Tuesday Night Virtual Sangha: Unauthorized Edition

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.

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.

"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!

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

Thanks for your welcome and advice, villum. I will definitely attend the Tuesday event and look forward to sharing the dharma with you all!

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

Will be late but there.

Here's the link:
plus.google.com/hangouts/89866588cf2651a...c69d6d34a455d14a5419
See you soon

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!

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/ .

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

I might try to catch this today. I won't be able to speak so I'll just be creepily lurking and listening in.

Does anyone want to meet later, like 8 PM Eastern (American) time? I can't access the hangout from work, unfortunately.

and the hangouts address:
talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/3df3b3f6c...477e2c5d248a9fb0f24a

That hit the spot! Thanks guys!

@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?

If enough people want to do it Saturday, that might work.

I'm in for Saturday at 2 PM EST.

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

I'm in for Saturday at 2 PM EST (8 PM CET) as well.
@Villum Right!

Thread for the saturday meeting:
kennethfolkdharma.wetpaint.com/thread/48...s+Saturday%2C+Dec+10

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.

talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/3bfef295b...&authuser=0#everyone

Oops. forgot to announce.
Tuesday night virtual sangha, et.c. we meet in half an hour
link will be up soon

Right
Here's the link: talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/4c5dd96bb...f04935f2d1f3a61a657c