Thursday Evening Practice

This is a hybrid event: in person at our Hospital Drive location, and also on Zoom at our regular Zoom link (click here). We begin at 7:30 and sit together for 40 minutes. After this Gareth will offer a talk about a segment of source material (e.g. a sutta/ sutra, or extract, or a practice text), then open up for questions, reflections and discussion.

This is open to all and no prior knowledge of the source texts - or even of Buddhism! - is required.

Schedule

• Koans from the Mumonkan, using Shibayama's "Zen Comments on the Mumonkan" as the primary text (though it is by no means necessary to have a copy: Gareth will cover all the necessary material in the class)
• Poems of awakening by Indian and Chinese women and nuns. The primary texts Gareth will be drawing from are "First Buddhist Women" by Susan Murcott and "Daughters of Emptiness" by Beata Grant. As for the Mumonkan sessions, there is no need to own or to have read the books; Gareth will cover all the necessary material.
  

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