Hello everyone, It is my pleasure to introduce the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community to the 28-Day Meditation Challenge 2015. I blogged once before for the challenge in 2012, but this is my first time representing my sangha, and I’m very excited to be a part of this wonderful event!
You can read more about our community on our profile, but I can briefly let you know that we are a community of practitioners in the Vispassana (Insight) meditation tradition of Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society (IMS), located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was the wonderful idea of our teacher, Jeanne Corrigal, that we recruit some bloggers on behalf of the sangha to join the challenge: myself, Andrea G, Carol, and Rod. It is our hope that we can encourage our fellow sangha members, and our sangha members all over the country and the world, to begin a regular or daily meditation practice, or deepen their practice. Therefore, we are offering our service to the community in the hopes of perhaps starting a yearly tradition that will continue into the future.
I will admit myself (and I know my fellow bloggers have expressed similar thoughts) that I am a bit nervous to be blogging and representing my sangha and putting my thoughts out there for the world to see! But I hope that by sharing from the heart my experience of my practice, including its challenges and successes, that I can offer others a glimpse into what a regular practice looks like in a lay setting.
I wish good luck to my fellow bloggers and my fellow challenge participants!
– Andrea D