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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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"On Buddhism" Series at FUUN
 June 8 - 22
First Unitarian Universalist Church 1808 Woodmont Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37215-1574
Thoreau Meditation Room
Now you can catch the Robert Thurman series on either our "Buddha's Basic" Fridays or on the following three Wednesday nights at First Unitarian Universalist Church... or both!
What was Buddha like? What did he actually teach? And what role did spiritual community play in his vision of enlightenment? These questions encompass "the three jewels" of Buddhism - The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. In Robert Thurman's three-part lecture series, "On Buddhism," each of these is brought into focus, providing an extremely thorough introduction to the philosophy, theology, and history of Buddhism.
Thurman is well-known as a professor of Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University, having also translated The Tibetan Book of the Dead into English. Each session includes one of his scholarly but entertaining lectures, followed by discussion facilitated by Rita Frizzell. Don't worry if you can't make every session; each one stands on its own.
June 8: the Buddha as the teacher of enlightenment
June 15: the Dharma as the teaching, or enlightenment itself;
June 22: the Sangha as the historical and current community of learners seeking to become Buddhas.
Park in the parking lot behind the church. Enter the main door going into the house part of the building. The Thoureau meditation room will be down the hall to the left.
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In the face of reality's illumination
There is neither self nor other,
No duality, no division-void of identity
And yet neither void
Nor not void,
Theres no perceiver at all.
Eh Ma!
Until a mountain yogi
Has realized well the meaning of this,
He should not disparage cause and result!
Drinking the Mountain Stream: Songs of Tibets Beloved Saint, Milarepa
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Void is about space, the sky, the still point of the turning world, the space which allows things to move, take form, come into being. Too strong and it's the end of the world, earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanoes and hurricanes, one on top of the other. Too weak and it's like death, the dissolution of any form of being, dull, blank, nothing. In reaction, it manifests as confusion and bewilderment. In response, it is presence, the indescribable experience of things just being what they are.