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This morning the SA Plum Branch "walking group" walked mindfully at Harbinger Park. What a beautiful morning: sun to warm us, birds singing and little buds starting to open! Wonderful company of fellow meditators brings out our collective joy and compassion. Please join us if you like. We meet each Sunday at 8am and walk for about an hour in the peaceful trails throughout Phil Harbinger Park off of NW Military Highway at the Environmental Center.
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Last night I was with my sangha for our regular meditation time. We did our usual 10min. sit, & 10 min. walk. Then we experienced a guided meditation by our dear teacher, Tich Nhat Hanh via an archived podcast. I felt so peaceful, so calm. After the dharma talk by one of our wonderful order of interbeing leaders, we discussed our teacher, Thay, and what meaning his continuation (death) last month meant to us. It was very beautiful and restoring. I gratefully bow deeply to the Plum Branch Sangha of San Antonio.
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The Seven Factors of Awakening (sapta-bodhyanga} Summary from Chapter 26 The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, Thich Nhat Hanh (1998) Parralax Press, Berkeley,CA. As part of the San Antonio Plum Branch Sangha Book Club I generated this summary. Some other summaries by experts are easily available on the web. Bonnie Background Information: Not from above book. The Seven Factors of Awakening are from the Pali Canon (Tipitaka: Three Baskets) of the Theravada Buddhist tradition. The canon was first written down at the Fourth Buddhist Council in 29BCE. That is about 450 years after Buddha died. Prior to this point, transmission of the teachings was oral and first formally gathered together at the First Buddhist Council where Ananda recited the Sutta Pitaka. {Deep, deep bows to Ananda), The Seven Factors are found in the second basket, Sutta Pitaka, the discourses and sermons of Buddha, and perha...