Thursday Evening Practice

  • 09 Feb 2023
  • 27 Mar 2025
  • 104 sessions
  • 09 Feb 2023, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 16 Feb 2023, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
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  • 02 Mar 2023, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
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  • 23 Mar 2023, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 16 Nov 2023, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
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  • 28 Dec 2023, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 04 Jan 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
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  • 15 Feb 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 22 Feb 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 29 Feb 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
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  • 14 Mar 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 28 Mar 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 25 Apr 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 02 May 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 09 May 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 16 May 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 30 May 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 06 Jun 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 20 Jun 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 27 Jun 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 11 Jul 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 25 Jul 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 01 Aug 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 05 Sep 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 03 Oct 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 17 Oct 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 31 Oct 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 07 Nov 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 14 Nov 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 21 Nov 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 28 Nov 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 05 Dec 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 12 Dec 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 19 Dec 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 26 Dec 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 02 Jan 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 09 Jan 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 16 Jan 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 23 Jan 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 30 Jan 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 06 Feb 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 13 Feb 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 20 Feb 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 27 Feb 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 06 Mar 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 13 Mar 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 20 Mar 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 27 Mar 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • In Person and Zoom

Thursday Evening Practice

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 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.

This is open to all and no prior knowledge of the source texts - or even of Buddhism! - is required.

Schedule

We are currently (and for the foreseeable future) alternating four streams in these talks - essentially a monthly rotation. This will provide continuity and also variety! There is no need to prepare or read in advance. For the enthusiastic participant, textual references (esp to the Mumonkan and Attakavagga) will allow you to find the source material, should you wish). The four themes are: 
  • Core Buddhist Concepts: Gareth will pick a core Buddhist teaching or concept (eg kamma, emptiness, non-self, the three marks, nibbana/ nirvana) for each of the monthly sessions as the topic for his talk and the subsequent group conversation. 
  • Poems from the Dhammapada, a foundational early Buddhist text, learned by heart by trainee monastics in many Theravadin traditions. Over the centuries it has been used by Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Dogen, and many others, and it continues to offer us profound wisdom and compassion. 
  • Poems from the Attakavagga ("Book of Eights"). This is another early collection of Buddhist teachings. Drawn from the Sutta Nipata, it's name comes from the eight verses in many of the poems. A recurring theme of the poems is not holding to views.
  • Koans from the Mumonkan, which is one of the classic Zen koan collections. Gareth will be using Shibayama's "Zen Comments on the Mumonkan" as the primary text and translation source
Each talk will be self-contained and stand independently, so feel free to drop in occasionally and to not do so when you feel like it. Each of the series of talks will run for several months.

 Dates

Topic/Material

 Sept 26th  Attakavagga #5
 Oct 2rd  Koans from Mumonkan #17
 Oct 10th  Core Buddhist Concepts - "The Jhanas"
 Oct 17th  Dhammapada #3
 Oct 24th  Attakavagga #6 
 Oct 31st  Koans from Mumonkan #18 
 Nov 7th  Core Buddhist Concepts - TBD
 Nov 14th  Dhammapada #4 
 Nov 21st  Attakavagga #7 

Future Topics

Future texts and topics will be announced in advance as the current selections draw to a close..
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