Friends,

Meditation teacher Lauren Wilson, one of the Seattle Insight Meditation Society local dharma leaders, will lead the 7 p.m. Thursday, March 3, session of Eastside Insight Meditation.

This session will only be online, not at the chapel.

The Zoom link is:

Eastside Insight Meditation

https://tinyurl.com/Eastside-Insight-9-1-2021

The title of her talk is:  Renunciation and the Happiness of the Buddha

She writes:

“The parami of renunciation is one of the 10 "supreme" qualities we are asked to cultivate on the path to awakening. Although we might associate renunciation with the unpleasant task of letting go of something that delights us or refraining from doing something we enjoy doing very much, renunciation opens us up to a deeper investigation of happiness which ultimately helps us to bring our happiness back home.”

Here’s a bio of Lauren:

“Lauren Wilson took Rodney Smith’s introduction to meditation class in the spring of 2006 and has been attending Seattle Insight Meditation Society weekly meditation and dharma talk evenings ever since. Her regular practice includes vipassana meditation, qi gong, insight dialogue and volunteering for the sangha.

 For many years she taught in the public schools at a variety of levels and in a variety of capacities, including the teaching of reading and language arts and coaching teachers. Since her retirement, she has enjoyed studying French and spending more time in nature, in her garden and watching birds. Since high school, poetry has been an important part of her spiritual journey.”

If you wish to offer Lauren dana, support, for her teachings, her paypal link is paypalme/laurenwilson64

To offer dana for Northlake, which offers the chapel for Eastside Insight, the link is https://tinyurl.com/NorthlakeUU-Paypal2022

May you be well and happy,

Steve