Triangle Insight Meditation Community
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July 2022 Newsletter
triangleinsight.org
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“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”
~ bell hooks
(1952 - 2021)
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Our home is the
Episcopal Center at Duke
505 Alexander Ave. | Durham, NC 27705
(when safe to gather in person)
Morning meditation: Monday and Thursday
Wednesday meditation with Dharma Talk, or as Insight Dialogue (below)
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Wednesday Evenings
6:30 - 8:00 pm (Insight Dialogue: 6:30 - 8 pm)
July 06 – Ron Vereen
July 13 – Scott Bryce
July 20 – Sarah Bryce
July 27 – Daya Breckinridge (Insight Dialogue)
Aug 03 - Ron Vereen
Aug 10 - Scott Bryce
Aug 17 - Cornelia Kip Lee
Aug 24 - Phyllis Hicks (Insight Dialogue)
Aug 31 - Sharon Shelton
Monday and Thursday Morning Meditation
7:00 - 7:45 AM (click here for more info)
Zoom locations to be emailed.
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Negotiating Terrain
Vikos Gorge, N. Greece
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If you would like to know more about our meditation schedule or would like to sign up to receive a Zoom invite for Morning Meditation or Wednesday Evenings, visit the Schedule page on our website OR email us at info@triangleinsight.org, and tell us the Zoom list(s) you would like to join,
To receive this monthly newsletter, please complete the newsletter subscription on our Newsletters webpage, or send your request to the info email above.
If you would like to change any part of your subscription, please email us and we will make this change for you.
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The Practice of Insight Dialogue at Triangle Insight
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Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice and is offered at Triangle Insight once monthly, usually on the fourth Wednesday of the month. It brings the mindfulness and tranquility of silent meditation directly into our experience with other people.
An excellent resource for learning more about the practice is the new website for Insight Dialogue: www.insightdialogue.org.
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Path Challenges
Blackfaced Sheep, Scotland
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The evening begins with silent meditation practice, followed by gentle mindful movement, and then shifting into dyad practice where interpersonal mindfulness is explored with a partner in response to a contemplation that is offered. The dyad practice is optional so that anyone who chooses to remain in silent practice may do so, rather than shifting into dyad practice. One can investigate the guidance of the contemplation internally, noticing the moment by moment unfolding of internal experience. Note that the ID practice goes from 6:30 to 8:00 pm while meeting on Zoom. When it is possible to resume in-person meetings the time will return to 8:30 pm, to allow for more spaciousness and time for questions. We hope you will be able to join us.
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Links to Wednesday Dharma Talks
Our Triangle Insight Meditation teachers support your continued exploration of the Dharma by offering the recordings of their talks for your review . Since the talks are now available, notes and references will no longer be requested of the teachers as these are often noted in the talks.
Please click on any specific date below and you will be directed to the recording of the talk for that date.
June 2022:
To find teacher notes for previous Dharma talks, go here, on the TIMC website.
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RETREATS and SPECIAL EVENTS
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Heart of Wisdom: Abiding Together
– An Insight Dialogue Retreat –
With Phyllis Hicks and Anna Brown Griswold
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Insight Dialogue brings together meditative awareness, the wisdom teachings of the Buddha, and the power of relationship to support insight into the nature, source, and release of human suffering.
We will practice the six meditation guidelines forming the core of Insight Dialogue: Pause, Relax, Open, Attune to Emergence, Listen Deeply, and Speak the Truth. The essence of the practice is to become aware of how the heart and mind function, how habits hold us captive, and what remains when those habits dissolve.
Meditating alone and, also in pairs and small groups engaged in dialogue processes, we will contemplate the interconnected nature of all experience and invite the wisdom of the heart.
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SUMMER 2022 – KORU TRAINING-CERTIFICATION WORKSHOPS
July 18-22 online
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TO REGISTER for the next Online Workshop: Click on the Pic!
See webpage for Start Time in your area, and a link to the application form
(note: the picture below has old dates but will take you where you need to go)
Application Deadline for JULY WORKSHOP: July 3!
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Please visit our website for information on these resources
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Welcome Committee
Sangha means spiritual community, and it is treasured because without it awakening cannot be sustained. –Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
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The Welcoming Committee wishes to foster the experience of belonging to a diverse, tolerant community connected through mindfulness practice, where all feel welcome and safe. We seek to link all participants and newcomers to ongoing activities and to ensure the Zoom connection is available. You are welcome to Visit our Webpage!
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Having admirable people as friends, companions, and colleagues is actually
the whole of the holy life. - The Buddha
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In Shifting from Blame to Love Tara Brach says, “It’s natural that in the face of hurt, injustice, deception, and violation we will feel a range of emotions, like fear, hatred and anger…. It is important that we pause, be with ourselves and with each other, and open fully to the feelings that arise.”
She goes on to say, “When we honor and listen to those feelings we can get beneath them down to our human vulnerability and the care that is really our essence. It then becomes possible to respond to our world aligned with our hearts.”
Our Kalyana Mitta groups offer a special opportunity for this practice. Rather than suppress, fuel, or shame our feelings, we can share them with trusted spiritual friends who hold them with tenderness and understanding, allowing us to move from separation to connection, from aversion to compassion. This is the gift of the third jewel of sangha, a jewel that illuminates this path we travel together.
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KM Groups
We currently have openings in our Insight Dialogue and Raleigh groups. Our Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Sutta Study groups each have a waiting list. Our Secular Dharma group is reorganizing and isn’t yet open to new members; we’ll share updates as their plans develop. Details about each of our groups are on our "List of KM Groups" web page.
Information about our KM program and links to helpful resources are on our KM web page. If you’d like more information, or you want to join a group, be on a waiting list, or start a new group, please contact Sarah Tillis, KM Coordinator at sarah@triangleinsight.org.
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The KM Coordinating Team of Sarah Tillis and Tamara Share expresses deep gratitude for the dedication of our sangha.
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May our Kalyana Mitta groups be of great benefit to all.
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A message from Triangle Insight Racial Affinity Group Coordinator, Kathy Shipp
We have an opportunity to grow when we share with our TI spiritual friends about how race and “othering” affects us on every level: personal, organizational, and societal. We have Racial Affinity Groups in which you can discuss how racial conditioning affects your life. There are training sessions to attend, such as the Organizing Against Racism two-day on-line workshop.
I will be attending this workshop in August and would love for other TI participants to join me. Did you know that TI has a special scholarship fund for you to use to attend workshops or courses such as this?
Please contact me at kathy@triangleinsight.org if you are interested in exploring or joining a RAG, if you are interested in racial justice training, or simply would like to talk about your sadness and/or rage, now that Buffalo 2022 and Uvalde 2022 have been added to the long list of racially-motivated shootings: at Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston 2015, the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh 2018, the Walmart in El Paso in 2019, and the spa workers in Atlanta 2021. And, as ever, may our efforts benefit all beings.
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RAGs Coordinator
Kathy Shipp, a long-time participant of the Triangle Insight community, is the coordinator of TIMC's Racial Affinity Groups. She is available to answer questions about RAGs formation and RAGs experience, and she is a resource of information about racial equity training and practice. Kathy maintains an up-to-date list of active RAGs, and connects people who are interested in forming a new group.
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Community Connections Committee
A TIMC Initiative connecting and strengthening the bonds of our shared practice.
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As an expression of our heart practice and generosity, the Community Connections Committee will recommend one Wednesday evening per season be designated as a dana night for a specific local nonprofit organization, in lieu of dana to TIMC on that evening.
Please watch this space for the Summer dana suggestion.
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When we resume meeting together at the Episcopal Center, dana baskets will be left out on those evenings, so members have the option of where they want to donate.
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Financial Support Is Available For Training Programs and Workshops
in Racial Justice and Diversity
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Our goal:
To help individuals and our community deepen the understanding of how unexamined views of race can limit the mind and human systems.
A Scholarship Fund for this purpose exists through donations from the TIMC General Fund and the generosity of several Triangle Insight participants.
If Triangle Insight sangha participants would like to receive scholarship support for training with OARNC, White Awake, or other programs addressing racial injustice, please email us at: board@triangleinsight.org.
We invite the community to join this initiative by contributing directly to this scholarship fund.
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For your convenience, you may use the dedicated PayPal portal here:
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TIMC BOARD | NEWS AND REPORTS
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A hybrid system for holding meetings at the Episcopal Center and on Zoom will likely become a reality later in July or August, pending an installation schedule. Find additional details in the June Board Meeting summary below.
The Board has voted to hire a Durham graphic design company and graphic artist to redesign the TIMC website. The website redesign project will begin in July and will probably take several weeks to design, build, review and launch. For more details, see the June Board Meeting summary below.
Earlier this year, the Board decided to participate in a dissertation research project with Perry Sweitzer, a graduate student in religion at Duke University. Sweitzer's research will study Asian religious communities in North Carolina through interviews and observation over a period of months, starting this summer. We look forward to clarifying with Mr. Sweitzer his research process and interviewing method in the next weeks, and anticipate that his project will begin in August. Look for a special email announcement soon, giving more information about this research and how you may join in, or opt-out.
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Board Meetings:
Cornelia "Kip", Cynthia, Leah, Marian, Martin, and Ron convened an Open Meeting of the Board of Directors on June 11, 2022, on Zoom. No Sangha participants were present. Here's a summary of the meeting:
The board convened at 12:00 p.m. and began with a 10 minute meditation and recitation of the Communication Guidelines.
Approval of Minutes for TIMC Board meeting on May 21, 2022.
Hybrid Technology Report:
- To recap from last month, the trial hybrid session we attempted with the Owl Pro system revealed numerous shortcomings in audio as well as visual production. This prompted the Board to contact Custom Light and Sound (CLS) to customize a system for the Episcopal Center's Great Room.
- The new system requires one or more freestanding cameras and two or three types of microphones, screens, and a projector will be coordinated with the Zoom platform through a mixing board. The system requires some bluetooth and cabled connections, as well as a set-up and take-down process for which a small team will need to be trained (easy level).
- Should the Board agree to purchase this system. CLS will install it and provide training on a scheduled date in July or August. There will be a need for some assistance from interested Sangha members, but we expect the install process to require fewer volunteers than helped us test the Owl Pro. Look for an email announcement to update this next phase.
Website Redesign Report, Editorial Committee
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Website Content review: New Board member Cornelia "Kip" Lee joined the Editorial Committee to work with Marian Place and Leah Rutchick in reviewing the goals and organization of the TIMC website. This committee will inventory the website's contents and begin to assess which activities and categories of information in use now might be added, deleted or archived for a future redesigned website. Their work will be reported at the July Board meeting.
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Redesign and Build project. The Board decided to hire Claudia Fulshaw (Independent Graphic Designer, Durham, NC) and Carol Thomson (Founder, Firestream Media, NC) for the website redesign. Contracts requested.
The Board adjourned at 2:00 p.m.
Join us for the next open board meeting, on Zoom: Saturday, July 09, 12 p.m.–2 p.m. You can join us at any time during the meeting. A Zoom invite will be sent to newsletter members in the week prior. If you have a presentation you would like to give to the board, please contact us at board@triangleinsight.org and we'll make every effort to include that in the agenda.
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Newsletter Submission Pointers
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At least two weeks prior to the month in which you wish your announcement to appear, submit new items to info@triangleinsight.org.
- Include in your request a short statement of your relationship to TIMC.
- New requests submitted in the last week of any month may not be accepted if time is a factor in preparing a final copy.
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Changes to existing entries may be incorporated if submitted early in the last week of any month.
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All authors are encouraged to update their newsletter entries and to resubmit, clearly indicating all changes in text and lay-out to minimize error and design time.
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Keep the text crisp and short, but include important details and attachments. Instead of longer texts, refer the reader to websites for additional information.
- Indicate how many months you want your entry to be published, and
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Stay in touch with updates if any specific details change. You are responsible for calling in any changes in time, special dates and/or end dates for ongoing classes, groups or other continuing entries.
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Special circumstances may require adjustment of the deadlines indicated here; early submission is a best practice and helps the newsletter editors determine where, how and if the item submitted shall be published (please see #1 in the Guidelines).
Please contact us through info@triangleinsight.org, and include "Newsletter" on the subject line. We will help you get your item published. Thank you for helping us!
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The Triangle Insight Board is looking for interested sangha participants to help us build a Communications Network for our whole practice community
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Newsletter Editorial Committee
To all interested sangha participants, we are forming a Newsletter Editorial Committee and hope you will volunteer to help develop and maintain the Newsletter. Email www.board@triangleinsight.org. noting Editorial Committee in the subject line.
Website
Plans are in the works for refreshing the website with advice from. a professional website designer. If you are interested in working on planning the website, send us an email: ww.board@triangleinsight.org.
Thank you!
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You are welcome to contact me directly with any comments or suggestions to improve the newsletter and website.
In humor and good intention,
Leah Rutchick, leah@triangleinsight.org
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