We will be starting the Basics of Insight Meditation Series in our Tuesday Evening Meditation classes, starting in February. The series covers a number of topics vital to the practice of insight meditation. It is suitable both for beginning students and for seasoned practitioners. Please see below for details. We also continue our Sunday Morning Meditation Group. The Sunday Morning group combines the blessings of mindful movement, sitting meditation with instructions, a dharma discussion, and the offering of metta, integrating the body, the mind, and the heart.
SUNDAY MORNING MEDITATION
Meets every Sunday, 10:30-11:30 am at the Show Me Dharma Center
No registration required – open to all
The Sunday Service is designed to help us bring together three blessings of our spiritual practice–the blessing of body, the blessing of heart and mind in balance, and the blessing of sharing the results of our mindful actions for the benefit and welfare of all beings. We will begin our morning of practice together with a short period of mindful movement (for example, gentle stretching or walking meditation), followed by a 30-minute period of sitting practice with instruction designed to bring balance to heart and mind. We will end the sitting with the sharing of metta (lovingkindness) followed by a short talk designed to bring our practices into the ordinary efforts of our work, our lives with our friends and families—the lives we live. Come start your week with us!
2/5 Beth Shoyer
2/12 Tonda March
2/19 Althea Harris
2/26 Terry Furstenau
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TUESDAY NIGHT BASICS OF INSIGHT MEDITATION GROUP
In February, we will be beginning the Basics of Insight Meditation Series
Meets every Tuesday, 7:30 to 8:30 pm at Show Me Dharma Center
No registration required – open to all
• If you’re new to meditation, you’re welcome to come soon after the doors open at 7:15 to receive a brief orientation.
A short Dharma talk, meditation instruction, & a 30-minute meditation period, with an optional discussion period following the tea break. Led by the Show Me Dharma Teachers Council.
We begin our Basics of Insight Meditation series. This series provides instruction and direct experience in many of the foundational aspects of insight meditation, including concentration and insight practice, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, mindfulness in daily life, the three characteristics of existence, and the Brahmaviharas.
2/7 Joe McCormack on “What is Insight Meditation and How to Start”
2/14 Bob Hodge on “Concentration & Insight”
2/21 Terry Furstenau on “Mindfulness of the Body”
2/28 Tonda March on “Mindfulness of Feeling Tone”