A bit of program news: now that Sunday mornings are open, we've refocused the teachings on Wednesday evenings. While both meetings continue to be fully open for drop-in and occasional visits, the teachings offered on Wednesday night will now be more in the nature of a Dharma Seminar than weekly Dharma talks on a variety of topics.

By "Dharma Seminar" I mean: the talks will go more deeply into traditional sources of Buddhist wisdom and often they will be offered as a series of 4-6 talks on one topic.

Through February I'll be offering four talks on the Heart Sutra - a core text we chant all the time but also a tricky one to make heads or tails of. It's deeply packed with references to a long list of teachings in Buddhist psychology and consciousness. 

While reading is not required, if you'd like to engage more fully in that way, the book I most recommend is Thich Nhat Hanh's earlier book on the Heart Sutra entitled The Heart of Understanding. A study guide you can read online is also available. I'll be bringing printed copies to the temple as well. This guide lists additional books I find helpful.

Look forward to Kanho Chris unpacking another traditional text, The Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi, in April or May during Wednesday Dharma Seminar.