Monday, November 25, we will meet online.
Dear friends,
This week, we will meet Monday evening, November 25th, from 7-8:30PM EST online; Wednesday morning, Nov 27th, from 7-8AM EST in person at our meditation space (3812 Northampton Street NW); and Friday, Nov 29th, 12-1PM EST online.
Please register here and mark your calendars for our very special guest facilitator leading our ONLINE sangha gathering on Monday November 25.
Katie Loncke (they/them) will be leading our discussion on the First Mindfulness Training, Reverence for Life. Katie has been a deep Buddhist practitioner for over 15 years, they are a wise human, a former Buddhist Peace Fellowship co-director, and an intimacy coach who holds a Harvard degree in Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality, and a mischievous attitude that's part nature, part nurture.
Katie has been a speaker on our Making-Visible series, you can watch their talk on Protective Presence here. You can read their current bios here and here.
After our meditation period, we will read the trainings together and then Katie will offer their reflections on this training:
Reverence For Life
Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating the insight of interbeing and compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, or in my way of life. Seeing that harmful actions arise from anger, fear, greed, and intolerance, which in turn come from dualistic and discriminative thinking, I will cultivate openness, non-discrimination, and non-attachment to views in order to transform violence, fanaticism, and dogmatism in myself and in the world.
There will be time for group sharing after Katie.
We hope you can join us. Please register here.
Warmly,
Opening Heart