Compassion & Care
"If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path" - The BuddhaSupporting Each Other
Compassion and service are hallmarks of the spiritual life. The purpose of the Compassion & Care Committee is to facilitate matching one person’s need with someone willing to offer support.
Here are some ways our sangha is finding support during this pandemic.
Great Plates Delivered: Home Meals For Seniors
Great Plates Delivered: Home Meals For Seniors is a program that was created with this pandemic in mind. They provide three meals each day. Click on the button to download a checklist to determine whether you are eligible.
C. A. R. E.
Caring Appreciation Relationship Empathy
We meet every Thursday @ 3:30 – 5:00 pm
The CARE group is a peer-led online group which provides support to our community during this time of social anxiety of COVID-19 and its impacts. You are invited to attend if you would like to support and be supported by others. It is a drop-in group with no obligation to attend.
The meetings are conducted on the zoom platform. Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive the link.
Please review the Values of the group and the Communication Invitations and Guidelines before attending the group.
VALUES that we agree to collectively hold within the CARE Group
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mutual respect
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positive regard
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being oneself, authenticity
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acceptance of differences (does not mean agreement, but acceptance based on respect)
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empathy (allowing oneself to feel with another person)
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intention of the heart to be of service
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Listening from the heart (listening with an open heart, being willing to be touched by another, willing to engage with another person’s emotions)
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Speaking from the heart (speaking authentically, honest self-expression)
This will be a community-wide effort. It is our hope to create a large pool of volunteers who will be contacted on an as-needed basis.
It is actually our goal that everyone sign up. The more Sangha members volunteering, the less frequently we’d need to contact any one member — thereby keeping this a very manageable commitment for members of our community.
