THE “LETTING GO” POSTER & HOW TO BUY ONE

In 2009, Steve Armstrong, a senior insight meditation teacher in the U.S. and a co-founder of the Vipassana Metta Foundation, gave a Dharma talk at a retreat in northern Minnesota.

In his talk, Steve defined the ten “paramis” or “perfections of character” in Buddhism, as practices of letting go.

The parami of “patience,” Steve defined as “letting go of expectations and that things need to be done ‘my way.’”

The parami of “energy,” he defined as “letting go of procrastination and laziness.”

I was a yogi at that retreat and scribbled down Steve’s ten letting go teachings.

A few weeks later, in a Dharma talk that I gave at the Rochester Meditation Center in Rochester, MN, I read Steve’s list of letting go practices to the sangha. After the talk, several yogis asked me to type them up and send them to the Rochester sangha by email—which I did.

A month later, a magical thing happened.

One hundred beautifully-designed Letting Go posters arrived in the mail.

The posters had been designed and printed by Karen E. McCall, a graphic artist in Minneapolis, MN, who had not been at my Dharma talk, and had never been to the Rochester Meditation Center.

She’d apparently received my email from a friend of a friend—I never learned who. She loved the letting go practices so much, she was inspired to design, print, and donate the posters.

Today, the “Letting Go” poster hangs in hundreds of homes in southeast Minnesota, and in a sprinkling of places around the U.S. Especially, they are found throughout the Pacific Northwest, near the Cloud Mountain Retreat Center, where Steve and his partner, Kamala Masters, often teach and lead retreats.

The poster is so beautiful, so profound, and so useful a spiritual teaching, we’d love to see it hanging on walls all around the U.S. and the world.

They are 11’ x 17’ and framable.

If you would like one, send $25 to my PayPal account, or by a check made out to Doug McGill, to Doug McGill / PO Box 6513 / Rochester, MN 55903. A discount is available if you buy more than one.

Be sure to let me know your mailing address when you pay, and I’ll send you a poster ASAP.

With love 🙏☀️

Doug

dougmcgill.com / Daily Life Meditation / doug@dougmcgill.com