Dharmette: Ten Protectors (5 of 10) Caring for Sangha

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2023.10.06 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Based on Numerical Discourses 10.17 ******* A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so errors will exist. Closed Captioning: https://otter.ai/u/XvSKbgLr3VGCcL8nOmixOJoP7qM?utm_source=copy_url Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/23445/download ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

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0:00.0	The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.
0:05.0	Please visit our website at audiodharma.org.
0:10.0	Createings from Insight Meditation Center.
0:20.0	And continuing this 10-part series on the 10 protectors or the 10 supporters or helpers,
0:39.0	or 10 helps.
0:42.0	And this one today is in a skillful and wise way, caring for, supporting the Sangha.
0:55.0	And caring for and supporting your practice community.
1:02.0	Ever since I was involved in this IMC Sangha, I got involved many years ago,
1:09.0	when it was just a small sitting group of Monday nights, about 12 people, 15 people came.
1:15.0	And I joined them as a teacher.
1:18.0	And I got involved in this training already in place for maybe four years.
1:23.0	And coming out of kind of a monastic training, I had seen how phenomenally useful it is,
1:31.0	powerful it is, to care for the place that we practice in.
1:37.0	And it's a place where we're supported, location and friends and community and maybe teachings.
1:45.0	And there's something in the alchemy of practice that changes for a good way,
1:49.0	when we also care for the place we practice in.
1:52.0	So because of that, when we were just a small few people coming, it was easier for me to take care of the logistics.
2:00.0	It was very few things.
2:01.0	There was a key that opened and closed the church library where we met.
2:06.0	There was flyers from the Spirit Rock Meditation Center that we put out to let people know what was happening.
2:11.0	There was very little inside meditation opportunities in the Bay Area back then.
2:17.0	And that was it.
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