Ep. 294: Sitting on 7-21-26
Jul 22, 2026 · 59 min · 9 segments
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Jul 22, 2026 · 59 min · 9 segments
Please make yourselves comfortable So I think there's just two things that I want to say.
One relatively short, one a little bit longer.
I think neither too long.
The first is a little bit of a continuation of a thread that that has been going through a number of recent sittings around the extent of our wishes for well-being and happiness for others, extent of metta, especially the edges of where we feel like the heart may not feel quite willing to extend metta to certain kinds of people.
And actually, this is a follow-up to a wonderful, I just want to mention this, a wonderful visit I had over the weekend with what I like to call our Chicago Sangha.
It's a group of people, some of whom I think are online right now, who gather together.
And he just invited some people over to start sitting with him and to zoom in together.
And so they've been doing this for a few years now.
And for the first time I've visited Chicago over the weekend to see some old friends who'd moved there.
And I visited with this little group of...
I think the group is sometimes as large as seven or eight people, but there were five people who joined me for brunch on Sunday morning.
It was really wonderful.
One, my friend who moved to Chicago, I knew, but the others, the four I'd never met before, had just seen their faces a little bit on Zoom.
And...
And the friends that my wife and I were visiting, these are old friends.
I mean, my wife goes so far back with one of them, and then I became friends with her husband.
Anyway, so like decades, right? And we had a lovely time with them.
But it really struck me how...
when I met this little Chicago sangha for brunch, there was something that felt even more comfortable.
Even though I'd not met these people, most of them before, because they were all practitioners.
And my friends, as much as I love them or not, they're very much University of Chicago professors.
They're very much in their heads.
Please make yourselves comfortable So I think there's just two things that I want to say.
One relatively short, one a little bit longer.
I think neither too long.
The first is a little bit of a continuation of a thread that that has been going through a number of recent sittings around the extent of our wishes for well-being and happiness for others, extent of metta, especially the edges of where we feel like the heart may not feel quite willing to extend metta to certain kinds of people.
And actually, this is a follow-up to a wonderful, I just want to mention this, a wonderful visit I had over the weekend with what I like to call our Chicago Sangha.
It's a group of people, some of whom I think are online right now, who gather together.
And he just invited some people over to start sitting with him and to zoom in together.
And so they've been doing this for a few years now.
And for the first time I've visited Chicago over the weekend to see some old friends who'd moved there.
And I visited with this little group of...
I think the group is sometimes as large as seven or eight people, but there were five people who joined me for brunch on Sunday morning.
It was really wonderful.
One, my friend who moved to Chicago, I knew, but the others, the four I'd never met before, had just seen their faces a little bit on Zoom.
And...
And the friends that my wife and I were visiting, these are old friends.
I mean, my wife goes so far back with one of them, and then I became friends with her husband.
Anyway, so like decades, right? And we had a lovely time with them.
But it really struck me how...
when I met this little Chicago sangha for brunch, there was something that felt even more comfortable.
Even though I'd not met these people, most of them before, because they were all practitioners.
And my friends, as much as I love them or not, they're very much University of Chicago professors.
They're very much in their heads.
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