Friends,
Guest Lisa Goddard, lead teacher of Roaring Fork Insight in Colorado, will offer a teaching at Eastside Insight on Thursday, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m.
Here are her thoughts about what she’ll be sharing:
“This dharma offering will be on the practice of intention. For many of you who have made this a regular practice on some level, this coming together represents a shared intention to follow the path of practice. Traditionally, everything rests on the tip of intention.
“This practice has a lot to do with compassion, self-compassion. It’s really about how we relate to ourselves. So part of caring for ourselves, is to be a caretaker of the intentions that we live by. To know what they are. What intention, what seeds would you like to plant for the time ahead? Come explore this together in practice on January 20, 2022.”
Here’s a bit about Lisa Goddard:
“Lisa been practicing meditation and yoga since 1999 and has been facilitating these practices since 2000.
Inspired by the teachings of Suzuki Roshi and Ajahn Chah, Lisa received training through Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, Zen Hospice Project and Mindful Schools. She is a certified mindfulness facilitator through UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, and a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.”
To make a dana offering for Lisa, please visit https://www.roaringforkinsight.org/contact
We’ll be sitting online via Zoom, and in person in the Northlake chapel, in a hybrid connection. Lisa will be coming in via Zoom, but she’ll be on the big screen in the Northlake chapel as well as on your individual Zoom screens.
For anyone planning to join in person, some help setting up at the chapel would be very welcome. Here’s a Google doc where you can sign up.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18OKEUO7ubunOG_q9r8MaBFWXqmWScOm4LIsv8MdnBU8/edit
If you wish to join online, here’s the Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/Eastside-Insight-9-1-2021
Looking locally, here are a few items of note:
First, the interfaith group Fostering Interreligious Relations on the Eastside, or FIRE, is offering a panel discussion about Islam at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 23.
This is a great group, and some fine regional Muslim leaders will be presenting. The event is via Zoom, and it’s free. Please register if you’re interested.
Second, the winter, 2022 issue of Northwest Dharma News is live, and it’s full of quite-fascinating things local dharma groups are doing. Stories include:
- The Buddhist Peace Pagoda being built right next to the largest installation of nuclear weapons in North America.
- The Buddhist priory in British Columbia that last year was beset by fires and floods, and still survived.
- The expansion of the Northwest Vipassana Center that will offer individual cells for people in retreat.
May you walk in peace,
Steve