Dear Common Ground Friends,

I am currently away co-leading a week long retreat for young adults. It is really inspiring to be here supporting 30 young people as they do the noble work of caring for the heart moment by moment, breath by breath. At the end of each night, all 33 of us have been taking a few moments to remember the heart’s natural capacity to care. Then, with gratitude, we send the heart’s goodness to ourselves, each other, and the world. Isn’t it heartening to remember that right now, people all over the world are expressing the heart’s goodness in big and small ways? It can be worth our while to remember and to trust the heart’s capacity for goodness, care, generosity, patience and so much more. Even when the heart is entangled, a simple connection with the tangle is a move towards goodness. Let’s remember that we can directly impact our well being by looking for goodness and trusting the heart’s natural goodness. We can trust this force of goodness all over the world. Right now there are beings expressing patience, gratitude, love, creativity, attunement and more. Perhaps when we go to bed tonight, we can remember the care 30 young people sent our way. Let’s receive it with gratitude and send it back out in every possible way.

Warm Wishes,

Shelly

Weekly Programs

To view our entire list of programs and to access Zoom links to participate in online programs, please visit the online calendar. 

Weekly Practice Groups

• Sunday mornings, 10:30-11:45am on Zoom with Mark Nunberg (with an option to watch the livestream together in person in the meditation hall)
  • Sunday, June 26th with Wynn Fricke
• Sunday evenings, 7:00-8:30pm in-person with Mark Nunberg
  • Sunday, June 26th with Shelly Graf
• Wednesday evenings, 7:30-9:00pm on Zoom with Shelly Graf
  • Wednesday, June 22nd with Merra Young

• First Wednesday of the month: Community Group led by Matthew King and other practice leaders
• Third Wednesday of the month: Monthly Practice Group with Mark Nunberg and guest teachers

The Practice of Generosity

Continuing in the tradition of Buddhist monasteries in Southeast Asia, all programs at Common Ground are offered free of charge in the spirit of generosity. This offering is possible because of the generosity of people like you—from the Buddha on down to all the people in our community—who contribute their practice, time, and financial resources to support the continuation of the center.

To learn how to support the center and our teachers, visit this page. Let us know if you have any questions.

Current Volunteer Needs 

• Website Design: We are hoping re-design the Common Ground website in the coming months. If you have tech or website design skills and are interested in helping to make this happen, please email    robin@commongroundmeditation.org
• Weekly Sunday Evening Cleaning: Every Sunday evening there is a drop-in Community Cleaning time from 6-7pm, led by community leaders Brad Dupre and Dave Redelman. No RSVP needed.

Community News

 Articles from Buddhist Justice Reporter

Weekly Tejaniya

No experience out there is better
than the present experience. An ex-
perience is an experience. An object
is an object. Here is the more impor-
tant question: is the mind observing
with wholesome or unwhole-
some mental qualities?

 Thanks to The Daily Tejaniya for this quote

Flowers blooming in the Common Ground rain garden