draco@meditate hello! I'm here now.
I'm meditating as part of my polytheist practice, and currently contemplating how I can better align my meditation practice with my values around social justice.
Mage of Aquarius⛢
slowest storm 🌬@Mage_of_Aquarius Hi, nice to meet you! I'm interested in buddhism since thee end of 2021, through reading books about meditation by buddhists. how did you get started with Buddhism? and what "school" did you find for yourself? (Assuming you're not born into it and at one point chose to become Buddhist).
@distel I'm not technically born into Buddhism. My cultural background is part Chinese but I got interested in Buddhism when I was 18 and I took both eastern and western religious studies courses in university. Western didn't really keep my attention but all the Eastern religious stuff was absolutely fascinating. I started practicing meditation then and have been more and less consistent with it ever since. There is a local non-denominational meditation group that I've practiced with for several years, and even been on retreat with them and taken Boddhisattva vows.
I'm non-denominational. I self-study all forms of Buddhism. I like to point people to the principles of One-Practice Samadhi:
https://www.dailyzen.com/journal/one-practice-samadhi/
I also recommend the Great Compassion Mantra.
If you check out my Linktree I have a Discord server where you can connect with a handful of other Buddhists who hang out there. (It's a pretty quiet server but folks tend to come out of hiding with helpful insights if you need to connect to Sangha.)
@Mage_of_Aquarius thank you 
this is encouraging. in my city district there is a non-denominational Buddhist group too, I heard about them because they ordered bread from our bakery sometimes. I feel encouraged to try to join their meditation group now. and I'm going to read that link too.
this is encouraging. in my city district there is a non-denominational Buddhist group too, I heard about them because they ordered bread from our bakery sometimes. I feel encouraged to try to join their meditation group now. and I'm going to read that link too.