[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!

Danny

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:18 PM Danny Folds <andreafolds@gmail.com> wrote:

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 for the entirety of human history, so a lot of ideas exist on the origins, meaning, and potential responses to despair. Unfortunately, it's still largely a mystery. 

This Saturday, we'll be considering the ideas of two Christian writers for a change - Soren Kierkegaard and Gabriel Marcel - and then discussing what Buddhist teachings and concepts these readings bring to mind/ how they all fit together. As Buddhism generally does not include deism, the loci of hope and meaning as antidotes to despair are interesting to compare in Buddhism and Christianity.

And even if you have no desire to read anything at all right now, you're more than welcome to join the conversation. For better or worse, despair is universal to the human condition, so your insights as a verified human on earth are valuable to us all!

Wishing you a peaceful rest of your week,

Danny

Readings

Zoom link

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[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,

Devin

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[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 for the entirety of human history, so a lot of ideas exist on the origins, meaning, and potential responses to despair. Unfortunately, it's still largely a mystery. 

This Saturday, we'll be considering the ideas of two Christian writers for a change - Soren Kierkegaard and Gabriel Marcel - and then discussing what Buddhist teachings and concepts these readings bring to mind/ how they all fit together. As Buddhism generally does not include deism, the loci of hope and meaning as antidotes to despair are interesting to compare in Buddhism and Christianity.

And even if you have no desire to read anything at all right now, you're more than welcome to join the conversation. For better or worse, despair is universal to the human condition, so your insights as a verified human on earth are valuable to us all!

Wishing you a peaceful rest of your week,

Danny

Readings

Zoom link

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[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 the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. With each day now getting shorter, today's new moon, and our halfway point of 2020, I thought it would be helpful to come together to pause, take inventory of what is present for you in this moment, and reflect on your intentions.

 

Please have paper and pen/pencil available for a short journaling practice.

 

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With love,

Linda

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[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 explored and developed, offers enormous freedom.

In the midst of several overlapping personal and social challenges, it might seem strange if not problematic to invest in such deep spiritual teachings. You are right to be concerned for the danger of "spiritual bypass" is real. But we need not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Clear comprehension, fully embodied, can help us navigate these challenges and respond in ways that are truly helpful to ourselves and others. With our hearts evermore available, our minds increasingly disentangled, we can show up for the causes that move us in ways we didn't think possible. 

I submit that the potential for our times is right in front of us: the full integration of the contemplative and the activist who can respond to a suffering world. In that spirit, I invite you to join this exploration of one of the most profound teachings in Dharma.

The class will take place online and include four Tuesday evenings for 2 hours, July 21-August 11 followed by a daylong on Saturday, August 15, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. You can learn more and register here.

With appreciation for your practice,

Kristin

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Director and Co-Founder, One Earth Sangha

Pronouns she, her and hers; on traditional land of the Nacotchtank, Piscataway and Pamunkey.

kristin@1earthsangha.org

     

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[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 from our growing awareness.

May our thoughts and actions be ceremonies of well-being for all races.

May we honor being diverse racial beings among the human race, and beyond race.

May we meet the racial crisis of the world with as much wisdom as we can muster.

— Closing prayer from Ruth King's Mindful of Race

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