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Tuesday Night Virtual Sangha: Unauthorized Edition

  • esteban9
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14 years 1 month ago #80617 by esteban9
Hello all,
I found your site by searching on "virtual sangha." I am a long-time practitioner of Insight (Vipassana) meditation (in Colorado; www.insightcolorado.org/ ). When I moved to Europe three years ago, I lost this sangha (or they lost me). I've been looking for virtual alternatives. Do you think this site would be a good fit for me? Do you have "virtual sits" followed by dharma talks? I'd like to learn more....thanks much.
  • mumuwu
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14 years 1 month ago #80618 by mumuwu
Esteban,

We don't do a heck of a lot of meetups formally, although many students converse with each other via skype. There is a regular meetup using Google plus every Tuesday where we sometimes do meditative techniques together while other times we just chat about whatever.

If you wish to start a practice journal on here and start threads when you have specific questions, I have no doubt you'll make much progress and find much benefit in the endeavor.

Best of luck, and hoping to hear more from you.
  • esteban9
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14 years 1 month ago #80619 by esteban9
"Esteban,

We don't do a heck of a lot of meetups formally, although many students converse with each other via skype. There is a regular meetup using Google plus every Tuesday where we sometimes do meditative techniques together while other times we just chat about whatever.

If you wish to start a practice journal on here and start threads when you have specific questions, I have no doubt you'll make much progress and find much benefit in the endeavor.

Best of luck, and hoping to hear more from you."

Thanks mumuwu,
Yes, my search brought me to this thread in general and the Tuesday meetups in particular. I'm particularly interested in the latter. I feel that having a silent "sit" before a dharma talk is important to understanding and assimilating the wisdom of the talk, so I was hoping for something like that. But perhaps a "virtual" sangha is not as conducive to such a thing.

In any event, I hope to be here for the Tuesday event to see what it's like. In the mean time, thanks for your warm welcome!
  • villum
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14 years 1 month ago #80620 by villum
Hello Esteban, and welcome.

The way our tuesday night meeting has worked so far has been very much peer-based. Our most regular "feature" so far has been a kind of mutual practice review, where we informally discuss what's happening in our practice, what we should be doing and what to watch out for.
It doesn't sound like this is exactly what you were looking for, but you are very very welcome to join us, and i hope we can help each other on the path.

Incidentally, i think the format you're talking about would work fine in a virtual environment. We just ended up doing something slightly different :)

  • esteban9
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14 years 1 month ago #80621 by esteban9
Thanks for your welcome and advice, villum. I will definitely attend the Tuesday event and look forward to sharing the dharma with you all!
  • villum
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14 years 1 month ago #80622 by villum
KFD Virtual Sangha! Where Sati comes to chat with Samadhi
Tonight at 8, Central European, on google+ hangout. address will be up 15 minutes before.

Hope to see you there :)
  • PEJN
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14 years 1 month ago #80623 by PEJN
Will be late but there.
  • villum
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14 years 1 month ago #80624 by villum
  • esteban9
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14 years 1 month ago #80625 by esteban9
Sorry about all my dropouts, guys. I'll look at the Kenneth Folk dharma site and consider all the advice/info you gave me in the meetup. Thanks much!
  • omnipleasant
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14 years 4 weeks ago #80626 by omnipleasant
Hey Esteban9,

Nice to meet you there last tuesday. A pity your video wasn't showing.
If you have about an hour to spare, I can recommend this MP3 to know what path most of us here are taking: alohadharma.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/wha...f-insight-explained/ .
  • villum
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14 years 3 weeks ago #80627 by villum

KFD Virtual Sangha, Unofficial Edition. Where Sati comes to chat with Samadhi. Tonight at 8, central european time.
Mutual practice review, interesting dharma discussions, meditation techniques and whatever else we bring to the table

See you there
  • nadavspi
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14 years 3 weeks ago #80628 by nadavspi
I might try to catch this today. I won't be able to speak so I'll just be creepily lurking and listening in.
  • jwhooper
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14 years 3 weeks ago #80629 by jwhooper
Does anyone want to meet later, like 8 PM Eastern (American) time? I can't access the hangout from work, unfortunately.
  • villum
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14 years 3 weeks ago #80630 by villum
  • omnipleasant
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14 years 3 weeks ago #80631 by omnipleasant
That hit the spot! :) Thanks guys!
  • omnipleasant
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14 years 3 weeks ago #80632 by omnipleasant
@jwhooper
I think something like 2PM EST (8PM CET) on a saturday or sunday could be a moment for European and American yogis to hang out together?
  • jwhooper
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14 years 3 weeks ago #80633 by jwhooper
If enough people want to do it Saturday, that might work.
  • nadavspi
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14 years 3 weeks ago #80634 by nadavspi
I'm in for Saturday at 2 PM EST.
  • villum
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14 years 3 weeks ago #80635 by villum

I can't this weekend, unfortunately. On another note, you might want to start a new thread for this, as i suspect some of the hard-working americans don't check this thread due to being permanently unable to attend. On the other hand, you'd risk being overrun with eager yogis ;)
  • omnipleasant
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14 years 3 weeks ago #80636 by omnipleasant
I'm in for Saturday at 2 PM EST (8 PM CET) as well.
@Villum Right! :)
  • omnipleasant
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14 years 3 weeks ago #80637 by omnipleasant
  • villum
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14 years 2 weeks ago #80638 by villum

Virtual Sangha Tonight, in 2 hours. As usual. Unfortunately, i am unable to attend myself, but Mumuwu has promised to play the host in my place.
  • villum
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14 years 1 week ago #80640 by villum
Oops. forgot to announce.
Tuesday night virtual sangha, et.c. we meet in half an hour
link will be up soon
  • villum
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14 years 1 week ago #80641 by villum
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