Fifth Precept Sangha

The more comfortable you become in your own skin, the less you need to manufacture the world around you for comfort.

~ Cory Muscara [source: Twitter Post November 21, 2022]

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

…alternatively, 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 from:

9:45 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
11:45 am PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
12:45 pm MST (eg Denver)
1:45 pm CST (eg Chicago)
2:45 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
7:45 pm GMT (eg Dublin/London)
8:45 pm CET (eg France)
9:45 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:45 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Tuesday
06:45 am AEDT (eg Sydney)
08:45 am NZDT (eg Auckland)

Ready for a prompt start at the top of the hour. This meeting’s topic was chosen by Nicole, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All welcome.

Image – ‘Rooftop in Fes’ – Riad Sidrat Fes, Morocco – January 2023

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By looking at our own old wounds, by identifying them, by being with them with compassion, we can all find healing and contribute to our world in a meaningful way.

~ Radhule Weininger : source: Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom – at Last  (Link to a free audio version of this practice)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

…alternatively, 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 from:

7:45 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
9:45 am PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
10:45 am MST (eg Denver)
11:45 am CST (eg Chicago)
12:45 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
5:45 pm GMT (eg Dublin/London)
6:45 pm CET (eg France)
7:45 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
8:45 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Monday
04:45 am AEDT (eg Sydney)
06:45 am NZDT (eg Auckland)

Ready for a prompt start at the top of the hour. This meeting’s topic was chosen by Vince, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All welcome.

Image (1) ‘Forearm Stop’ – Nalagiri House, Carrigahorig, County Tipperary, Ireland – September 2017
Image (2) ‘Head Stop’ – Nalagiri House, Carrigahorig, County Tipperary, Ireland – September 2017 

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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

~ Thích Nhất Hạnh [source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation]

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

…alternatively, 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 from:

9:45 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
11:45 am PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
12:45 pm MST (eg Denver)
1:45 pm CST (eg Chicago)
2:45 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
7:45 pm GMT (eg Dublin/London)
8:45 pm CET (eg France)
9:45 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:45 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Friday
06:45 am AEDT (eg Sydney)
08:45 am NZDT (eg Auckland)

Ready for a prompt start at the top of the hour. This meeting’s topic was chosen by Cathryn, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All welcome.

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An interesting thing happens when you start to like yourself. You no longer need all the things you thought you needed to be happy.

~ Cory Muscara [source: Twitter Post November 21, 2022]

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

…alternatively, 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 from:

9:45 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
11:45 am PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
12:45 pm MST (eg Denver)
1:45 pm CST (eg Chicago)
2:45 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
7:45 pm GMT (eg Dublin/London)
8:45 pm CET (eg France)
9:45 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:45 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Tuesday
06:45 am AEDT (eg Sydney)
08:45 am NZDT (eg Auckland)

Ready for a prompt start at the top of the hour. This meeting’s topic was chosen by Nicole, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All welcome.

Image – ‘Dunnes at Jetland’ – Dunnes Store, Jetland Shopping Centre, Limerick, Ireland – March 2018

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I have come to a frightening conclusion.
I am the decisive element…
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make a person’s life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a person humanized or de-humanized.

~ Dr. Haim G. Ginott [source: Paraphrased from the preface of the book –
Teacher and Child: A Book for Parents and Teachers – The Macmillan Company, New York (1972)]

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

…alternatively, 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 from:

7:45 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
9:45 am PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
10:45 am MST (eg Denver)
11:45 am CST (eg Chicago)
12:45 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
5:45 pm GMT (eg Dublin/London)
6:45 pm CET (eg France)
7:45 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
8:45 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Monday
04:45 am AEDT (eg Sydney)
06:45 am NZDT (eg Auckland)

Ready for a prompt start at the top of the hour. This meeting’s topic was chosen by Vince, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All welcome.

Image (1) – ‘Waking Up in Olympia’ – A Daylong Retreat in Washington State, USA – September 2019
Image (2) – ‘Right Now It’s Like This’ – Being Human: A Hungry Ghost Retreat at Kunphen Recovery Center, Dharamsala, HP, India – October 2018

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From the moment we are born we train how not to be ourselves. We are educated. We are influenced by society. All of the time, every day of our life, we practice how not to be ourselves and how to be someone else.

~ Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche [source: Restoring the Balance: Sharing Tibetan Wisdom]

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

…alternatively, 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 from:

9:45 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
11:45 am PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
12:45 pm MST (eg Denver)
1:45 pm CST (eg Chicago)
2:45 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
7:45 pm GMT (eg Dublin/London)
8:45 pm CET (eg France)
9:45 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:45 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Friday
06:45 am AEDT (eg Sydney)
08:45 am NZDT (eg Auckland)

Ready for a prompt start at the top of the hour. This meeting’s topic was chosen by Pat, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All welcome.

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Sometimes the lights all shinin on me;
Other times I can barely see.

~ Grateful Dead [source:  ‘Truckin‘ (Garcia;Lesh;Weir;Hunter) ]

Buddhist Recovery Network – Midweek Recovery Meeting
Sit-and-Share: 15-16 February 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81326534832

…alternatively, 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 ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at…

Wednesday 3:30 pm HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
Wednesday 5:30 pm PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
Wednesday 6:30 pm MST (eg Denver)
Wednesday 7:30 pm CST (eg Chicago)
Wednesday 8:30 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
Thursday 08:30 am ICT (eg Bangkok)
Thursday 12:30 pm AEDT (eg Sydney)
Thursday 3:30 pm NZDT (eg Auckland)

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

All welcome.

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The biggest life hack is to become your own best friend. Everything is easier when you do.

~ Cory Muscara [source: Twitter Post November 21, 2022]

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

…alternatively, 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 from:

9:45 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
11:45 am PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
12:45 pm MST (eg Denver)
1:45 pm CST (eg Chicago)
2:45 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
7:45 pm GMT (eg Dublin/London)
8:45 pm CET (eg France)
9:45 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:45 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Tuesday
06:45 am AEDT (eg Sydney)
08:45 am NZDT (eg Auckland)

Ready for a prompt start at the top of the hour. This meeting’s topic was chosen by Nicole, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All welcome.

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When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.

The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgement mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.

~ Ram Dass [source: Ram Dass on Self-Judgement]

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

…alternatively, 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 from:

7:45 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
9:45 am PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
10:45 am MST (eg Denver)
11:45 am CST (eg Chicago)
12:45 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
5:45 pm GMT (eg Dublin/London)
6:45 pm CET (eg France)
7:45 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
8:45 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Monday
04:45 am AEDT (eg Sydney)
06:45 am NZDT (eg Auckland)

Ready for a prompt start at the top of the hour. This meeting’s topic was chosen by Vince, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All welcome.

Image – ‘Trees’ – Portumna Forest Park, County Galway, Ireland – November 2021

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Many of us will spend our entire lives trying to slog through the shame swampland to get to a place where we can give ourselves permission to both be imperfect and to believe we are enough.

~ Brené Brown [source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.]

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

…alternatively, 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 from:

9:45 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
11:45 am PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
12:45 pm MST (eg Denver)
1:45 pm CST (eg Chicago)
2:45 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
7:45 pm GMT (eg Dublin/London)
8:45 pm CET (eg France)
9:45 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:45 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Friday
06:45 am AEDT (eg Sydney)
08:45 am NZDT (eg Auckland)

Ready for a prompt start at the top of the hour. This meeting’s topic was chosen by Cathryn, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All welcome.

Image – ‘Marsh Shoreline’ – Lough Derg, Portumna, County Galway, Ireland – April 2020

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