Calgary Buddhist Meditation Centre

09/01/2025

Fall 2025 Meditation Schedule is on Meetup!
https://www.meetup.com/calgary-buddhist-meditation/events/

06/05/2025

what brought you joy yesterday? what are you looking forward to today?

08/11/2023

Interesting look at current culture.
https://www.lionsroar.com/barbies-journey-to-enlightenment/?utm_content=buffer1e5bd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com/lionsroarbuddhism&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR36WJEqHcmS_ZowGd0Ok0ncF3or5Bh-_UgL-LdyCwIqyF4cd3zXFkXbTJ4

In the Greta Gerwig-directed "Barbie," the iconic doll embarks on a pink-hued journey toward enlightenment not unlike the historical Buddha’s.

07/11/2023

This is the Practice.
🙏
https://www.lionsroar.com/this-is-the-practice/?utm_content=buffera5bc5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com/lionsroarbuddhism&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR0JQtVvjMOXFC2W1NHLxsWQpmjRMoGx9eRvcPBkcfRnD-AsQkV3bQKx0nk

When the Buddha tended to a dying monk, he demonstrated how to live, how to die, how to care for others. Vanessa Sasson offers her retelling of that poignant story.

06/01/2023

So, since my days sitting meditation with Wild Rose Sangha, I have practiced 'Appreciative Joy': mindfulness and sharing.
Calgary Buddhist Meditation has adopted the practice.

In this sangha practice, in turn, sitting in a circle perhaps, one shares something that 'brought you Joy, big or small', during the past week or so.
Other people can deeply listen and can appreciate your joy: 'sip from it'.

They then share something that brought them joy in return and you appreciate theirs.
It is the good feeling that might arise when a friend or loved one succeeds.

This mindfulness practice encourages us to notice more things throughout our daily lives that can give us that joyful moment, and that we might share the next time we are together in sangha.
It counters over time our natural tendency to only see the negative.

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I learned a new term today and it's use actually helps to be more aware of the these good small moments: these 'noticed Joys', can be called 'Glimmers'.

A 'Glimmer' is the opposite of a 'trigger'.

Why 'Glimmer'?
It's a small sparkle of Light.

A beautiful tree, or seeing your daughters, or the taste of home cooking.
Even a shared meme can be, if we take a moment to enjoy it.
These are 'Glimmers'.

A Glimmer shared: a graphic of the regional cheeses of Europe: 😊😊😊
(it can be anything that brings you a Joyful moment: share it with your loved ones)

Take notice. Enjoy the moment.
Try out the new term, see your daily 'Glimmers' . 🙏🙏🙏

Peace,

04/30/2023

Good morning Boddhisattva!
11am Service in person at the 18th Ave SW location today.

Watch for the sandwich board with a doorbell built in 🙏

Mindfulness is more than just a meditation practice. Mindfulness is life, and life is love. That’s why it’s the whole path of the bodhisattva, says Zen teacher Norman Fischer.

04/09/2023

Happy Easter 🙏❤️

Enjoy a day with Family and those you care about 🙏❤️

04/07/2023

“In Buddha, we seek refuge from instability.
In dharma, we seek refuge from ignorance.
In sangha, we seek refuge from fear and loneliness; we discover that no matter who we are, no matter what we have done, we can find belonging.”
-Willa Blythe Baker

04/02/2023

https://tricycle.org/magazine/evolution-happiness/?utm_content=buffer7e1a8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

On the Buddha's steps to Nirvana