Continuing practice, where to meditate in Portland
Metro.
PIMC, Portland Insight Meditation Center, "dharma in the streets", this
is a contemporary Insight Meditation center with Sits on Thursday evening and Sunday Morning. See their website for specifics. I have a library, 'The Barking Dog Library' here, see it on the website.
http://portlandinsight.org/
PFOC, Portland Friends Of The Dhamma, a bit more traditional in the 'Thai Forest Tradition', also Insight Meditation and they are sponsoring three monks who live in White Salmon and come to their Center in Sellwood monthly for community Q & A and teaching (http://pacifichermitage.org/). Sit times can be seen on their website.
http://pdxdhamma.org/
Shambala Meditation Center Of Portland, teaches 'mindfulness- awareness meditation and are from lineage in Tibet, following Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
http://portland.shambhala.org/
Also check out a plethora of good mindfulness meditation books especially New Renaissance Bookstore on 23rd and a book called 'Mapping The Dharma' from http://www.paramipress.com/
Many good dharma writings are available free online as downloadable pdf files, that can be converted to e-readers (eg. Amazon Kindle)
Meditation talks are online (Teachers, Talks, Retreats) http://dharmaseed.org/
Follow the meditation procedure I handed out at the beginning or request a new one from me: hwalmer@gmail.com, I'll email it to you.