Under the Bodhi Tree: Sitting Still and Creating Sacred Community
Downtown Dharma Sangha
DATE: 9/14/2025 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
Facilitators- Travis M. Spencer
During our time together, we will participate in a heart-centered practice of listening and sharing. We will discuss sitting still in the face of uncertainty and how it leads to spiritual awakening. This Sangha is truly supporting us in coming together and beginning to reflect on what community looks like in the present moment, especially with all that is unfolding in our lives and in our society. Together, we will explore how we awaken to our true selves, not only as individuals, but as a community committed to presence, compassion, and collective healing.
The next Buddha may take the form of a community, a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. And the practice can be carried out as a group, as a city, as a nation." —Thich Nhat Hanh.
Imagine trees standing together in a forest. They don't talk, but they feel each other's presence. When you look at them, you might say they aren't doing anything. But they are growing and providing clean air for living things to breathe. Instead of describing sitting meditation as the practice of concentration, looking deeply, and getting insight, I like to describe sitting as enjoying doing nothing. Primarily, sitting is to enjoy the pleasure of sitting, being fully alive and in touch with the wonders of our working bodies, the cool air, the sounds of people and birds, and the changing colors of the sky.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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