Thursday Evening Practice

The heart of Buddhist practice - and of Buddha's teaching - is that we can wake up from our everyday experience to "Things-As-It-Is" (to quote Thich Nhat Hanh). This "waking up" is at once both profoundly liberating, and simultaneously the ultimate in intimacy, as connection with everything fills our being. We cultivate the possibility of this awakening by meditating together, by studying together, and by the intention we bring to our practice. Every week on Thursday night Red Clay Sangha offers a practice period, led by Gareth Young, that on the one hand is very ordinary (it's much like all our practice), but on the other hand is special (as special as any moment) and is pointed in this direction of awakening.

Here's what we're currently working with and what is coming up:

Location and Logistics

This is a hybrid event: in person at our Hospital Drive location, and also on Zoom at our regular Zoom link (click here). We begin at 7:30 and sit together for 40 minutes. After this Gareth will read and offer a talk about a segment of source material (e.g. a sutta/ sutra, or extract, or a practice text), then open up for questions, reflections and discussion. We finish up the evening with a short period of metta practice.

Future Topics

• Pure Land Sutras, Doctrine and Practices
• Sattipatthana Sutta and Practices