SCHEDULE

3:00 pm
Arrival

3:10 - 3:40 pm
Silent Meditation

3:40 - 4:00 pm
Dharma Talk or Reading or Mindful Activity
(chosen by meeting leader)

4:00 - 4:10 pm
Mindful Break

4:10 - 4:40 pm
Open Sharing/Discussion

4:40 - 4:50pm
Meeting Close
Business and Announcements
Choose Volunteer Lead for Following Week

- 5:00pm
Community

OPENING

Welcome to SUT LA, a peer-led community practicing in the style of Sayadaw U Tejaniya, focused on developing wisdom through consistency of awareness in daily life. As a peer-led group, SUT LA offers no teachings of the dharma, practice guidance, or feedback. We encourage those seeking them to study with a teacher authorized by a monastic lineage holder.

SHARING/DISCUSSION GUIDELINES

Sharing and discussion is based on the reading/talk/activity, or on your practice. Please give space for everyone in the group. Pause for others before speaking up a second time. If anyone who hasn’t shared raises their hand, prioritize calling on them to share next.

Specific sharing guidelines are as follows:

•We share about our own direct personal experiences within the practice.
•We do not give advice or guidance to others.
•We avoid superfluous references to outside teachings, readings, quotes, and other media not directly related to our experience.
•This is not a space for debate.
•Shares should be focused on the practice itself, avoiding extensive personal details that more befit an support environment.
•We use our understanding of Buddhist ethical principles and common sense to respect the comfort and boundaries of others.

CLOSING

As a sangha of dedicated practitioners, we commit ourselves to meditation and Buddhist principles on a daily basis. Our group emphasizes the importance of dana (generosity) and sila (ethical conduct). As a baseline, we undertake the training of the 5 precepts as we understand them:

•Refraining from taking life.
•Refraining from taking what is not given.
•Refraining from the misuse of sensual pleasure.
•Refraining from wrong speech.
•Refraining from intoxicants that cloud the mind.