GREETINGS
Welcome to the Meditation Circle site. This longtime Buddhist-oriented meditation group based at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 520 Kanawha Boulevard W., in Charleston, West Virginia, will be closing down its meetings for good effective with the end of June 2022, after a good run. See the ‘RESOURCES’ page for tips on setting up or deepening meditation practice. Be well!
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Healing our wounds
“The dharma can heal our wounds, our very ancient wounds that come not from original sin but from a misunderstanding so old that we can no longer see it. The instruction is to relate compassionately with where we find ourselves … Continue reading
We are in this together
Here is an inspiring article recently posted on the website of the Alliance for Bhikkunis, an organization committed to supporting ordained Theravada Buddhist women (bhikkhunis). It features an interview with Venerable Bhikkhuni Thanasanti on the role of Buddhist organizations in … Continue reading
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What to cease
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Holiday Schedule
The Meditation Circle will not meet this Tuesday, December 23, nor the following week, December 30. The normal Tuesday evening meditation will resume January 6, 2015.
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The Actual Experience of Mindfulness
When we hear phrases commonly used to describe mindfulness like “just be with what is”, “accept the present moment”, “don’t get lost in judgement”, it (mindfulness) can sound pretty inert. But the actual … Continue reading
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Cultivating Equanimity
Classical mindfulness, unlike popular mindfulness, is all about the cultivation of equanimity. One is able to experience both pleasure and pain without clinging to anything in the world. – Andrew Olendzki, “The Mindfulness Wedge”
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The Power of Custom
Pindapata The lay people offer food directly into the bowls of the monks and nuns. That the Buddhist religion has survived so long in the world is a result not so much of the durability of manuscripts as of the … Continue reading
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Meditation: What and Why?
“Meditation is training for the mind, to help it develop the strengths and skills it needs to solve its problems. The mediation technique taught in this book …(mindfulness of breathing, leading to insight)….is a skill aimed at solving the … Continue reading
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Time and Now
Time and Now (interesting article on consciousness, please open the link.) All Actions are led by the Mind Mind is their master, Mind is their maker, Act or speak with an impure state of mind and suffering follows as the … Continue reading
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What is Perception?
For the Buddha, perception is pure and simple. When the eyes see a visual object they do so without embellishment. As the Buddha explained to his monks on the Connected Discourses: And why Bhikkhus, do you call it perception? It … Continue reading
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LIke A Mirage
Distorted perceptions are like a mirage. Deceived by a mirage, a deer runs quickly toward what it perceives as water. As he runs, he sees that the water-like mirage is still … Continue reading
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The Everyday Sublime
The experience of the sublime exceeds our capacity for representation. The world is excessive: every blade of grass, every ray of sun, every falling leaf is excessive. None of these things can be adequately captured in concepts, images, or words. … Continue reading
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New Book by Bhante G
A new book, Meditation On Perception by Bhante Gunaratana, the abbot of the Bhavana Society in Highview, WV has recently been published by Wisdom Publications. The method of mindfulness or insight meditation as taught by Bhante G in his book … Continue reading
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Moral Health
That morality is a natural feature of the natural world is an insight we all have to learn if we hope to be deeply well. The more the sense of an autonomous self is injected into any situation, the more … Continue reading
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Your Interwoven Self
For a few moments just feel the body’s warmth and strength, its ability to hold itself upright. The vitality and aliveness that you experience in your body require various chemical and mineral substances, a continuous supply of oxygen, the energy … Continue reading
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