Saturday, 27 June 2020

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Re: Reading group next Sat June. 27

Hey everyone!Hope you're having a lovely weekend. Just writing with a quick reminder that we're meeting to discuss despair, hope, and anything else universal to the human condition :)Also slight time change - we'll be meeting from 5:30-7. Hope that is not a huge inconvenience for anyone, and looking forward to connecting soon!DannyOn Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:18 PM Danny Folds <andreafolds@gmail.com> wrote:Hey all!Happy Monday!...
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Friday, 26 June 2020

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Downtown Dharma this Sunday

Dear friends,As has been the custom during the pandemic, our intention is to meet this Sunday via Zoom to meditate, explore the dharma, and to seek peace as a community. The topic for this week will be sangha, specifically what it means for us to be practicing together as a spiritual community. The details for the meeting are below.With love,DevinJoin Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/466237117?pwd=cGxHaTJlTVhBdldVSk8weDZuSW5udz09Meeting...
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Wednesday, 24 June 2020

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Monday, 22 June 2020

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Reading group next Sat June. 27

Hey all!Happy Monday! Now no more Mondays to go for the rest of the week :)Just writing to remind everyone we have our reading group next Saturday, June 27th, at 5pm. We'll be discussing despair - not the loud, punctuated kind that attends tragedies and hardships, but rather the mundane, quiet kind that sneaks up on us and shrouds our world and being in a hazy grey. Fortunately, people have been thinking about this phenomenon...
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Sunday, 21 June 2020

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Tonight @ 6 PM

Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. – Rumi –   Dear Friends,   I look forward to being with you tonight at 6 pm ET for our practice of Vipassana, clear seeing. Saturday was...
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Friday, 19 June 2020

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Liberating the Heart: A 5 Part Series offered through IMCW

Greetings Dear Community,I am inviting our sangha to join a class series offered by myself and fellow IMCW teacher Stan Eisenstein on Opening to Emptiness. The concept of "emptiness" in Buddhism is wildly and widely misunderstood. Yet it is not different from our basic mindfulness practice (read: you're already doing it!) and, when explicitly...
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Sunday, 14 June 2020

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Resources from 6/14/20 Becoming an Anti-Racist Community

May we remember that we belong to each other.May we grow in our awareness that what we do can help or hinder racial well-being.May our thoughts and actions reflect the world we want to live in and leave behind.May we heal the seed of separation inherited from our ancestors in gratitude for this life.May all beings without exception benefit...
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Saturday, 13 June 2020

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Becoming an Anti-Racist Community

Becoming an Anti-Racist CommunityDowntown Dharma SanghaDATE:  6/14/2020  TIME: 6:00 - 7:30 PMLocation: online (ZOOM)Facilitator- Travis M. Spencer Guest Facilitator-Kristin BarkerDuring our time together, we will mindfully discuss what it looks like to be an inclusive and anti-racist community.Quote"Not in this lifetime or...
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Tuesday, 9 June 2020

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Re: Reading group 6/13: Trauma and Healing

A correction: the email body says we will be meeting 5/30. We will be meeting this Saturday at 5 pm, 6/13.On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 6:23 PM Justin Koufopoulos <jkoufopoulos@gmail.com> wrote:Friends,The downtown dharma reading group will meet up next Saturday, 5/30 at 5pm. Our reading group this week will explore the relationships between trauma, healing, and community. As we can become more awake to the traumas of those...
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[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Reading group 6/13: Trauma and Healing

Friends,The downtown dharma reading group will meet up next Saturday, 5/30 at 5pm. Our reading group this week will explore the relationships between trauma, healing, and community. As we can become more awake to the traumas of those suffering from unemployment, illness, and injustice we become more awake to our own suffering hearts and those of all beings. We find that trauma and healing is behind us, with us, and in front...
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Friday, 5 June 2020

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Online this Sunday: Rooting Out the Shape-Shifter

Greetings Dear Community,As is our Sangha's pattern during this sheltering-at-home period, we'll meet online Sunday evening from 6:00 to 7:30 pm to meditate together and then experience the Dharma and Sangha together. Our gathering this Sunday will be jointly led by Travis and Kristin as the first of a two-part series on the suffering...
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Monday, 1 June 2020

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Fwd: [FMWQuaker] 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

Hi friends,A sangha member sent me this last night and I'd like to share it with the list as a resource for anyone who would like concrete guidance on how reduce the systemic racism and violence in our society. With love,Devin ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: jizzo4102 <jizzo4102@gmail.com>Date: Sun, May 31, 2020 at 7:43 PMSubject: Fwd: [FMWQuaker] 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial JusticeTo:...
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