December 13, 2018
Finding Your Seat, Saturday, December 15 The last installment of Finding Your Seat this year will be on Saturday, from 11:00 a.m. to noon. All are welcome, especially beginners who want to continue getting traction with their practice. It’s a very informal, friendly, and practical session where beginners can ask a wide range of questions…
December 2, 2018
A non-Buddhist comes to awakening before the Buddha, sitting in silence, while his longtime disciple Ananda, standing in attendance, remains dumbfounded. How notions of identity can bind us. Who awakens? No one!
November 28, 2018
Sign Language Interpreter for Workshop Thanks to two volunteers from the Rochester Institute of Technology, our Introductory Workshop this Saturday, December 1, will be signed. If you know someone from the deaf community who might like to attend, let him or her know! Arnold Park Temple Cleaning: New Date Because of how the calendar works…
November 27, 2018
On Tuesday, December 10, we’ll hold the annual ceremony that commemorates the Buddha’s great Enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree, complete with sutra reading, chanting, and warm milk-rice in the candle-lit dining room. Sitting begins at 7 pm, and the ceremony will follow at 8:00. Don’t miss this one!
November 24, 2018
The ceremony of Jukai (Taking the Precepts) is basically an initiation into the Dharma. To be a Buddhist is to commit to aligning oneself with what is real–direct experience, not thoughts. It is to see things as they are in order to be with things as they are.
November 23, 2018
Tonight Is Temple Night Beginning around 7:00 this evening (Friday, November 23), you’re invited to join in our twice-a-year informal sitting in the Buddha Hall (right 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…
November 17, 2018
Ceremony of Gratitude Tomorrow Morning, Sunday, November 17 Our Ceremony of Gratitude this year takes place during the regular Sunday sitting (tomorrow morning, starting at 8:30 am). When you come into the Link, note pads and pencils will be out, and you can write a sentence or two about anything you want to give thanks…