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Archive for February, 2009

Reminder

Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The One Dharma study-discussion group will meet tomorrow morning, February 28, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

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Saturday Study Group Topics

Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

One Dharma’s Saturday study group has scheduled its discussion topics through April. The group meets the second and fourth Saturday of each month, 10 – 11:30 a.m. at the 12South Dharma Center. We begin the session with 15 minutes of meditation, then launch into the discussion. The meetings are open and everyone is welcome to [...]

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Reading for February 23

Posted in Readings on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Tom Neilson will facilitate next Monday’s discussion. The subject of his talk will be “What is your question?” and the poem “Self Portrait” is in support of that. It will be a discussion of the questions and concerns that drive each of our individual meditation practices.
Self Portrait
It doesn’t interest me if there [...]

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Upcoming

Posted in Events on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This Saturday, February 14, our  twice monthly Saturday study group will meet at the 12South Dharma Center, 10 – 11:30 a.m. This week’s discussion topic is “karma.” We begin with 15 minutes of meditation. This is an open meeting and everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, email Joshua.huettig@gmail.com
Our once monthly Wednesday practice night [...]

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Reading for February 16

Posted in Readings, tagged , , on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Metta, or lovingkindness, is one of the foundational practices of Buddhism. A prerequisite to effective metta practice is forgiveness, including forgiving ourselves which is often the hardest of all. That’s why we begin our Monday night metta practice with forgiveness. However, forgiveness can’t be forced. Although many of us aspire to be skillful Buddhist practitioners [...]

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Reading for February 9

Posted in Readings, tagged , on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last Monday we didn’t have the time to discuss Dogen’s “To study the self” reading and how to practice with pleasure and rapture. We will return to that on another Monday night. This Monday we’ll focus on the Second Paramita, Ethics, and explore the most significant reason Buddha advocated ethical behavior as a prerequisite to [...]

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