On Thursday, March 16, teacher Lisa Goddard will visit Eastside Insight Meditation from Colorado via Zoom. We will meet at 7 p.m. to meditate together and to share some teachings of the dharma.
 
Lisa writes:

“As a support for the recent teachings on the Seven Factors of Awakening, Lisa will offer some reflections on cultivating balance with all the conditions that make up our life.   In some ways you could say that the whole of the path is about equanimity and the cultivation of a balanced mind.  Please join us in practice and discussion about cultivating balance with all conditions.”  

Lisa has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1997 and has been facilitating these practices since 2002. She leads the Roaring Fork Insight community in Carbondale, Colorado, and will be joining us via Zoom.

Here’s her bio:

“Inspired by the teachings of Suzuki Roshi and Ajahn Chah, Lisa received training through Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, Zen Hospice Project, Mindful Schools and the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies. She is a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator through UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and training in Eco-Chaplaincy through the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies.  For more about her offerings please visit roaringforkinsight.org.”

Any dana donations for Lisa will be very welcome. Here is a link for dana donations. https://www.roaringforkinsight.org/contact

Also please consider donating to Northlake, which makes the chapel available for Eastside Insight. Please specify that your donation is in appreciation of support for Eastside Insight.
https://tinyurl.com/NorthlakeUU-Paypal2022
 
If you wish to attend by Zoom, the URL will be  https://tinyurl.com/EIMS-Kirkland-2023 

If you’ll be attending in person, we’ll be sitting in the Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church chapel, in Kirkland. The address is 315 3rd Ave S., Kirkland, WA 98033.

We need a volunteer or two to set up tea and seating for the evening, and this is an opportunity for one or two of you to support the sangha. Below is the link where you can sign up. Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18OKEUO7ubunOG_q9r8MaBFWXqmWScOm4LIsv8MdnBU8/edit

And now a question for you: One of our good sangha members has suggested we do more breakout sessions, as a way to build community and to encourage all members developing their dharma voices.

I’m all for that if it’s helpful, but I’m also aware that some people prefer not to be in such groups. Also in the past, especially when fewer people were showing up on Thursdays, several said they’d rather stay in one group rather than do breakouts.

But it may also be true for some that the evenings are too much about the dharma from yours truly, and that breakouts would allow for more voices.

If any of you have any thoughts about that please tell me via email or phone – stevellen95@comcast.net, or 206-819-5286. I’ll also bring it up, maybe at this Thursday sit or maybe at the next one.

Thank you. May you be well and happy,

Steve