Friends,
For the upcoming Aug. 4 Eastside Insight Meditation gathering, we’ll continue exploring the deep wisdom embedded in the four noble truths.
This week we’ll gather at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4
The four noble truths are one of the first teachings of the Buddha and at the bedrock of Buddhist understanding in all traditions. This is a good time to open into these four: the unsatisfactory nature of un-awakened life, the reason why we’re not awake or free, the possibility of freedom, and how to become free.
Knowing these four deeply is important for long-term practitioners, to keep our sight focused on what’s at the root of this path. It’s often said if we truly realized these four, we’d be freed. The four also are very important for people newer to the path, to clearly see the way ahead.
Last week we explored the first two, and on Aug 4 we’ll review the first two briefly, for anyone who wasn’t there, and continue to the second two. In a sense these last two are the most uplifting of the four, because in them the Buddha shows us the possibility of awakening, or freedom from clinging, and then how to do it.
We’ll be sitting hybrid on Aug. 4, which means will be online via Zoom, and in-person in the chapel at Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church in Kirkland.
The Zoom link for the evening is https://tinyurl.com/Eastside-Insight-9-1-2021
For any of you planning to attend in person, at 315 3rd Avenue South in Kirkland, it would be very helpful if you could help setup. Below is a link where you can sign up to help.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18OKEUO7ubunOG_q9r8MaBFWXqmWScOm4LIsv8MdnBU8/edit
Any dana offerings you’re moved to make, to Northlake or to the teacher, are welcomed.
https://tinyurl.com/NorthlakeUU-Paypal2022
Steve Wilhelm
7510 117th Ave. NE
Kirkland, WA 98033
Looking ahead, we’re happy to announce that Seattle Insight Meditation Society co-guiding teacher Tim Geil will be leading Eastside Insight Meditation, and offering teachings, on Thursday, Aug. 18. This will be only online, and Tim is planning to spend the evening responding to questions, so please bring those forward then.
We hope to see you, and may you walk in peace,
Steve