Greetings to all from the US! I began this journey recently via Instagram looking into ways to help with sleep/anxiety relief.

I just wanted to let you know that our annual Book Club starts next week. We're looking at Mingyur Rinpoche's amazing book In Love With The World, which, far from being a dry Buddhist text, is a bit of a page-turner. It starts with a midnight escape from a monastery and runs through a life-and-death experience in a park in Lumbini. In between, Rinpoche imparts beautiful truths about the experience of life. I'm so thrilled to be reading it with you guys. It's a free winter offering for all of the folks that support Mindsprings with their Oak or Baobab subscriptions and you can find out more about the reading schedule below: https://www.mind-springs.org/simple-info-pages/in-love-with-the-world

Just joined and excited to engage from Ireland.

I'm revisiting the Fives and can feel the benefit of ending on a 'beingfull' session (as discussed in a video) and have changed my personal practice to finish that way. Am wondering if there is any particular reason for starting the Fives with shamatha rather than 'object no 1', which I have been doing as a way to come into my personal experience of here-&-now? I'm guessing the answer would be that it doesn't matter too much, do what feels right for me and that just doing a practice is the thing - but I'm curious as to whether there is a rationale for starting with a shamata section. Perhaps it's more interesting to observe how my thinking mind always likes to use my meditation time to analyse the practice and design new, better ones!! Thanks X

Could we have a coffee and cake gathering one Sunday and maybe see some of Daniel’s creations. Be lovely to see those faces and see new ones. Missing the community. 💐😊