Wednesday Reading Group

Meditation from 7:30 PM-8 PM.   Book Discussion from 8-9PM

(Zoom Only)

The Reading Group meets to discuss a wide range of books that support making the dharma real in our lives.  The book is always a jumping off place for the discussion of divergent views of how to have the dharma express in our lives.  It will make your experience richer to read the book before our discussion.  Although participants are strongly encouraged to read the books prior to discussion, this is not a requirement.  

We meet on our regular Zoom link (click here) at 7:30 on Wednesday evenings and silently sit together for 30 minutes.  The book discussion is from 8-9 PM. 

Come join us!

Currently Reading:

Casting Indra's Net: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community

about the book:  “In Casting Indra’s Net, Ayo Yetunde draws on her rich experience to apply spiritual practice (much of it Buddhist) to the contemporary tragedy of what she calls ‘mobbery’—our collective failure to address human problems and instead fall back into resentment, tribalism, and violence. With a calm yet insistent voice, she introduces refreshing new concepts like the ‘Platinum Rule’ (an updated Golden Rule that takes difference into account) and ‘koanic’ thinking (an extension of the Zen koan tradition), while providing fresh readings of traditional texts from several religions. All this in service of developing a renewed sense of civility that refuses to settle for complacency in an unjust world. This is a challenging and courageous book.”   —Norman Fischer, author of When You Greet Me I Bow and Selected Poems: 1980–2013

About the Author

PAMELA AYO YETUNDE, J.D., Th.D., is an activist, lay Buddhist teacher, professor, counselor, and writer. She is the co editor of Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom as well as the author of two volumes on pastoral care. She also serves as an associate editor for Lion’s Roar magazine. Ayo has been featured on NBC.com, the Tamron Hall Show, and Sisters of AARP, and she appears regularly in major online summits concerning spirituality and caregiving.   A cofounder of the Center of the Heart, she lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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