Sunday Sangha 2023

With Daryl Lynn Ross

Online and in-person Sunday Sangha gatherings take place at different times:

✦✦ In-Person Session: Sundays, from 12 to 1:15 pm ET (Eastern Time) at Padua Center (see below).
✦✦ Online Session: Sundays, from 4 to 5 pm ET (Eastern Time) on Zoom.

Open to everyone.
Offered on a voluntary giving basis (dāna).
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In-Person Gathering (Montreal)

The community meets at Padua Center: 1950 Rue Saint-Antoine O, Montréal, QC H3J 1A5. (Two-minute walk from the metro Georges-Vanier)

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Senior Teacher

Daryl Lynn Ross

Daryl Lynn Ross (she/her) is a TNI Guiding teacher. She has deeply engaged in contemplative practices for over 40 years with teachers and mentors from several Buddhist traditions, and practiced Christian spirituality as well. She served for 22 years as University Chaplain at Concordia University in Montreal. Co-founder of TNI and President of the Board, Daryl teaches local groups and intensive courses, mentors and counsels in personal meetings and offers a wide range of retreats. She lives and transmits the Buddhist teachings from the heart with a sensitivity to the unique path of each person. www.daryllynnross.org

Supporting Teachers

Rose Mina Munjee

Rose Mina (રોઝ મીના) (she/her/they) has been practicing and teaching mindfulness meditation, mindfulness interventions for mental health, and therapeutic yoga for 14 years. She studied with senior teachers from True North Insight, Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock, and Plum Village, including Daryl Lynn Ross, Jack Kornfield, Narayan Liebensen, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Sharon Salzberg. Rose Mina completed a two-year Meditation Teacher Mentorship in 2022 with TNI. She has a Master's in Spiritual Care - Psychotherapy and a Math & Data Science background. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Adult Education at the University of Reading in the UK on mindfulness and compassion-based teaching, learning, and healing, with anti-oppression. Her diasporic journey, South Asian/South African roots, and social justice inform her teaching. Blog site: www.roseminamunjee.com

Pierre-Vincent Breault-Ruel

Pierre-Vincent (he, they) has been practising and teaching meditation and yoga for about a dozen years. He studied primarily at the Insight Meditation Society and at the Barre Centre for Buddhist Studies in Massachusetts, with many senior teachers like Sharon Salzberg and Bhikkhu Analayo, and in Montreal with Pascal Auclair and Daryl Lynn Ross. He pursued a mentorship with Arinna Weisman and was invited to participate in Spirit Rock's Community Dharma Leaders program in 2019. Pierre-Vincent also has a Master's in Social Work and is now in medical school at University of Sherbrooke. He's interested in holistic healing approaches. His dharma practice and teachings are infused with wisdom, compassion and playfulness, and his social and environmental activism. For more information: www.lesirop.org

Gail Horner

Gail began a meditation practice in the late 80’s which she developed over the next several years with the help of the writings of many of the teachers in the Theravada tradition. In 2009 she found True North Insight following which she completed 4 years of intensive studies with Daryl Lynn Ross and Matthew Flickstein. During those studies and annually since, weeklong and weekend retreats have become an essential part of her practice. She has taught Introduction to Meditation and started a community Sangha in 2013 in Uxbridge Ontario which is ongoing.

K Laspruce

K first came to formal meditation practice at a retreat in 2006. They studied with Daryl Lynn Ross in the Living the Heart of Wisdom program in 2017-2018, and participated in True North Insight’s community dharma teacher mentorship program from 2020-2022. They have led meditation sessions in a queer group based in Bulbancha/New Orleans since 2018, and more recently in TNI’s Tuesday night francophone sangha. They are interested in exploring the dharma from an embodied, antiracist and anti-oppressive lens. Though their practice has mainly been in the Insight Tradition, they also practice Soto Zen.

Schedule & Recordings

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Welcome
  • 2

    Donations & Support

    • Offering Donations to Teachers

    • Supporting True North Insight
  • 3

    Zoom Link & Practical Information

    • January to June, 2024
  • 4

    Sunday Sangha 2023 - October

    • October 22 — with Daryl

    • October 15 — in Person with Bibiana, & Online with Cynthia Davis

    • October 8 — in Person with Bibiana, & Online with Cynthia Davis
  • 5

    Sunday Sangha 2023 — September

    • September 24 — with Daryl

    • September 17 — with Daryl
  • 6

    Sunday Sangha 2023 — July

    • Satipatthana. Seven Factors of Awakening: Equanimity - with Daryl Lynn Ross (July 9)

    • Satipatthana. Seven Factors of Awakening: Tranquility - with Daryl Lynn Ross (July 2)
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    Sunday Sangha 2023 — June

    • Joy as an Awakening Factor - with K Laspruce (June 25)

    • Energy - 7 Factors of Awakening - with Cynthia Davis (June 18)

    • Satipatthana. Seven Awakening Factors: Mindfulness and Investigation - with Daryl Lynn Ross (June 11)

    • June 4 - with Daryl Lynn Ross (In-person & Online)
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    Sunday Sangha 2023 — April

    • Sunday, April 30 - With Pierre-Vincent Breault-Ruel (live only)

    • Sunday, April 23 - With Rose Mina Munjee (video)

    • Satipatthana. Hindrances: Mindfulness of the absence of hindrances - with Daryl Lynn Ross (Apr 16)

    • Sunday, April 9 - With Rose Mina Munjee (video)

    • Satipatthana. Hindrances: Absence of Hindrances - with Daryl Lynn Ross (Apr 2)
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    Sunday Sangha 2023 — May

    • Satipatthana - Five Aggregates: Volition - with Daryl Lynn Ross (May 28)

    • Satipatthana. Five Aggregates: perception - with Daryl Lynn Ross (May 14)

    • Satipatthana. The Five Aggregates: body - with Daryl Lynn Ross (May 7)
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    Sunday Sangha 2023 — March

    • Satipatthana. Hindrances: Doubt — with Daryl Lynn Ross (Mar 26)

    • Satipatthana. Hindrances: Restlessness and Worry - with Daryl L. Ross (Mar 19)

    • Sunday, March 12 - With Gail Horner (live only)

    • Sunday, March 5 - With K Laspruce (video)
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    Sunday Sangha 2023 — February

    • Satipatthana. Hindrances: Sloth and Torpor — with Daryl Lynn Ross (Feb 26 )

    • Satipatthana. Hindrances: Ill will — with Daryl Lynn Ross (Feb 19)

    • Satipatthana. Hindrances: Sense desire — with Daryl Lynn Ross (Feb 12)

    • Satipatthana. Cultivating the Mental State of Love — with Daryl Lynn Ross (Feb 5)
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    Sunday Sangha 2023 — January

    • Sunday, January 29 - With Pierre-Vincent Breault-Ruel (live only)

    • Sunday, January 22 - With Rose Mina Munjee (video)

    • Sunday, January 15 - With Daryl Lynn Ross (video)

    • Satipatthana. Mindfulness of Mental States — with Daryl Lynn Ross (Jan 8)

Testimonials

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Wonderful! Daryl presents lots of teachings for beginners and long-time practitioners alike. She answers ALL questions. Impressive!

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