Shantideva Sangha Practice / Sangha Building

We invite OI members, aspirants, OI-curious folks, sangha facilitators, and people interested in helping build the NorCal sangha community to join the lay Shantideva Sangha practice, which currently takes place on the second Saturday of each month from 10am to 2pm.

Please bring your own lunch if you plan to be here then.

This is a chance for organizers, facilitators, caretaking council members, ordained Order of Interbeing members, OI aspirants, OI-curious folks, and sangha builders of all types to gather in friendship for honest and vulnerable discussion together.

What’s really going on in the Northern California PV community? Are we on the right path? What do we need as a community to continue beautifully into the future?

Bring your whole selves to this meeting, and we will hold our aspirations and our concerns together.

You are free to join for part or all of the day.

• If you are joining us from 10-1, please bring your own vegetarian lunch.
• If you are joining us from 1 to 2:30, please bring some tea or another drink you can enjoy and something to share.

Approximate schedule:

• 9:30am gathering
• 10am sitting meditation
• 10:30am chanting in Vietnamese and English
• 11am Dharma sharing
• 11:45am break
• 12 noon walking meditation
• 12:30pm mindful lunch (bring your own vegetarian food)
• 1:30 pm group discussion / activity TBA