***********************************************************************
BSPG News and Meeting (No. 198)
***********************************************************************
Edited by Stony Brook Buddhism Study and Practice Group

News
1. Beginning this week, we will meet at SAC, Room 305.
2. On Thursday, October 24, instead of the regular meeting, we will have Rev. Madeline Ko-i Bastis share her experience of Zen practice with us. She will give a talk entitled "Zen in Everyday Life". Come and learn how Zen practice affects one's life, relationships, and work. Rev. Batis is the founder of the Peaceful Dwelling Project and a very experienced practitioner of Zen meditation. For more information about her, please visit http://www.peacefuldwelling.org/ Everyone is welcome!

Meeting
Thursday, 10/17/2002, 7pm to 8:30pm
Room 311, Student Activities Center
Please be on time!

Words from the Suttas/Sutras
"And, bhikkhus, from what are sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair born? How are they produced? Here, bhikkhus, the uninstructed worlding, who is not a seer of the noble ones and is unskilled and undisciplined in their Dhamma, who is not a seer of superior persons and is unskilled and undisciplined in their Dhamma, regards form as self, or self as possessing form, or form as in self, or self as in form. That form of his changes and alters. With the change and alteration of form, there arise in him sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair. He regards feeling as self ... perception as self ... volitional formations as self ... consciousness as self, ... That consciousness of his changes and alters. With the change and alteration of consciousness, there arise in him sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair." -- Samyutta Nikaya, Khandhasamyutta ("The Connected Discourses of the Buddha" -- A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya by Bhikkhu Bodhi)

Quote of the Week
"Notice the difference between being lost in some mind drama, and then recognizing it as  just a thought.  Instead of judging the fact that we were lost, we can delight in the experience of waking up. Often people misunderstand this point of practice, having the idea that meditation means never having any thoughts. The aim of practice, though, is not that; it is to be aware of thoughts, rather than to be lost in them. Of  course one of the consequences of this awareness is that we often see  these thoughts quickly dissolve,  precisely because we are not lost in them and thus unknowingly feeding them." -- Joseph Goldstein
 

To unsubscribe
e-mail buddhism@ic.sunysb.edu