TOPIC FOR Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 Meeting from 7pm – 9pm ET
We will begin with a 45 minute meditation followed by a Dharma talk.
We are presenting a dharma talk series this month on Women of the Dharma! Allie Vaknin will kick it off this Wednesday with a talk on the highly impactful Buddhist Nun, writer, and teacher Pema Chödrön. The following week April Koester will speak on influential Thai Buddhist Upasika Kee Nanayon and on July 23rd Lezlie Laws will speak on Karen Armstrong.
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Meeting ID: 847 1472 3882
Passcode: 620329
We hope you can join us, and we wish you well.
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June 2025 Open Dharma Questions
Once a month, Peter provides an opportunity during the meeting for those participating to ask questions regarding Buddhist concepts and practices. The questions posed during this meeting focus on the “Four Foundations of Mindfulness Discourse”, for example the “noting” method for cultivating insight, compared to practices that first emphasize the cultivation of high levels of concentration called jhana (jah-nah), before developing insight. He reviews the development and integration of the Seven Awakening Factors, facilitated through whole-body meditation practice. He also describes different approaches to cultivating and making use of concentration and the characteristics of what has been termed “big sky mind” and his way of using relaxed curiosity–letting go with every out-breath with a concentrated mind–to have a deeper understanding of sunnata (soon-yah-tah), translated as emptiness–the absence of a separate, enduring self.
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