Pause for Peace: Tools for Building Calm, Contentment, and Community

In celebration of Vesak, please join Nalandabodhi Seattle for a special Pause for Peace on Monday, 12 May 2025!

Pause for Peace: Tools for Building Calm, Contentment, and Community

Fridays, 12-3p
starting in June, 2025

(Nalandabodhi will be celebrating the the Karma Kagyü’s ‘Vesak’ — Saka Dawa Düchen [aka Shakyamuni Day] — on Wednesday, 11 June 2025 according to  Tsurluk calendar. Stay tuned for more information…)

In these tumultuous times, the practice of sitting meditation, can help to establish a modicum of inner peace. With our own minds stabilized, we can start to cultivate contentment and begin to work to benefit other sentient beings.

Pause for Peace is a chance to cultivate inner and outer peace. Shamatha (calm abiding) meditation and the Open Heart Circle liturgy (including tonglen practice) are components of each session. Anyone who is touched by suffering in the world is welcome. There will be an opportunity within the practice to light candles and dedicate prayers, especially for the ill and the recently deceased.

Following the practice period, community is invited to gather in the Community Room for quiet conversation, tea, and co-working.

Schedule

12:00–1:00p Pause for Peace in the Mahabodhi Shrine Room (upstairs)
1:00–3:00p Co-Working in the Community Room (downstairs)

Questions?

Please contact Karen at seattle@nalandabodhi.org if you have questions about this practice.