A Meditating Community

We never know what will arise during our Saturday conversations in the Online Gatherings. We begin with one of five possible ‘launch pad’ topics and go from there. Sometimes we stay ‘on topic’. Sometimes we wander into distant landscapes of...

The Meditator’s/Artist’s Way

A little something different today. Though we typically do not record any part of our Saturday Gatherings, today I recorded the opening ten or so minutes. This is the announcements segment of our time together. It’s where I – among other things –...

How Do We Do It?

How do we do it? How do we connect with the much-discussed relational aspect of embodiment in both our practice and lives? How do we find those roots, those connections, that web of affection that links us with others? How does the subtle energy of the sambkogakaya...

The Support Of Sangha

A few of us spoke to a sense of being called when the Online Gatherings came together this weekend. In different ways and in differing circumstances, we talked about feeling an inner force pulling us in very clear and particular directions. Which often happens when we...

We Are All Cats

When we meditate together in the Online Gatherings, people are encouraged to arrange themselves however feels appropriate in that moment. Some of us lay down. Some of us sit up. Some of us move from one position to the other within a session.When people lay down, they...