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Heart of the Lotus Sangha

Heart of the Lotus Sangha welcomes anyone who wants meditate and explore the Buddhist teachings as a means to living a more meaningful, peaceful, and compassionate life. New meditators, the curious, and longtime practitioners are equally welcome. We pay great respect to the Buddha’s teaching, “find out for yourself.”

We meet on Tuesdays from 6:30-8:15 PM

Our evening begins with setting the intention of being mindful: present for ourselves, “the moment,” and each other. We meditate for about half an hour (instruction provided).

Twice a month, Tracy offers a dharma talk exploring how the Buddhist teachings can help us live more engaged, meaningful, and compassionate lives. Aspects of bringing our practice into everyday life is the theme of our regular peer-led presentations and discussions.

Once a month, we explore a chapter from our book-in-common. Books we have studied together recently include Donald Rothberg’s The Engaged Spiritual Life, Pema Chödrön’s When Things Fall Apart, and Steven Levine’s A Year To Live.

A Night of Silence, consisting of periods of sitting and walking meditation practice, takes place once a month.

Since a core value of our group is the alleviation of suffering and its causes, we conclude each evening with a metta (loving-kindness) meditation directed both to ourselves and to the world at large.

Our tradition is quite “bare-bones” so we do not practice much ritual.

The Heart of the Lotus Sangha also hosts four daylong meditation retreats each year at the Sky Creek Dharma Center. John Travis is a frequent guest teacher at these retreats. He has long been a teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center (www.spiritrock.org), and he founded the Mountain Stream Medication Center (www.mtstream.org) in 1986.

For more information contact:

Tracy McDonald: 530 774 4580 E-mail: mooonchuckle@sbcglobal.net

or
Janese Charpentier: 530 893 3110 Email: JCFPN@Yahoo.com