NaturalAwareness

03/07/2023

"If people are quiet, they can be quiet anywhere. If people aren't quiet, they won't be quiet here. Everything depends on you. Life is transient, like a flash of lightening or a dream. Eighty years pass like a cloud. We're born, and then we die. But before we receive this form, we had another face, our original face. We can't see it with our eyes. We can only know it with our wisdom. The sutras say, "That which is beyond form is the buddha." We all have the buddha nature. We're all destined to become buddhas. But buddhahood isn't something that can be achieved in a couple of days. You have to practice before you can become aware of your original nature, your original face."

- Chi-ch'eng
From 'Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits' by Bill Porter.
Counterpoint Books, 1993.

02/07/2023

Foundations of Buddhism with George Draffan, part 2: in which we explore the three characteristics of all things, the five phases in every moment of experience, and the 12 links of dependent arising -- three different maps showing how confusion and reactions shape our experience.

This Foundations of Buddhism class is co-sponsored by Dekeling.community and NaturalAwareness.net. This is the second of four classes. In this class we take ...

01/29/2023

The first of four classes on the Foundations of Buddhism is posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jynfBC2eXw . You can register for the rest of the classes at NaturalAwareness.net

Foundations of Buddhism (Class 1 of 4), January 26, 2023. Sponsored by Dekeling.Community and NaturalAwareness.net

12/24/2022

Foundations of Buddhism class ~ Online Thursday evenings from January 26 to February 16 ~ https://www.naturalawareness.net/foundations-of-buddhism

12/24/2022

Sitting and Moving in Awareness ~ Online classes on Tuesdays, Thursday, and last Saturdays https://www.naturalawareness.net/sittingandmoving