Friends,

The broader our compassion toward all beings, to include all beings seen and unseen, beings we agree with or not, beings we're close to or not, the bigger are our hearts and the better we can survive the vagaries of human existence.

For this upcoming Thursday, April 16 meeting of Eastside  Insight Meditation, we’ll be  exploring great compassion in Buddhist  tradition. We’ll see how great compassion directs us toward freedom, and not suffering, no matter the  outward conditions.

We’ll be gathering at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 16.

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

Also, this Saturday, April 19, I’ll be offering a daylong in Port Townsend, on the theme of “No Enemies,” about cultivating loving-kindness and compassion toward all beings, even those with whom we disagree. Offering this acknowledging that the divisions of 2025 are difficult for so many of us.

https://www.ptsangha.org/day-long-retreat-april-19th/

All of you are welcome to join, either in person or  online. Some of you joining from the Eastside Insight  sangha would be a delightful addition to the good people of Port Townsend.

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