Sunday Solstice Sangha Sadhana

[Janet Gilmore]

Good morning all,

Please join us for (online only) practice today.  We're doing 1st and 3rd Sunday's online this month. 

Today is the summer solstice and we have an opportunity to recite Samantabadhra's prayer together (attached below).

And let's continue our discussion on wisdom and compassion. 

A great buddhist teacher and scholar, Robert Thurman, died last Tuesday. I ran across this talk he gave on compassion (and many other things)..

Also here's a quote from EInstein on compassion:

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, the ‘universe,’ — a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion, to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

with love and gratitude,

Janet

[Janet Gilmore]

oops -forgot to include the link to Robert Thurman's talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voGvH4a_wAQ&t=4s