Friends,
For this Tuesday, Nov. 18 Eastside Insight gathering we’ll be exploring one of the most nuanced aspects of living in the world while on the path: Navigating the needs of self and others in the dharma.
A significant part of cultivating loving-kindness is to embrace everyone in our sphere with kindness, including those we like and dislike, and including ourselves. It's easy to forget the last two, and essential to remember that each sentient being, including the disliked and ourselves, deserve kindness as much as any other.
This can be a subtle and complex balance, and we’ll be exploring how to navigate these human intricacies, with good heart, goodwill, and compassion.
We’ll be gathering at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 18, continuing our new schedule of 1st and 3rd Tuesdays.
Please email Steve Wilhelm - stevellen95@comcast.net - for the URL for the evening, 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 pay for retreat and teachings, and helps others on the way.
paypal.me/SteveWilhelm48
Steve Wilhelm
17623 184th Ave. NE
Woodinville, WA 98072
Big bows to the kind sangha members who help set up for these evenings, now Tuesdays. It’s hugely helpful when you can help before, and say you’ll be helping. Thank you!
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Looking ahead, you’re warmly invited to the Nov. 22 Seattle Insight day of mindfulness on anatta, not-self.
Anatta is the third of the three characteristics of life (Dukkha, Anicca and Anatta), and during this daylong we’ll be exploring our inherent view that self is solid and continuous. We’ll look at practices that help us gain a deep understanding that self is without inherent existence, and impermanent.
We’ll also explore the differences between the navigational or conventional self, which we use to navigate daily life, and the ultimate not-self that lacks inherent existence. I’ll be part of the team teaching.
The daylong will be in-person at the Seattle Insight center in Seattle, and online. Below is a link to sign up. https://seattleinsight.org/event/understanding-self-and-not-self-leads-to-freedom/
May you find happiness and balance, in the midst of complexity. May your hearts be at ease.
With bows and love,
Steve