Sept 2024 Talks

Sept 10: Metta

Sanghamitta goes over the Metta Sutta, line by line. Recommended is an essay by Ajahn Punnadhammo on Mara, who symbolizes our hindrances....which metta can help us eliminate: https://www.arrowriver.ca/maraidx.html

Sept. 17: Fostering Friendship

The Buddha outlines four ways to sustain healthy relationships: giving, encouraging and affectionate words, looking out for a friend's best interest, and staying by a friend through life's inevitable ups and downs.

Sept 20: More Metta Medicine

Applying the Buddha's principle of the middle way to soften the idealism that lives in each of our hearts.