Archive for March, 2010
A Tale of Two Mustard Seeds: Suffering, Faith, and the Spiritual Life by Lisa Ebert
[ May 2, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] Sunday, May 2, 10 a.m.
Dharma talk: A Tale of Two Mustard Seeds:
Suffering, Faith, and the Spiritual Life
by Lisa Ebert
The very small and very common mustard seed plays a leading role in important teachings within both the Buddhist and Christian traditions. In one teaching, the Buddha asks a grieving [...]
Original Buddhism and the Forbidden Path of Bliss
[ June 6, 2010; 10:00 am to 10:50 am. ] Near the eve of his Nibbana, the Bodhisatta considered what true practice could lead to liberation, when a memory of bliss from his childhood arose. “Could that be the path to Awakening?” he wondered. Then came the realization, “Yes, that is indeed the path. So why am I afraid of that bliss…? I am no [...]
Class: “The Path is the Way” with Patrice Koelsch
[ April 6, 2010; 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm. April 13, 2010; 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm. April 20, 2010; 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm. ] This past winter I’ve been invigorated by listening to a series of talks by the heterodox Buddhist scholar and practitioner Stephen Bachelor (“Buddhism Without Beliefs,” “Verses from the Center,” and “Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist”). Inspired by Bachelor’s pragmatic approach to the Buddha’s most basic teachings about day-to-day living, this three-session class will examine the [...]
Patrice Koelsch Dharma Talk: “The Vast Embrace of the Middle Way”
[ April 4, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
-from “When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver
The Buddha’s Middle Way famously lies between the extremes of a life devoted to sensual gratification and a life focused on self-mortification. Often this Path [...]
