Please Join Us Wednesday
June 3rd, at 7 PM on
Zoom for Meditation and a
Talk from Guest Speaker
Steve Wilhelm
Here is the link to this online gathering
The Sangha is pleased to welcome Steve Wilhelm for meditation, a dharma talk and a Live interactive group discussion.
Steve will explore 3 traditional mantras – words or syllables with spiritual power. These mantras can help us in our meditation and in our daily lives. While mantras aren’t usually emphasized among mindfulness practitioners in the West, they are strongly used in Asia. The Buddho mantra, for instance, was central to the practice of Ajahn Boowa, the Thai forest master who was a contemporary of Ajahn Chah.
Steve Wilhelm has been meditating since 1968, and engaged in Buddhist practice since 1987. He has studied and practiced in the Tibetan and Vipassana traditions, including extended retreats in both, although his practice is now primarily Vipassana. Steve has facilitated Eastside Insight Meditation since 2000, and serves on the boards of the Tibetan Nuns Project and Friends of Clear Mountain Monastery. He retired in mid-2016 from a 34-year career as a journalist, currently edits Northwest Dharma News and recently completed editing a sixth dharma book. In 2017 Steve graduated from the fifth Community Dharma Leaders program, offered through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He lives just east of Woodinville, Washington, near Cottage Lake, with his wife Ellen and the bemused dog Annie, and cat Aerazele.
