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BSPG News and Meeting (No. 159)
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Edited by Stony Brook Buddhism Study and Practice Group

News
Prof. Robert Thurman will be speaking at Stony Brook on Wednesday, December 5,  from 12:40pm to 2:10pm.
 

Meeting
SAC 308
7pm, Thursday, 11/29/01
PLEASE BE ON TIME
 

Words from the Suttas/Sutras
"Learned Audience, those who train themselves for 'imperturbability' should, in their contact with all types of men, ignore the faults of others. They should be indifferent to others' merit or demerit, good or evil, for such an attitude accords with the 'imperturbability of the Essence of Mind'. Learned Audience, a man unenlightened may be unperturbed physically, but as soon as he opens his mouth he criticizes others and talks about their merits or demerits, ability or weakness, good or evil; thus he deviates from the right course. On the other hand, to dwell upon our own mind or upon purity is also a stumbling-block in the Path. "
--The Sutra of Hui Neng (SUTRA SPOKEN  BY THE SIXTH PATRIARCH ON THE HIGH SEAT OF  "THE TREASURE OF THE LAW" )
 

Quote of the Week
"Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering."
--Ajahn Chah
 

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