Lotus Circle
The Lotus Circle Community is a global circle of committed practitioners within Shining Bright Lotus Meditation Society. It is open to those who are committed to study and who wish to continue walking the Bodhisattva path in everyday life, supported by a community of shared vow.
The Lotus Circle will serve as a sangha of students of the dharma that choose to investigate, in a communal manner, the skills and techniques necessary to be of service of awakening for all beings. In order to serve others, it is necessary to look beyond the traditional Buddhist and Zen teachings to contemporary scholars who have refined and deepened our understanding of meditation techniques and pastoral counseling.
Key Areas of development
Becoming a skillful meditation teacher
Embodying pastoral counseling skills
Deepening Spiritual Intelligence
Deepening personal practice and commitment to the dharma
Deepening depth of koan understanding
Lotus Circle Events
Program Structure:
Textual studies will consist a reading list of Buddhist and counseling authors, all these texts are available as audible sound books. We will be working with roughly one text per month.
The meditation teaching skills will use The Mind Illuminated as the template, which will roughly go through one stage each month.
Participants will be expected to meditate for a minimum an hour a day.
We are a dispersed community, with members living across different geographies and life circumstances, united by a shared commitment to living a life committed to the precepts, bearing witness, and supporting one another as each person weaves practice into the fabric of daily life. We do this through ongoing opportunities for personal and collective practice, study, service, and reflection.
Fall Schedule
September 20 - 10:00 am - 1:00 pm - The Mind Illuminated, Yeats and Immergut
October 18 - 10:00 am - 1:00 pm - Untangled, Koshin Paley Ellison
November 15 - 10:00 am - 1:00 pm - Integral Spirituality, Ken Wilber
December 23 - 9 am - 10 am - Lotus Circle Council
Course Fees
We ask that members support the life and work of SBLMS through a monthly financial contribution. We suggest $108 per month, but ask only that you give according to your means and circumstances. https://donorbox.org/sblms-membershp