Vedana: Mindfulness of Feeling From a talk by Lisa Glueck As you know, the Four Foundations are deeply interconnected and flow inseparably into one another. When we feel an unpleasant feeling, our body tightens in response, while our mind…
SnowFlower Sun August 2019
Gratitude and Equanimity From a talk by Cheri Maples You can’t find gratitude in your mind. You can only find it by leading with your heart and living it. When we are grateful, we are able to delight in what…
Ordained Dharma Teacher Coming to SnowFlower
On July 5, we will have a special speaker at Friday Night Sangha. Richard Brady, MS, is a practicing meditator and certified Mindfulness teacher. In 2001 he was recognized by Thich Nhat Hanh as a teacher in his tradition with a special focus on cultivating mindfulness in…
SnowFlower Sun May 2019
The Sustaining Power of Mindfulness from a talk by Cheri Maples The understandings, openings, and sense of vastness created by a mindfulness practice happen in different ways for different people. When I think about my own painfully slow transformation from…
SnowFlower Sun March 2019
Equanimity from a talk by Lisa Glueck Equanimity is a spacious stillness of the mind that is able to meet with steadiness and serenity the changing experiences that constitute our world and our lives. It is a lovely place to…
SnowFlower Sun February 2019
Ending Conditioned Doing with the Eightfold Path from a talk by Gloria Green The Buddha says that we can cultivate the wisdom that eliminates the ignorance that causes suffering. The course way for movement leading to the end of suffering…
SnowFlower Sun January 2019
The Five Remembrances by David Haskin The Five Remembrances, and the beautiful Upajjhatthana Sutta it comes from, is remarkable not just for its power but for how it interweaves most of the major aspects of the Buddha’s teachings into a…
From the Retreat Tea Ceremony
“When you go into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees… and some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens and some of them are…
Drawing from Fall Retreat – Lester Dore
SnowFlower Sun November 2018
We Are Not Alone by Lisa Glueck The great paradox: You go alone into your meditation room; you follow your breathing; you watch the play of your own mind. Rather than becoming isolated or alienated, you enter into deeper intimacy…