Touching the Earth, Waking Up
with Michael Scott Stevens, Guest Speaker
Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 at 10 a.m.

The symbolic story of Buddha’s awakening mirrors the universal teachings of nature. When we are truly reunited with the ground of wisdom we wake up to unimpeded compassion and liberate the boundaries of ego. We dedicate our life to be of benefit to all beings equally.

Michael Scott Stevens is founder/director of the Natural Mind Dharma Center, a Vajrayana Buddhist community. Michael arrived to his home in Vajrayana Buddhism following a degree in Comparative Religions, graduate work in theology and clinical psychology, and twenty years studying and teaching yoga. Michael opened the first yoga studio in Bend in the early 1980s. In the early 90s he discovered his spiritual home when studying with Tibetan Buddhist masters in the Nyingma tradition. Michael’s spiritual mentors encouraged him to write and teach which led to the founding of the Natural Mind Dharma Center in 1996.

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In 1820 in Boston, Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing said, “Religion, we are told, is a private, personal thing, between the individual and God. His neighbor or the community must not meddle with it… I would maintain that religion is eminently a social principle…

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Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations draw on elements of a variety of religious traditions, as well as humanitarian and environmental values, for our spiritual inspiration and practice. UUs have a diversity of beliefs, and may identify as humanists, atheists, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, pagan, something else, or nothing at all. As we celebrate diversity, we also have a set of core beliefs that unite us.

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