Friends,
Eastside Insight will be meeting online only for Thursday, Aug. 21, and we’re happy to welcome back Kate Davies.
As many of you know, Kate leads Whidbey Island Insight, also teaches around the region, and she shares the dharma in a warm and gifted way.
The title of her talk will be “Hope Reconsidered.”
She writes:
“Most commonly, hope is about wanting life to conform with our cravings and expectations. But because we cannot control what happens, this type of hope is a set-up for fear, disappointment, anger, and other unwholesome mind states.
Perhaps there is another type of hope based on seeing things as they truly are. A hope based on wisdom and compassion. A hope based on unshakeable faith. A hope based on intention and possibility. This Dhamma reflection will explore the nature of hope and why it is important in these times.”
About Kate:
Kate Davies has been a student of the Dhamma for about 25 years. She leads online mindfulness meditation groups and teaches at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center, as well as other sanghas in the Pacific Northwest.
Kate spent her career working on environmental policy and social change. She is currently board chair and president of the Saranaloka Foundation, professor emerita at Antioch University, and senior fellow at the Whidbey Institute.
She is also the author of two award-winning books – “The Rise of the US Environmental Health Movement” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), and “Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times” (New Society Publishers, 2018). She is a mother and a grandmother, and lives on Tscha-Kole-Chy, also known as Whidbey Island.
We’ll be gathering, online only, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21.
Please email Steve Wilhelm for the URL for the evening, at stevellen95@comcast.net. Please don’t come to the chapel, because nobody will be there.
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 Kate as teacher, at this PayPal link. Many thanks for your generous dana, which helps turn the wheel of the dharma.
And a way to offer light to the world:
For any of you interested, a small but cheerful group of people meets roughly monthly, on a Tuesday at noon for an hour, to volunteer at the Tibetan Nuns Project office in Seattle’s International District. We do some very simple work, usually preparing prayer flags and malas for delivery to Tibetan Nuns Project supporters. This is sacred work.
We are in fact gathering this Tuesday, Aug. 19. Please email me about this Tuesday’s event, or if you wish to be on the email list. It’s fun, satisfying, and a positive step in a less-positive world.
Big bows to all of you for your practice, your goodwill, your kindness.
See you soon!
Steve