Friends,
For this July 3 sit we’re happy to be welcoming Sooz Appel, one of the Seattle Insight Meditation assistant teachers, and a very experienced practitioner.
Many of you know her as a warm and friendly teacher, from daylongs we’ve offered on the Eastside, and from times when she’s offered teachings here.
Here’s a bit of bio:
Sooz Appel was introduced to Vipassana meditation in 1983 at a death and dying retreat with Stephen Levine. Later that year, she and two friends established Shanti Seattle, which offered emotional support to people who were dying. She joined SIMS when it formed and served on the Board and as President from 2001-2003.
Over the years, Sooz has filled nearly every volunteer position in SIMS and continues to give of her time and energy to the sangha. In addition to issues of death and dying, Sooz has offered mindfulness opportunities (classes and retreats) to teenagers through both the Seattle Teen Mindfulness Circle and Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme).
The title of her talk will be: “Right View and Right Intention—our foundations for wholesome action.”
She wrote:
“As we walk through our lives, our practice asks us to bring mindfulness and honest attention to each moment. We’ll explore how view and intention are essential for this to happen.”
We’ll be gathering at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 3.
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.
While Sooz will be Zooming in from Seattle, we’ll still be hybrid, thus we’ll be both in person and online.
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 Sooz. Through the Venmo link below. Many thanks for your generous dana, which helps turn the wheel of the dharma.
https://account.venmo.com/u/sooz-appel
Big bows to the kind sangha members who help set up for Thursday evenings. It’s a spiritual practice to do this good work with others, for others. Helping set up is a way to share the dharma for the community. Signing up is a big help, to know if assistance is coming.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18OKEUO7ubunOG_q9r8MaBFWXqmWScOm4LIsv8MdnBU8/edit
In our local gathering and practice, simple though it may seem, we uphold and bring to life the wheel of dharma the Buddha set in motion 2,600 years ago. What we do is precious and brings light to the world.
See you soon!
Steve