Greetings Dear Sangha,
These days, many of us live with a kind of low-grade bracing: an ambient vigilance and thoughts that easily hurl toward worry, outrage, or exhaustion. It can seem like the world is actually spinning faster and faster. If you're feeling a bit dizzy and losing your footing amid all the headlines, projections, and rehearsed fears, you're not alone.
This Sunday, we'll explore an inquiry rooted in something profoundly simple: sense contact. Before the mind builds its stories—before "me," "them," "future," "ruin," or "fix it now"—there is the immediacy of the senses: the long breath, the weight of flesh and bones, sounds arriving and then vanishing into silence. Even thoughts themselves are only ever happening right here, in contact with this body, through these senses. The body can be an unglamorous, faithful friend to attention: always here, always offering a path to just a little more ease, just a little more freedom. And yet it doesn't stop there; so much more is on offer.
I hope you can join us in-person or online as your situation allows and we'll practice coming to our senses together.
In-person: Sunday, 7:00 to 8:30pm @ Yoga District — 1910 14th Street NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC
Online via Zoom: Join here
Yours In Sangha,
Kristin
No mud, no lotus.
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
https://www.downtowndharmadc.org/
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