Stony Brook Sangha

Sharing our journey to a slow, intentional life.

We use the blog to share readings and news about upcoming events.

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  • The Five Mindfulness Trainings

    The Five Mindfulness Trainings are based on the Five Precepts offered by the Buddha. In our Sangha we recite them every other month (alternating with the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings). Some practitioners, especially (but not limited to) those who have formally received the trainings, make an effort to recite them more…

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  • “Staying Awake Through a Great Revolution”

    Sermon: Staying Awake Through a Great Revolution On April 3, 1968, the night before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King delivered this sermon, called I…

  • Stress

    Stress!!!! Thanksgiving has passed, as has Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We’re in the middle of Hanukkah and there are sixteen shopping days until Christmas.…

  • Hurricane

    The hurricane and the storm a week later is still with me. The aftermath has been intense. Before the storm the media was frothing at…

  • The God I’m Looking For

    Sermon: The God I’m Looking For Many of you know that I served a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Kingston, NY for eighteen years. I left…

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The face of a stone statue of the Buddha. Visible in the distance behind it are greens of trees and blue sky.

We are a community in the Plum Village tradition. Linda (True Path of Peace) is an ordained Order of Interbeing member. She was ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh on August 15, 2005.

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