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The Boundless Love Project Newsletter by Freeman

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Thank You Supporters for a Great Start on Our Double-Your-Donation Drive!

Greetings beloved friends,

Thank you to all of you who have helped us raise $970 in the first week of our campaign! We are nearly two-thirds of the way to our $1,500 goal. If you have not yet given, please consider giving a generous tax-deductible donation today.

Many hands make for light work. If everyone gives what they can, even if only a few dollars, we will achieve our goal. Remember that we have secured matching funds so that all donations towards our goal will be doubled.

Read about our accomplishments and 2019 intentions here. For details on our finances, check out our 2017 annual report. We aim to be open, transparent, and frugal in everything we do.

Much appreciation for all of your kindness, generosity, and support. Wishing you peace, ease, and wisdom.

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“Love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

Voluntear Editerz Wantid!

CORRECTIONS: In the first two versions of last week’s e-newsletter I talked about all of the wonderful things we’d like to do in “2018.” It would be fantastic to accomplish our dreams in the next few weeks, but it's also unlikely. Although I wrote “2018” three times, I meant “2019” every time. You probably figured this out from the context, still it would be nice if the words actually reflected what I meant. Haha!

Thus, as we prepare our Mindfulness Fundamentals course to go online, we seek volunteer editors willing to read our finished transcripts of the class to lightly edit for spelling, grammar, clarity, and content. Each of the twelve class transcripts are roughly 8,000 words long. If an editor could read one or more per week, that would be fantastic. However, we can be flexible in working with your schedule and availability.

As a bonus, as you edit the course, you can learn/review the material from the course and possibly be inspired in starting and/or maintaining your daily meditation practice.

If you are at all interested in possibly helping, please email me, Freeman, by responding to this email. Thank you!

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” - Peace Pilgrim

Group Meditations Schedule

Just to clarify, we have taken a hiatus from giving the Being Medicine series. Creating a series requires a lot of time, and I have prioritized getting the Mindfulness Fundamentals course online. Thus, for the foreseeable future our group meditations will contain a 30-minute meditation followed by either a one-off talk, a reading/discussion, a mindfulness activity, or a combination of these things. Here are the dates and times for our upcoming group meditations:

Tues, Dec 11 at 6:30 PM
Robert Trail Library Conference Room
14395 S Robert Trail, Rosemount, MN 55068

Tues, Dec 18 at 6:30 PM
Burnhaven Libraray Conference Room
1101 County Road 42 W, Burnsville, MN 55306

Tues, Dec 25 – No Group Meditation for Holidays

Tues, Jan 1 – No Group Meditation for Holidays

Tues, Jan 8 at 6:30 PM
Burnhaven Library Large Meeting Room
1101 County Road 42 W, Burnsville, MN 55306

For more details, check out our events page.

<<All who harp on their woes, multiplies them manifold.>> -Gandhi

Computer Update

Good news. By deleting everything on my computer's back-up drive, it now works correctly again! Out of ignorance and confusion, at one point in the process, I gave the password authority to delete the computer’s internal hard drive! I had mistaken it for the external drive. Whoops! My finger hovered over the button that with one push would have erased everything. Thankfully, I took a mindful pause and averted catastrophe. Haha!

Every so often, the computer still makes these worrying sounds like it did before the last time the hard drive crashed and all content was lost. Should that happen now, however, we will not lose any content. Yay!

Thanks to all of you who have donated to help us afford a new computer system that will be more reliable, efficient, and effective, and help us move forward on our intentions for 2019.

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try." -Rosa Parks

I Can Do Hard Things

Bewildering technical difficulties resulted in last week’s talk, “I can do hard things,” not being recorded. The recording simply stopped after three minutes for no reason I could figure out. Sorry! My apologies to all of you who were interested in hearing the podcast version of the talk.

Reflecting on the Boundless Love Project’s priorities, my plan is to let it go and stay focused on getting the Mindfulness Fundamentals course online. However, if you really want a podcast of this talk, email me back. If I hear from several people, I could possibly record the talk without an audience, and post it online so it is accessible to you all.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style. Rebecca Solnit
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rebecca_solnit_527792?src=t_generosity

"Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style." -Rebecca Solnit

VOLUNTEER TO HELP FEED STARVING PEOPLE

We volunteer on the second Monday of every month at Feed My Starving Children in Eagan. Our next session is Monday, January 14, from 6:00 - 7:30 PM at their location in Eagan. To get there you take 35E to Lone Oak Road and head east a few blocks. Their address is 990 Lone Oak Road, unit 136.

Please respond to this email to let me know if you plan on going. Then I can get your registered.Thank you!

HOW TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD AUDIO FILES ON OUR WEBSITE

Audio files of talks and meditations are in many of our blog posts. The audio files look like the black bar seen above. (Please note this bar is just an image and not a working audio file.) When on our website, you can listen to it by pressing the white triangle or "play button" on the left. This will stream the audio file to your device.

The text is the title of the talk or guided meditation. For our example, this audio file is from a group meditation and the talk was titled "From Ego to Enlightened & Compassion Summary."

On the left, you find the word "download." Press it to download the talk to your device. If you view this from your phone, you may not see the download option if the phone is held vertically. Rotate your phone horizontally in order to see the “download” option. Once you have downloaded the file, listen to it using one of your media playing programs.

If you have any difficulties, please let us know. We want you to be successful!

"Truth is powerful and it prevails." -Sojourner Truth

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Blessings to You

May you fully appreciate your own inherent worth.

May all of your actions be motivated by boundless love.

May you see the goodness in all situations.

May you handle challenges with peace, patience, and wisdom.

I wish you all of this and more,
Freeman

Copyright © 2018 Boundless Love Project, All rights reserved.

The Boundless Love Project seeks to create a global beloved community where all life thrives. As a nonsectarian nonprofit, we work to overcome delusion with truth, cruelty with compassion, greed with peace, and hatred with love.

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