Fifth Precept Sangha

Posted on 2022-12-072022-12-07

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 26-12-2022

With all its many risks, this life endures
No more than windblown bubbles in a stream.
How marvelous to breathe in and out again,
To fall asleep and then awake refreshed.
~ Nagarjuna [source: Nagarjuna’s Letter To A Friend: With Commentary By Kangyur Rinpoche]

MONDAY, December 26, 2022

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)

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

All welcome.

Posted on 2022-12-072022-12-07

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 25-12-2022

Rāhula, you should now cultivate a mind of kindness, and all anger will come to an end.
Rāhula, you should now cultivate a mind of compassion, and all cruelty will come to an end.
Rāhula, you should now cultivate a mind of contentment, and all jealousy will come to an end.
Rāhula, you should now cultivate a mind of equality, and all pride will come to an end.
~ Buddha [source: The Buddhas advice to his son Rāhula on Breathing with Mindfulness (Ekottarikāgama 17.1: Ānāpānasmṛti)]

SUNDAY, December 25, 2022

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 PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
10:45 am MDT (eg Denver)
11:45 am CDT (eg Chicago)
12:45 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
5:45 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
6:45 pm CEST (eg France)
7:45 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
8:45 pm EAT (eg Kenya)

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) – ‘Welcome to Monk Chat’ – ວັດຈອມເຂົາມະນີຣັຕນ໌ Wat Jomkhao Manylath – Huay Xai, Laos – February 2016
Image (2) – ‘Educating Rahula’ – YouTube Video

Posted on 2022-11-302022-12-22

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 22-12-2022

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those that which he has.
~ Epictetus [source: Attributed in The Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion and Fragments (page 429)]

THURSDAY, December 22, 2022

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:

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.

Images – ‘The Sun is Shining’ – Nalagiri House, Carrigahorig, County Tipperary, Ireland – April 2020

Posted on 2022-11-302022-12-18

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 19-12-2022

Mind precedes all mental states.
Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought.
If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts
happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.
~ Buddha [source: “Yamakavagga: Pairs” (Dhp I),
translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita.
Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013]

MONDAY, December 19, 2022

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:

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

All welcome.

Image – ‘Walking Meditation in the Snow’ – Meditationszentrum Beatenberg, Switzerland – February 2017

Posted on 2022-11-302022-12-16

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 18-12-2022

I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him. For we are made for cooperation…
…like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (121–180)
[source: The Meditations By Marcus Aurelius – Written 167 A.C.E. – Translated by George Long]

SUNDAY, December 18, 2022

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:

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

All welcome.

Image – ‘Sunrise in Saraburi’ – Wat Thamkrabok, Thailand – March 2007

Posted on 2022-11-302022-12-16

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 15-12-2022

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
~ Maya Angelou [source: Maya Angelou: In her own words]

THURSDAY, December 15, 2022

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:

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.

Posted on 2022-11-302022-12-07

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 12-12-2022

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.
~ Denzel Washington [source: Twitter]

MONDAY, December 12, 2022

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:

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

All welcome.

Images – ‘Buddha at the Waterfall’ – Sunyata Buddhist Centre, County Clare, Ireland – March 2015

Posted on 2022-11-302022-12-07

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 11-12-2022

The reason we’re often not there for others….. is that we’re not there for ourselves.
There are whole parts of ourselves that are so unwanted that whenever they begin to come up we run away.
~ Pema Chödrön [source: Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living]

SUNDAY, December 11, 2022

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:

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.

Posted on 2022-11-302022-12-07

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 08-12-2022

Let go of that which is in front,
let go of that which has already gone,
and let go of in-between.
With a heart that takes hold nowhere
you arrive at the place beyond all suffering.
~ Buddha [source: Dhammapada – Craving – Verse 348]

THURSDAY, December 08, 2022

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:

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

All welcome.

Image – ‘Roundabout’ – Kairos Centre, Roehampton, London, England – February 2022

Posted on 2022-11-302022-12-03

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 05-12-2022

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
~ Alan Wilson Watts [source: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety]

MONDAY, December 05, 2022

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:

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

All welcome.

Images – Courtesy of Alan Watts Organisation

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