West Broward Insight Meditation Community

03/28/2026

Join Us This Sunday 🌿

We’re honored to welcome Dr. Gus Castellanos, a retired neurologist, sleep specialist, and mindfulness researcher, who will be guiding our Sangha this Sunday.

This is a beautiful opportunity to come together in practice and explore mindfulness through the lens of both science and lived experience.

🗓 Sunday
🕰 9:30–11:00 AM (Zoom)
💻 Online gathering

All are welcome.
These gatherings are donation-based, with a suggested donation of $20, but no one is turned away.

Come as you are and join us in cultivating presence, kindness, and wise understanding.

Please join us at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vpUlc-6rqTso9GJNhQdxjJpzltOxDwRnzQ

03/28/2026

Join Us This Sunday 🌿

We’re honored to welcome Dr. Gus Castellanos, a retired neurologist, sleep specialist, and mindfulness researcher, who will be guiding our Sangha this Sunday.

This is a beautiful opportunity to come together in practice and explore mindfulness through the lens of both science and lived experience.

🗓 Sunday
🕰 9:30–11:00 AM (Zoom)
💻 Online gathering

All are welcome.
These gatherings are donation-based, with a suggested donation of $20, but no one is turned away.

Come as you are and join us in cultivating presence, kindness, and wise understanding.

Please join us at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vpUlc-6rqTso9GJNhQdxjJpzltOxDwRnzQ

Hi friends! Please join us for a very special treat tomorrow morning from 930 to 11! Gus Castellanos will be joining us to lead the Sangha end invite Interactive mindful participation. If you have any ideas for topic that you want him to cover, please let me know. Remember that he is experienced with the neuroscience part of Mindfulness so it’ll be a combination of practice and learning. Hope to see you, Online! The link to register on Zoom is under link tree under the bio. Please bring your curiosity and your questions.

03/15/2026

This is what I shared in our mindfulness meditation circle this morning.

Right now there is so much suffering in our world.

So how do we hold space for this — for our own suffering and the suffering of others?

Part of the practice is having compassion for ourselves, because it is hard. And compassion for everyone else who is going through something tragic in this moment.

It touches all of us — whether we are right there close to it and it is happening to us, or we are witnessing it through the many ways we receive news and information.

The last stanza of this poem by Warsan Shire captures this so powerfully.

In times like these, the practice is not to turn away, but to stay present — resting in awareness, letting the heart remain open, and allowing our response to come from love rather than fear.

03/15/2026

Please join us for Sangha tomorrow, Sunday from 9:30 AM to 11 AM, on Zoom. We will have a lightly guided meditation, followed by a Dharma talk and ending with a period of mindful inquiry. I will post a link at the end of this text. This is a donation based Mindfulness meeting (suggested contribution is $15 or whatever you can afford), and the topic of our meeting will be grief as a powerful teacher: might as well love. I hope you can join us. ❤️🙏

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vpUlc-6rqTso9GJNhQdxjJpzltOxDwRnzQ

03/15/2026

Please join us for Sangha tomorrow at 9:30 AM on Zoom. I will post a link at the end of this text. This is a donation based Mindfulness meeting (suggested contribution is $15 or whatever you can afford), and the topic of our meeting will be grief as a powerful teacher: might as well love. I hope you can join us. ❤️🙏

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vpUlc-6rqTso9GJNhQdxjJpzltOxDwRnzQ

03/12/2026

Wanted to share this beautiful poem that really spoke to me and that I shared with our Sangha this morning. We will be exploring this topic more in our Sunday meeting, which is from 9:30 to 11 AM. Please feel free to join us. I will post a link in another post. For now here’s the poem.

The Facts of Life
Written by Pádraig Ó Tuama

Listen
That you were born
and you will die.

That you will sometimes love enough
and sometimes not.

That you will lie
if only to yourself.

That you will get tired.

That you will learn most from the situations
you did not choose.

That there will be some things that move you
more than you can say.

That you will live
that you must be loved.

That you will avoid questions most urgently in need of
your attention.

That you began as the fusion of a s***m and an egg
of two people who once were strangers
and may well still be.

That life isn’t fair.
That life is sometimes good
and sometimes even better than good.

That life is often not so good.

That life is real
and if you can survive it, well,
survive it well
with love
and art
and meaning given
where meaning’s scarce.

That you will learn to live with regret.
That you will learn to live with respect.

That the structures that constrict you
may not be permanently constricting.

That you will probably be okay.

That you must accept change
before you die
but you will die anyway.

So you might as well live
and you might as well love.
You might as well love.
You might as well love.

03/12/2026

We are about to start our Sangha meeting. Today’s reflection is on might as well love. No matter what’s going on in our lives, we can get really distracted or caught up or rail against what’s happening. This practice invites us to open with compassion and with gratitude to life. This morning we made to reflect on this. Here is the link to join us. We’re on in one minute so you can come in late.https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vpUlc-6rqTso9GJNhQdxjJpzltOxDwRnzQ

02/24/2026

02/23/2026

🪷When did you first hear about the Walk for Peace monks?🧡🕊️

The Walk for Peace began on
October 26, 2025
at Chùa Hương Đạo (Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center)
in Fort Worth, Texas.

From that quiet temple on E Rosedale Street,
the monks — and their rescue dog Aloka —
began walking 2,300 miles toward Washington, D.C.

🪷 When did this journey first
touch your heart? ❤️


📸 Shared in reverence. Grateful to all who captured these moments. 🙏🏻🧡🕊️
Walk for Peace ✨
I do not claim these beautiful images.🪷