Friends,

For the next two sessions we’re going to be exploring the core Buddhist ethics – the five  precepts – and their pivotal role in the spiritual path, and in living a happy  daily life.

(Big thanks to sangha member Bonnie  Kosmyna, whose idea this was.)

As many of you know, Buddhist ethics -  sila in Pali – isn’t exactly a moral code but  rather a way of cultivating healthy  actions of body, speech and mind that support us  and others in life. Also it’s not a crisp boundary of right and wrong, but rather a training, a core part of our Dharma practice.

For this first session will be exploring the three most straightforward of the five:  training in not killing, training in not lying, training in not stealing. We’ll see how subtle these three can be, and how much these become a diamond edge in our practice.

We’ll be gathering at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20.

The URL for the evening will be https://tinyurl.com/Eastside-Insight-2025,   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 will be helping to pay for an upcoming retreat, to help me come back and better offer to all of you.

paypal.me/SteveWilhelm48
 
Steve Wilhelm
17623 184th Ave. NE
Woodinville, WA 98072

Big bows to the growing numbers of sangha members who have been stepping up to help set up for Thursday  evenings. It’s a blessing to do this good work with others, and we have fun before everyone arrives, so please sign up below!

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



Big thanks to Jason Bartlett for his  wonderful teachings on Feb. 6. As promised, here’s a link to a recording of his teachings.

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive
 
We are fortunate to be in sangha, to practice  the dharma together, in difficult times. Just in our practice, we have an opportunity to offer equanimity and kindness to others.
 
May all of you find peace and steadiness in your hearts,

Steve