Just Listen
In this gentle poem, sangha member Beth Patterson offers a contemplation we can do any time, anywhere. Listen. Slow down. Relax.
August 15, 2025
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In this gentle poem, sangha member Beth Patterson offers a contemplation we can do any time, anywhere. Listen. Slow down. Relax.
Sangha member Ben Mikolaj challenges us to look closely at our path: “The dharma has never been about pleasing people. It’s about waking up. And waking up can mean walking away.”
Joyce Lam 17 May 1950–19 July 2025 Dear Nalandabodhi Vancouver Members and Friends, It is with a heavy heart that
Sangha member Patti Fraser sees the magic and draws a powerful lesson from a chance encounter: “Seize the moment in its fullness before it, too, disappears.”
“When I can relax and let go, when I can cease clinging to myself as being independent and separate from the environment, I see that everything is alive with interconnection,” writes Nick Vail. “There is no ‘me,’ and there is no ‘out there.’ There is only vibrant, spacious interdependence.”
“When something disturbs me bodily, mentally, or emotionally, my first movement, a deep-rooted habit, is to look outward,” Adela Iglesias writes. “I too often forget that the main source of my suffering (and of my liberation) is within me, in my own mind.”
