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Friday Night Schedule
- Wake Up to Your Life on the first and third Fridays.
- Buddha's Basics on the second and fourth Fridays.
- Wild Card on fifth Fridays
You are welcome to attend any and all sessions.
Friday nights, 7-9 pm. Doors open at 6:45.
1716A Linden Avenue (door on the right)
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The self-arisen wisdom, which is also called bodhichitta, is not something that has been fabricated, a new product created by the conjunction of causes and conditions. It never has changed, never changes, and never will change. The absolute nature remains what it is, perfectly pure, at all times. Even if it appears obscured for impure beings at the start of the path, it has never actually been obscured. If it seems to be a mixture of pure and impure during the course of the path, it in fact always remains pure. And at the time of the result, perfect enlightenment, it is simply the same ground nature made evident and not something new that was not there before. So even though all the hallucinations that make up existence fall like rain from the sky, it cannot affect one's confidence: the kinglike bodhichitta that is the doer-of-everything will never be stained or dampened.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
From Zurchungpa's Testament
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This Friday is Buddha's Basics, and we continue exploring the context in which Buddha's teachings arose. This week we will watch an episode of The Story of India, a PBS Home Video documentary, in which the story of Buddha is told in context with the geography and culture of India.