Meditation and Dharma Talk in Mt. Kisco on Wednesday

Wednesday evening meditation at the Center for Health and Healing 4 Smith Ave, 2nd Fl, Mount Kisco, NY 10549, meets at 7pm January, 18th. We begin with two 20-25 minute sessions of sitting practice, followed by a dharma talk based upon the book The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation by Chogyam Trungpa, with discussion. Meditation instruction is provided for those that want it in a separate room.

This week’s talk will be on the fundamental and most challenging teaching of Buddhism, that of "egolessness". It will be based upon pages 12-15 of the book. Please join us and bring your reservations and struggles with this notion!

“The effort to secure our happiness, to maintain ourselves in relation to something else, is the process of ego. But this effort is futile because there are continual gaps in our seemingly solid world, continual cycles of death and rebirth, constant change. The sense of continuity and solidity of self is an illusion. There is really no such thing as ego, soul or atman. It is a succession of confusions that create ego. The process which is ego actually consists of a flicker of confusion, a flicker of aggression, a flicker of grasping-all of which exist only in the moment… The whole idea is that we must drop all reference points, all concepts of what is or what should be. Then it is possible to experience the uniqueness and vividness of phenomena directly. There is tremendous room to experience things, to allow experience to occur and pass away…We are never trapped in life, because there are constant opportunities for creativity, challenges for improvisation. Ironically, by seeing clearly and acknowledging our egolessness, we may discover that suffering contains bliss, impermanence contains continuity or eternity and egolessness contains the earth quality of solid being. But this transcendental bliss, continuity and beingness is not based on fantasies, ideas or fears.”

From The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation by Chogyam Trungpa. "Trungpa's unique ability to express the essence of Buddhist teachings in the language and imagery of contemporary American culture makes this book one of the best sources of the Buddhist doctrine ever written".

-The Westchester Buddhist Center

And if Tuesday evenings or our Irvington location are better for you, please be aware of our NEW Tuesday night sitting group at a beautiful space on the Irvington Hudson waterfront. Details are here.

BuddhaDharma Sangha meets every Wednesday at 7pm
 CFHH, 4 Smith Ave, 2nd Fl, Mount Kisco, NY 10549 http://center4healing.net/contact.html
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