Author Archives: Dave Shanahan

… if this is your first visit, please come early. Virtual hall opens at 5:30. If you would like to be removed from this email list, reply with REMOVE as the subject line. dave Tonights practice in person at UUBN and online at the link below. Dhamma is in your mind, not in the forest.  …

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… if this is your first visit, please come early. Virtual hall opens at 9 am. If you would like to be removed from this email list, reply with REMOVE as the subject line. dave Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance,  my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness.  Compassion and tolerance are not …

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… if this is your first visit, please come early. Virtual hall opens at 9am. If you would like to be removed from this email list, reply with REMOVE as the subject line. dave Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.  We can love and care for others but we cannot possess  our …

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… if this is your first visit, please come early. Virtual hall opens at 5:30,  If you would like to be removed from this email list, reply with REMOVE as the subject line. dave Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn’t mean getting rid of anything.  It means we can still be crazy after all these years.  …

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.. if this is your first visit, please come early. Virtual hall opens at 9am. If you would like to be removed from this email list, reply with REMOVE as the subject line. dave There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.  One is called Yesterday and the other is …

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… if this is your first visit, please come early. Virtual hall opens at 5:30. If you would like to be removed from this email list, reply with REMOVE as the subject line. dave The church is closed for cleanup after some of the storm got in,  so tonight’s practice will be online only.  Meditation …

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… if this is your first visit, please come early. Virtual hall opens at 9 am. If you would like to be removed from this email list, reply with REMOVE as the subject line. dave   If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, …

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… if this is your first visit, please come early. Virtual hall opens at 9am. If you would like to be removed from this email list, reply with REMOVE as the subject line. dave If you want to see things just as they are,  then you yourself must practice just as you are.Dogen Topic: Tuesday …

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… if this is your first visit, please come early. Virtual hall opens at 5:30,  If you would like to be removed from this email list, reply with REMOVE as the subject line. dave I look out and snow is falling with a moon still in the sky. A new day begins, And of the …

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.. if this is your first visit, please come early. Virtual hall opens at 9am. If you would like to be removed from this email list, reply with REMOVE as the subject line. dave Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you  as by the attitude you bring to life;  …

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