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It’s About Time We Came to Our Senses Retreat
Join us for this silent meditation retreat exploring awareness of the six sense doors and the perceptual information coming through them. Every sensation or thought that we experience comes to us through the five sense doors of hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and feeling sensation plus in Buddhism the mind is considered the sixth sense door…
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Still Mountain Board Meeting
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Right Effort
These notes are from Curt Fish’s October 13, 2024, Dharma talk. Right Effort is effort directed at cultivating the skillful and abandoning the unskillful. Here’s a description of Right Effort from a post on Quora: Right effort—is such a great limb of the path—such a key spot, internally, in our practice. It’s this beautiful place…
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Comments on Generosity
Karen and Brian spoke briefly about generosity and dana on September 22, 2024.
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Community Meeting Minutes, September 29, 2024
Still Mountain Buddhist Meditation Center Community Meeting Minutes September 29, 2024 Board monthly meeting. The board’s monthly meetings are taking place on the first Sunday of the month, at Turner, after the weekly sitting and sharing. Coordinating Board, Teacher’s, and committee’s emails. We have implemented a monthly email, so you have an idea…
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Still Mountain Board Meeting
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David’s Bookshelf
A number of books have been placed on a bookshelf in the Turner Senior Resource Center to create a lending library. These are books that were originally in David Lawson’s personal collection.
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Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: A Tool for Personal Transformation
Mindfulness is a gateway to lasting personal change and growth. In this class, you will learn about mindfulness and concentration in a kind and supportive environment as you take the first steps toward establishing your meditation practice. There will be a strong emphasis on cultivating an open heart as you experience the full benefits of…
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A Daylong Meditation Retreat: Intention, Action, Care
The Buddhist map – Choosing the Right Road Towards Liberation in Our Lifetime When: Saturday September 28, 9:00am – 3:00pm Where: Turner Senior Center, 2401 Plymouth Rd. Ann Arbor, Mi 48105 Wise intention is about honoring the heart space that guides everything we undertake. It’s about awakening our readiness to recommit – to be wholehearted…
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Right Speech
Notes The Buddha’s definition of Wise Speech is abstaining from these four manners of speech: Abstaining from False speech Bhikkhu Bodhi points out that false speech can be expressions of one of the three poisons: False speech includes both overrating and understating. Another form of false speech is being engaged in fantasizing which is a form…
