Tuesday Night Virtual Sangha: Unauthorized Edition

Since Kenneth seems to be busy, i thought, Why not have a virtual sangha anyway! It's been very inspiring so far. We can talk a bit about what we want to do here, if anyone have any ideas, or we can just discuss and share practice experience(s) as a group. Who's up for it?

I have made a hangout already, as google hangout adresses seem to be permanent, so we should be able to meet at this address:
Virtual Sangha meeting room (unauthorized edition): talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/9fd82ba46...9a5c88183035d5264c18
I have 150 invites if anyone needs one to get on G+.

Being danish, i propose we meet tuesday 8PM Central European time (that's 2PM US Eastern). But if some of you american types want to meet later, you're welcome to discuss that as well.

Edit: Kenneth, please chime in as well if you have any concerns or comments

I'm in.

That's so far, for tuesday 20PM CET
villum
PEJN

Anyone else

I might be a tad late, but should be able to join.

I'm going to see my brother tomorrow night but I should hopefully be home in time to join in!

So that's
villum,
PEJN
Nadav
Tommy
For 20PM Central European (hope you remembered to convert, tommy )

Mudita, mudita, mudita! Thanks for heading this up, Villum. One of my fondest hopes is to make myself obsolete. So anytime someone from this community steps up to a leadership or teaching role, I heave a great sigh of satisfaction and smile. Not able to attend this one 'cause of lots of stuff going on in the wake of the BGeeks conference and the San Francisco trip, so have a great meeting, everyone!

Just getting ready. Here are two extra hangouts we can use in case we want to do pairs noting:

Noting room 1: talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/fc9f6e51c...65f5c06388862ab35a10

Noting room 2: talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/eb135e515...ebcc8e50fdfffabfeba6

Argh, my plan failed! Hangouts aren't persistent you can find me from the hangout i posted to.
New hangout: talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/eb135e515...bcc8e50fdfffabfeba6#

Well, it ended up being just me and PEJN today, plus Kenneth dropped by to say hi (thanks for the visit). We had a very nice session anyways - we talked about our current practice first, then we had a very interesting discussion about how professional identity involves suffering, and talked about how one might go about disembedding from that kind of self specifically. Then we discussed various ways of practicing mahamudra and getting a clearer impression of the natural mind, followed by some mahamudra noting.

We planned to do this again next week, and i hope more people will join us. Is 8 PM (central european summer time) good, or should we perhaps move it an hour?

This was a Virtual Sangha hangout with low quantity, but high quality

Next week, if all goes well, the unauthorized edition (european) Sangha meet returns. I hope we can gather a few more people this time. Even though we were just two people last time, we had a deep and mostly qualified discussion.
Preliminary time is 8PM Central European Summer Time (That's 2PM New York.'). Meeting is planned for 1 hour, but you're welcome to hang out afterwards if you like.

Please say if you would like to come, but can't at the particular time. We could move it if that fits a lot of people better

We're still up tomorrow if anyone has the time. I'll open the hangout half an hour before we start and post the adress here (that means we start 19:30 CET // 13:30 New York
Please do post if you think you're coming, or if you might be able to.

Metta

I'll be there.

Right

That's:
Villum
PEJN

That means it's a go. Will post the google hangouts address here half an hour before starting, and you're all welcome to join

Hey Gang I'd love to hang. I'll check in at 13:30. See you then.

And then we were three
villum
KeithStrand
PEJN

We're set. Sangha meeting starts officially in 25 minutes or so, at 20:00 CET.
We meet in this google hangout: talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/9e09770f0...759b535137db02e99882
It should be open now.

Thanks everyone for a wonderful meet. 5 people this time! A lot of interesting discussion and tips Hope to see you next week.

Anyone who would like to come: is the approximate time good for you, or would someone like an adjustment?

Good vibrations!
An 1 hour was not enough, it lasted for 1,5 hours.
Hang in next week everybody!

hey thanks for the session guys see u next week. Same path different shoes.

Nice! I think the 8pm CET is good, although I have a weekly Skype session already planned on tuesdays, so I'll usually drop in halfway. Great to see you guys there!

And we return next week. Aug 23, 20:00 CET (ie. 8 pm. ie. 2PM New York). I will post the google+ hangout address in this thread about half an hour before we start. Anyone who needs invites to Google+ is welcome to contact me via PM.
You're very welcome to post here and say if you're coming, so we have a rough idea of how many people we are. But do drop by, even if you forgot to do so.

Nice! I'll probably get there around 8:40-ish.

Here's the hangout for today. I'll be here from now till we get tired of chatting. Official Virtual Sangha Time is 20-21, as usual.
talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/7ee434bb2...d175d0be2fc09172b5df