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GBF retreat with Rene Rivera, July 30th 10 am to 3 pm

 

Cultivating The Heart of Peace

 Please join us July 30th at GBF’s Bartlett Street Sangha, 10am to 3 pm. for a half day retreat with Rene Rivera.

The theme is Cultivating The Heart of Peace Mediation.

A mediation, dharma talk and group interaction will all be part of the day. We will provide drinks but please bring your own lunch.

As usual we will be hosting you in person or on Zoom.

More information will follow but save the date.

René Rivera (he, him) is a leader and bridge-builder, working and learning in all the spaces in between race, gender, and other perceived binaries as a queer, mixed-race, trans man. He teaches heart-centered, trauma-informed meditation and mindfulness practices at East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) and elsewhere. His path to spiritual leadership has included the Commit to Dharma and Practice in Action programs at EBMC and the Community Dharma Leaders program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. His experience as an organizational leader guides his practice as a coach and mentor, supporting you to find your strengths, inner guidance, and self-accountability. René is committed to ending suffering due to violence, whether reducing our violence to ourselves through daily practice, transforming conflict and tensions as a facilitator, or working to dismantle racial capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and other systems of dominance. He works with the Ahimsa Collective as a restorative justice facilitator.

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Enjoy 700+ free recorded dharma talks at www.gaybuddhist.org

SFLGBT Sangha is celebrating our 20th anniversary with a daylong hybrid event at the SF Buddhist Center!

On the agenda: Sitting and walking meditation, lunch, dharma talks and visits from former teachers. Lunch will be provided. Evidence of vaccinations will be required for in-person attendees. 

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Steven Tierney and Syra Smith will be the core teachers. We will also have virtual appearances from Larry Yang and Arinna 

Weisman.

Please register @

https://www.sflgbtsangha.org

 
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

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Enjoy 700+ free recorded dharma talks at www.gaybuddhist.org

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Maintaining Arisen Healthy States

 

RIGHT EFFORT
Maintaining Arisen Healthy States

Whatever a person frequently thinks about and ponders, that will  become the inclination of their mind. If one frequently thinks about and ponders healthy states, one has abandoned unhealthy states to cultivate healthy states, and then one’s mind inclines to healthy states. (MN 19) Here a person rouses the will, makes an effort, stirs up energy, exerts the mind, and strives to maintain arisen healthy mental states. One maintains the arisen mindfulness awakening factor. (MN 141)

Reflection

One form that effort takes in Buddhist practice is the rousing of latent tendencies and dormant traits, encouraging them to rise into conscious awareness as active mental and emotional states. The more frequently you do this, the more likely these states are to become the natural inclination of your mind. And once aroused, healthy states such as mindfulness need to be reinforced and maintained by deliberate choice.

Daily Practice

Throughout the day, remind yourself often to be mindful, to be consciously aware of what you are doing or feeling or thinking. And once you establish the presence of mindfulness, make a further effort to sustain it over time. Mindfulness, once established, needs to be reestablished moment after moment. Each moment is a new beginning and a new opportunity to bring clear awareness to all you experience.

Tomorrow: Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects and the Fourth Jhāna
One week from today: Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States

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Via Daily Dharma: Staying Balanced

 Equanimity acts like the ballast of a ship. Although the ship is blown one way or the other by the winds of life, it neither sinks nor goes too far off-course.

Christopher Willard, “How Parents and Children Can Learn Balance and Equanimity from the Eight Worldly Winds”

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