sliding into spring 2024

winter, spring

its all the same to me

(--enso the good dog)

Greetings,

Here’s spring meetingbrook hermitage practice/conversation schedule: 2apr2024.— 30june2024

There is only one invite for the three evenings, Sun/Tue/Fri.

•   Sunday/Tuesday Evenings, 7pm-8pm, and
•   Friday Evening, 6pm-8pm

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Note:

1. Sunday Evening Format: (The portal is open at 6:30 for private sitting.) 

• At 7pm, 10 minutes silent sitting
• chanting the Heart Sutra, 
• a reading or video, 
• open reflections, 
• ending with final circle, 4 bodhisattva vows, metta blessing, and final bell chant. 

2. Tuesday Evening begins at 7pm with 

• 5 minutes silent sitting. 
• Then open conversation,
• final circle.

3. Friday Evening is open conversation beginning at 6pm, then final circle.

4. All evenings will end as close to 8pm as we can.

5. Feel free to share invitation with anyone curious.

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Hi there, 

bill halpin is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 

Topic: meetingbrook hermitage practice/conversation schedule, spring 2024, April—June 

Time: Apr 2, 2024 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

    Every week on Tue, Sun, Fri, until Jun 30, 2024, 39 occurrence(s)

    Apr 2, 2024 07:00 PM

    Apr 5, 2024 06:00 PM

    Apr 7, 2024 07:00 PM

    Apr 9, 2024 07:00 PM

    Apr 12, 2024 06:00 PM

    Apr 14, 2024 07:00 PM

    Apr 16, 2024 07:00 PM

    Apr 19, 2024 06:00 PM

    Apr 21, 2024 07:00 PM

    Apr 23, 2024 07:00 PM

    Apr 26, 2024 06:00 PM

    Apr 28, 2024 07:00 PM

    Apr 30, 2024 07:00 PM

    May 3, 2024 06:00 PM

    May 5, 2024 07:00 PM

    May 7, 2024 07:00 PM

    May 10, 2024 06:00 PM

    May 12, 2024 07:00 PM

    May 14, 2024 07:00 PM

    May 17, 2024 06:00 PM

    May 19, 2024 07:00 PM

    May 21, 2024 07:00 PM

    May 24, 2024 06:00 PM

    May 26, 2024 07:00 PM

    May 28, 2024 07:00 PM

    May 31, 2024 06:00 PM

    Jun 2, 2024 07:00 PM

    Jun 4, 2024 07:00 PM

    Jun 7, 2024 06:00 PM

    Jun 9, 2024 07:00 PM

    Jun 11, 2024 07:00 PM

    Jun 14, 2024 06:00 PM

    Jun 16, 2024 07:00 PM

    Jun 18, 2024 07:00 PM

    Jun 21, 2024 06:00 PM

    Jun 23, 2024 07:00 PM

    Jun 25, 2024 07:00 PM

    Jun 28, 2024 06:00 PM

    Jun 30, 2024 07:00 PM

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Should anyone wish to attend/participate in any of the practice/conversations, please email, and we'll send the link.

the event is one’s own life in concert with one-another

It’s only a matter of time

We will grasp

What is being

Offered 

notice: no artifice, nothing to see here

 meetingbrook has gone

idiorhythmic — each is

on their own unique

schedule — there is no practice

but haphazard quiet joy

as summer packs to leave, late august 2022

There are no events

only one continuous 

unveiling instant

Right there, where you are

bow reverently, stay home

your own holy place

Events spring 2022

 Spring arrives in three and a half hours. It will ask what we are doing.

Our gate, though broken, reaches across driveway with green mesh fence and red reflectors with looping dock line steadying ragtag cloister for dog from Barnestown cars and trucks.

Birds at feeder know dregs of fifty pound bag will give until no more.

We zoom on Tuesday evening, Friday evening, and Sunday evening. Drop an email if you’d like the link.

The hermitage remains cloistered. 

My your events provide quiet joy and inner peace!

Winter 2022: and so it is new year’s

 We continue zoom practice conversations on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday evenings.

Coffee or tea in the morning, well-water at night.

Moments of meditation, zazen, contemplative sauntering, soul-friend conversation.

If you’d like, try it at home.

Like the final line of an old poem on cedar shake:

I am

Waiting for

You

To answer

Me

 And so, it is New Year’s Day.

Let us know, by whispers in the still-dark of intimate dawns, the events of your life, the thinks in your many lives that draw you closer to yourself, that call to oneself, saying “I am here!”

Winter, 2021. meetingbrook conversation/practice times

It's been a while. We've been holding zoom meetingbrook conversation/practice times since May 2020. That fact never made it to this Events page.

Should anyone be interested in attending, please email and we'll send ID# and password.

meetingbrook@me.com

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Greetings,

Here is updated invitation to meetingbrook conversation/practice from 1jan21 to spring equinox 21mar21

Please note: 

• There is only one meeting ID and password for all occurrences — Sun. Tue. Fri.
• The beginning time says 6:00pm, but that only applies to Fridays. Sunday practice begins at 7:00pm, open private sitting begins at 6:30pm. Tuesdays remain beginning at 7:00pm.

Do feel free to share this invitation.

Best,

 Bill

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 Hi there, 

William Halpin is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 

Topic: meetingbrook conversation/practice  

Time: Jan 1, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

    Every week on Sun, Tue, Fri, until Mar 21, 2021, 35 occurrence(s)

    Jan 1, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 3, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 5, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 8, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 10, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 12, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 15, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 17, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 19, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 22, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 24, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 26, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 29, 2021 06:00 PM

    Jan 31, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 2, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 5, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 7, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 9, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 12, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 14, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 16, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 19, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 21, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 23, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 26, 2021 06:00 PM

    Feb 28, 2021 06:00 PM

    Mar 2, 2021 06:00 PM

    Mar 5, 2021 06:00 PM

    Mar 7, 2021 06:00 PM

    Mar 9, 2021 06:00 PM

    Mar 12, 2021 06:00 PM

    Mar 14, 2021 06:00 PM

    Mar 16, 2021 06:00 PM

    Mar 19, 2021 06:00 PM

    Mar 21, 2021 06:00 PM

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Schedule:

1. Sunday Evening Practice: One hour, 7:00pm—8:00pm  (plus prior optional 30 min private silence, during which Zoom will be open, mute.)

Format: (approximate times)

7:00pm — 7:10pm, join with 10 minutes silence

7:10pm — 7:25pm, reading(s) followed by brief silence

7:25pm — 7:50pm, open reflections

7:50pm — 8:00pm, brief silence, final circle 

8:00pm — ending bell

2. Tuesday Evening Meetingbrook Conversation: One hour. 7pm—8pm 

Format: (approximate times)

7:00pm — 7:05pm, join with 5 minutes silence

7:05pm — 7:20pm, reading(s) followed by brief silence

7:20pm — 7:50pm, open conversation

7:50pm — 8:00pm, brief silence, final circle 

8:00pm — ending bell

 

3. Friday Evening Meetingbrook Conversation: Two hours. 6pm—8pm

Format: Open conversation, as usual, free-form.

•       6:00pm, begin
•       8:00pm, end

We continue to hold all our brothers and sisters in heart and mind, and pray for your well-being and health as this time unfolds.