Fifth Precept Sangha

IMPERMANENCE (ANICCA) / MINDFULNESS (SATI)

If you don’t become the ocean
you’ll be seasick
every day.

~ Leonard Cohen from his poem ‘Good Advice For Someone Like Me’.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2020

#Sit-and-Share meeting link – https://us04web.zoom.us/j/553721188

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The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom from 7:30 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time). This meeting’s topic was chosen by Filly, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

All welcome.

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

IMPERMANENCE (ANICCA) / MINDFULNESS (SATI)

“All that arises passes away, this is the Natural law.”

~ Ajahn Chah

MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2020

#Sit-and-Share meeting link – https://us04web.zoom.us/j/553721188

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The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom from 7:30 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time). This meeting’s topic was chosen by Andrew, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

All welcome.

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

ACTIONS (KARMA) / IMPERSONALITY (ANATTA) / MINDFULNESS (SATI)

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

~ not said by Carl Jung, but should have been.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2020

#Sit-and-Share meeting link – https://us04web.zoom.us/j/553721188

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The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom from 7:30 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time). This meeting’s topic was chosen by Vince, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

All welcome.

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

HAPPINESS (SUKHA) / IMPERMANENCE (ANICCA) / STRESS (DUKKHA)

“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.”

~ Primo Levi, ‘Survival in Auschwitz’

MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2020

#Sit-and-Share meeting link – https://us04web.zoom.us/j/553721188

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The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom from 7:30 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time). 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 shortly after 9 pm but the Zoom meeting room will be open 30-minutes before and after for conversation, connection and fellowship.

All welcome.

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

HAPPINESS (SUKHA) / IMPERMANENCE (ANICCA) / STRESS (DUKKHA)

“Happiness is impermanent, like everything else.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ‘No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering‘

THURSDAY, AUGUST 06, 2020

#Sit-and-Share meeting link – https://us04web.zoom.us/j/553721188

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The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom from 7:30 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time). This meeting’s topic was chosen by Vince, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

All welcome.

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

INVESTIGATION (DHAMMA VICAYA) / MINDFULNESS (SATI) / TRUTH (SACCA)

“Memorizing the teachings is most helpful for examining the meaning.
If one does not memorize the teachings, one will not examine its meaning; but because one memorizes a teaching, one examines its meaning.”

Buddha – MN 95 Canki Sutt: II 168-77

MONDAY, AUGUST 03, 2020

#Sit-and-Share meeting link – https://us04web.zoom.us/j/553721188

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The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom from 7:30 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time). This meeting’s topic was chosen by Kenny, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

All welcome.

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

DELUSION (AVIJJA) / INSIGHT (VIPASSANA) / SATI (MINDFULNESS)

All mental and emotional patterns eventually fall apart and dissolve in the light of awareness.

~ Hanuman Goleman, “Checking My Inner World”

THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2020

#Sit-and-Share meeting link – https://us04web.zoom.us/j/553721188

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The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom from 7:30 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time). This meeting’s topic was chosen by Vince, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

All welcome.

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

CITTA (HEART-MIND) / KAMMA (INTENTIONALITY) / SATI (MINDFULNESS)

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.

~ Source: Access to Insight “Dhammapada: Yamakavagga: Pairs” (Dhp I), translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita

Alternatively,

Phenomena are
preceded by the heart,
ruled by the heart,
made of the heart.
If you speak or act
with a calm, bright heart,
then happiness follows you,
like a shadow
that never leaves.

~ Source: Dhamma Talks Org “Dhammapada: Yamakavagga: Pairs” (Dhp I), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

MONDAY, JULY 27, 2020

#Sit-and-Share meeting link – https://us04web.zoom.us/j/553721188

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The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom from 7:30 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time). This meeting’s topic was chosen by Vince, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

All welcome.

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

SILA (ETHICS) / SAMMA VACA (WISE SPEECH)

“Harsh speech will disturb others’ minds and cause the practice of those who wish to be bodhisattvas to decline. So to abandon harsh speech, which is disagreeable to others – this is the practice of the bodhisattva.”

~ Source: #34 – The Thirty-Seven Practices of the Bodhisattva by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo (commentary by His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

Alternatively,

“The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to avoid harsh words,
Which others might find unpleasant or distasteful,
Since abusive language upsets the minds of others,
And thereby undermines a bodhisattva’s conduct.”

~ Source: #34 – The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo

THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2020

#Sit-and-Share meeting link – https://us04web.zoom.us/j/553721188

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The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom from 7:30 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time). This meeting’s topic was chosen by Vince, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

All welcome.

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

VIRIYA (ENERGY) / KHANTI (PATIENCE) / ADHITTHANA (DETERMINATION)

“Perseverance furthers”

~ Source: I Ching (The Book of Changes) : Translated by Richard Wilhelm

MONDAY, JULY 20, 2020

#Sit-and-Share meeting link – https://us04web.zoom.us/j/553721188

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The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom from 7:30 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time). This meeting’s topic was chosen by Eileen, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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

All welcome.

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