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 The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.  And yet, …

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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   Suttas are not meant to be ‘sacred scriptures’ that tell us what to believe.  One should read them, listen …

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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 Don’t ever think compassion is weak.  Compassion is about strength.                        …

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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 See. attachment for meditation opportunity. Every sensation shares the same characteristic:  it arises and passes away, arises and passes away.  It …

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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 sorry for being so late, got to talking … https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89184250759?pwd=IMobGv7PqjyuH4yamtx6IN4Nbbxb8M.1

… 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 “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.  But I think the real miracle is not to …

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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   “The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work  of meditation practice is to approach it as play …

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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 We live in a time when science is validating what humans  have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a …

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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 forest is peaceful, why aren’t you?  You hold on to things causing your confusion.  Let nature teach you. Hear the …

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