December 8, 2019
December 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (trans. by Thomas Wright, commentary by Uchiyama Roshi)
Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor
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December 7, 2019
December 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (trans. by Thomas Wright, commentary by Uchiyama Roshi)
Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor
December 5, 2019
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Sangha Donations At the Family Relief Ceremony, two weeks ago, Sangha donated $420 for Oxfam America. Since the Center’s budget this year allowed us to match Sangha donations, a check for $840 was mailed yesterday. Moreover, as part of their Thanksgiving discussion on gratitude, the Sangha kids chose to raise funds themselves for two projects:…
November 30, 2019
Jukai and the Internet
An overview of today’s ceremony of Receiving the Precepts, with a look at how the Internet adds further challenges in upholding the Ten Cardinal Precepts.
November 29, 2019
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Temple Night Tonight, Friday, November 29 Beginning at 7:00 pm, you’re invited to join in our twice-a-year informal sitting in the Buddha Hall (located behind 5 Arnold Park). You are free to sit anywhere (moving your mat as you wish) and to make prostrations and offer incense at any of the altars, as you wish….
November 22, 2019
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Sangha Thanksgiving Dinner Every year, in the midst of our biggest week of Center activities, we invite Sangha as well as friends of Sangha to share in a vegetarian potluck supper at 4 p.m. in the Center’s dining room. If you’d like to join with staff and others on our favorite holiday of the year,…
November 21, 2019
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St. Andrew’s Food Cupboard In the run-up to Thanksgiving, every year, a large basket is placed in the Center’s Link for food (and other) donations. All donations will go to St. Andrew’s Food Cupboard, a local organization dedicated to the needs of the hungry: you can look here for the non-perishable foods and items that…
November 17, 2019
The Buddhist Precepts in the Context of Environmentalism
With our annual ceremony of Receiving the Precepts (Jukai) coming up, here Roshi applies those precepts to the growing threat of climate change and how we might reduce the harm we are inevitably causing to the environment.
November 14, 2019
Kyosei’s Sound of Raindrops
If there had been some kind of answer that Kyosei could give the monk to truly settle his mind, he might have offered it up. We grow into understanding, purifying ourselves all along the way.
November 14, 2019
The Practice of Science, the Practice of Zen
This is where Buddhism can have an effect on the West: because Buddhism changes culture, and culture changes Buddhism. The metaphors and philosophical traditions in Buddhism offer another way to talk about these questions of physics.