[Downtown Dharma Sangha Listserv] An Evening with Downtown Dharma Sangha: Homeward Bound: Journey to the Present Moment.

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Homeward Bound: Journey to the Present Moment. 

Downtown Dharma Sangha

DATE:  7/21/2024  TIME: 7:00 - 8:30 PM

Location: 

• In-person:1910 14th Street NW,  3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20009

• Online:  Zoom ID: https://zoom.us/j/466237117?pwd=cGxHaTJlTVhBdldVSk8weDZuSW5udz09

Facilitator- Travis M. Spencer 

Much Peace Downtown Dharma Sangha,

I'm blessed to lead our next Dharma Talk. This Sunday's topic and practice will delve into the benefits of Mindful Living. I will share how curiosity, embracing the present moment, and transforming suffering and hardship are essential to our journey toward awakening to our true nature. We will explore how joy can coexist with hardship and how our approach to suffering, hardship, and pain can lead to personal growth and strength.

Here are three questions for reflection:

1. How does living in the present moment contribute to finding relief and ease amid suffering and hardship?

2. How can we cultivate joy and gratitude while navigating difficult times?

3. How can our understanding of suffering and hardship lead to personal growth and resilience?

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""Love needs to be nurtured and fed to survive; and our suffering also survives because we enable and feed it. We ruminate on suffering, regret, and sorrow. We chew on them, swallow them, bring them back up, and eat them again and again. If we're feeding our suffering while we're walking, working, eating, or talking, we are making ourselves victims of the ghosts of the past, of the future, or our worries in the present. We're not living our lives."

― ― Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

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