Category: Sit-and-Share Topic

“Being cut off from our own natural self-compassion is one of the greatest impairments we can suffer. Along with our ability to feel our own pain go our best hopes for healing, dignity and love.”

~ Gabor Mate

This is this week’s topic for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Skype from 7:45 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time).

All welcome.

This week’s ‘Sit-and-Share’ host can be found here –

Please read ‘How to attend a Virtual Sit-and-Share meeting’ –

Closing dedication of Merit:

We dedicate the merits of this practice to all suffering beings.
May everyone be free of suffering, and the causes of suffering.
May everyone enjoy happiness, and the causes of happiness.
Keep sitting; and keep smiling.

Confess All Your Hidden Faults.
Approach That Which You Find Repulsive.
Whoever You Think You Cannot Help – Help Them.
Anything You Are Attached To – Let Go Of It.
Go To the Places That Scare You.

~ Machig Labdrön (1055-1149) 11th-century Tibetan tantric Buddhist practitioner, teacher and yogini.

This is this week’s topic for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Skype from 7:45 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time).

All welcome.

This week’s ‘Sit-and-Share’ host can be found here –

Please read ‘How to attend a Virtual Sit-and-Share meeting’ –

Closing dedication of Merit:

We dedicate the merits of this practice to all suffering beings. 
May everyone be free of suffering, and the causes of suffering. 
May everyone enjoy happiness, and the causes of happiness. 
Keep sitting; and keep smiling.

“At death a person abandons
what he supposes as mine.
Realizing this, the wise
shouldn’t incline
to be devoted to mine-ness.”

~ Jara Sutta: Old Age – translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Alternatively…

“That which a man imagines to be his
will disappear at death.
Knowing this a wise man
will have no attachment (to anything).”

~ Jara Sutta: Old Age – translated from the Pali by John D. Ireland

This is this week’s topic for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Skype from 7:45 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time).

All welcome.

This week’s ‘Sit-and-Share’ host can be found here –

Please read ‘How to attend a Virtual Sit-and-Share meeting’ –

Closing dedication of Merit:

We dedicate the merits of this practice to all suffering beings.
May everyone be free of suffering, and the causes of suffering.
May everyone enjoy happiness, and the causes of happiness.
Keep sitting; and keep smiling.

“Like fever and pain, anxiety and low mood are useful normal responses to some situations.”

~ Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

This is this week’s topic for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Skype from 7:45 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time).

All welcome.

This week’s ‘Sit-and-Share’ host can be found here –

https://5th-precept.org/virtual-sit-and-share-meetings-via-…/

Please read ‘How to attend a Virtual Sit-and-Share meeting’ –

https://5th-precept.org/how-to-attend-a-virtual-sit-and-sha…/

Closing dedication of Merit:

We dedicate the merits of this practice to all suffering beings. 
May everyone be free of suffering, and the causes of suffering. 
May everyone enjoy happiness, and the causes of happiness. 
Keep sitting; and keep smiling.

“To see ourselves as just another person deserving love is a valuable exercise. Here we start to disidentify with ourselves, see ourselves in more objective terms. When we can see ourselves as just another imperfect human, equally deserving of love as anyone else, it becomes easier to offer love to ourselves.”

~ Kevin Griffin, “May All Beings Be Happy”

This is this week’s topic for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Skype from 7:45 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time).

All welcome.

This week’s ‘Sit-and-Share’ host can be found here –

https://5th-precept.org/virtual-sit-and-share-meetings-via-…/

Please read ‘How to attend a Virtual Sit-and-Share meeting’ –

https://5th-precept.org/how-to-attend-a-virtual-sit-and-sha…/

Closing dedication of Merit:

We dedicate the merits of this practice to all suffering beings. 
May everyone be free of suffering, and the causes of suffering. 
May everyone enjoy happiness, and the causes of happiness. 
Keep sitting; and keep smiling.

“As we change our own dysfunctional habits, we are simultaneously changing society.
Our own awakening is intertwined with the awakening of enlightened society.
If we can lose our personal appetite for aggression and addiction, the whole planet will rejoice.”

Pema Chödrön 
Taking the Leap : Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears [pages 98-99]

This is this week’s topic for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Skype from 7:45 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time).

All welcome.

This week’s ‘Sit-and-Share’ host can be found here –
https://5th-precept.org/virtual-sit-and-share-meetings-via-skype/

Please read ‘How to attend a Virtual Sit-and-Share meeting’ –
https://5th-precept.org/how-to-attend-a-virtual-sit-and-share-meeting/

Closing dedication of Merit:

We dedicate the merits of this practice to all suffering beings.
May everyone be free of suffering, and the causes of suffering.
May everyone enjoy happiness, and the causes of happiness.
Keep sitting; and keep smiling.

“Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day, we would have taken a truly millennial step forward.”

~ Chinua Achebe 1998 [Africa’s Tarnished Name]

This is this week’s topic for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Skype from 7:45 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time).

All welcome.

This week’s ‘Sit-and-Share’ host can be found here –

https://5th-precept.org/virtual-sit-and-share-meetings-via-skype/

Please read ‘How to attend a Virtual Sit-and-Share meeting’ –

How to Attend a Virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ Meeting

Closing dedication of Merit:

We dedicate the merits of this practice to all suffering beings.
May everyone be free of suffering, and the causes of suffering.
May everyone enjoy happiness, and the causes of happiness.
Keep sitting; and keep smiling.

“She spoke to him only occasionally and made sure not to laugh. He started to suffer the malnutrition of unalloyed seriousness. Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency.”

~ Hanif Kureishi [The Buddha of Suburbia]

This is this week’s topic for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Skype from 7:45 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time).

All welcome.

This week’s ‘Sit-and-Share’ host can be found here –

https://5th-precept.org/virtual-sit-and-share-meetings-via-skype/

Please read ‘How to attend a Virtual Sit-and-Share meeting’ –

How to Attend a Virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ Meeting

Closing dedication of Merit:

We dedicate the merits of this practice to all suffering beings.
May everyone be free of suffering, and the causes of suffering.
May everyone enjoy happiness, and the causes of happiness.
Keep sitting; and keep smiling.

“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.”

~ Henry David Thoreau [July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862, an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, yogi, and historian]

This is this week’s topic for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Skype from 7:45 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time).

All welcome.

This week’s ‘Sit-and-Share’ host can be found here –

Please read ‘How to attend a Virtual Sit-and-Share meeting’ –

Closing dedication of Merit:

We dedicate the merits of this practice to all suffering beings.
May everyone be free of suffering, and the causes of suffering.
May everyone enjoy happiness, and the causes of happiness.
Keep sitting; and keep smiling.

“Remember, healing through forgiveness takes place in the soul and subconscious, not by a face to face confrontation that ends in hugging and tears of joy.

In fact, chances are that would never happen anyway, so you are setting yourself up for failure if that is your expectation.”

~ Sharon Critchfield, [Waking Up to Heal]

This week’s topic at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Skype from 7:45 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time).

All welcome.

This week’s ‘Sit-and-Share’ host can be found here

Please read ‘How to attend a Virtual Sit-and-Share meeting’.

Closing dedication of Merit:

We dedicate the merits of this practice to all suffering beings.
May everyone be free of suffering, and the causes of suffering.
May everyone enjoy happiness, and the causes of happiness.
Keep sitting; and keep smiling.