Events for
October 4 - 5th 2025
Quote of the Week
"The attachment and aversion of each sense is located in the object of that sense. Let no one come under their sway for both indeed are enemies besetting one's path."
Bhagavad-Gita 3.34
Commentary: The wheel of life turns, providing various situations and perspectives that require a response from us, either: positive, negative, or neutral. Action is therefore unavoidable, and is always about choosing our response to life's changing situations. The quality of our response is usually based on our sense perceptions, thoughts, beliefs, training, knowledge and experience, and the probability that our response will be out of alignment with these, while possible, is highly unlikely. Yet the ability to maintain our peace or equanimity in the presence of sense objects, thus avoiding the enemies of attachment and aversion, allows us to remain free from the repetitive binding influence of past actions or choices, and gives us the opportunity to now make unlikely or uncharacteristic choices. Thus freed from our past actions, we gain real freedom of choice.
Yogi Edmond
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Movie Night
Movie: Soul
Date: Saturday October 4th, 2025
Time: 7:30pm (optional: bring a dish or snack)
Soul Youtube Trailer
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, Alice Braga, Richard Ayoade, Phylicia Rashad, Donnell Rawlings, Questlove, Angela Bassett
Directed by: Pete Docter
Written by: Pete Docter, Mike Jones. Kemp Powers
Produced by: Dana Murray
Music by: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy Drama, Animation
Running Time: 101 min
Release Date: 2020
Soul follows Joe Gardner (Foxx), a middle-school music teacher and aspiring jazz pianist, who dreams of a professional music career. After receiving an offer to join a jazz quartet led by Dorothea Williams (Angela Bassett), Joe falls into a manhole and dies. Thus begins his comedic adventure as he attempts to return to his former life. Soul provides a surprisingly insightful and philosophical look into many of the mysterious elements of life in the physical, as well as in the afterlife. Soul focus on the inspiration or spark that motivates a soul to enter the physical world, and the inherent talents, beliefs and perspectives we acquire and adopt as we take a walk in the physical. A funny, deeply touching, and truly inspiring movie.
Hope to see you there! ☺
Group Meditation