[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Re: Reading group next Sat June. 27

Hey everyone!

Hope you're having a lovely weekend. Just writing with a quick reminder that we're meeting to discuss despair, hope, and anything else universal to the human condition :)

Also slight time change - we'll be meeting from 5:30-7. Hope that is not a huge inconvenience for anyone, and looking forward to connecting soon!

Danny

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:18 PM Danny Folds <andreafolds@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey all!

Happy Monday! Now no more Mondays to go for the rest of the week :)

Just writing to remind everyone we have our reading group next Saturday, June 27th, at 5pm. We'll be discussing despair - not the loud, punctuated kind that attends tragedies and hardships, but rather the mundane, quiet kind that sneaks up on us and shrouds our world and being in a hazy grey. Fortunately, people have been thinking about this phenomenon for the entirety of human history, so a lot of ideas exist on the origins, meaning, and potential responses to despair. Unfortunately, it's still largely a mystery. 

This Saturday, we'll be considering the ideas of two Christian writers for a change - Soren Kierkegaard and Gabriel Marcel - and then discussing what Buddhist teachings and concepts these readings bring to mind/ how they all fit together. As Buddhism generally does not include deism, the loci of hope and meaning as antidotes to despair are interesting to compare in Buddhism and Christianity.

And even if you have no desire to read anything at all right now, you're more than welcome to join the conversation. For better or worse, despair is universal to the human condition, so your insights as a verified human on earth are valuable to us all!

Wishing you a peaceful rest of your week,

Danny

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