Stony Brook Sangha

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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 See The Promised Land. “. . . Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty and say, ‘If you allow me to live just a few years in the second…

  • 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. How are you doing? Do you associate the holidays with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which celebrates growing and sharing the spirit of peace and goodwill to all? Or do…

  • 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 mouth and I tended not to believe the hype. Nevertheless, we prepared, putting all the outdoor stuff away like the Buddha statues and the wind chimes and the bird…

  • 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 in 2010 to move to Long Island and go into hospital chaplaincy. Currently I work on Long Island as a chaplain and as an educator of chaplains. My setting is…

  • Big sister dog

    4am and Evie is whining. Whining. It wakes us up and is mighty annoying. I open the door and summon her and she plops down on the rug in our bedroom. No, she doesn’t have to go to the bathroom and no, she isn’t sick. So get out we say and go back to bed.…

  • Imagination

    Of course! the path to heaven doesn’t lie down in flat miles. It’s in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it. Mary Oliver, from The Swan</ Imagination. I was with a friend at Smith Point Beach this weekend and the ocean was wild. A tornado watch…

  • Doing and being

    From Thich Nhat Hanh The quality of your action depends on the quality of your being. Suppose you’re eager to offer happiness, to make someone happy. That’s a good thing to do. But if you’re not happy, then you can’t do that. In order to make another person happy, you have to be happy yourself.…

  • Second arrow

    The Buddha speaks about the “second arrow.” When an arrow strikes you, you feel pain. If a second arrow comes and strikes you in the same spot, the pain will be ten times worse. The Buddha advised that when you have some pain in your body or your mind, breathe in and out and recognize…

  • Second arrow

    The Buddha speaks about the “second arrow.” When an arrow strikes you, you feel pain. If a second arrow comes and strikes you in the same spot, the pain will be ten times worse. The Buddha advised that when you have some pain in your body or your mind, breathe in and out and recognize…

  • Jampa

    Here is this delicious dog and his sister Evie.