Our Weeknight Gatherings are drop-in friendly Zoom gatherings once a month.

Our theme through this season is Love in a Dangerous Time*: How do we cultivate the strength to move through challenging times with love, instead of getting tangled in our self-defeating attitudes of anger, despair, distraction, or apathy? We are exploring using the Buddhist framework of the Four Immeasurables: love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. They are not feel-good platitudes, but require a deep reckoning with the nature of reality and of our minds. What do we truly value, and how do we actually live it, through the mundane annoyances and true challenges of life?

Email gatheringround.seattle@gmail.com for any questions or access needs and to get the Zoom link.

Accessibility: We are gathering on Zoom with automated captions. We read aloud comments typed in chat. Cameras are optional; most of us participate with cameras on to help build community. Please email gatheringround.seattle@gmail.com with any access needs.

*Lovers in a Dangerous Time is a song from the 80s, during Ronald Reagan’s first term and an intense period of escalation between the west and the Soviet Union, a time when the future of the world seemed pretty dark and uncertain, and a song about living life and loving in the midst of it.