Friends,
For this Tuesday, Feb. 17, we’re happy to offer the first of a two-part series on the four foundations of mindfulness by guest teacher Shawn Holmes. The second part of the series will be Tuesday, March 17.
Shawn is a Local Dharma Leader for Seattle Insight Meditation. She wrote about the series:
“Many of us live with conditions that are part of our daily lives—chronic pain, illness, disabilities, neurodivergence, or aging bodies that ask something of us every day. This two-part talk explores how the Four Foundations of Mindfulness can become genuine companions in this ongoing relationship with our bodies and minds.
We'll look together at how mindfulness of body, feeling tone, mind states, and dhamma offer practical ways to meet what persists—not to fix it or transcend it, but to be with it more wisely and kindly. These aren't abstract teachings; they're tools for living with more ease and less struggle, right here in the reality of our embodied lives.”
Here’s a link with information about Shawn - https://seattleinsight.org/teacher/shawn-holmes/
We’ll be gathering at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb 17. She’ll be in person, and I’ll also be there, mostly operating the hybrid system.
Please get the URL for the evening by emailing stevellen95@comcast.net, or please come in person to the chapel at Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church, 315 3rd Ave S., Kirkland, WA 98033. (Please note this is the new URL for this year.)
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 Shawn, with links below. Many thanks for your generous dana, which helps support Shawn in her Dharma development, and her giving to others.
https://account.venmo.com/u/Shawn-Y-Holmes
Zelle: shawn.theuinu@gmail.com
Big bows to the kind sangha members who help set up for these evenings, now Tuesdays. It’s hugely helpful when you can help, and when can say you’ll be helping. Thank you!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18OKEUO7ubunOG_q9r8MaBFWXqmWScOm4LIsv8MdnBU8/edit
May your confidence in the dharma path forward, and your momentum on it, flourish in 2026. May your hearts be at ease.
With bows and love,
Steve