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Thursday 31 December 2020
Saturday 26 December 2020
[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Downtown Dharma tomorrow eve
Hi friends,
We will meet tomorrow evening from 6-7:30 on Zoom to meditate, connect, and engage with the teachings if the Buddha. The topic this week will be beginners mind. The link is below.
Also, I'm planning to set aside a few minutes at the end to discuss a possible change of time for these weekly classes.
With love,
Devin
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Sunday 20 December 2020
[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Meditation Tonight at 6 PM ET
"With all my pains, there is still the hope of recovery.
Like the eve of Yalda, there will finally be an end."
- Saadi -
Dear Friends,
We will come together on Zoom from 6 to 7:30 PM on this Winter Solstice Eve, the longest and darkest night of the year. Also known as Shabe Yalda (rebirth of the sun) in Persian tradition. We will celebrate, meditate, and explore the dharma in community.
If you feel called to, join our zoom gathering with food, drink, and wear red to symbolize each day getting lighter/the return of the sun.
Please have paper and pen/pencil available for a short journaling practice.
I look forward to sharing this auspicious night with you.
Much love,
Linda
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Friday 18 December 2020
[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Re: Dharma reading group
Hi all,
How to Use Dharma for Social Analysis: The authors emphasize that the dharma is an effective but often underutilized tool for understanding the root ills of our society--racism, misogyny, environmental degradation, and class warfare among them. In previous meetings of this group we've highlighted this point, but also emphasized that if we focus too exclusively on the dharma our understanding may remain incomplete. My question for the group is how do you think dharma can coexist with more "secular" forms of understanding and analyzing social or policy issues. In your own lives, how do you integrate information from your personal experience, science journals or magazines, the news, first-hand storytelling, and the dharma to understand problems and identify right actions? What is the dharma's role in this process?
As promised here are some reflection questions to get us started tomorrow. They're born out of my personal musings (that's sort of my style I guess). Looking forward to meeting tomorrow! As a reminder we are discussing Sections III and IV, Conversations and Closing Words.
Importance of Peer (Friend) Groups in Resisting Social Conditioning: Throughout this section of the book each author touches on the theme of resisting social conditioning and dominant narratives about race, gender, and class. Rev Angel writes in two separate chapters:
"It's an important entryway into the potential for healing when we start to recognize we are all participating unless we're interrupting. The momentum of the dysfunction of how privilege operates in this society is such that if we're not interrupting, we're actually participating in it."
"But when you drop out of the system and you are not productive, it will have consequences. But those consequences are part of the imagination of this system that says that we have to be producing and we have to be making something happen in order for us to have value, in order to effectively know who we are...what's really overwhelming is the day-to-day aggression (from the system) that's not confronted right there on the spot." Holla Jenny Odell!!!
Recently, I've been thinking about how my relationship with my type type click clackity computer job, my identity as a white male, and my assumptions about money and class where handed to me by educational institutions, family, and social structures that embody pretty limited assumptions about what I will do with my future, what my friends should look like, and how I ought to relate to people. I'd like to chart a different course with the remaining years (hopefully decades!!!) of my life, but I'm realizing evermore that I need examples of people dropping out and living lives fiercely committed to justice and love. On my own, and with my conditioning, it's hard to have the courage or vision to resist the harmful patterns I was raised to align with.
So my question for the group is what friends or peer groups have shown you a way of resisting dominant, harmful patterns in society and how can we model that for one another in this community?
Asking for Care From Others, and Society: A female speaker in the chapter "Love" made a statement that struck a chord for me: "It's a radical act to take care of each other, and it's a revolutionary act to ask others to take care of us." This may be (certainly is) a personal issue, but I've acutely struggled in my life with asking directly for help or care. I'm often afraid of being a burden, or that if someone feels like I'm asking for too much emotional energy they'll just drop me as a friend. I'm sure these patterns are rooted in some self-esteem issues and I've been working on trusting people and asking for care.
From the group I am curious how and when you ask for help from people you care about when you're in pain. Also, how can we learn from these individual requests for care or safety to inform demands for society to care for people experiencing suffering. Can we imbue political demands with the intimacy of asking for care from a close friend, human to human? Is that something we even want to do, or should politics be less personal?
How to Use Dharma for Social Analysis: The authors emphasize that the dharma is an effective but often underutilized tool for understanding the root ills of our society--racism, misogyny, environmental degradation, and class warfare among them. In previous meetings of this group we've highlighted this point, but also emphasized that if we focus too exclusively on the dharma our understanding may remain incomplete. My question for the group is how do you think dharma can coexist with more "secular" forms of understanding and analyzing social or policy issues. In your own lives, how do you integrate information from your personal experience, science journals or magazines, the news, first-hand storytelling, and the dharma to understand problems and identify right actions? What is the dharma's role in this process?
With love,
Luke
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 4:41 PM Luke Horvath <lukehorvathnd@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,For the next installment of our reading group focused on Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, by Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah, we'll be meeting this Saturday, December 19th at 5:00. The Zoom link is here:It is my task to write up a few discussion questions before the meeting. I promise to do this by tomorrow but wanted to get the reminder out now :)Please feel very invited to join even if you haven't read the book. It's just idea talk and loosely related to the actual text. You are more than qualified!!With love,--Luke Horvathhe/him/his
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Thursday 17 December 2020
[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Dharma reading group
Hi all,
--
-- For the next installment of our reading group focused on Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, by Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah, we'll be meeting this Saturday, December 19th at 5:00. The Zoom link is here:
It is my task to write up a few discussion questions before the meeting. I promise to do this by tomorrow but wanted to get the reminder out now :)
Please feel very invited to join even if you haven't read the book. It's just idea talk and loosely related to the actual text. You are more than qualified!!
With love,
Luke Horvath
he/him/his
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Monday 14 December 2020
Saturday 12 December 2020
[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Bhavana Resident Recruitment
Hi friends,
-- The Bhavana Society is looking for lay residents to join the community in 2021. Please see flyers for details.
Best,
Devin
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Friday 11 December 2020
[Downtown Dharma Listserve] This Sunday's Online Sangha: Pursuing the Bodhisattva Ideal - Unifying Dharma, Justice, and the Living Earth
Greetings Dear Community,
We'll meet online Sunday evening from 6:00 to 7:30 pm to meditate together and then consider teachings in the Dharma wisdom tradition. Zoom details follow below.
After meditating together, we'll explore one aspect of the engaged spiritual life, the integration of Dharma, Justice, and Living Earth. Each of these domains has essential gifts to offer the other two. Yet each tends to centralize itself, denying the other two. How might we attend to each while avoiding this "triple bypass" as we work to respond to the causes that move us?
I hope to see you there.
Thank you for your practice!
Kristin
Start time: Sunday, 6:00 PM US Eastern Time - Click here to join the zoom meeting
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Kristin Barker
Director and Co-Founder, One Earth Sangha
Pronouns she, her and hers; on traditional land of the Nacotchtank, Piscataway and Pamunkey.
No mud, no lotus.
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Monday 7 December 2020
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[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Morning METTA for Downtown Dharma Sangha (DDS) Members
Morning METTA
WE encourage THE EMBODIMENT OF MINDFULNESS IN ALL ASPECTS OF DAILY LIFE.
We offer Morning METTA, a daily 10-minute mindfulness practice on Zoom and Youtube Live. Morning METTA introduces healing-centered mindfulness practices to help DDS members establish and continue a regular mindfulness practice.
Morning METTA supports:
Emotional Resilience
Stress Reduction
Personal and Professional Self Care
Morning METTA Members cultivate emotional resilience while reducing stress and increasing self-care.Weekdays at 11:00 AM
Mondays- Body Practice
Tuesdays- Breath Practice
Wednesday- Breath and Body Practice
Thursday - Movement Practice
Friday- Loving-Kindness Practice
Please join us at 11:00 AM on zoom.
Morning METTA on Zoom
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Elicia Wright Travis Spencer
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Friday 4 December 2020
[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Request to add a person to the listserve
Hello I would like to Add the following person to the listserve
-- Elicia Renee Wright.
with METTA (loving-kindness),
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Travis M. Spencer MA.
Executive Director, and Lead Teacher
Institute of African American Mindfulness IAAM
Executive Director, and Lead Teacher
Institute of African American Mindfulness IAAM
P: 571-357-2055
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[Downtown Dharma Listserve] An Evening with Downtown Dharma Sangha:Introducing a Mindful Healing Method: Cultivating Compassion
Downtown Dharma Sangha
DATE: 12/6/2020 TIME: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Zoom ID: https://zoom.us/j/466237117?pwd=cGxHaTJlTVhBdldVSk8weDZuSW5udz09
Facilitator- Travis M. Spencer
Mindful Helper- Elicia-Renee Wright
During our time together, we will continue our discussion of the IAACT Healing Method. We will discuss cultivating compassion to focus our intention to heal.Our deepest need, when we are in pain, is compassion; this is what helps us heal. It is not a luxury, it's a necessity! This turning towards pain, with an open heart.
https://charterforcompassion.org/practicing-peace/the-healing-power-of-compassion
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Thursday 3 December 2020
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