Fifth Precept Sangha

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

At every moment, we can integrate the practice of paying attention with a little more focus and intention- to the breath, to our sensations, to others, to ourselves.

– Sharon Salzberg[source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection]

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

All welcome.

It is best to cultivate the feeling of equanimity by first focusing on relative strangers or acquaintances, those for whom you have no strong feeling one way or the other.

~ H.H. Dalai Lama   [source: An Open Heart]

Wednesday, 29 May 2024
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Thursday, 30 May 2024
7:30 am ICT (eg Bangkok)
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11:30 am AEST (eg Sydney)
1:30 pm NZST (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://www.buddhistrecovery.org/brn-online-meetings.htm

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

All are welcome.

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

Addiction isn’t about alcohol and drugs. It’s the absence of self. This absence is described as a hole in your soul. You can’t love others when you are empty inside. Recovery peels back the painful layers and heals that hole through connection, honesty and hard work. To love oneself, is the beginning of a lifetime recovery.

– Anonymous

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

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

For those who spend their lives learning to relax with groundlessness, death is liberating. Death is the ultimate unknown that we are forever avoiding; it’s the ultimate groundlessness that we try to escape. But if we learn to relax with uncertainty and insecurity, then death is a support for joy.]

– Pema Chödrön  
[source: Becoming Bodhisattvas: A Guidebook for Compassionate Action

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

All welcome.

What is Compassion?
Compassion is the wish that others be free of suffering. It is by means of compassion that we aspire to attain enlightenment.

~ H.H. Dalai Lama   [source: An Open Heart]

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
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Thursday, 16 May 2024
7:30 am ICT (eg Bangkok)
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11:30 am AEST (eg Sydney)
1:30 pm NZST (eg Auckland)

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

https://www.buddhistrecovery.org/brn-online-meetings.htm

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

All are welcome.

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

When we are conscious of the life-enriching purpose behind an action we take, when the sole energy that motivates us is simply to make life wonderful for others and ourselves, then even hard work has an element of play in it.]

– Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD.
[source: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

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

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

My religion is Kindness.

– Dalai Lama

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

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

You can search the whole tenfold universe and not find a single being more worthy of love and compassion than the one seated here – yourself.

– Sharon Salzberg   [source: Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness]

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

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

At the most basic, microscopic level, it is the nature of mind to cling. As a strategy for passing on genes, it has worked spectacularly well. But Mother Nature doesn’t care if we suffer; she only cares about grandchildren!

– Rick Hanson   [source: The Second Noble Truth – The Noble Truth of the Cause of Suffering]

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

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My religion is Kindness.

~ Dalai Lama [attributed]

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)
8:30 am AWST (eg Perth)
11:30 am AEST (eg Sydney)
1:30 pm NZST (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’.

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

All are welcome.

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