Mindheart Teaching

Easing Awake

for 13 June 2023 Sangha

This Tuesday
 Our Sangha is Privileged to Welcome 
J D Doyle 
as Speaker Teacher

       JD Doyle (they/them) serves as Guiding Teacher at Insight Santa Cruz and was a Core Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center for 5 years. They graduated from Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Teacher Training, the Community Dharma Leader training, and the Dedicated Practitioner Program. They teach at sanghas across the US and in Canada.

      JD began studying and practicing Buddhism in 1995, at Insight Meditation Society and at Spirit Rock and continued with extensive retreat practice in Thailand and Burma in the Theravadan lineage. For over twenty-three years, they worked as a public-school teacher. JD holds a BS in Environmental Studies from Cornell University, a bilingual multicultural teaching certificate from UC Santa Cruz, and a Masters in Language and Literacy and Sociocultural Studies from the University of New Mexico. They are committed to celebrating the diversity of our human sangha, addressing the impact of racism on our communities, expanding concepts of gender, and living in ways that honor the sacredness of the Earth. For more info:

www.heartmindteaching.com

We meet on Zoom
 You can join us from anywhere!

Our Sangha is Looking for a
New Bookkeeper!

     We very much need someone to step up!

This is a paid position with very light duties. Most months it will only require an hour or two. 
  
 Bookkeeper duties - 

•  Comfortable with Quicken (if they know Quickbooks they can easily learn Quicken)
• Bank Reconciliation and Reports thru the Quicken Software
• Comfortable with Excel or Numbers for Spreadsheets
• Send out donation emails at the end of each year
• Postcard 990 to IRS
  
  Our current bookkeeper is perfectly willing to show the new one the ropes. If interested or if you can recommend someone please contact: jean@easingawake.org
  

Remember 
Our Easing Awake
Guiding Teacher Emeritus
Doug Kraft
He has a new book out!

      “Doug has released his new book, Presence. If you’d like more information,
you can click here: 

https://easingawake.com/?p=Presence.

      This page gives a quick description and has links to some of
the chapters that can be read for free
on line as well as how to get a copy.”

The national flowers above remind us of  locations of much suffering in this world
where sending metta can help.
Sunflowers for Ukraine
Jasmine for Pakistan
Tulips for Turkey

Upcoming Teachers and Leaders
Coming to Sangha

13 June             J.D. Doyle
20 June             James Baraz
27 June             Jens Tröger

Tuesday Evening Sangha

meets at 6:30 pm
Pacific time 
on Zoom

Find the direct link here:
easingawake.org