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Interbeing Sangha of Kingston - Weekly Electronic Bulletin Issue #22 - November 18th, 2017

Interbeing Sangha
of Kingston

Weekly Meeting

Our next weekly gathering takes place Sunday, November 19th, for meditation and dharma sharing, 6:30pm at Unitarian Place (Kingston Unitarian Fellowship), 206 Concession Street. Susan Young will be bell minding.

What Mindfulness Brings

"Mindfulness brings concentration. Concentration brings insight. Insight liberates you from your ignorance, your anger, your craving. When you are free from your afflictions, happiness becomes possible. How can you be happy when you are overloaded with anger, ignorance, and craving? That is why the insight that can liberate you from these afflictions is the key to happiness. There are many conditions of happiness that are present, but people don’t recognize them because they are not mindful."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh, Love & Liberation

Community Announcement

Solstice Workshop

Sangha member (and bell minder) Susan Young invites you to celebrate Winter Solstice with ancient rituals to express gratitude, release obstacles and create a new year vision. December 21st, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm at Janati Yoga School. Also, follow Susan on Facebook to participate weekly in Mindful Mondays, 7:30 am on Facebook Live. This week's theme is Taming the Self Critic.

Sunday at KUF

Dreams & Visions

Who are we as a gathered people? Where are we going? What are our dreams? And what will we do when we realize one of the visions that arises from a dream? Rev. Beckett Coppola speaks about investing in beloved community this Sunday, November 19th at 10:30 am.

Beloved Community

"You know that I met Martin Luther King Jr. in the year 1966. We talked about sangha and his concept of the beloved community. We talked about human rights, peace, nonviolence, and so on. What we were doing was very similar—building community, blending the seeds of wisdom, compassion, and nonviolence. . . We inter-are—even suffering and happiness inter-are—and that is why the insight of inter-being is the foundation of any kind of action that can bring peace and brotherhood, and help remove violence and despair. That insight is present in every great spiritual tradition. We need only to go home to our own tradition, and try to reveal that, to revive that."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh, Love & Liberation

Our sangha has two teams helping to share leadership and facilitation of our meetings. Our Bell Minders Team are mindful facilitators for our weekly gatherings, as well as retreats, taking beautiful care of our friends in the practice including the bell. Our Sangha Care Team facilitates sangha care meetings, plans retreats, minds our library and resources, and coordinates outreach. If you are interested in helping with either or both, contact interbeingkingston@gmail.com for more information.

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