Friends,
For this July 17 sit we’ll be exploring a wonderful Tibetan text – the 37 practices of a bodhisattva – which is also completely relevant to our Theravada practice.
Here’s a link to one very good translation of this text - https://garchencanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/The-Thirty-Seven-Practices-of-a-Bodhisattva-by-Ngukchu-Thogme-Zangpo.pdf
If you look at it, you’ll see a steady focus on the goal of freedom and enlightenment, and an incisive cutting through of any form of clinging. Also, as this is a text for bodhisattvas, there’s a constant focus on awakening for the benefit of all beings.
We’ll be exploring a selection of these verses, to benefit your own practice and journey.
We’ll be gathering at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 17.
The URL for the evening will be https://tinyurl.com/Eastside-Insight-2025, or please come in person to the chapel at Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church, 315 3rd Ave S., Kirkland, WA 98033.
Please consider offering dana to Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church, which makes this space available on a dana-only basis, in a very kind and generous way. If you do, please mention you’re from Eastside Insight Meditation.
https://tinyurl.com/NorthlakeUU-Paypal2022
Also you're invited to offer dana to the teacher, with links and addresses below. Many thanks for your generous dana, which helps turn the wheel of the dharma.
paypal.me/SteveWilhelm48
Steve Wilhelm
17623 184th Ave. NE
Woodinville, WA 98072
Big bows to the kind sangha members who help set up for Thursday evenings. It’s a spiritual practice to do this good work with others, for others. Helping set up is a way to share the dharma for the community. Signing up is a big help, to know if assistance is coming.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18OKEUO7ubunOG_q9r8MaBFWXqmWScOm4LIsv8MdnBU8/edit
As an additional item of interest, here’s the just-released summer issue of Northwest Dharma News. In there you’ll find extraordinary stories of sanghas moving ahead, and sharing the dhamma in myriad ways.
https://northwestdharma.org/summer-2025-volume-38-2/
Big bows to all of you for your practice, your goodwill, your kindness.
See you soon!
Steve