Re: [FOTM:3184] Invitation to Cloud Buddhist Recovery Group Online Mee ting
Doylestown, PA
Anyone with an interest in Buddhist-oriented recovery (which includes mindfulness practices) is warmly invited to try a new online initiative. The Cloud BRG is a Europe-wide online community of individuals in recovery using Buddhist principles and practices to support whole-person health and well-being.
The first of regular online recovery meetings will be held next Monday 23rd April from 6:45 pm (ready for a prompt start at 7pm) on Skype. The agenda is:
- 6:45 Individuals sign-in to Skype and add CloudBRG to their contact list.
- 7:00 Meditation: 5-minute breath tranquillity-serenity meditation ‘just to arrive’.
- 7:10 Tonight’s topic and instructions will be read out. Followed by 10-minute meditation-contemplation on how the topic has or is impacting or influencing your life.
- 7:20 Sharing of individual’s experience of the contemplation meditation and topic.
- 7:50 The host will share last after reflecting on everyone’s input.
- 8:00 Meditation: 30-minutes meditation (may be guided or not).
- 8:30 Q&A session and then the meeting will close.
I shall be the host for the first meeting on 23rd April; after which Noé Ismet (based in Switzerland) will take over for the following two Mondays. The topic for contemplation for the first meeting is taken from the book ‘Against the Stream’ by Noah Levine:
“Typically, we tend to judge ourselves and be quite critical and harsh in our self-assessments, identifying with the negative thoughts and feelings that arise in our minds.
Loving-kindness is the experience of having friendly and loving relationship towards ourselves as well as others.
The experience of loving-kindness towards ourselves is perhaps as simple as bringing a friendly attitude to our minds and bodies.”
The 30-minute meditation on Monday will be a
guided ‘Loving-kindness’
practice.
There is now scientific, as well as
anecdotal, evidence of the benefits of meditation for recovery. But
knowing this is not enough... it is the time spent on the cushion that counts.
We hope you can join us.
Vince
(h) 01635-552665
(m) 07909-545380
www.5th-precept.org
www.TARA-detox.org
www.HungryGhostRetreats.org
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As a stormy wind
cannot move a mountain of rock
so one who contemplates
the reality of the body,
who develops faith and energy,
is unmoved by Mara (Craving).
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A DHAMMAPADA for CONTEMPLATION
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