Gotama Meditation Community

Great article in the NY Times on mindful eating: Even scarfing down a burrito in the car offers an opportunity for insight. Mindful eating includes mindless eating, she said. ‘I am aware that I am eating and driving.’

For those who asked, Ven. Kusala Bhikshu's urban dharma podcast link is at the top of the home page (the "motorcycle monk" :).

Live webcast of a teaching by HH the Dalai Lama tonight at 7 p.m. (PST). The live webcasts can be viewed at http://dalailama.com/liveweb.

Great song by Joe Reilly on interbeing! Hello little tomato:)

"If you distinguish between pain and suffering, change is possible. As the saying goes, 'Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.'" Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

something to get us through this hump day! when was the last time you took your shoes off and walked through the grass barefoot? let's do it!

"M.R.I. brain scans taken before and after the participants’ meditation regimen found increased gray matter in the hippocampus, an area important for learning and memory. The images also showed a reduction of gray matter in the amygdala, a region connected to anxiety and stress."

As you all know, this past month the temple has been very busy with activities in the main hall. Fortunately, Thay Nhan has set up a dedicated meditation room for our sangha and practice! Thank you Thay for lighting the path for us.

Whether pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, gross or subtle, every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it. S. N. Goenka

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