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Mindfulness in Community Practice
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Practice-Month_The_Three_Jewels,_Buddha_Dharma_Sangha
The talk discusses integrating mindfulness into daily life through a community approach, emphasizing that mindfulness practice extends beyond traditional settings, encompassing family and communal interactions. It highlights challenges faced in maintaining a consistent group practice, particularly in family-oriented environments, and the essential need for Western practice centers that cater to diverse practitioners, beyond the conventional monastic structure. The speaker advocates for innovative approaches to embed mindfulness in everyday life and acknowledges attempts to overcome historical challenges in doing so.
- The Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha: These central elements in Buddhism are implicitly referenced by discussing the communal aspect of practice (Sangha) and how integrating mindfulness (Dharma) into daily life situations challenges individuals to embody Buddhist principles (Buddha).
- Second Foundation of Mindfulness: The talk links personal challenges of maintaining mindfulness in everyday tasks, such as family meals, as an application of this foundational Buddhist practice, which focuses on awareness of feelings.
- Western Practice Centers (e.g., Crestone, Johannes Hub): These are mentioned as pivotal for developing deep lay practices that integrate mindfulness into Western cultural contexts, reflecting the need for adaptable practice environments.
AI Suggested Title: Mindfulness in Community Practice
You have to feed them, and they don't want to eat, and they go to the pond, and they are just so tired. They cannot just bring themselves together, and you somehow have to cope with that. And you are outside with them, and you have to feed them, and you have to feed them, and you have to feed them. So this is really the measure of my practice. It's not eating oreochi. It's trying to just be with them in the difficult situation of having lunch together. So this really is a challenge for the second foundation of mindfulness.
[01:11]
And it's great to be in both worlds. I mean, it's the calmness of the Arauki and being able to feel the group and doing it together in this rhythm. And then when it might help being outside and just freaking out because it doesn't work somehow. Well it's been my dream to have a way to practice together.
[02:20]
Old and young and men and women. And not just young male monks. And children. And thank you for fulfilling my dream. Because we're doing it here. There are profound difficulties and difficulties continuing a group, a residential practice, when it's involved with families. There are profound difficulties. Because I also feel that our western practice, a depth lay practice, needs practice centers like Crestone and the Johannes Hub.
[03:25]
As integrated with one's practice in daily life. And no one knows how to make this work. I won't go into what I think are the real problems. And why it's never been done before, at least not in Buddhism. I want to try. I want us to try. And I think we're doing it. Even cats are allowed. Charlie doesn't care whether he's allowed or not. So, thank you very much for this practice week and this practice month.
[04:27]
And those of you who are in the next week, I'll be here next week. Thank you very much. Thank you for translating. You're welcome. Thank you for translating for your wife, yeah. Thank you for translating. And it does seem to me good the way the parents have organized themselves to take care of the kids. I'm sorry, Sophia is too young to be turned over to you.
[05:27]
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