Friends,
First off deep bows of gratitude for your dana offerings, which helped cover the costs of the 12-day “Nature of Awareness” retreat I just completed at Spirit Rock, plus dana offerings to the kind teachers.
Your generosity in this way helped keep the wheels of dharma rolling, benefitting many beings, so this is a great boon and contribution. Thank you.
For this June 5 sit we’ll be exploring a question central to our spiritual journey: How the "story of me" arises, and what to do about it.
As we all discover in our practice, our attachment to “I“ drives our most compulsive behaviors, and complicates our lives when we confuse mental and physical arisings with a sense of ultimate self. Learning to discern between ultimate not-self, and our conventional sense of self-identity, is at the root of how we progress on the path, finding more peace, freedom and lightness on the way.
Hoping that some of you were able to hear Ajahn Jundee when he taught at Clear Mountain Monastery on May 15. His radiant simplicity, his evident happiness, were very much reflections of his seeing through the stickiness of attachment to the “story of me.”
We’ll be gathering at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 5.
The URL for the evening will be https://tinyurl.com/Eastside-Insight-2025, or please come in person to the chapel at Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church, 315 3rd Ave S., Kirkland, WA 98033.
Please consider offering dana to Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church, which makes this space available on a dana-only basis, in a very kind and generous way. If you do, please mention you’re from Eastside Insight Meditation.
https://tinyurl.com/NorthlakeUU-Paypal2022
Also you're invited to offer dana to the teacher, with links and addresses below. Many thanks for your generous dana, which helps turn the wheel of the dharma.
paypal.me/SteveWilhelm48
Steve Wilhelm
17623 184th Ave. NE
Woodinville, WA 98072
Big bows to the kind sangha members who help set up for Thursday evenings. It’s a blessing to do this good work with others, for others. Helping set up is a way to share the dharma for the community, so please sign up below!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18OKEUO7ubunOG_q9r8MaBFWXqmWScOm4LIsv8MdnBU8/edit
On retreat it was happy to think of Eastside Insight, and the good work we do together. The sparkle of light we share together is a source of uplift for the world, so bows to all of you for your participation.
May all of you find balance and happiness in your hearts,
Steve