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BSPG News and Meeting (No. 189)
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Edited by Stony Brook Buddhism Study and Practice Group

News
We will meet at room 304 of the Student Activities Center from 7pm to 8:30pm on Friday instead of Wednesday.

Meeting
Friday, 7/12, 7pm to 8:30pm
Room 304, Student Activities Center
Please be on time!

Words from the Suttas/Sutras
"Virtuous man, this ignorance has no real substance. It is like a person in a dream. Though the person exists in the dream, when [the dreamer] awakens, there is nothing that can be grasped. Like an [illusory] flower in the sky that vanishes into empty space, one cannot say that there is a fixed place from which it vanishes. Why? Because there is no place from which it arises! Amidst the unarisen, all sentient beings deludedly perceive birth and extinction. Hence this is called the turning wheel of birth and death." -- Sutra of Complete Enlightenment.

Quote of the Week
"... I should like you to reflect on how many ways you are now moving through space. You have a speed of about 1,000 miles an hour round the polar axis of the earth. You are rushing with the earth at about 70,000 miles an hour along its pathway round the sun ... On top of all this you have a huge speed of nearly 1,000,000 miles an hour due to your motion around the galaxy." -- Fred Hoyle, The Nature of the Universe
 

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