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Sunday Sangha – 14th September 2025

This session is led by Ruth King.

Start Time: 11 am PDT (LA) / 2 pm EDT (NY) / 7 pm BST (London) / 8 pm CEST (Paris). 90-minute live session.

This week’s theme: Forgiveness: The Practice of Returning to Love

A heart rooted in compassion longs to uplift and free all beings. Yet holding such a heart is not always easy. We stumble, we protect, we carry wounds. In our time together, we’ll explore forgiveness as an act of self-compassion—a way to meet our own suffering with kindness, and to restore the dignity that pain may have diminished.

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Ruth King

Ruth King is an international teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition, and an emotional wisdom author and life coach. She is on the Teacher’s Council at Insight Meditation Community of Washington and Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and is the founder of Mindful Members Insight Meditation Community in Charlotte, NC.
 A world traveler and former executive of organizational development at Intel Corporation, Ruth offers talks on The Racial Awareness Rubik and the Mindful of Race Training program, which blends mindfulness principles and meditation with an exploration of our racial conditioning, its impact, and our potential.

Ruth has a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology and is the author of several publications including Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible and Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From The Inside Out.

Ruth, African American and native Californian, living over 25 years in Berkeley, CA, currently resides in Charlotte, NC, with life partner, Dr. Barbara Riley, and cat, Mr. Socks. www.RuthKing.net

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