Dharma Talk Series Non Violent Communication and Eightfold Path

Beginning Sunday, 7 October 2018 I will be starting a new series of Dharma talks during our regular Sunday service.  This series will cover the principles of Non Violent Communication, NVC, as a tool to help inform and practice the Buddhist principles of the Eightfold Path. Our services are streamed live and you are welcome to join us on Zoom.  Simply click this link https://zoom.us/j/7772921161 to join the service.  If you have Zoom on your computer…

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Contemplating Disease – Part 12b – Ten Characteristics – October 1, 2018

Utilization is up next.  While it is important to have faith, to have good medicine, to have good doctors, and to have a good treatment plan none of them have any value in themselves unless we put them to use.  Faith without practice is a three legged stool missing a leg, and will eventually sooner over later will certainly topple over.  The three pillars of our Buddhist practice is faith, practice, and study.  It does…

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Three Column Journal & Part II Lecture on Why We Recite 10 Suchnesses Three Times – September 30, 2018

Three Column Journal and Part II Lecture on Ten Suchnesses Audio Recording The Dharma talk from today’s service covers two topics.  The main portion of the talk is about a journal format I am hoping folks will endeavor to use diligently through the remainder of the year.  At the end of the year I am hoping that folks will share there feedback noting any changes that have taken place in their behaviors since they first…

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Contemplating Disease – Part 12a – Ten Characteristics – 30 September 2018

In the previous section I gave a quote from Chih-I in which he talks about a free method of managing illness, one that doesn’t take much time, which can be done without any side effects, and may be taken with out limit.  He laments that in spite of all the benefits of this offering people refuse to partake.  In the Lotus Sutra in the parable of the Gem in the Robe we learn that the…

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