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BSPG News and Meeting (No. 148)
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Edited by Stony Brook Buddhism Study and Practice Group

Please take a moment of silence to pray for the victims of the terrorist attacks when you read this newsletter. May people find strength and forbearance in this time of suffering; may the fire of hatred be extinguished.

Meeting
SAC 308
7pm, Thursday, 9/13/01
PLEASE BE ON TIME

Words from the Suttas/Sutras
"All beings tremble before violence.
All fear death.
All love life.
See yourself in others.
Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?"--Dhammapada

Quote of the Week
"With inhalation one imagines that all the suffering, the causes of suffering and the bad karma that beings have are drawn into oneself with the incoming breath, in the form of black light rays. These black rays enter and merge into oneself, so one thinks that one has taken on the suffering of all other beings. Thus this Sending & Taking meditation involves giving away happiness and taking on suffering, in combination with one's breathing."--Thrangu Rinpoche, a talk on Tonglen (Sending and Taking)

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