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Cultivate Community

Give (Dāna)

Your generosity sustains our collective liberation. Healing and awakening are communal acts. Supporting this sacred work is a radical act of love. Every gift plants a seed for the well-being of all beings.

Sangha Service

Serving the Sangha with love, presence, and purpose. Service helps maintain the temple and support the community, creating a steady and welcoming space for all who practice. It is a way of cultivating reciprocity, where intentions and actions meet with presence and shared responsibility.

Sangha in da Streets

We carry practice beyond the cushion and into our neighborhoods. Through mutual aid and solidarity, we walk together, share food, basic resources and hold each other through grief and joy. Liberation is never solitary. Sangha in da Streets is how we gather in stillness and song, in dance and lament, offering companionship in suffering and celebrating where joy rises. Boundless love in action. Liberation in practice.

Host An Event

Our doors are open for individuals, groups, and organizations who wish to host their own gatherings at Sangha House. From retreats and ceremonies to cultural events and community circles, our space is available for those aligned with values of care, mindfulness, and collective well-being.

Offer to Sangha

We invite you to host an offering with the Sangha, joining in the rhythm of our shared practice and community life. Whether through workshops, story, circles, or community celebrations, your contribution becomes a living act of care that nurtures healing, honors culture, and strengthens the path of collective liberation we walk together.

Talking Drum

The Talking Drum is our community newsletter—a space for messages, updates, and reflections from the heart of the Sangha. Like the traditional African talking drum, it carries rhythm and meaning across distance, keeping us connected through the pulse of practice, presence, and collective memory.

This is how we call each other in, how we share what’s unfolding, and how we echo the truth that we are not alone on this path.

Sign up to receive:

  • Sangha updates and upcoming offerings
  • Teachings, reflections, and community voices
  • Ways to stay connected, involved, and nourished

Resourcing Sacred Work

Your generosity supports the sacred work that makes healing and awakening possible.

Service Needs 

Sangha House is a community-rooted temple, sustained through generosity, collective presence, and the steady rhythm of shared offering. If you’d like to offer your support to help sustain our mission of collective healing towards liberation, we deeply appreciate and need your assistance with current projects and planning for future ones. If you’re interested, please email ab****@*************la.com or call or text Venerable Dayananda at (504) 407-1055.

Ways You Can Help:

  • Nourishment Runner (offering shopping for the Sangha)
  • Digital Steward (website and tech support)
  • Groundskeeping and maintenance
  • General household needs and assistance
  • Opening the Circle – Weekly Preparation (starting at 5:15 PM, Tuesdays & Thursdays)
  • Freedom Library (organizing and systems support)
  • Land stewardship (weeding, watering, planting, garden care)
  • Assisting with special events
  •  Designing promotional and marketing items
  • Sound and Vision Keeper (audio and video production)
  • Supporting fundraising efforts
  • Wordweaver (newsletter, captions, emails, and announcements) 
  • Donor Steward (CRM support: Givebutter)
  • Social Media Steward 
  • Grant writing and research
  • Outreach Steward (collaborations, proposals)
  • Admin assistant support

 

We welcome all skills and talents! Don’t see your area of interest or support here? Please email ab****@*************la.org to share how your unique gifts can help.

Wishlist For Sangha

Items currently needed (Updated October 28th, 2025)

FOOD 

Our wish is to eat nutritious, living foods that contain light and are minimally processed. A vegan plant based diet keeps us lifted in our bodies, well being and spiritual practice. We gladly accept and will receive all that is offered in the spirit of generosity. Our preferences are only that preferences..

  • Almond Flour
  • Organic Fruit- grapes, citrus, melon and berries
  • Organic Vegetables-cruciferous
  • Coconut Water  (0 Sugar)
  • Organic Tea bags & loose leaf
  • Spring Water
  • Oat Milk 0 sugar Planet Oat  (Half Carton) 
  • Coconut Milk (can)
  • Coconut Cream (can)
  • Pasta Sauce (0Sugar)
  • Oyster Mushrooms, Lions Mane, Shitake, Portobello
  • Raw Unroasted & Unsalted-Cashews, Pistachios, Brazil Nuts, Pumpkin Seeds, Walnuts, Hazelnuts
  • Hemp Hearts
  • Nutritional Yeast
  • Organic nut butters-cashew, almond, peanut
  • Organic Spices
  • Organic Grapeseed, Olive and Coconut oils
  • Bob’s Mill Baking Soda
  • Raw Organic Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar
  • Cleaning vinegar (gallons)
  • Monk fruit sugar
  • Blue corn chips
  • Pink Himalayan Salt
  • Sustainable Espresso or Ground-Dark Coffee-organic when possible

Audio & Video Equipment

We would like to enhance our ability to be hybrid and record our events.

  • Dharma Hall Equipment/LiveStream
  • Cameras
  • Whiteboards
  • Projector Screen
  • Wireless Microphones
  • Camera Stand

Cleaning Supplies

When able please offer sustainable and non toxic cleaning supplies. In gratitude

  • Lint rollers
  • Bona 
  • Odoban 
  • Mrs. Meyer’s Hand Soap
  • Mrs. Meyer’s Dish Soap
  • Mrs. Meyer’s Multi Surface Cleaner
  • Sponges
  • Glass Cleaner
  • Paper Towels
  • 15 Gallon Kitchen Tall Trash Bags
  • Murphy’s Oil
  • Resolve(Spray n Wash) Stain Stick for Laundry
  • Seventh Generation Laundry Soap or any Sustainable Laundry Soap
  • Dr Bronner’s-Peppermint, Lavender, tea tree

Other Supplies  

  • AAA Batteries
  • AA Batteries
  • Wipes sanitary and disinfecting

Venerable Dayananda

  • Harry’s Razors
  • Organic Black Jamaican Castor Oil
  • Organic Essential Oils-Tea Tree, Peppermint, Lavender, Clove, Eucalyptus, Shea Butter
  • Black Soap
  • Dr Bronners

Upekkha-Temple Cat

  • Orijen Dry Cat Food
  • Freeze Dried Chicken Treats
  • Freeze dried Orijen food 
  • Delectable squeezes
  • Friskies Can (Gravy Lovers Only)

Library

  • Books from our wishlist.
  • Organizing Bins
  • Original Nandita Incense
  • Copal Resin Incense – Peruvian Negro Black
  • Organic Frankincense Resin
  • Organic Myrrh Resin
  • Charcoal Disks

Dharma Hall

  • Cloud Drum
  • Bees Wax Candles
  • Chinese Canon
  • Nikayas
  • Nag Champa Incense
  • Resin
  • Bic-Lighters & Torches

Hurricane Supplies

  • Canned goods, freeze-dried and high-energy snacks (nuts, granola bars)
  • Manual can opener
  • Solar chargers, power banks, or generators
  • Spare batteries and power sources for phones and lights
  • Blankets, tarps, and supplies to stay warm and dry
  • Sanitation supplies (wet wipes, hand sanitizer, trash bags)
  • Basic tools for repair and survival (multi-tools, duct tape, rope)
  • Wipes for hygiene 
  • Matches/ lighters 
  • Ready-to-eat canned meats
  • Canned vegetables
  • Non-perishable food
  • Fruit bars or granola bars 
  • Dry cereal or granola. 
  • Peanut butter 
  • Dried fruit
  • Almond milks
  • Oat milk 
  • Canned juices
  • Non-perishable pasteurized milk 
  • High-energy foods or protein bars 
  • Food for infants jar/formula  
  • Paper towels 
  • Toilet paper
  • Aluminum foil plastic storage containers 
  • Charcoal
  • Butane and Propane
  • Toothbrush and paste
  • Deodorant
  • Menstrual supplies and other personal hygiene items
  • Baby wipes
  • Washcloths/ bandanas for sweat
  • Spring Water
  • Utility knife
  • Flashlight & extra batteries -all sizes needed 
  • Fire extinguisher (3) 
  • Pliers
  • Duct tape
  • Compass
  • Signal flare
  • Shut-off wrench or pliers (for turning off gas and water)
  • Crow bar or hatchet
  • Whistle
  • Glow sticks
  • Battery operated or solar candles/lights
  • Paper plates and cups
  • Plastic covering/sheeting tarp
  • Printed maps
  • Battery -powered or hand crank radio
  • Clorox wipes 
  • Weather radio
  • Generator 
  • Solar Power Stations/ Cell phone charger stations
  • Bug spray/Citronella.
  • Battery-powered fan
  • Spray bottle with water or lavender oil to cool off and keep mosquitos away
  • Axe 
  • Dog food & treats

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