Thursday Evening Practice

  • 01 Feb 2024
  • 25 Dec 2025
  • 98 sessions
  • 01 Feb 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 08 Feb 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 15 Feb 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 22 Feb 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
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  • 07 Nov 2024, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
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  • 02 Jan 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
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  • 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)
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  • 27 Mar 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 17 Apr 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 24 Apr 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 01 May 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 08 May 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 15 May 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 31 Jul 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 07 Aug 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 14 Aug 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
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  • 28 Aug 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 04 Sep 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 11 Sep 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 18 Sep 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 25 Sep 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 02 Oct 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 09 Oct 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 16 Oct 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 23 Oct 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 30 Oct 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • 06 Nov 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 13 Nov 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 20 Nov 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 27 Nov 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 04 Dec 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 11 Dec 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 18 Dec 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 25 Dec 2025, 7:30 PM 9:00 PM (EST)
  • 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

 Dec 5th  Attakavagga #7
 Dec 12th  Core Buddhist Concepts - Dependent Origination
 Dec 19th  Dhammapada #5
 Dec 26th  CLOSED
 Jan 2nd  Koans from Mumonkan #20
 Jan 9th  Attakavagga #8
 Jan 16th  Core Buddhist Concepts - TBD
 Jan 23rd  Dhammapada #6
 Jan 30th  Koans from Mumonkan #21

Future Topics

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