Love is sitting in stillness joining the breath Love is thanking our tree relatives for their gifts of oxygen and shade Love is sharing food with those who are hungry Love is vigiling for peace with …
Category: Teachings & Reflections
Community Love Letter to Minneapolis & America
Friends, Some of us have been working on a love letter to Minneapolis and America in these difficult times. In the words of Ayo Yetunde, “In the spirit of loving-kindness meditation, we ask the dharma practitioners we know to send the letter in that spirit — keep it …
Annual Community Letter from CG Board of Directors
I am Common Ground. This simple phrase came to me as I reflected on the question “what is Common Ground doing about… social and racial injustice, about climate change, about…?”. Community members posed this question to the leadership in 2015 when 9 …
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Tagged with: compassion
Joanna Macy Poem: Grace and The Great Turning
Grace and The Great Turning When you act on behalf Of something greater than yourself, you begin to feel it acting through you with a power greater than your own. This is grace. Today, as we take …
Current Weekly Practice Group Theme: Lovingkindness
Metta, or lovingkindness, is the current weekly practice group theme. You can find many resources on the subject here, if you’d like to do additional study: Practices of Lovingkindness
Tagged with: metta
The Icy Couch by Charlotte Joko Beck
Here is the link to the article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lIStVBxtzqOeNDnIJHbnwH3Jx82hL1e7ndJt0fwdypg/edit
Tagged with: dukkha
Resources on Relating Wisely with Thought for Weekly Practice Group study
Here are links to related articles: Taking Responsibility for Our Thoughts: Reflections on the Vitakkasanthana Sutta, by Mark W. Muesse, Insight Journal 2001 Meeting your thoughts at a resting place, By Jason Siff MN19, Dvedhavitakka Sutta: Two Sorts of Thinking, translated by …
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Tagged with: thought
Dana, Freely Giving and Freely Receiving by John Dienhart
Much thanks to John Dienhart for taking the time to write down his reflections on generosity (dana), titled: Dana, Freely Giving and Freely Receiving When I first came to Common Ground in the summer of 2015 I did not understand the concept …
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A Community Member’s Reflections on Dana (Generosity)
Written by community member Laura Molde: I’m confident most of you know that Dana is most commonly defined as generosity. I agree with that definition and think generosity has a very important part in the concept of Dana, but it …
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Samadhi: The arising of the five jhanic factors and the abandoning of the five hindrances
Samadhi: The arising of the five jhanic factors and the abandoning of the five hindrances The Buddha teaches that the mind is radiant and pure, but as we all know, this essential clarity and freedom of mind is often …
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