Pine Street Sangha
Description
Welcome to the Pine Street Sangha: Befriending Meditation, Exploring Experience, Integrating Insight
We meditate in a gentle and accepting way, allowing whatever occurs in our inner worlds to unfold naturally. At the conclusion of meditation, we reflect upon and consider what happened during meditation through journaling and exploring our experience with a teacher. Over time, we learn more about the inner conditions and habitual patterns of thought and feeling that shape our lives. We grow to understand which conditions shape difficult inner states and those that shape beneficial ones. By letting our meditation into our lives, our meditation enters and impacts our lives in subtle and profound ways. By recalling what happens in meditative experiences we develop awareness and discover our own understanding of the dharma, the teachings of Early Buddhism.
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This individualized approach is best taught in small groups. We also offer daylong workshops, non-residential retreats and longer-term committed groups and Continuing Education workshops that support Mental Health Professionals to develop a meditation approach to sustain them in their work. These workshops focus on ethics and are designed to fulfill the ethics requirement. For information on the Continuing Education workshops visit reflectivecounsel.org
Practice Schedule
Schedule of Events
Daily Online Meditation
Every day 9:00-10:00 am/PT
CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Presence: A Doorway to Ethics
Saturday, February 15, 2025 9:30 am-4:30 pm/PT Online via Zoom
Developing Balance Amidst Treating Trauma: An Ethical Buddhist Approach
Friday, March 25, 2025 9:30 am-4:30 pm/PT
In-person in the Portland Metro area at a location to be determined.
Restorative Ethics: A Meditative Exploration of Ethical Vulnerabilities and Strengths
Saturday, April 25, 2025 9:30 am-4:30 pm/PT Online via Zoom
For more information visit reflectivecounsel.org
Tradition
Vipassana
Teacher
Nelly Kaufer
Website
http://www.pinestreetsangha.org