[Downtown Dharma Sangha Listserv] follow-up from Sunday's talk

Hello friends,

Wishing you an easy week. This coming Sunday, there's no teacher. Instead, the sangha will be sitting together and then enjoying a meal nearby. Hooray!

In this past Sunday's session, we talked about The Five Remembrances. There are many translations, but I offer one below. This text comes from the Upajjhatthana Sutta. The wikipedia page on the sutta and the practice is pretty robust, and here's a translation of the sutta by Thanissaro Bhikku. We also read this sutta from the majanikaya (or middle texts) that describe how the understanding of old age, illness and death played a major role in the Buddha's journey, and passage 30 from this sutta about how, after almost dying of emaciation, Buddha remembered the nibbana-like ease of simply sitting under a shady tree.

If you feel moved to offer a contribution (dana), you can venmo @downtowndharma. For this past week, I'll be re-gifting dana towards earthquake rescue from the Syrian American Medical Society. 

Thanks so much. Wishing everyone all the best, with hope to be sitting and celebrating together again soon.

Shawn  

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