole, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link:  AlanWattsRendering/Youtube

All are welcome.

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Gratitude, the simple and profound feeling of being thankful, is the foundation of all generosity.

~ Sallie Jiko Tisdale [source: As If There is Nothing to Lose]

Buddhist Recovery Network – Midweek Meeting
BRN Sit-and-Share: Wed September 20, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81326534832

You can connect manually, with Zoom meeting ID 813 2653 4832 and passcode ‘501497‘.

The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual BRN ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

Wednesday
2:30 pm HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
5:30 pm PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
6:30 pm MDT (eg Denver)
7:30 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
8:30 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
Thursday
7:30 am ICT (eg Bangkok)
11:30 am AEST (eg Sydney)
13:30 pm NZST (eg Auckland)

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Gary who will be our host.

All are welcome.

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Image Credit: Prayer Flag at Hungry Ghost Retreat (Vince Cullen)

The cause of anger is a belief that one has been wronged, which one should not accept at face value. 

~ Seneca in On Anger [source:  Breakfast with Seneca by David Fideler, p. 70]

MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2023

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 is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

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

Image Link: medium.com/seneca

All are welcome.

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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

~ Jon Kabat Zinn [source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, p. 200]

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023

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 above topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Janet, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Links:   Andre Benz/Unsplash/eternity now

All are welcome.

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