Fifth Precept Sangha

Part of the process of cleaning up our act is this very work of unburdening ourselves. Otherwise, true peace is never really available. Instead of meditation uncovering deeper levels of truth, it winds up being an escape, a covering over, and a numbing of the truth.

~ Kevin Griffith [source: One Breath at a Time, p. 181]

Sunday, November 19, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

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 at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Janet, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

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All are welcome.

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Let me love this life as best as I can. 

~ Vidyamala Burch [source: From Fighting to Flourishing]

Buddhist Recovery Network – Midweek Meeting
BRN Sit-and-Share: Wed November 15, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81326534832

You can connect manually, with Zoom meeting ID 813 2653 4832 and passcode ‘501497‘.

The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual BRN ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

Wednesday
3:30 pm HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
5:30 pm PST (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
6:30 pm MST (eg Denver)
7:30 pm CST (eg Chicago)
8:30 pm EST (eg New York/Tampa)
Thursday
8:30 am ICT (eg Bangkok)
12:30 pm AEDT (eg Sydney)
2:30 pm NZDT (eg Auckland)

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Vince who will be our host.

Image Link:  loving life/freepik

All are welcome.

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It will get clearer in time… that the whole world is inside you. . .  That to be able to live in peace, you have to be at peace with yourself . . . You must enjoy who you are. And for you to do that, you have to cultivate thoughts and feelings that resonate with you. 

~ Imane Bazoune [source: Instagram]

Monday, November 13, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

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 at:

Artist Link: Krista Rae/Facebook

All are welcome.

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I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.

~ Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama [source: Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1989]

Sunday, November 12, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

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 at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Claudia, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link: www.dalailama.com/pictures

All are welcome.

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To quell your contempt, first view acting like an asshole as a communicable disease.

~ Robert Sutton [source: The No Asshole Rule, p. 97]

Monday, November 06, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

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 at:

Image Link: donkey hole/9gag.com

All are welcome.

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The work of practice begins by allowing ourselves to face fully our own sadness, fear, anxiety, desperation – to die to our limited ideas about how things should be and to love and accept the truth of things as they are.

~ Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield [source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, p. 211]

Sunday, November 05, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

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 at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Janet, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Artist Link: Elyana Shamselangeroodi/artpal.com

All are welcome.

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No one enjoys being wrong, but I do enjoy having been wrong, because it means I am now less wrong than I was before.

~ Daniel Kahneman [source: Thinking, Fast and Slow]

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

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 at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Shaku, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link:  KamranAydinov/Freepik/Wrong

All are welcome.

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Few men have the capacity fully to realise suffering as one of the great structural lines of human life. 

~ JWN Sullivan [source: Beethoven, His Spiritual Development (1927)]

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

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 at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Cathryn, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Links:  PxHere/Suffering

All are welcome.

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Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation — some fact of my life — unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

~ Paul O. [source: Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book, (personal stories, “Acceptance Was the Answer) p. 417, 4th Ed.]

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

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 at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Nicole, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link:  momsieblog/acceptance

All are welcome.

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The truth is that our suffering is optional. In life, pain and pleasure are given, but we create suffering for ourselves through our clinging to pleasure and aversion to pain.

~ Noah Levine [source: Against the Stream – A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries]

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

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 at:

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Gary, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

All are welcome.

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Image Credit:  Noah Levine – Instagram