Kindling Stone Performs to Benefit the Nashville Buddhist Temple

Saturday, February 7 at 7 p.m. Nashville Friends Meeting House, 530 26th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37209
$10 – call 615-385-1967 for more information
Two-hundred-year-old American sacred songbooks might not be the most obvious place to go looking for guidance on how to find balance in the fast-paced, multi-cultural, high-tech, war-torn, money-driven, political, world of today.
But Kindling [...]

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Reading for February 2

Next Monday Lisa will share some interesting approaches to practice that were reinforced on her retreat, as well share the overall retreat experience. One specific area she plans to talk about is practicing with pleasure and “rapture.” This isn’t something that’s discussed often, but it’s a focus that she feels is quite useful to those [...]

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Event reminder

Don’t forget, One Dharma’s Buddhism study group will meet this Saturday, January 24, at 10:00 a.m.

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Reading for January 26

Tom Neilson’s discussion on non-duality will continue next Monday. The focus will be on applying non-duality to practice. Here are a few quotes:
The great way is not difficult, if you just don’t pick and choose. — Zen koan
What would consistently functioning from oneness look like?  One characteristic of a life lived from a thoroughly nondualistic [...]

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Reading for January 19

On Monday, Tom Neilson will begin a discussion of non-duality. Tom sends the reading, below, from the Tae Te Ching.
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.
Therefore having and not having arise together.
Difficult and easy complement each other.
Long and short [...]

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Reading for January 12

Next Monday we’ll explore Dana Paramita in more depth, focusing on how we practice and manifest it in our own lives.
Dana Paramita
Generosity is the first transcendental perfection, paramita. It is called dana paramita. There are different levels of dana. Giving material help and sharing our good fortune is one level. Preserving, cherishing, and protecting life [...]

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Dharma Study Group Series for January and February

Saturday, January 10, 10-11:30am: “Open Discussion”
Saturday, January 24, 10-11:30am: “Ego and Self”
Saturday, February 14, 10-11:30am: “Karma”
Saturday, February 28, 10-11:30am: “Meditation Discussion”
The One Dharma study group is aimed at helping us learn how to incorporate Buddhist teachings and practices into our everyday lives. It also provides an opportunity for us to better know those of us who [...]

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Reading for January 5

Hello Everyone and happy 2009! We’re going to start the year off with a study on the 6 Paramitas (Perfections). Monday we’ll have an overview of the 6 Paramitas and then explore the Dharmic meaning of the first paramita, “Dana” (generosity). We will be studying a new paramita at the beginning of each month and [...]

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