Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 23-05-2022

Image – ‘Naga Babas' (Naked Hindu Sadhus) - from an article in The New Indian Express Published: 12th January 2019
Image - ‘Jade Buddha’ - Thailand - 2015

Neither naked wandering
nor matted hair, nor mud,
fasting, lying on the ground;
neither dust nor dirt,
nor austere crouching,
can purify a person
who has not overcome doubt.

~ Buddha [source: Dhammapada (Chapter 10 – Verse 141)]

MONDAY, May 23, 2022

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Image (1) ‘Naga Babas’ (Naked Hindu Sadhus) – from an article in The New Indian Express Published: 12th January 2019
Image (2) – ‘Jade Buddha’ – Thailand – 2015

 

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 19-05-2022

‘Chalkboard Lesson 2019’ during Hungry Ghost Retreat at Kunphen Recovery Center, Dharamshala, HP, India - September 2019
‘Chalkboard Lesson 2018’ during Hungry Ghost Retreat at Kunphen Recovery Center, Dharamshala, HP, India - October 2018

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth, inside not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

~ Ajahn Chah [source: No Ajahn Chah]

THURSDAY, May 19, 2022

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Image 1 – ‘Chalkboard Lesson 2019’ during Hungry Ghost Retreat at Kunphen Recovery Center, Dharamshala, HP, India – September 2019
Image 2 – ‘Chalkboard Lesson 2018’ during Hungry Ghost Retreat at Kunphen Recovery Center, Dharamshala, HP, India – October 2018

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 15-05-2022

Images – ‘Time Passes’ - Clocks in Harbin, China - March 2016
Images – ‘Time Passes’ - Clocks in Harbin, China - March 2016

Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!

~ Caroline Myss [source: Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit]

SUNDAY, May 15, 2022

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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.

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Images – ‘Time Passes’ – Harbin, China – March 2016

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

Image – “Flowers & Weeds” - Nalagiri House, Carrigahorig, County Tipperary, Ireland - October 2019
Image – “Flowers & Weeds” - Nalagiri House, Carrigahorig, County Tipperary, Ireland - October 2019

A flower falls even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it..in this way our life should be understood, then there is no problem.

~ Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971) quoting Dōgen Zenji (1200-1253) [source: Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo – Translated by Gudo Nishijima and Chodo Cross
Published in 4 volumes by Windbell Publications (1994-1999)]

THURSDAY, May 12, 2022

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Image – “Flowers & Weeds” – Nalagiri House, Carrigahorig, County Tipperary, Ireland – October 2019

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 09-05-2022

Monk in orange robe sitting on park bench seemingly meditating but actually checking mobile phone
Shop sigh saying "Mr Wish"

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

~ Hafiz [Persian lyric poet 1325–1390]

MONDAY, May 09, 2022

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Image 1 – ‘Monk using Mobile Phone’ – Hoàng Văn Thụ Park, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam – May 2022
Image 2 – ‘Mr Wish Shop’ – Dương Đông, Phú Quốc, Vietnam – May 2022  

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 02-05-2022

‘Roman Villas’ - Rome, Italy - May 2006
‘Bust of Marcus Aurelius (reign 161–180 CE)

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus [source: The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, translated by Arthur Spenser Loat Farquharson – Book IX]

MONDAY, May 02, 2022

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Image 1 – ‘Roman Villas’ – Rome, Italy – May 2006
Image 2 – ‘Bust of Marcus Aurelius (reign 161–180 CE)’ – By User: Bibi Saint-Pol, own work, 2007-02-08, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84488018

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 01-05-2022

‘Thatch stack’ - Portumna Swimming Area, Lough Derg, County Galway, Ireland - May 2019
‘Needle in the Haystack’ - Dharamsala, HP, India - October 2018

Everybody is looking for something that isn’t available. It’s worse than looking for a needle in a haystack; at least the needle is there, even though it is hard to find. But satisfaction and self are both delusions, so how can they ever be found?

~ Ayya Khema [source: From Within Our Own Hearts]

SUNDAY, May 01, 2022

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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.

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Image 1 – ‘Thatch stack’ – Portumna Swimming Area, Lough Derg, County Galway, Ireland – May 2019
Image 2 – ‘Needle in the Haystack’ – Dharamsala, HP, India – October 2018

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 08-05-2022

Images – ‘Buddha Rupas’ - Swayambhu Mahachaitya Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal - June 2017
Images – ‘Buddha Rupas’ - Swayambhu Mahachaitya Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal - June 2017

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.

~ Rita Mae Brown [source: From the novel ‘Sudden Death‘ (1983)]

SUNDAY, May 08, 2022

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

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Images – ‘Buddha Rupas’ – Swayambhu Mahachaitya Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal – June 2017

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 28-04-2022

“Open Doors” - Meditations Centre, Beatenberg, Switzerland - February 2017
“Sitting” - Tibetan Security Department, McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, HP, India - September 2019

In zazen (meditation), leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don’t serve them tea.

~ Master Shunryu Suzuki (1905–1971)

THURSDAY, April 28, 2022

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Image 1 – “Open Doors”Meditations Centre, Beatenberg, Switzerland – February 2017
Image 2 – “Sitting” – Tibetan Security Department, McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, HP, India – September 2019

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

‘Dancing Kite’ - Harbin, China - March 2016
‘Dancing Kite’ - Harbin, China - March 2016

…when the mind is still, it’s in its natural, normal state. As soon as the mind moves, it becomes conditioned (sankhāra).

~ Ajahn Chah [source: A Dhammatalk: Unshakeable Peace]

THURSDAY, May 05, 2022

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All welcome.


Images – ‘Dancing Kite’ – Harbin, China – March 2016