Open Meditation on Thursday Evenings - Nalandabodhi Seattle

Open Meditation on Thursday Evenings

We can make friends with our minds and become present to our lives through working with our breath.

In meditation we begin to discover how our minds work. Becoming familiar with our minds and our habitual patterns, we canĀ  begin to free ourselves from painful struggles and confusion.

TheĀ  process of meditation enables us to find fundamental openness, ease, and compassion, aspects of our minds that are sometimes buried beneath layers of thinking. We begin to be able to embrace all aspects of experience in daily life.

Join us on Thursday evenings for Open Meditation. Spending time on the cushion after work to get to know our minds is definitely time well spent!

Schedule

6:00p meditation instruction & meditation guidance
6:10p opening chants
6:15p meditation
7:00p closing chants

Registration is free. Donations are welcome.

Please Register in Advance

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