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BSPG News and Meeting (No. 158)
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Edited by Stony Brook Buddhism Study and Practice GroupNews
1. There is no meeting this week.
2. Prof. Robert Thurman will be speaking at Stony Brook on Wednesday, December 5, from 12:40pm to 2:10pm.
3. In the last issue of our newsletter, it was mentioned that "there has been a serious shortage of blood." This statement needs to be clarified. The surge of blood donations in response to the September 11th terrorist attacks has eased the chronic blood supply problem that had occasionally forced the cancellation of nonemergency medical procedures. However, as blood is perishable, blood supply needs to be continually replenished. For more information regarding blood donation, please visit http://www.nybloodcenter.org/ and check out the following news article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A47137-2001Sep17Meeting
No meeting this weekWords from the Suttas/Sutras
"It is proper for you, Kalamas, to doubt, to be uncertain; uncertainty has arisen in you about what is doubtful. Come, Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise; nor upon an axiom; nor upon specious reasoning; nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over; nor upon another's seeming ability; nor upon the consideration, 'The monk is our teacher.' Kalamas, when you yourselves know: 'These things are bad; these things are blamable; these things are censured by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill,' abandon them."--Anguttara Nikaya III.65, Kalama Sutta
Quote of the Week
"The harder you practice, the deeper you will penetrate your mind. You will be able to distinguish different levels of experience, just as you can now differentiate between seeing water, drinking water, jumping into water, and becoming water."--Master Sheng-yenTo unsubscribe
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