Self, Meditating

By Robert Wright
This Friday I’m heading up to rural Massachusetts in hopes of getting born again — again.
Six years ago, in the same locale, I attended my first and only silent meditation retreat. It was just about the most amazing experience of my life. Certainly it seemed more dramatic than my very first born-again experience [...]

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Reading for August 31

Realizing our Nature as Both Emptiness and Love
excerpted from Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
In Mahayana Buddhism, the open, wakeful emptiness of awareness is our absolute nature. Our original nature is changeless, unconditioned, timeless and pure. When we bring this awareness to the relative world of form, love awakens. We meet the ever-changing stream of life [...]

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Reminder: Saturday study group

Our Saturday study group will meet tomorrow from 10 – 11:30 a.m. at 12South Dharma Center. Our focus of study is the “Dhammapada.” This is an open group and everyone is welcome to attend for dharma study and informal discussion.

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Reading for August 24

Being Patient with Disillusionment and Boredom
excerpted from “The Mind and The Way”
by Ajahn Sumedho
Sometimes people come to monasteries when they are really inspired, and they say they want to dedicate their entire lives to the Dharma. But they should watch out – anyone who is that high is going to be disillu­sioned and depressed in [...]

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August Meeting Schedule

Monday Practice Night
One Dharma will meet each Monday in August, 7 – 8:30 p.m. for sitting, dharma talks and discussion.
Thursday “Just Sit” Night,
6:30 – 7:30 p.m, sitting and informal discussion.
August 6 and August 20
Saturday Study Group
10 – 11:30 a.m., studying the Dhammapada.
August 8, chapters 1 and 2
August 22, chapters 3 and 4
There is no cost [...]

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Reading for August 10

The Path of One Dharma
excerpted from the book One Dharma by Joseph Goldstein
Over the years, different schools and traditions have empha­sized one aspect of Buddha’s teaching or the other, sometimes dismissing the alternate perspective altogether. The path of One Dharma understands that each of these truths-the relative and the ultimate-is the expression of the [...]

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Upcoming Event at 12South Dharma Center

Dharma Talk by Sanchi Reta Lawler
Coming Full Circle, a Contemplative Approach to Death and Dying
Wednesday, August 12, 7pm
Our culture offers very little effective guidance to the Dying Time, and we are often caught unaware, uneducated, and un-practiced as to the terrain of this most poignant Initiation.  As with all passages, whether it be [...]

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