Once we know this [meditation] instruction, we can put it into practice. Then it’s up to us what happens next. Ultimately, it comes down to the question of just how willing we are to lighten up and loosen our grip. How honest do we want to be with ourselves?

~ Pema Chödrön [source: When Things Fall Apart – Heart Advice for Difficult Times]

MONDAY, August 29, 2022

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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.

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Images – ‘Everyday Nirvana – A Hungry Ghost Retreat’ – New Life Foundation, Chiang Rai, Thailand – August 2017

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) [source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays]

SUNDAY, August 28, 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.

All welcome.

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Image – ‘Lindisfarne Priory’ – Holy Island, Berwick-upon-Tweed, England – July 2022

We can meet our match with a poodle
or with a raging guard dog,
but the interesting question is
~ what happens next?

~ Pema Chödrön [source: When Things Fall Apart – Heart Advice for Difficult Times]

THURSDAY, August 25, 2022

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Images – ‘Poodle Keeping Warm’ – Harbin, Heilongjiang, China – March 2016

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

~ Sharon Salzberg [source: Real Happiness: the Power of Meditation]

MONDAY, August 22, 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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Image (1) – ‘Meditation Centre’ – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol – October 2019
Image (2) – ‘Quayside Buddha’ – Da Nang, Hải Châu, Da Nang, Vietnam – May 2022

One of the most life-changing realizations you can have is “I don’t have to believe my thoughts…they are just thoughts!” Any story you have about yourself is not the same as the unfolding reality of what you are: the ongoing life of your senses, the tenderness of your heart, the consciousness that right now is seeing or hearing these words.

~ Tara Brach [source: A True Taste of Peace – Tricycle Buddhist Magazine – Spring 2020]

SUNDAY, August 21, 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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Images – Tushita Meditation Centre – Mcleod Ganj, HP, India – October 2019

One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you.

~ John O’Donohue [source: Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World (Walking on the Pastures of Wonder in Europe)]

THURSDAY, August 18, 2022

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…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.

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Image – ‘Wild Garlic’ – Portumna, County Galway, Ireland – April 2020

That was one of the Buddha’s great insights: karma is not something I have, it is what I am, and what I am changes according to what I choose to do.

~ David Loy [source: The Dharma of the Rings: A Zen teacher’s Buddhist take on The Lord of the Rings – Tricycle Magazine December 2021]

MONDAY, August 15, 2022

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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.

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Image – ‘Smiling Buddha Face’ – Wat Thamkrabok Detox Temple, Phraputthabat, Saraburi, Thailand – June 2022

If we are willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be exterminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. This is the first step on the path.

~ Pema Chödrön [source: When Things Fall Apart – Heart Advice for Difficult Times]

SUNDAY, August 14, 2022

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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.

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Images – ‘Tsunami Warning Sign’ – Santa Barbara, California, United States – October 2017

We all live our lives dangerously, in a state of jeopardy; at the edge of calamity. You have discovered that the veil that separates your ordered life from disarray is wafer thin. This is the ordinary truth of existence, from which none of us are exempt. In time we all find out we are not in control. We never were; we never will be.

~ Nick Cave [source: This Much I Know To Be True (Official Trailer – YouTube)]

THURSDAY, August 11, 2022

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…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.

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Images – ‘Danger Signs’ – Terryglass Harbour, Lough Derg, County Tipperary, Ireland – February 2020

When things fall apart and we’re on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize. The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that’s really swell.

~ Pema Chödrön [source: When Things Fall Apart – Heart Advice for Difficult Times]

MONDAY, August 08, 2022

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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.

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Images – ‘Follow the Path’ – Point Reyes National Seashore, California, USA – March 2009