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Buddhist Service and Classes at
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville
 A Sunday service and a series of six classes are coming up which related to the Bodhisattva path of Mahayana Buddhism:
Sunday, September 26: Sunday service focusing on Radical Interdependence and the Bodhisattva Path, with talks by Rita Frizzell, minister Gail Seavey, and Cathy Chang and Buddhist-themed music from the FUUN choir (including the Heart Sutra).
The Six Perfections: The Bodhisattva Path of Awakening
Six weeks: Wednesday nights, September 29-November 3
Fireside Room (in the main building)
According to Mahayana Buddhism, awakened mind naturally manifests in our experience as the Six Perfections: generosity, ethics, patience, effort, meditation and wisdom. Practicing the perfections as path puts us in touch with our own humanity, which gives us compassion for others, allowing wisdom to arise naturally.
Join Rita Frizzell as we explore one of the perfections each week: Generosity (Sept. 29), Ethics (Oct. 6), Patience ((Oct. 13), Joyful effort (Oct. 20), Meditation (Oct. 27), Wisdom (Nov. 3).
If you want to come for dinner, join us at 6:00. $7 for dinner, no cost for class.
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville
Located at 1808 Woodmont Blvd near the intersection of Woodmont and Hillsboro in the Green Hills area of Nashville, not far from Rita's house. The entrance to the building can be surprisingly challenging for visitors to find. It is on the rear side of the church, near the top of the hill (on the northwest side). To get to the Fireside Room, enter the door on the left and continue down the hall and to the right. For questions, call Rita at 615-463-2374
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Reading the Koran Aloud · Interfaith Opportunity
We will be reading Koran at an event organized by Interfaith Coalition of Nashville at Sevier Park, in Nashville on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 at 1:30 PM. Please join us at 1:30. and stand with Muslim Americans and read aloud the English translation of the Koran, affirming that we will not stand by silently while others perpetrate un-American acts of hate in the name of patriotism or religion.
Invited: All people -- of any faith or no faith
Please join us in standing up for religious coexistence
Where: Sevier Park in the 12South neighborhood
When: 1:30p.m. on Saturday, September 11 |
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Quote of the Week
Enlightenment is real; and each of us, whoever we are, can in the right circumstances and with the right training realize the nature of mind and so know in us what is deathless and eternally pure. This is the promise of all the great mystical traditions of the world, and it has been fulfilled and is being fulfilled in countless thousands of human lives.
The wonder of this promise is that it is something not exotic, not fantastic, not for an elite, but for all of humanity; and when we realize it, the masters tell us, it is unexpectedly ordinary.
Spiritual truth is not something elaborate and esoteric, it is in fact profound common sense. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.
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