{"id":442,"date":"2018-12-31T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/?p=442"},"modified":"2023-07-27T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T22:49:24","slug":"december-31-2018-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/december-31-2018-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"December 31 &#8211; Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are about to start another month-long exploration of ways to support a daily meditation practice. I&#8217;m so honored to have you as part of this community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme we will be exploring this month is infusing mindfulness with kindness as we go about daily life, with inspiration from the book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shambhala.com\/boundless-heart-3649.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Boundless Heart: The Buddha's Path of Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity (opens in a new tab)\">Boundless Heart: The Buddha&#8217;s Path of Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity<\/a><\/em>, by Christina Feldman. I want to keep things light and inspiring this year, so expect just a short quote or poem to help you get your day started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the emails will be archived this blog that you&#8217;re reading now!<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/\">https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation<\/a><br>I have comments open for the newer posts, and I invite you to share your thoughts and feedback with the rest of us there. I also welcome any comments and reflections that you&#8217;d rather share with me personally by email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful for the guidance and support from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Jeanne Corrigal (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jeannecorrigal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanne Corrigal<\/a>, the Community Dharma Leader for the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" label=\"Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/saskatooninsight.com\/wp\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/saskatooninsight.com\/<\/a> and participant in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"IMS Teacher Training Program (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dharma.org\/teachers\/teacher-training-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMS Teacher Training Program<\/a>. I also wish to acknowledge the inspiration and guidance I&#8217;ve received from other teachers on this path, especially <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Susie Harrington (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/desertdharma.org\/retreats\/teachers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Susie Harrington<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ayya Anandabodhi (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/alokavihara.org\/about\/nuns-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ayya Anandabodhi<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" label=\"Adrianne Ross (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bcims.org\/teachers#comp-leywb9bm1\" target=\"_blank\">Adrianne Ross<\/a>, and online teachers including <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" label=\"Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dharma.org\/teacher\/gloria-taraniya-ambrosia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" label=\"Vincent Horn (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vincehorn.space\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vincent Horn<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" label=\"Gael Belden (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/programs\/marc\/about-us\/faculty-and-staff\/instructors\" target=\"_blank\">Gael Belden<\/a>, and there are a host of teachers I haven&#8217;t yet met but who have touched me through the teachings they have made available online via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"dharmaseed.org (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dharmaseed.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">dharmaseed.org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiodharma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"audiodharma.org (opens in a new tab)\">audiodharma.org<\/a>, and other sources. (Any errors or misunderstandings are my own.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So stay tuned for the first email\/post tomorrow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With warmest wishes,<br> Andrea Grzesina<br> <a href=\"mailto:andrea@grzesina.net\">andrea@grzesina.net<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:amgrzesina@gmail.com\">amgrzesina@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, We are about to start another month-long exploration of ways to support a daily meditation practice. I&#8217;m so honored to have you as part of this community. The theme we will be exploring this month is infusing mindfulness with kindness as we go about daily life, with inspiration from the book Boundless Heart: The Buddha&#8217;s Path\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/december-31-2018-welcome\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[162],"tags":[85,163,137,165,39,32,51,164,70],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2019","tag-adrianne-ross","tag-ayya-anandabodhi","tag-christina-feldman","tag-gael-belden","tag-gloria-taraniya-ambrosia","tag-jeanne-corrigal","tag-susie-harrington","tag-vincent-horn","tag-welcome"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}