Dear Common Ground Friends, Just a week ago I noticed signs of life sprouting in the rain garden at Common Ground’s city center and then just a couple of days ago, the subtle green popping through the earth had grown …
Weekly Email 4-19-23
Dear Common Ground Friends, We share an Earth Day Invitation from Common Ground Teacher Kaia Svien: Earth Day 2023 calls us to community to attend to the state of our beloved blue planet. Weather changes of so many kinds all …
Weekly Email 4-6-23
Dear Common Ground Friends, The Buddha taught, “Whoever is addicted to society and worldly bustle, they will not partake of the happiness of renunciation, dispassion, peace, awakening.” Our awareness practice is an invitation to wholeness. We practice recognizing the activities …
Weekly Email 3-31-23
Dear Common Ground Friends, This week we share words from community member Charlie Birge, who recently began a new Common Ground community group called Learning to Approach Social and Political Conflict with Skill and Kindness, co-facilitated with Gabe Keller Flores: …
Weekly Email 3-22-23
Dear Common Ground Friends, As students of the Buddha’s teachings, we learn to return over and over again to the direct immediate and intimate study of dukkha, the pervasive and inherent unsatisfactoriness of existence. This insight does not discount the …
Weekly Email 3-16-23
Dear Common Ground Friends, One of the things I love about sitting in the mornings at Common Ground, is closing my eyes before the sun comes out and opening them after the sun has emerged. I imagine the sun and …
Weekly Email 3-8-23
Dear Common Ground Friends, The Buddha taught that it is our not deeply understanding dukkha–the pervasive and sometimes subtle unsatisfactoriness that characterizes experience, that is the cause for the stress and mental pain we experience in life. Unfortunately, one of …
Weekly Email 3-2-23
Dear Common Ground Friends, 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. Common Ground has been committed to operating this way since the …
Weekly Email 2-27-23
Dear Common Ground Friends, Registration is now open for three upcoming programs at our retreat center: a daylong masculinity workshop, and two retreats with teachers Mark Nunberg, Ramesh Sairam, and Gabe Keller Flores. A lottery for in-person spots for the …
Weekly Email 2-21-23
Dear Common Ground Friends, Please Note: Those of us in the upper midwest are preparing for a significant winter storm to hit these next three days so it seems wise for us to close the City Center in Minneapolis from Wednesday …
