Meditation in Everyday Life at the Mid-Ohio Foodbank

The SMCC course, Meditation in Everyday Life was offered from September 10th to October 8th on Monday nights. Because the number of participants exceeded the group size we can comfortably fit at our center, the Mid-Ohio Foodbank generously offered us the use of 40 cushions in a large room on the first floor of their extraordinary building in Grove City, Ohio. Participants of the class were offered a tour of their facilities. Mid-Ohio Foodbank is dedicated to feeding hungry people by collecting and distributing food and grocery products, educating the community about hunger, advocating for hunger-relief programs, and collaborating with others who address basic human needs.

Meditation in Everyday Life is a 5-week course that teaches mindfulness meditation and shows us how this practice can improve our daily lives in the most practical sense. We experienced what happens when we stop avoiding ourselves and the present moment and practiced simply being with whatever is going on in our lives. We learned to cultivate courage and stability in the daily complexities of jobs, responsibilities, relationships, and the everyday desires, concerns and uncertainties we all face. This was the 1st class in the Way of Shambhala curriculum. It offered a glimpse of the Shambhala vision of an enlightened society created through mindfulness-awareness meditation. And how the stability and wisdom cultivated through this practice can expand to benefit the world around us.

Contentment in Everyday Life, the second class in the Way of Shambhala series, begins tonight at 4495 Indianola Avenue in Clintonville. The class will be held from 7:00-9:00PM for five consecutive Monday nights and it is open to the public.
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