Seeds of Insight: November 28th, 2020

Virtual Meeting

Please join us for sitting meditation, reading, and dharma sharing via Zoom this Sunday, November 29th at 6:30 pm. Our virtual bell minder for this session will be Keith Gawronski-McNinch. The Zoom meeting starts

10 minutes early at 6:20 pm, to allow time for everyone to arrive and get settled in. To join online (with or without your webcam) follow this link:

The Dandelion has my Smile

"Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing. At the end of a retreat in California, a friend wrote this poem:

I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it.

If you have lost your smile and yet are still capable of seeing that a dandelion is keeping it for you, the situation is not too bad. You still have enough mindfulness to see that the smile is there. You only need to breathe consciously one or two times and you will recover your smile. The dandelion is one member of your community of friends. It is there, quite faithful, keeping your smile for you. In fact, everything around you is keeping your smile for you. You don't need to feel isolated. You only have to open yourself to the support that is all around you, and in you. Like the friend who saw that her smile was being kept by the dandelion, you can breathe in awareness, and your smile will return."

--Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step

Interbeing Sangha

Virtual Meeting