Fifth Precept Sangha

Posted on 2021-09-092021-09-09

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 16-09-2021

The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger [source: On The Shortness of Life, (De Brevitate Vitae), Approx. 49 AD]

THURSDAY, September 16, 2021

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

11:30 am PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
12:30 pm MDT (eg Denver)
1:30 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
2:30 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
7:30 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
8:30 pm CEST/CAT (eg France/Botswana)
9:30 pm EAT (eg Kenya)

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

PLEASE NOTE: The meeting is scheduled to start at 8 pm and close at or before 9:15 pm but the Zoom meeting room will be open 30-minutes before and 15-minutes after for conversation, connection and fellowship.

All welcome.

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

Photo by Estée Janssens on Unsplash

Posted on 2021-09-062021-09-09

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 13-09-2021

When we see the world as it really is, then we will laugh out loud.
~ Longchenpa (1308–1364) [source: Rejection, Sublimation, Recognition: Attitudes Toward Worldly Life By Steven D. Goodman in Inquiring Mind Journal]

MONDAY, September 13, 2021

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…

11:30 am PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
12:30 pm MDT (eg Denver)
1:30 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
2:30 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
7:30 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
8:30 pm CEST/CAT (eg France/Botswana)
9:30 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 also be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

PLEASE NOTE: The meeting is scheduled to start at 8 pm (UK/Ireland) and close at or before 9:15 pm but the Zoom meeting room will be open 30-minutes before and 15-minutes after for conversation, connection and fellowship.

All welcome.

Image – “Laughing Buddha at Nalagiri House” – Carrigahorig, County Tipperary, Ireland – September 2021

Posted on 2021-09-052021-09-09

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 12-09-2021

The purpose of a rose is to be a rose. Your purpose is to be yourself. You don’t have to run anywhere to become someone else. You are wonderful just as you are.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh [source: The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation]

SUNDAY, September 12, 2021

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 Robert, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

Image – ‘Buddha and Roses’ – Newbury, West Berkshire, England – June 2004

Posted on 2021-09-042021-09-04

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 09-09-2021

one-breath-at-a-time-kevin-griffin-book-cover

Right View means the blinders are taken away and we see the truth clearly; a moment of clarity is when the lies we’ve lived with fall away and the stark reality of our disease is revealed to us. This vision is the beginning of recovery and the beginning of the path of awakening.
~ Kevin Griffin [source: One Breath At A Time – Buddhism & the 12 Steps]

THURSDAY, September 09, 2021

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699https://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 Bruce, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

Posted on 2021-09-042021-09-04

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 06-09-2021

Book cover of "Rude Awakenings" by Ajahn Sucitto and Nick Scott

When you go to practise in the place of the Buddha, you must not find fault with anyone; if you find fault, it is because you have not made peace with the world. If you have not made peace with the world, it is because you have not made peace in your heart.
~ Master Hua, a Chinese Buddhist master as quoted by Ajahn Sucitto [source: “Rude Awakenings” by Ajahn Sucitto and Nick Scott]

MONDAY, September 06, 2021

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 Paul, who will also be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Posted on 2021-09-032021-09-04

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 05-09-2021

Two hands reaching out to touch each other.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it’s the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.
~ Shannon L. Alder

SUNDAY, September 05, 2021

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 Jacob, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

Photo by Matteo Raw on Unsplash

Posted on 2021-08-302023-01-03

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 02-09-2021

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and in doing so become free.
~ Ajahn Chah [source: Jack Kornfield’s book – The Wise Heart]

THURSDAY, September 02, 2021

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

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

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

Image – Ajahn Chah and Sangha on Bindabat (Thai Buddhist Alms Round) – taken from https://buddho.org/venerable-empty-scripture/

Posted on 2021-08-262021-08-31

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 30-08-2021

Black and White photo of Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899)

I am a believer in what I call ‘intellectual hospitality.’ A man comes to your door. If you are a gentleman and he appears to be a good man, you receive him with a smile. You ask after his health. You say: “Take a chair; are you thirsty, are you hungry, will you not break bread with me?” That is what a hospitable, good man does — he does not set the dog on him. Now, how should we treat a new thought? I say that the brain should be hospitable and say to the new thought: “Come in; sit down; I want to cross-examine you; I want to find whether you are good or bad; if good, stay; if bad, I don’t want to hurt you — probably you think you are all right, — but your room is better than your company, and I will take another idea in your place.
~ Robert G Ingersoll [source: Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy, 1887]

MONDAY, August 30, 2021

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 Beth, who will also be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image – Robert G. Ingersoll. Library of Congress description: “Ingersoll, Robert (The Infidel)”.

Posted on 2021-08-242021-08-24

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 26-08-2021

One of the Middle Way teachings of the Buddha point to the need for balance between faith and wisdom, between open-heartedness and discrimination. If we are to develop our spiritual life, we need to have both of these.
~ Kevin Griffin [source: One Breath At A Time – Buddhism & the 12 Steps]

THURSDAY, August 26, 2021

No registration is required. The meeting link is –

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699https://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 Filly, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

Posted on 2021-08-212021-08-22

Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic 23-08-2021

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.
~ C. JoyBell C.

MONDAY, August 23, 2021

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 Jacob, who will also be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image – ‘May I Always Act From the Heart’ – Being Human: A Hungry Ghost Retreat on behalf of Freely Given Retreats at the High Heathercombe Centre, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK – May 2017

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