Easing Awake for 09 May 2023 Sangha his Tuesday Our Guiding Teacher Emeritus, Doug Kraft, Will Lead our Discussion Centering on Dependent Co-arising (aka Dependent Origination) (aka Paticcasamuppāda) which "… is central to Buddhism and makes it relatively unique. It describes how everything is so embedded in a vast network of dependencies and nothing has a totally independent essence. Too many explanations just list a bunch of links without looking at what’s behind it all (and makes it sound overly fussy at the same time.) This evening we’ll discuss why it is both nuanced and obvious once you get the hang of it. We’ll also look at how it shows itself in meditation and daily living. If you’d like an advanced peek, you can find it described in my book, Befriending the Mind, chapters 8, 9, and 10. Free pdfs of those chapters can be found on-line here: https://www.easingawake.com/downloads/Befriending8.pdf https://www.easingawake.com/downloads/Befriending9.pdf https://www.easingawake.com/downloads/Befriending10.pdf A graphic cheat sheet of the fussy parts can be found here: https://www.easingawake.com/downloads/D.O.Flier.pdf ---Doug We Can Share in Sangha Wherever We Live! Please Join Us The Yolo TWIM Group Offers a Monthly 3rd Sunday Daylong Retreat Our next gathering will be Sunday, May 21st. Hope you will join us. 9:00-9:30: Initial check-in for greetings, 9:30-12:30: Self-directed sitting and walking meditation 12:30-2:00: Lunch, practice check-in, and discussion 2:00-4:00: Self-directed sitting and walking meditation 4:00-4:30: Final check-in Our lunch discussions are for sharing about our own practice from personal experience, not theory. We share without interruption based on deep listening and mindful speech. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86512227618?pwd=MGRXeUNoa2p2bmZvQXg5VTA2T3RjQT09 Meeting ID: 865 1222 7618 Passcode: meditate If you live in the Davis CA area and would like to join with others to meditate in person, please let me know. Warmly, Teri [email protected] May is Rolling On 09 May Doug Kraft Leads 16 May Will Lister Leads 23 May Win Ark Leads 30 May Paul Shippee Leads The national flowers above remind us of the locations of much suffering in this world
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