Guest Speaker the First
Monday, February 25, 2008
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Hi everyone, As we start to wind down the quarter we want to remind you that we are only just beginning - our guest speaker series, that is! During our regular meeting this Tuesday, February 26th (5:30, at the UCC at 633 Gayley) we'll be exploring the concept of karma with Akasa Levi, a local Buddhist teacher, followed by a chance to ask questions and our usual meditation. We'd love to see you all there! Akasa's website can be found at http://zentrance.com/ for those of you who would like to check it out. Keep your eyes peeled for a couple more links and articles from Kusala available for download off of this website in the next few days. Have a great week!
Posted by Meghan Zero
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Guide to Next Week's Movie, and a Lecture
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
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Hello everyone!
At next week's meditation meeting (Tuesday, Feb 12 at 5:30) we will be viewing a documentary movie that Rev. Kusala has been speaking about recently, "Aliens from Spaceship Earth," which features a 1970's perspective on the search for spiritual fulfillment. It sounds pretty interesting! Kusala has put together a guide to the film featuring bios for each of the figures presented, feel free to take a look at it when you get a chance.
Click here to download a pdf copy of the guide to Aliens from Spaceship Earth!
Also, just as a reminder, some information on the lecture on the Shwegyin monastics of Burma offered by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies this Friday:
Friday, February 08, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
The recent political turmoil in Myanmar suggests an urgent need to understand the religious worlds that have been and are transmitted within various Buddhist monastic traditions in that country. Attention needs to be given to those traditions, their histories and development, and their explicit and implicit roles in the crisis of power that grips Myanmar. This talk will take up this task in light of one of the most important Burmese monastic traditions, the Shwegyin. Discussing Shwegyin conceptions of socio-religious continuity and rupture, it will argue that the Shwegyin tradition helps promote a sophisticated religious world that simultaneously inhibits and promotes political change.
Have a great week everybody!
Posted by Meghan Zero
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