Buddhism Study & Practice Group Living Chan Workshop April 30, 2011

Workshop Highlights:
Karma
At each present moment we can choose either happiness or suffering. In our actual lives, at each present moment, all the people and all the objects we have contact with in our environment give rise various feelings of happiness or suffering in us. The physical and mental karma produced in each present moment can be chosen through the concepts and practices of living Chan.

Image of Mind
Many people continuously and repeatedly dwell on unhappy memories of the past. Through the concepts and practices of Living Chan, they come to the realization that these memories do not represent the present reality, allowing them to break free of the past and start anew. Flier »

Abbot Guo-Xing Fashi, a Dharma heir of the renowned Chan Master Sheng Yen, was ordained in Taiwan in 1986. In 1991, he entered solitary retreat in Thailand, studying Theravada meditation. He returned to Taiwan, and for the next 20 years assisted Master Sheng Yen in leading over 50 meditation retreats in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States, including a 49-day retreat at the Dharma Drum Retreat Center in Pine Bush, NY. The Rev. Guo Xing Fashi has been a resident teacher at the Dharma Drum Retreat Center since 2008, and Abbot of the Chan Meditation Center, Elmhurst, NY since 2009.

Nancy Bonardi began practicing meditation with Chan Master Sheng-Yen of Dharma Drum Mountain in 1978. She has been teaching beginning and intermediate meditation and conducting many one-day retreats at the Chan Meditation Center for years.

Please wear comfortable clothing and arrive by 9:00 am. Bring a cushion, towel, socks.

To register, email: haideelee@yahoo.com