Get-togethers to resume in 2010
I appreciate all the emails I have received expressing your support during this break.
I have been using the time off to reflect (a little more than usual) on the usual stuff–life, death, and the curious in between states.
I have also given myself permission to continue my incessant exploration of spiritual practices and perspectives. I have been accused of dilettantism in spiritual matters; to those who have suspected as much I reply: guilty as charged!
Katina and I would like to start hosting the weekly meetings again. As the holidays are coming up, and with an eye to capitalize on the New Year’s resolution surges/ urges, we will be resume the get-togethers in 2010 on a bi-weekly schedule (note: every two weeks, not twice a week!).
The first meeting will be January 6, 2010. We will meet on the first and third Wednesdays of the week; same time, same place.
We are looking forward to a great 2010 with y’all.
Warmly,
Tom and Katina
Dear Aloha Sangha,
Can you help me with something? My Guru, Geshela Lobsang Sopa, in Vermont, asked me, in Cincinnati, to gather up the “old” sangha community that has dissipated completely since he left Cincy in 2004 at the gracious request of Ven. Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche (now about 27 years old) that Geshela come to Vermont to keep up the newly-built Trijang Buddhist Institute. I and one other old GSL Monastery attendees attend only occasionally; there has been a major turnover of people. In January, I will have been receiving the monks’ teachings for 10 years.
So I started to gather up the old folks to meet weekly on Wednesdays. I had a list of about 17 who no longer, for personal reasons, refused to drive 12 to 20 miles to the new space (I have no car), and also were grieving the loss of our Ven. Geshela. I prepared my living room each Wednesday for about 2 months. Zero to three people arrived. I had thought to meet once a month but have been ill for most of the summer. I’m just getting ready to try it again, and your bi-weekly suggestion seems to make more sense. Have any advice for me to fulfill my Guru’s request with some better measure of success?
peace, harmony
mickey morgan
Karma Press
Cincinnati, Ohio
Hi Tom,
I will miss you all but understand! I hope you are all well. See you next year!
Aloha, Rob